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Summary: Listen to Brian
Review: This film is so awful, I could write a full-length thesis paper about it. What's amazing to me is how many Amazon.com reviewers acknowledge faults in the movie, and still praise it with five stars.Attack of the Clones is Star Wars for the Attention Deficit Disorder generation. Lucas has overstuffed sequences with frenetic visuals, hoping to distract viewers into thinking they're entertained, desperately trying to compensate for the lagging, flabby plot and woefully inadeqate characterization. It's really more of a glorified video game than an actual film. Wonder which demographic likes Attack of the Clones the most? It's mostly 12- to 21-year-old boys who grew up on Nintendo, PlayStation, and X-Box. Unfortunately, busy special effects alone do not a great movie make. Frankly, the visuals aren't even that great. There was no show of Force at the Oscars when Attack of the Clones lost the Special Effects trophy to Lord of the Rings. The biggest flaws in this film center around the scenes between Padme and Anikan. First of all, the dialogue is atrocious, with wooden actors delivering hackneyed lines and cliches at every turn. Honestly, this stuff wouldn't even fly in soap operas. Why should we excuse it in a multi-million dollar movie? Secondly their "love" story has no believability, and doesn't develop naturally. Annakin is portrayed as a snotty, arrogant, obsessive boy with a violent temper and psychotic tendencies. So, what exactly draws Padme toward him? Plot contrivances are often awkward or totally head-scratching. Jango sends Zam who sends a droid who sends worms, to kill Padme? And what's with the title? Attack of the Clones? What attack? The clones don't show up until the end of the movie, when they are dispatched to *defend* the Jedi. I will grant the film one star for interesting cinematography and costumes. Also, the fight between Jango and Kenobi is well-choreographed. But give more praise, I can not. Most disappointing of all, this film is totally devoid of the magic infused into the original trilogy films. Maybe Lucas should have enlisted Lawrence Kasdan, scripter for *two* of the original trilogy movies, including the most critically-lauded, Empire Strikes Back. Lucas is now trying to do everything himself. He wants total control of the universe, but somewhere during his 10-year-plus hiatus from movie-making he lost his edge. Someday twenty years from now, another director will remake the Episodes 1-III. But it will be awhile. Good Star Wars prequels are still "far, far, away..."
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Summary: Not really what I expected?
Review: To All Fans Of Starwars:EpisodeII Attack of the Clones was a bit of a disappointment!I did enjoy the action as it was as Lucas said they put a lot of work into this action/love story.But that's where I became upset with the acting and the dialog?Anakin's acting wasn't up to what you expected?Especially his surposing fighting ability.His love scene's were just not up to the job,as a-matter-of-fact I think they could have found a better actor?If you just leave out those scene's you would have a much better movie for what it's worth.Take for a moment where Anakin and Patawan walk into the cave "come on you have all kinds of creatures in a small cave and it take Anakin almost the whole walk to the end of the cave for him to sense anything?He a Jedi?and he was able to pickup on the attack in Patawan room in a second!Look the movie is good and I'm not trying to actaully put the actors down,but being a Starwar Fan for over 20 years this last Episode II left me with a bit of a bad feeling.Lets see what Lucas comes up with for the third one and how he will pull all these episodes together?Good Luck Thanks B.C.
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Summary: ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Review: Every minute was boring and painful. Plot lines are nice devices for a weekly drama, but when episodes are 10 years apart viewers just want some adventure and fun. Lucas should find a talented writer to work on the next storyline WHILE he's shooting an episode. Then they'd come closer together, and he'd end up with an interesting movie. This movie was so boring that when a pivotal character dies in the middle, I didn't feel sorry for the character, I was envious.
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Summary: Oy.
Review: Something tells me that when George Lucas was writing this latest film, one of two things happened: 1: He realized that although we are paying for his entire life and lifestyle, he has really grown embittered towards his fans. He finds that he has lost touch with his fanbase, and that he is genuinely angered by the people that tell him that his sauce is weak (as evidenced at least to me by lines such as "I hate them! I should be all powerful!"). 2: He is living in a dreamworld in which he is still this widely respected film artist that creates films that are nominated for best picture awards. Obviously, none of the two suppositions I have just made are true. The reality is most likely that George Lucas is simply a director that does the best films that he is capable of, and we as an audience have a far more fond view of his films than he could ever live up to. That being said, this film was a disappointment. Not surprisingly, the film's special effects are a sight to behold. The land battle is easily as impressive as anything in any previous Star Wars effort. The obligatory lightsabre fight does FEEL obligatory, but it is impressive in the sense that I don't think that one has ever been done in near complete darkness. But the ACTING!! AGH!! I don't think there is a SINGLE performance in here that is somewhat believable. Hayden Christiansen does not inspire ANY of the emotion that he is attempting to invoke (namely pity that we will see this "great hero" fall from grace to become the much more impressive Darth Vader. Instead, he comes off as a whiney little child). Natalie Portman though looking MUCH more attractive to male viewers, seems to trip and fall in love with Anakin only because it is required by the overall plot. We don't see any sort of revulsion that her new boyfriend just slaughtered an entire tribe of people(admittedly hostile, but still people). Ewan McGregor seems to be running completely on autopilot, and I can almost read his thoughts, "When can I get done with this useless picture so I can get paid and go do something MEANINGFUL?! DVD production values are not much better. Oh sure the picture, being a direct-digital transfer is STUNNING, and the sound is top-notch. But the deleted scenes are ho-hum, the featurettes boring, and the commentary made me dislike this film even more than I already did (example: now they're not just replacing the shots that they could not have done with model and/or actor with CG, they're using it for nearly EVERYTHING). In the end, I can't really recommend this film for anyone other than fans of the film. MAYBE for people who want something to show off their new HD home theatre equipment. But as something to just sit and watch? No. Quite simply, it's time for George Lucas to give up his director's chair. He's a competant enough writer, but his directing skills simply are not there (as evidenced by the fact that Episode 5 & 6 are both better than 4 and neither were Lucas directed). He needs to bring someone on who knows how to get a good performance out of his actors as well as gauge what people really want to see.
