Jimmy Smits, Billy Dee Williams, Carrie Fisher and Mark Hamill - good actors? They are - in my opinion - four of the worst actors I've ever seen. Pretty much agree with everything else though.


>>< grinning > yes, we could argue over items like these ad infinitum. :-) Nevertheless, though assuredly powerful, I don't think Darth Sideous was as powerful as you view him, though he certainly presented that air. Mace Wendu had him and he was toast if Anakin had not intervened. :-) But, after all, it is only a movie (series). Things could have been done any number of ways at the whim of the writers/directors and as much as I like SW, there are inconsistencies that none of us really care about simply because we love the story, characters, etc. :-)
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>I always wonder why you guys are raving and ranting about the plot of the movie and everybody and their mother, here and elsewhere I read, raves about how great it is when, as cinema, it is mediocre at best.
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>Sure, the special effects are first class. Visually is wonderful and engrossing.
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>But for the life of me I cannot understand why:
>- Lucas, with the budget he has, cannot pick better actors.
>Anakin is wooden. Natalie Portman is one of the worst actresses I've ever seen.
>The guy that plays Obi Wan is ok, except that his hair and makeup are always perfect. He fights in a volcanic world, lava running everywhere and flaming boulders falling from the sky. Yet he does not break a sweat. Every close-up shows his hair perfectly coiffed. No blood anywhere.
>Anakin loses limbs and gets burned to a crisp, yet no blood anywhere and he still manages to claw his way through the ground, survive and talk.
>- the only decent acting was from the guy that plays the Palpatine, the yoda puppet and the CG General whatever that walks, whizzes and coughs.
>- they hire a good actor like Jimmy Smits and he only gets less than five minutes of the movie and barely 5 lines. What a waste!
>- Lucas cannot write decent dialog if his life depended on it. The 'love' scenes have some of the worst dialog I've ever seen. Sure, he wrote the story 30 years ago. But he could have hired a professional to write the screenplay and dialog.
>- As a SF fan, I fault this as it is not SF but fantasy, as it has too much flying and defying of physics.
>- This movie is better than the last one (which totally sucked). I saw them all, the first one when it came out some 26 years ago. I thought at the time it was a movie geared for children, very appealing visually, with nice characters like the robots and the bar scene. At least it had good actors like Billy Dee Williams, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher and Mark Hamill, but still basically Cowboys and Indians in space. Good vs. evil. Very simplistic.
>- At least the first three were much better than the last ones!
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>As a movie buff for over 40 years I cannot stop to compary the disgrace Hollywood has become today, compared with movies with good scripts, good storylines, and good acting like Casablanca or anything George Cukor or Hitchcock or Kubrik ever did.
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>Why people keep raving about this last one as if it was the best thing since sliced bread is beyond me.
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