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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BiggusGeekus" data-source="post: 2775968" data-attributes="member: 1014">I got the DvD as a birthday gift.  I have to say I have fewer questions about George Lucas' decision making for this movie after seeing the documentary and cut scenes.Casting Jake Whats-his-name as Ani was still a bad choice, but after looking at the last three kids up for the part, I have to say that he landed dead in the middle.  There was one guy who was worse and one guy who I personally thought did a better job, but it was clear he was "acting" and not doing things naturally.  It could be argued that Lucas was gambling on the long term and thinking that it would be easier to have a kid who did things by nature of his temperment than someone who did it conciously and therefore might drop the ball late in the game.  Yeah, still a bad call, but not one I'd describe as "stupid".The scenes that were left on the cutting room floor were on the DvD too.  Of them, the only one I'd keep is Ani getting into a fight with a young Greedo.  Including Greedo is a little silly and I think it violates the Extended Universe (not that Lucas cares much about that) but it does establish Ani's violent tendencies and it underlined how Qui-Gon Jin was probably the only really good and patient teacher Ani ever had (however breifly).The guy who played Jar-Jar was really good.  No, I'm not kidding.  Maybe the documentary was designed to defend the Jar-Jar bits, but it was not inheriently obvious how stupid Jar-Jar was going to turn out from what I saw of the "making of".   Lucas said himself in the documentary that the movie would hinge on how good Jar-Jar was.  Well, he was right about that.The executive producer guy struck me as being a slimeball.  Not a made-for-TV slimeball, but just one of those people who I wouldn't want to work for.  Then again, executive producer doesn't mean your job is to be Mr. Senstitive.Not enough Ray Park.  More confirmation that he was seen as an add-on to my mind.  Damn shame, because the lightsaber fights in Ep 1 were the best in the series.  I would have personally liked to see Darth Maul survive Ep 1 and have him replace Count Dooku/Darth Tyranus.  My respect for Christopher Lee knows no limit, but Darth Tyranus' execution in Ep 3 was a little trite.  If we had seen Darth Maul vex the jedi for two movies, as well as him killing Qui-Gon and getting away, there would have been some emotional impact instead of the "sucks to be you, dude" feeling I was left with when Dooku bit it.  Also, I personally prefer Ray Park's asian martial arts style to the French saber fighting that was used in all the other movies.Anyway.  That's just me.</blockquote>

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