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Summary: .....SEND IN THE CLO[W]NES.......
Review: zoom! {YAWN!} zap! {YAWN!} boom! {YAWN!}Just a little disappointing with great homage to Fritz Lange and Ridley Scott ~ our heros are somewhere stuck in their Metropoli .... maybe [and really folks!] this one is just s a slight filler building up to the emergence of 'dear old Darth'; but nothing really happens except for the liason between Padme [Natalie Portman] and her boytoy Anni {Hayden Christensen at his pouty best}. Dear OLD Chris Lee seems to have stepped right off his "Rings" set. It's all very much Stanislavski meets Space [or lack of intelligent space]. Tech Credits? OK - not as super as Episode I. Great love theme and shots of Lake Como ..... but Zeffirelli it sointenli ain't in the romance dept.
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Summary: Lucas and ILM do it again.
Review: Yet another fantastic episode in the Star Wars Saga!!! True to his (Lucas) form, he continues to dazzle audiences across the globe. This great saga will live on, beyond the end of time.
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Summary: Poopy
Review: Yes, it is. Don't tell me that I'm just an unfair, overcritical Star Wars fanatic who can't be satisfied with anything because I've idolized the originals so much. This is garbage. Think about it. WHY were the originals idolized so much? Why do people buy two copies of the movies, one to watch and one to keep as a collector's item? Because they were awesome movies. You say I hate the new ones because I was hyped up about them and they weren't what I expected. I say I was hyped up because the originals were strokes of mastery. Why didn't Lucas do it again? I know why.
Because of Star Wars, George has a ton of money. Before Star Wars, he had no money. And because Star Wars was a film that was suffering severely from a low budget, Lucas used the only resource available that was bountiful: his mind. He sweated and worked for those movies, and the innovation and creativity that was poured into the project is what helped the original movies achieve their immortality.
But George doesn't need to think anymore, and it shows. The effects in these new movies are gorgeous, but they're not practical. They're unrealistic. They're unnecessary. The machines and robots have countless little details and moving parts that don't serve any purpose whatsoever, but wow, they look good, don't they? It's all polish, people. Polish upon polish. Extra enhancements to make up for the lack of content. George is simply making things up as he goes along (Hey, you know, this would be neat"), so the atmosphere of the new Star Wars is not coherent.
Whether the acting in the new movies is good or bad really is debatable. I was very pleased with the cast for The Phantom Menace, save the annoying detestable boy. When Qui Gon fell, my heart froze, and that's how I knew the actors were doing their job. The second installment, however, doesn't have a cast that I really care about. Portman never really did a good job in either movie, with her monotonous dirge of dialogue. The young man who plays Anakin had a very, VERY tough character to play, and I think he pulled it off very well. His anger flairs up every once in a while, revealing for only seconds the monster that will soon emerge. Anakin gets a whole star to save this film.
Obi Won also does a great job (again), with his accent perfectly matching our beloved elderly Obi Won in the earlier/later films. He does a fine job of portraying a man who has grown a bit since the last film, where his master was slain by the Sith Lord. But he still retains the ambitious courage that makes him perhaps the greatest Jedi. Obi Won also gets a whole star, the last one that I give to this film.
Because the script is awful. I'm thinking in particular where Anakin makes his move on Padime, telling her that she's soft and smooth, unlike the grainy sands of Tatooine. Ugh. It's unholy.
It's late, so I'm too tired to drone on about these new Star Wars movies... All I can say is that I really wanted these movies to be the greatest, so it's not like I'm biased against them or anything. I enjoy watching them, and always will, but they are a significant tier below the originals.
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Summary: What "secret" blooper reel??
Review: Can someone please, please, please tell me how to access the "secret" blooper reel everyone's talking about on this DVD????
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Summary: DARK LORD BEGINNINGS
Review: Now, we see Anakin Skywalker get mad and angry after his mother death.He'd should get more angry when the jedi order tells him to get divorced from padme.In Attack Of The Clones George set up the audience for what's to happen in the third film. This flim the clones much better than Phantom,the story was better but the romance was dull and it needs better writing overall.The FX were great like always and we get Master Yoda in action finally and Mace Windo was great in the figtht scenes and it's good to have more jedis fighting.I would reccommed this find film for all star wars fans.I for one can't wait to see Anakin turn to the dark side.
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Summary: blah
Review: The only reason why I can see someone actaully liking this movie is if they really like the special effects and if they really really like Luke from the "first" movies, where he whined insesantly, and basically was just plain iritating...his father shows you where he gets it from. I'd give this no stars if I could...I tell you though, this and episode one make me fear the next movie and the Indiana Jones movie Lucas is thinking about doing...*shudders* Nothing like having your favorite movie franchises from Childhood ...
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Summary: NOT!!
Review: First, let me say some positives about this DVD: 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: Go Rocketman!
Review: Well, if you are a Star Wars fan, then you no doubt loved this movie. Me, on the other hand, think the opposite. I REALLY didn't like this movie. Anakin Skywalker is now a whiny, annoying, brat, who complains at every turn, and it's hard to see him turning into the Darth Vader of the original Star Wars. When this was made, it's like they tried TOO HARD to keep it consistent with the original films. For example, Yoda talks in reverse-sentences at every chance he gets, not only that, but he enjoys pointing out the obvious to the audience ("Clone war begun it has"). The scene where Yoda fights that one guy is ridiculous, this is a movie for children. Ewwwww, bad movie...
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Summary: Bada Bing!
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 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: Wow, what a farce
Review: Attack of the Clones is one of those movies where you just wish you had the opportunity to write the script, there is just so much wrong with the movie that at times it's really hard to watch. I won't touch on the somewhat questionable dialog as I think everyone has more than[...]about it. For starters Obi Wan never shows father like love for Anakin which through out the movie they like to say is there. Then there is one seen where Obi Wan just seem like an [...], he wants to find a planet but the map does not show a planet where he thinks it should be but yet out show that there is gravitational pull there...he needs a child to tell him there is a planet there...just stupid. But my real problem with the movie is the lost opportunity that George Lucas had with the Clone Wars, which I think should have been the main part of the movie, not the last 10-15mins. It would have been nice to see the strain of war on the Jedi...a kind of Saving Private Ryan, with maybe a little less violence. Also I think seeing the relationship between Anakin and Padme, though necessary, could have been done better by quick one minute flashes to them and then back to the story to show that time is going by for them, that they are getting closer and to keep the story moving. One last thing, I can't help but hope that Lucas Films stop using such overly colorful worlds which just remind you that it's all CG...they need only watch "Lord Of The Rings - The Fellowship of the Ring" to see how CG should be done. Overall this is an OK movie...more so for the true Star Wars fan than the average movie watcher who might get upset with the dialog, the somewhat [weak] romantic parts and the over use of "on realistic" looking eye candy. This is a three out of five stars, no doubt about it.
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