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Just saw AOTC again And it was worse

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Posted 16 May 2005 - 07:57 PM

I'll do that, if you check out my 'Reasons to love Empire Strikes Back.' Mmkay?
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Posted 16 May 2005 - 10:12 PM

When I saw Attack of the Clones in the theater, I was appalled.

When I watched it again on DVD two years later, it made even less sense and seemed like even more of a jumbled mess than I had remembered.

The Phantom Menace was awful, but at least I could find a few redeeming qualities buried in the offal. The pod race, though a calculated crowd-pleaser, was decent and Star-Wars-ish enough. And I thought the Obi-Wan / Qui-Gon vs. Darth Maul showdown was the best choreographed lightsaber battle in any of the SW movies.

But I can't think of anything nice to say about AOTC. Not a single thing.
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Posted 16 May 2005 - 11:56 PM

Ya Attack Of The Clones ranks pretty low in the bowels of filmdom alongside movies like Super Mario Brothers, Double Dragon, and Street Fighter - the reason I compare Clones to those movies is due to the fact that they too were crafted after a video game. biggrin.gif

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Posted 17 May 2005 - 12:29 PM

I watched TPM and AOTC before finding this forum and thought nothing of them.
I didn't like them, but didn't hate them either. After the euphoria of watching a SW movie wore off (about the 3rd time I saw TPM) I got bored of both of them.

Then I found Chefelf's reasons and since then I only started watching AOTC once. I got to the part where they blew Amidala's ship and I had to turn it off it was that bad.

Sometimes I get so bored you can catch me watching "The Thing That Came From the Swamp", so you know I can stand watching a bad movie. But this one hurts me too much... for all the expectations, all the potential, all the, you know..
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Posted 17 May 2005 - 03:00 PM

There's a great bit which helps explain why Attack of the Clones was so awful buried in the PC version of Knights of the Old Republic. Among the movie cutscenes you can replay is an ad for the paid "Hyperspace" version of theforce.net. It's a truly wretched commercial, but one of the come-ons they list for the site is that it has footage cut from AOTC of a Jedi attack on a Trade Federation battleship (or something to that extent). They show the footage in its "rough" form, before CGI was added. It's mind-bending.

You're essentially watching a bunch of actors, half in ridiculous costumes, standing on a bare floor with a blue-screen CGI cue behind them, madly flailing about with little colored plastic sticks. Eight or nine takes of that and I doubt anyone could turn in any kind of performance at all. It's that silly.
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Posted 17 May 2005 - 04:59 PM

On StarWars.com, they are always trying to get you to join HyperSpace. I would never join it.
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Posted 17 May 2005 - 08:44 PM

That was probably the 'spectacular' arena battle - with a circle of guys standing around waving lightsabers and occasionally falling down.
That must have been one of the most boring movies to make.
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Posted 18 May 2005 - 12:36 AM

It used to be a point of pride for for movies or TV shows to announce that they were filmed on location. I wonder if Lucas's new Star Wars movies are the first "live-action" (supposedly) films to be shot on no location, not even a sound stage.
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Posted 18 May 2005 - 07:16 AM

SkyCaptain and the World of Tomorrow, was shot on nothing but a blue screen.
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Posted 18 May 2005 - 12:53 PM

Can The Attack of the Clones even be considered to be live action? My impression was that it was a cartoon with some live actors. Occassionally people here get upset that its considered part of the Star Wars canon or something, come on four of the other movies (not sure about ROTS) are live action movies and this one was made in a completely different medium.
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Posted 18 May 2005 - 01:17 PM

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I have a very difficult time watching them. The one night my sister visited and she wasn't even aware they had made new Star Wars movies (I think she DOES live in a cave), so I had rant and rave about these stupid movies. Well, luck would have it that TPM was on moments after I had told her my dislikes for the films. She started watching them and said, "Where's Luke Skywalker?" I had to laugh. Anyway... she didn't think they were all that good... visually interesting, but not that good.
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Posted 18 May 2005 - 02:28 PM

HyperSpace: TheForce.net never told you about your father...

SWIU: He told me enough. He told me YOU killed him!

HyperSpace: No, StarWarsIsUs. I am your father.

SWIU: NOOOOO!!!! IT CANT BE! THATS IMPOSSIBLE!

-later-

SWIU: TheForce.net, why didn't you tell me?

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Posted 18 May 2005 - 03:11 PM

I'm new here, and I'm going to be honest: I actually like the Star Wars Prequel Trilogy. However, that's got more to do with me being a Star Wars fan than me thinking that they're good movies. I agree 100% with negative comments people say about them.

I agree that AOTC is a pretty bad movie. The dialogue was worse than I could imagine, the romance was plain creepy, and the story felt half-finished. The whole thing with Padme's assassination attempt was not needed in the story. The only reason that plot device existed was so that Jango Fett could make an appearence. Surely there was another way Obi-Wan could have found out about the clones?

I've watched it quite a lot of times, and every time, I notice more flaws with it. When I first saw it at the cinema, I thought it was pretty cool, but the last time I watched it, the horrible dialogue struck me as being unavoidable. How did I miss it the first time? Sure, Star Wars dialogue has always been a bit clunky in places ("I'm Luke Skywalker, I'm here to rescue you!"), but the sand line should NOT be tolerated.

I also hate the way Lucas introduces new things about the Force into this movie. In the Original Trilogy, the Force was an energy field. End of story. In the Prequel Trilogy, the Force is an energy field created by nanomites called Midichlorians, which are found in a Jedi's blood. Even worse is that, in AOTC, Mace explains that their ability to use the Force is diminished. What? Yoda and Obi-Wan are still using the Force in ROTS and TESB. And I really doubt Lucas has an explanation for this in ROTS. I really do.
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Posted 18 May 2005 - 04:50 PM

Welcome to the party, pal.
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Posted 14 June 2005 - 04:24 PM

Not only was AOTC the worst of the prequels, it is (taking into account the budget, cast, etc) one of the worst films EVER.

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