If anyone even remembers my posts on Episode I, you know that I really thought that movie was poorly done from a writing stand point and a directing one. (The visual effects were stunning, the art production looked great, except for maybe 2-3 things). But anyways, I hated it.
I've also voiced my opinions about the possible (notice the word "POSSIBLE") poor quality Episode II .... IF Lucas continues with his current track history. So just to let you all be fully aware, I'm not a LUCAS LOVING FANBOY or apologists or whatever.
With that said, I actually had fun watching the newest trailer. The first two didn't really do that much for me, but the latest one got my pulse up quite a bit. My only gripe (besides still seeing evidence of bad dialogue lines) is that they perhaps showed too much. Oh, and I saw clearly enough what was going on in each of the scenes being flashed in front of me. So did my friend next to me. I think some the rest of you here have poor "Spot" skills.
This movie could still suck regardless. I'm going to try my best to stay neutral until I see it. I do remember being excited about the EpI trailer too and look how that turned out. But it is possible that Lucas has 'warmed' up a bit now being in the directing chair again after so long. If you don't practice your craft often, you get rusty. I'm hoping all the mistakes from Ep.I were because he was rusty and hopefully in Ep.II he's his head back in the game. But based off interviews and behind the scenes stuff, I think Lucas is losing quality more due to the fact that he's so out of touch on what makes cool movies cool.....and less to do with that fact that he's a bit rusty at directing.
Like we all say though, who knows for sure till we see it right? But Vegas odds suggest it'll suck too. Here's hoping Lucas proves us wrong.
mmu1 wrote:
Yoda looks fake, Anakin does a silly Matrix-like jump out of an air-car sans a parachute
Uh, where in the Matrix did anyone dive off a building or an aircar? If you make a reference, make a proper one there okay? If that type of action stunt has any similar feel to it from another movie, it'll more like when Bond jumped after the plane in the beginning of 'Goldeneye' or something like that. Why is it that anytime someone does an extreme high adrenaline style thing its called "Matrix" like?
(Possible SPOILER) I'm thinking Anakin was probably chasing Zam Wessel, who's in the other air car, and he took a route where he came out in a lane above hers. So, he jumps off his air car, plummets thru traffic and probably lands on top of Zam's car some distance below. Just a guess though.
As for Yoda, yeah....he looks somewhat fake. He did when he was a puppet, he does again as a CGI generated character. What do you want ILM to do, get a real one? Geez louise people, lighten up. Who cares if he only looks 90% real. Better than most movies with lower budgets. Would you rather us go back to Star Trek head mutation aliens instead of artistically creating more visually different ones? Yoda looks good enough. I think you're being too picky on something that never existed in the real world.
Amidala runs around shooting at things while looking a lot like Lea, soldiers stand around looking a lot like stormtroopers, there's a bounty hunter just like Boba Fett and a ship just like Boba Fett's
Oh come on, you can't be that naive!
and the combat droids are still all over the place as if this was a cartoon
Yah, because Robots = Cartoons right? I thought the same thing when I saw "Terminator 2: Judgement Day". It was so cartoony with all those Terminators running around in the future. I thought to myself, " Man....Cameron's gone all kiddy by making the foes machines so that when they're destroyed no one is actually dying!"
... To me at least, a lot of it felt completely irrelevant when it wasn't ripping off the previous movies for a cheap sentimental reaction.
Yeah, I didn't like it when I saw the same friggin design for the Star Destroyers and the Storm Troopers in "Empire Strikes Back". Yeah, they gave us some new versions, the Super Star Destroyers and the Snow Stormtroopers, but man.....the recycled a lot of old stuff from Ep. IV too. How cheap was that?
Okay, I think I went too far. But I had to tease you for a bit. It seemed your post left it so wide open for such a response. Okay, its out of my system now.
Again, let me re-cap my opinions.
-I hated Episode 1
-I liked the latest Ep. 2 trailer
-I wouldn't surprised if Ep. 2 sucked as bad as Ep.1
-I will avoid the first week, to avoid crowds, to wait and hear reviews, and to not contribute to the first weekend ticket sales (as an insignificant little rebellion to Lucas for his tragic waste that was Ep.1)
