It’s pretty good, though I feel that it is a little rushed, particularly the start. We have, like 30 seconds between the intro of the Podrace and them starting the race. I don’t know, maybe pad out the opening, perhaps add back in Shmi. I’ve never had a problem with that scene, it makes sense that she would say good luck before he starts the race.
Really? I thought they were perfectly hammy.
Continuing with this ranking fiasco that yours truly started, time to rank the Batman films.
Perhaps Jurassic Park’s CGI is held in better regard to the prequels because the actual film is great. One of my top ten films.
Tim Burton’s “Batman” is way better than The Dark Knight.
Yeh…nah…
None of the Superman films reach the hight of some of the really great superhero films, like The Dark Knight and Spider-Man 2.
Bringing the thread back to actually RANKING the films, this was my ranking when I was younger:
I liked them all except for TPM. It’s amazing how much one’s opinion can change.
The Jedi Purge has some of the greatest music ever written period, but falls short because we haven’t seen enough of these characters to care about their deaths, similar to The Force Awakens when the Republic planet is destroyed, but that benefitted from Hux’s epic speech.
If swagmasta69 ranked the films it would look like this:
I got every Alien game on steam recently… Isolation was definitely the best. Alien games should really be survival horror. Colonial Marines wasn’t as bad as everyone said, but was kind of repetitive, with pretty bad graphics. Alien vs Predator Classic 2000 I haven’t played yet. Alien vs Predator 2010 was pretty good, especially Predator mode.
Poor swagmasta69…
This thread is my masterpiece. And yes, the effects in The Matrix, apart from some environments, are pretty awful, even the bullet time looks pretty strange now. But the film itself holds up very well. The Pirates and LOTR movies still hold up extremely well though.
Hayden’s acting has improved a little since AOTC, but not much. Padme’s character is utterly wasted as a soppy midwife. The lightsaber fights lack tension, apart from the start and end of the Mustafar duel, which is quite emotional. Grievous is horrendous. Yoda has even more cringeworthy “cool” lines. The romance is pushed back, but when it emerges it is just as horrible as ever. The script is pretty garbage. The CGI, apart from Coruscant and Mustafar’s environments, is pretty obvious. It’s not the worst film ever, by far, but it still fails as a film. 4.5/10.
The graphics in the prequels generally are closer to PS4 graphics. Amazing in a video game, astonishingly obvious next to real people.
Where would you say does this thread rank in comparison to his other threads?
How high can you count?
And shouldn’t this thread be called “Top Ten Spankings”?
Number one was the strangest thing I’ve ever seen.
I certainly agree that Yub Nub sucks and is very anti climactic, and there are some very good scenes in the prequels.
- Star Wars
- Revenge of The Sith
- The Empire Strikes Back
- Attack of The Clones/The Phantom Menace/Return of The Jedi(with Victory Celebration)
- Return of The Jedi sans Victory Celebration
- The Special Edition OT
- The Force Awakens
That is a very interesting list. Would you mind sharing why you feel that way? I’m not being sarcastic, its just rare that somebody ranks the films like this, especially on this website.
- Star Wars
The best paced SW movie. Ends on an incredibly joyous note. It’s all already been said. It’s probably a perfect film.- Revenge of The Sith.
The opening long take with two brothers almost perfectly in sync, the sublime Padme’s Ruminations, Seeing everything from the previous two movies (in a way all five) brought full circle is incredible to behold, seeing Yoda rise up into the senate chamber while fighting Palpatine, seeing our two heroes finally fight (what hapoens when two force users put their hands close and push is actually something I had wondered for a long time), Obi Wan’s “I loved you” tears at the heartstrings, the closing sequences (Polis Massa, Vader donning the armor, finally seeing Alderaan after 28 years, Obi Wan talking with Yoda about Qui-Gon, Vader walking down the bridge of the Star Destroyer, Obi giving Luke to his Aunt and Uncle) is a jaw dropping segue into the Dark Times.- The Empire Strikes Back
After a shaky opening with the ridiculusly impractical AT-AT’s we dive into some of the best moments of the saga. The Cloud City Luke-Vader fight ends with a bombshell, but my personal favorite moments in the film are the superb bit of acting with Leia sensing Luke as she’s leaving Cloud City, and Yoda’s quote “Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter”. A weakness of the film is that it doesn’t have as many moments that inspire childlike wonder as the other films.- AOTC/TPM/ROTJ(with VC)
All three films have just as high highs as the others, but the lows are a bit lower.
The lows-
TPM- JarJar’s antics in the four pronged climax really hurt the tone.
AOTC- Some wonky CG and C-3P0’s antics hurt the tone.
ROTJ- Incredibly awfully paced. They crammed a whole movie into the first act, and the rest of the movie ranges from crap (Ewoks defeating “an entire legion of my best troops”), to lazy (DS2), to the very highest point of the saga (everything with Luke from Luke and Vader on Endor to the ending shot).
HOWEVER, Yub Nub is a garbage closer to a six (or even three) film epic saga.
Victory Celebration gives the finale a truimphant feel to rival ANH’s medal ceremony.see above
A good ending scene can make or break a film.
- SE OT
More than any CGI or new scenes or alterations of that sort, I just can’t stand the new color timing.- TFA
Derivative, utterly imagination free piece of corporate dumbed down dreck.
I don’t agree, but you make some good points and don’t deserve all the hate you got.
I guess he ran off after the panning of his list. Poor guy.
Edited to remove awfulness
Every teenager ever: “Can I be 69? Hur hur hur!”
Wait, why does everyone hate teamnegative1? Didn’t they make those cool preservations?