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Originally posted by: ricarleite
More good things:
* It had sound, and real human voices, no cards with dialogue written on it. The colors were bright and shiny.
Maybe GL should have done it silent movie style that would have been impressive.
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* It featured none, or very few pirates.
* No frontal nudity, sex or blasphemy.
Pirates, nudity and blasphemy are all very good things. But in their own place I guess.
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* The pod race ended the way I imagine it would end, and I enjoy figuring out the plot before the director does.
Laugh-out-loud funny.
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* Both movies ended.
Debatable.
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* Standing in the lines with my friends before the movies started was fun.
* I didn't break a bone or die while watching those movies...
Yes that sounds similar to my viewing experience.
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OK that's pretty much it. Everything I didn't mention sucked.
I agree with you ricarleite and buddy-x-wing I see the PT films as just a series of huge missteps.
It's very hard to speak well of these films.
But since that IS what this thread is about I will try.
The good... I think there were some interesting concepts that could have been explored further.
I liked elements of the pod-racing that could have been explored further if GL had taken the idea back to its roots of American Graffiti style rough bad-boy, rev-heads 'racing for pinks'. Naturally Anakin would be the best and cockiest podracer on the circuit. A grease-stained, shaggy-haired, arrogant James Dean-type with a devil-may-care attitude, a well balanced human being with a huge chip on each shoulder.
Enter Jedi Obi Wan, an enthusiastic and idealistic crusader who befriends the angry young podracer, seeing in him some Force talents. It would have been nice to see swashbuckling space-Marshalls with a hint of Tibetan Monk instead of virgin Gregorian Monks with many a splash of YAWN.
In AOTC it was nice to see the scenes where the friendship between the two Jedi was hinted at however this was yet another missed opportunity where rather than just talking about their adventures while standing in an elevator it would have been better film-storytelling to actually bloody show it rather than just talk about it. "Show, don't tell". "Show, don't tell" Lucas.
I feel there should have been a triangle of sorts between Padme, Ben and Anakin.
Ian McDiarmid was wonderful in both films even though he was given very little to work with.
It was nice to see Sam Jackson in Jedi garb however watching him just sit around I can't help but feel that he looked like one pissed-off, bored muthafucka.
I actually enjoyed the Neimoidians somewhat but would have preferred them to be portrayed more blatently Fu Manchu schemers.
The fight between Jango and Obi Wan was pretty cool but I still hate the whole Jango thing.
The nightclub and diner on Coruscant were kind of cool if somewhat out of place. The diner may have worked if it had been connected to the 50s style podracer teens. (Dex sucked.)
One of the great things about the PTs has been the concept art, largely ignored by GL, where designers have come up with a more pragmatic Jedi outfit which is very, very cool looking and not in anyway beige pyjamas and brown blankets.
The lightsaber fights are indeed very cool but unfortunately the Jedi don't seem to use their Jedi 'powers' very well or very often. If the Sith can shoot lightning, shouldn't the Jedi be able to heal with their hands?
No hyperspace warps? WTF?!
Sorry I tried.