No, I really wanted to enjoy this movie. And while I agree it's better than the other two, it's still kinda like multiplying zeroes.frankie big face wrote:I thought it was excellent. If you can't enjoy this movie, you don't want to enjoy this movie. It's 1000 times better than the last two and I think probably better than ROTJ.
The Star Wars EW had an article that I think sheds some light on the problems with the new trilogy. Lucas admits that he didn't really have enough material for a trilogy (hence the thoroughly superfluous 20 minute pod-racing scene), that he didn't really script out most of the dialogue until the actual shoot, and that he planned to fix everything in postproduction. I think the prequels suffer from a) an obvious lack of interest on Lucas's part to create anything approaching real characters or speakable dialogue and b) no characters filling in the charisma void created by the absence of Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher. Even Lucas seems to have convinced himself that we were all entralled solely by the technology of the original series, when I think it was mostly about the characters. We liked them and cared about what happened to them. He was so busy filling every frame with moving digital things that he lost sight of what was really important. Who gives a shit about "Ani" and Padme when they're complete wooden ciphers? There's no simmering tension under their dialogue or any deeper layers of emotion than the ridiculously literal words coming out of their mouths. "Hold me like you did at the lake." Are you fucking kidding me?