There’s a crapload of battles and shit going boom. There’s noise everywhere – fury everywhere... but none of it is directed. The music by Kevin Kiner is criminally bad. ...
as I was watching the film, I was excusing the sloppy shots, the sloppy use of the Clone Troopers and Droids ... Then they introduced Baby Jabba aka Rotta the Huttlet aka Stinky. At the point of this character’s introduction – it officially became, the worst character in the history of STAR WARS. ...
As I watched this terrifyingly awful character named Ziro the Hutt. A seemingly female Hutt – with tattoos and make-up that sounds like a racist take on a Black New Orleans Crack-Dealing Whore. Because this Hutt speaks ENGLISH – and it is many times worse than I’m actually describing. ...
I hated the score, the animation, the shots, the characters and most of all the retarded fucking idiot story. I hated the film. HATED IT. REALLY HATED IT.
The character animation is astoundingly unpleasant, with human faces that would barely pass muster in a video game. Some of the battle and dogfight sequences are stirring, but since most of the combatants are either androids or clones — talk about cannon fodder — there doesn’t seem to be much at stake. What we’re left with is a lot of pew-pew-pew laser battles with occasional interruptions for "Hangin' with Mr. Skywalker"–style interactions between Anakin and his Padawan.
Everything about "Clone Wars" feels a little off. Yoda’s famous verb-at-the-end syntax gets so garbled by the writers that he eventually lets out a compound sentence that seems to make no sense whatsoever. Even the legendary John Williams theme has been so badly orchestrated that it sounds like it’s being performed by a third-rate middle-school marching band.
No wonder George Lucas originally chose, with his Star Wars prequels, to skip over the Clone Wars—they're dull and monotonous even by the new trilogy's low standards. A for-kids-only animated saga that fills in the gaps between Episode II and III, Star Wars: The Clone Wars focuses on the (nonexistent) intrigue surrounding the abduction of Jabba the Hutt's baby son, which threatens to destroy the Republic's use of the Hutt's vital supply routes. Given that the Clone Wars' outcome has already been established by prior films, and that this incident—which finds Anakin paired with an impudent apprentice named Ahsoka who likes to call her mentor "Sky Guy"—sheds no new light on the future Darth Vader's forthcoming shift to the dark side, the story is quickly revealed to be merely an insignificant chapter in Lucas's pseudo-operatic space saga.
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The reviews make it sound like what I expected, and what it's meant to be: a disposable Saturday morning cartoon. Frankly, I don't have a problem with that. Comments about pacing issues and lack of drama are ones I find more worrying, but I might go and see it anyway.
evil_ash_xero wrote:Too bad they didn't get that guy from Samurai Jack to do it. It would have been watchable at the least.
This. At least that guy manages to make a decent use of silences and musical sections. I praise Samurai Jack for actually making the main character don't talk a lot and having a decent ambience.
I'm also one of those that spent a couple of nights watching the short animated clips done by the same guy and cringed when I saw what they did to General Grievous in the 3rd movie (I'm not a fan of Star Wars and only watched the 3rd because I knew the 'cool robot' was going to be there but Grievous was anything but cool...) When they introduced the character in the animated series, hell if that wasn't a nicely paced fight with loads of style.
Another scene that also caught my attention was the battle of that guy (the one played by Samuel Jackson... sorry in advance, I really can't remember names) against that huge hammer-like cylindrical fortress that smashed a desert-like environment. I think the entire scene had ZERO dialogue and yet it managed to be awesome, even when we take into account this is a cartoon.
What I'm seeing here in this CGI abomination (the characters look awful) is simply horrible and lifeless...
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you would think that with all the fucking money they would hire someone who could write a fucking script. Im really disappointed as it could of been so much more. but then it is lucas
My original reaction to that movie was "Why?". There was no need to "expand" on an already expanded story... done so by the Tataranowicz cartoons. Hey, Lucas... you oughta write this down below the Holiday Special in your Little Black Book Of Failures. IF IT'S NOT BROKEN, DON'T FIX IT!
Seriously, just because it's CGI, it doesn't mean people will automatically go flock and see it. They better make up for this with The Force Unleashed.
evil_ash_xero wrote:
When I saw the ads, I actually thought it was a video game ad. When I saw it was for theater release, my jaw dropped.
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This sums it up pretty nicely. First time I saw that trailer I thought this was one of these direct-to-DVD budget releases.I´m not surprised it sucks, just look at how stupid the characters look.
Hehe, yeah right. Looks like Harry Knowles didn't have his coffee before writing this rant.
I just came back from the screening and I actually liked it. Maybe because I simply didn't expect something in the league of Episode III.
Yes, it's geared more towards a kids audience, baby Jabba is pretty pathetic and it doesn't add much to the saga storywise...BUT imo what you get is a solid star wars story presented in an almost sculpted-looking nice cartoon style. I really liked the look of things and characters. Some really cool battles too that are worth being admired on the big screen.
Definitely more than just 3 episodes from a kids tv show.
Btw, it should be clear by now that Lucas is doing his star wars thing as a dual concept - a more kids oriented and family friendly one (Lego SW, Clone Wars) and another more traditional approach as seen in Force Unleashed and the upcoming live action series. Where's the big problem?
It comes down to one statement. Basically Lucas doesn't know what made the original star wars great. Spielberg doesn't know what made the original IJ great!
Two directors taking too much control over a project without taking on board what the viewers would like to see. The latest IJ and Star Wars movies don't have to be good because the two people that make them are so rich they have nothing to lose.
It would be better putting a director that has something to prove in the project.
This industry has become 2 dimensional as it transcended into a 3D world.
Specineff wrote:They better make up for this with The Force Unleashed.
I wish they'd make up for it by not making any more star wars films.
Really, there is no point watching beyond Empire. Could the fans make better movies than these? (I think yes.)
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neorichieb1971 wrote:It comes down to one statement. Basically Lucas doesn't know what made the original star wars great. Spielberg doesn't know what made the original IJ great!
Two directors taking too much control over a project without taking on board what the viewers would like to see. The latest IJ and Star Wars movies don't have to be good because the two people that make them are so rich they have nothing to lose.
It would be better putting a director that has something to prove in the project.
When George Lucas released his first rough take of Star Wars Episode 4, it didn't do too well. It was back to the editing room to change the pacing of the film and it worked wonders for the current iteration that you have in your hands. It is a constant issue of editing down a film so that the consistant pacing and overall flow of an action/sci-fi film gels just right.
