First off, I LIKED this movie... It's not the best movie off all time, not even the best in the past year (possibly not even this summer: enter EYES WIDE SHUT), but it is good. Go on and complain about everything you want, George had a reason for all of it I'm sure... It's his film... It's his art... admire it or move on.
Having said that, my two cents on various complaints and stuff:
Jar Jar: I was pretty indifferent about him, but my wife loved him, I'm sure kids will too.
Mytothingies: I'm going to hold off judgement and see if they are explained any more later. I think we are reading way to much into their role in the force.
C3P0 and R2: I would have left them out myself, but how can you make a (pre)sequel without any of the original "actors" in it. I primarily have a problem with them being on Tatooine (they didn't seem to have been there before in A New Hope).
Darth Maul: He was somewhat cool, but he just couldn't be as strong as Darth Vader will become. If he was, why would Palpatine need Anakin later. Maul is just a first attempt at creating what would become Vader.
Politics: I personally think it's going to be interested in seeing the parallel rise to power of Palpatine and Anakin and you have to play politics to become emporer.
Now what did this movie give me to overwelm any and all of its flaws? Alot, all of it worth repeating:
Special Effects: Awesome, yet not too overpowering. My wife hates "the computer look", but did not even notice it in this movie. They advanced the plot, but did not overtake the movie.
Action: Some of the best I've ever seen. The underwater monster chase, the pod race, the final space battle and the final saber battle were all incredible.
Plot: As a single movie, it may have been a bit lacking, but as part of a larger work it has a lot going for it. I'm really looking forward to see how the relationships (Anakin and Queen Amidala, Anakin and Obi-Wan, Anakin and Palpatine, Yoda and Obi-Wan, etc.) play out in the next two acts.
All in all, it was worth the 8 bucks, and I'm planning to go see it at least once again.
It's been a while since 12:01 May 19th, so I may be forgetting things, but did the movie actually say that the mytothingies were actually the cause or modus operandi of the force, or were they just a marker that could be tested for (sort of like a pregnancy test). If they actually control the force, how would you move inanimate things like a light saber (laser sword?) or X-wing?
The relationship between Anakin and C3P0 bothered me quite a bit two. Not only is there no inkling of any relationship between the two later, C3P0 seems totally foreign to tatooine at the beginning of A New Hope. I don't know, baby his flash ROM gets wiped out in the future...
In the US, if you apply for a patent on something, you explicitly are donating it to the public domain.
This is very true. If you are a "little fish", patenting an idea is as good as giving it away, because a patent is only as strong as your ability to defend it.
Granted, the ticket isn't "free", but take 9.50 off the price of the CD and you leave with a CD that cost $6.25 assuming you would have bought a ticket sometime in the future anyway. I think there are enough killer movies coming out this summer to prove that assumption correct.
My local movie theater has a machine that sells movie sound tracks on CD. They also include a free movie ticket, all for $15.75. Not too bad of a deal since the a ticket normally costs $9.50.
My thoughts exactly. He would eat up almost all the resources on a 3 radio site if there was no other traffic, let alone try to start the thing up during rush hour. Sounds like a nice little denial of service attack to me.
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First off, I LIKED this movie ... It's not the best movie off all time, not even the best in the past year (possibly not even this summer: enter EYES WIDE SHUT), but it is good. Go on and complain about everything you want, George had a reason for all of it I'm sure ... It's his film ... It's his art ... admire it or move on.
Having said that, my two cents on various complaints and stuff:
Jar Jar: I was pretty indifferent about him, but my wife loved him, I'm sure kids will too.
Mytothingies: I'm going to hold off judgement and see if they are explained any more later. I think we are reading way to much into their role in the force.
C3P0 and R2: I would have left them out myself, but how can you make a (pre)sequel without any of the original "actors" in it. I primarily have a problem with them being on Tatooine (they didn't seem to have been there before in A New Hope).
Darth Maul: He was somewhat cool, but he just couldn't be as strong as Darth Vader will become. If he was, why would Palpatine need Anakin later. Maul is just a first attempt at creating what would become Vader.
Politics: I personally think it's going to be interested in seeing the parallel rise to power of Palpatine and Anakin and you have to play politics to become emporer.
Now what did this movie give me to overwelm any and all of its flaws? Alot, all of it worth repeating:
Special Effects: Awesome, yet not too overpowering. My wife hates "the computer look", but did not even notice it in this movie. They advanced the plot, but did not overtake the movie.
Action: Some of the best I've ever seen. The underwater monster chase, the pod race, the final space battle and the final saber battle were all incredible.
Plot: As a single movie, it may have been a bit lacking, but as part of a larger work it has a lot going for it. I'm really looking forward to see how the relationships (Anakin and Queen Amidala, Anakin and Obi-Wan, Anakin and Palpatine,
Yoda and Obi-Wan, etc.) play out in the next two acts.
All in all, it was worth the 8 bucks, and I'm planning to go see it at least once again.
It's been a while since 12:01 May 19th, so I may be forgetting things, but did the movie actually say that the mytothingies were actually the cause or modus operandi of the force, or were they just a marker that could be tested for (sort of like a pregnancy test). If they actually control the force, how would you move inanimate things like a light saber (laser sword?) or X-wing?
The relationship between Anakin and C3P0 bothered me quite a bit two. Not only is there no inkling of any relationship between the two later, C3P0 seems totally foreign to tatooine at the beginning of A New Hope. I don't know, baby his flash ROM gets wiped out in the future...
This is very true. If you are a "little fish", patenting an idea is as good as giving it away, because a patent is only as strong as your ability to defend it.
Granted, the ticket isn't "free", but take 9.50 off the price of the CD and you leave with a CD that cost $6.25 assuming you would have bought a ticket sometime in the future anyway. I think there are enough killer movies coming out this summer to prove that assumption correct.
My local movie theater has a machine that sells movie sound tracks on CD. They also include a free movie ticket, all for $15.75. Not too bad of a deal since the a ticket normally costs $9.50.
My thoughts exactly. He would eat up almost all the resources on a 3 radio site if there was no other traffic, let alone try to start the thing up during rush hour. Sounds like a nice little denial of service attack to me.