Episode II Surpasses $116 Million at Box Office

Domasi writes "The Force is with George Lucas again as the fifth installment of the Star Wars saga, 'Attack of the Clones,' took in $116.3 million in its first four days and to become the second-fastest film behind only "Spider-Man"." Spider-man is better. But I plan to see both of them again.

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Two cents worth, please

[blankmange]

Here it is, my summation of AotC: dreadful, simply dreadful. Comparing it to Spider-Man is comparing apples and oranges, but I did have a much better time watching Spider-man. I must qualify this statement with the fact that I have been a Star Wars fan from the beginning, but this installment was appalling. Why would a 2 & 1/2 hour movie need a hour's worth of a teen angst/love story that seemingly has no plot, especially when we know that Anakin will eventually turn his back on the Jedi in the end? Why are there no truly evil villains? Sure Count Dooku and Darth Sidius want to overthrow the Federation and create the Empire.... big deal. I miss the taut story lines and highly-defined characters of Episodes 4 - 6. Episode 1 had Darth Maul, but for far too short of time -- we need a bad guy. Granted, rumors of Episode 3 say that a bad guy will emerge (let me guess.... Vader?) but that is 2 episodes too late...

So ends my rant, please begin the flames.....

Re:No one saw this.

[Grab]

Shame the film isn't up to par technically then, really. CGI that looks it, dialogue like, well, like the last film really. It's a shame really, since there's so much going for Star Wars. However, Lucas seems to have the sadiM touch - everything gold he touches turns to shit. The phrase "snatching defeat from the jaws of victory" was made for Lucas's script-writing (or should that be "the Jawas of victory"? ;-)

Grab.