Bagpuss said:
Have to agree with Psion I thought the Jedi lightsabre duels in Episode I have yet to be bettered.
The fight in the hanger was too fast and poorly lite to get any apprication of the moves, and bit with two lightsabres was over as soon as it began.
If Yoda can move like that how come he hobbles with a cane and uses a floating wheel-chair?
Two words: Force Powers. I mean, give the guy a break, he's, what, 800 years old almost? Criminey.
I think part of the issue with that fight is that Lee is too old to be doing it, so they were using a double, and couldn't afford to get too close to the action, or it would have been too obvious, methinks.
I still think Empire is the best film, but think that Episode II was much, much better than Episode I, which I didn't dislike. But ultimately, I'll never enjoy the film in the same way that I enjoyed the originals....times have changed, I've changed.
But the ten-year old boy who was in the theatre with me yesterday with his family...the one who shouted out "Oh yeah, It's starting! It's starting! Finally!!!" with barely contained anticipation: he's the one who will. And I'm glad. Lost in this great spanning discussion of the new Star Wars films (and by discussion, I mean everywhere, not the ENBoards) is the fact that this is not just mythology...it's pure entertainment. It's transportation to another universe so powerful, that we're captivated by it. The scope of Star Wars has always been one of it's greatest assets. The story itself is a classic, well-used one...but before Star Wars, no one had attempted something on the scale of an actual Universe, not just three or four starship sets and a planet set or two. Star Wars, as a series, spends virtually no time explaining its aliens, its technology or its politics. Instead, it delivers more information about it's universe OUTSIDE the actual motion picture, for good or ill. For those so interested, it's endlessly fascinating. For the rest of us, it's just nice not to have all that extra baggage....lord knows we get enough exposition as it is.
Episode II fulfills its promise to entertain, even if it does so unevenly. I'll be interested in how it appears to us in a few more years, with the benefit of time.