Attack of the Clones
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sawylWhen the third of the recent Star Wars films came out at the cinema, I didn't bother to watch it. Why? Because I found Attack of the Clones so awful that I felt I couldn't run the risk of watching something quite so appalling ever again.
AotC seems to me to be completely without merit. The plot is distinctly cursory and the acting is dreadful. Ewan McGregor and Natalie Portman phone in their roles and could have been replaced by a couple of cardboard cutouts and no-one would have noticed, whilst Hayden Christensen manages to comprehensively misread the intentions behind his every line of dialogue — something that wouldn't be quite so bad if he didn't have quite so much screen time — to the point of unwatchability.
All of this goes to undermine the spectacular set pieces. If you don't care about the rest of the film, it's hard to take an interest in a car chase, no matter how dramatic; or to care about the outcome of a lightsabre duel; or, as with the foundry scene, even work out how it is supposed to relate to the rest of the plot.
AotC seems to me to be completely without merit. The plot is distinctly cursory and the acting is dreadful. Ewan McGregor and Natalie Portman phone in their roles and could have been replaced by a couple of cardboard cutouts and no-one would have noticed, whilst Hayden Christensen manages to comprehensively misread the intentions behind his every line of dialogue — something that wouldn't be quite so bad if he didn't have quite so much screen time — to the point of unwatchability.
All of this goes to undermine the spectacular set pieces. If you don't care about the rest of the film, it's hard to take an interest in a car chase, no matter how dramatic; or to care about the outcome of a lightsabre duel; or, as with the foundry scene, even work out how it is supposed to relate to the rest of the plot.
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Date: 2007-12-09 08:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-12-09 09:05 pm (UTC)Even Yoda does not emerge unscathed. Think about it. All the other Jedi stress the point that they can no longer see the future. And yet what does Yoda do? For no very good reason, he spends all his time acting all holier-than-thou, complaining about everything and wielding the power of the council like a tyrrant. No wonder he has to do a runner to Dagobah.