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Summary: ewan mcgregor rocks!
Review: McGregor plays the character so well....He was amazing to watch on screen in the ep. #2. This one is a bit more drama/romantic because the relationship between Ani and the Senator heat up...The ending battle sceen was very cool! Looking forward to #3!!
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Summary: You go TOM!
Review: The image and sound quality are amazing. This DVD is probably the best quality DVD to date. Great for showing off a high quality home theater. Since the movie was shot on digital film, there was almost no ghosting or image quality lost. Now the negatives: What made the original Star Wars movies so spectatular was their campy dialog, fake but realistic special effects (even though you knew it was a fake spaceship you still knew it was a picture of a real model). The older Star Wars films were mostly a tribute to the cheesey sci-fi movies of the 50's and 60's. A true space opera, they were classics. Episode II relies mostly on the impressive special effects to mesmerize and entertain. Acting and story are second to this. The totally cardboard acting of Haeden Christianson is so bad, that it makes you wonder if he should play an emotionally repressed andriod instead of the future Darth Vader. It made me miss Jar Jar. Oustanding special effects that circumvent the rest of the movie. This movie seems to be made mostly just to fill a quota and to set up the clearly superior episodes 3-6. Makes you sad to see a performer past his prime, and Star Wars is way past its prime.
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Summary: ABSOLUTELY WORTHLESS
Review: i saw this flick opening day, and the theatre was half empty. now that i've said that, allow me to relay how TOTALLY AWFUL this movie is. when i walked out of the theatre, the first thing i said was, "that was bloody worse then episode I!" it really is. it's obvious that lucas made the flick to continue to cash in on the wonderful cinematic experience that "The Holy Trilogy" was. this new offering really shames the name "Star Wars". okay, so apparently, anakin skywalker is a rebellious teenager (duh) who also happens to be the hope of all prophecies yadda yadda yadda... the problem is that the actor portraying skywalker (christiansen, is it?) either can't act, or has so much trouble doing so due to: 1.) bad script (lucas).
2.) bad director(lucas).
3.) pretentious cgi (lucas). The Holy Trilogy, at least when being viewed through the eyes of a five year old (as i was when i first began my Star Wars affair), looked freakin' REAL. this new series looks like a cartoon, and if i wanted to watch cartoons, i'd stay home and flick on cable tv. the jar jar thing never bothered me. it really is just a lame movie. if lucas tried to release this story without the "Star Wars" name attached to it, there would be no episode II or III - the first one would have bombed so bad that no studio or producer or anyone would even consider giving this man cash to "fulfill his vision". his "vision"? you just copied it all from dune, george. don't buy this dvd. don't buy episode i. don't see episode iii. go watch a good trilogy - i believe Keanu Reeves and Laurence Fishburne star in it.
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Summary: Great Movie- closest I've seen to the original Trilogy
Review: Compared to the Phantom Menace (Which was a very good movie), this was a truly great movie with more the style and excitement of the original Star Wars Trilogy and how they appeared when they first came out. Acting was superb, with fresh as well as familiar characters.
I was told ahead of time just that Yoda "shows his stuff" (As a Jedi Knight) before the movie, and I was not sure how to take that and not sure how it could be pulled off in a way that was really exciting- but once again I was very surprised at how good this movie was. This movie combines all the special effect surprises the original trilogy pulled, as well as combining them in a movie with a great, believable plot, with lots of action and even a touching love story for those into love stories. But what really made this movie was a great story, great acting by all characters (even Yoda), and so much action, drama and amazing special effects it makes you glad Star Wars is back!
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Summary: Can we please have new actors?
Review: The original Star Wars movies were great. I liked those. But Episode I wasn't that great. I was hoping Episode II would be better but it was -remarkably- worse. Of course, the special effects were very nice, but even with the most impressive bells and whistles, you have to have a good story to back it up. And good actors to act it. But the acting... It's so stiff! Take Natalie Portman. Beautiful girl, would be great as a model. But the way she says her lines is just... awful. "I truly... deeply... love you." Most of the time she's speaking in a monotone. They should have gotten Keira Knightley. The chemistry between her and Anakin (Hayden Christensen) is... not there. They're either glaring at each other or sharing spit. Ah, well... maybe Episode III will be better.
Rating:
Summary: 2 stars for yoda
Review: Yoda's fight scene is worth the price of admission. The rest of this movie is nearly complete dreck.
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