Has anyone seen the new Star Wars ll commercial?

[jasper]

piratecat bad bad kitty no hair ball meds for you.
You don't torture the marketing people who came up with the idea. They getting paid.
You blame the exec who bought the idea.

I blame the dumbing down idea on TNN.
Look at how they do StNG. next to wrestling. With veiwers calling in.

 

[Michael Tree]

I just found it over the top, as if it didn't fit. It's a hollywood cliche to take a crippled appearing character and then make him do backflips and all sorts of things he shouldn't be able to do.

I would be bothered by that if it didn't reinforce a side of Yoda that we hadn't seen since Empire, the deceptive trickster that isn't what he seems.

I do agree that it was a bit over the top though. The main problems with the Yoda scene were that the intial dialogue was painfully bad, and the scene completely lacked drama. It was just cgi and choreography, not story. This is unfortunate, as the previous fight scene between Dooku, Obi Wan, and Anakin was very dramatic.

 

[Suldulin]

. . . I do agree that it was a bit over the top though. The main problems with the Yoda scene were that the intial dialogue was painfully bad, and the scene completely lacked drama. It was just cgi and choreography, not story. . .

heh, and did anyone else think of the duel in spaceballs between darkhelmet and lonestar when dooku spoke their(his and yoda's) knowledge of the force being evenly matched

"I see that your swartz is as big as mine. . ."

 

[Michael Tree]

LOL! No, but now I will.

Thanks, you've actually increased the enjoyment of that scene. Before I just cringed and rolled my eyes at the sheer awfulness of the dialogue (I've seen better written dialogue in soap commercials), but now at least I'll get a smile out of it.

 

[Tewligan]

And while we're complaining...

Okay, here's something that's buggin' me about the AotC DVD. On the back of the case, one of the features is "eight deleted scenes created especially for this release." If they were created just for this release, then they aren't deleted scenes, damn it! Ooh, that vexes me terribly.

Oh, and I also wince at the "Yoda da man!" commercial. Whenever I'm in the lobby at work and that commercial appears on the TV we have up front, I shake my fists and exhort my co-workers to join me in my fury. It never works.

 

[Enchantress]

Re: And while we're complaining...

[BOh, and I also wince at the "Yoda da man!" commercial. Whenever I'm in the lobby at work and that commercial appears on the TV we have up front, I shake my fists and exhort my co-workers to join me in my fury. It never works. [/B]

Tell me where you work and I'll shake my fists and join you in fury.

 

[Kai Lord]

Re: And while we're complaining...

Okay, here's something that's buggin' me about the AotC DVD. On the back of the case, one of the features is "eight deleted scenes created especially for this release." If they were created just for this release, then they aren't deleted scenes, damn it! Ooh, that vexes me terribly.

The scenes weren't created for the DVD. They just added some visual effects to them to make them more presentable.

 

[Kai Lord]

It's a hollywood cliche to take a crippled appearing character and then make him do backflips and all sorts of things he shouldn't be able to do.

It is??? Name two other movies where crippled characters do backflips.

 

[Enchantress]

It is??? Name two other movies where crippled characters do backflips.

Karate Kid, and Warriors of Virtue.

 

[Kai Lord]

Karate Kid, and Warriors of Virtue.

Haven't seen Warriors of Virtue, but Mr. Miagi certainly doesn't do any over the top maneuvers when he beats up the skeleton-clad Cobra Kai. He fights exactly as you would expect him too.