Here is my unpopular opinion. The lives of everyone I love and care about, without one exception, has dramatically improved since Barack Obama became President.
1. I thought Star Wars sucked.2. I hate Thursday night football. Keep it in the Sat, Sun, Mon time frame. Depending on the time of the year. 3. I can't watch anything animated. 4. I had a discussion with a friend awhile back. He had the opinion that all PED's should be legal in sports. I thought he was out of his skull at the time. But I am slowly coming around to the idea. Its out of control anyway, so if an athlete wants to risk his health for increased productivity, let them go for it. Its not exactly a popular opinion, but it might have some merit. On a related note, Brandon Browner is sitting on the couch watching the Super Bowl, like the rest of us. Because he failed multiple drug test for weed. And its a indefinite suspension. Meanwhile Goodell is out there doing interviews about how the league could possibly be open to medical marijuana in the future. And I saw something on the news yesterday, at this years Super Bowl, there are multiple billboards right outside MetLife stadium, promoting legalizing weed.Full disclosure, I don't smoke myself, but I think Browner is getting the short end.
You missed the point of the sand scene. The reason Anakin said that was sort of a metaphor for his own background on the sand planet of Tatoinne, an unloved slave living a meaningless live of misery, with his description of the water planet of Naboo being a metaphor for his feelings for Padme. It was cleverly written, albeit cheesy, but then again this is Star Wars ("At first I was the pupil, now I am the master" "Yes, but only a master of evil!") . Yes, Anakin's delivery is akwawrd and weird, but that's the way he was SUPPOUSED to be. An awkward teenager. Hell, I find myself more emotionally connected with him and relating with him now than I ever do, which is why every time I watch these movies I love them more. And how was Order 66 not emotionally resonating? Or Anakin choking Padme? And if you think I'm trolling, tell that to Quentin Tarantino, Roger Ebert, Richard Roeper, Kevin Smith, Joss Wheedon, Steven Spielberg, Felix Vasquez Jr., Michael A. Smith, James Rolfe and the countless other filmmakers, personalities and even university professors who love the prequels.
There is an old line about how if you need to have a character be boring you can't write him boringly. You are rationalizing after the fact why he's a bad actor...and even if you think this bad acting was intentional watch the rest of the film and his leaden performance and see that this isn't acting, it is what he does. Now, he's been in other films and been able to act better than this and I'd guess about 75% of the problem is that Lucas is a hack of a director (Empire is the only good film and shocker it is the one Lucas didn't have his grubby paws on) and can't get good performance out of the clone of Lawrence Olivier and Kate Hepburn.You can see the difference between well acted awkwardness in something like Freaks and Geeks and the just badly done acting in the prequels.
You missed the point of the sand scene. The reason Anakin said that was sort of a metaphor for his own background on the sand planet of Tatoinne, an unloved slave living a meaningless live of misery, with his description of the water planet of Naboo being a metaphor for his feelings for Padme. It was cleverly written, albeit cheesy, but then again this is Star Wars ("At first I was the pupil, now I am the master" "Yes, but only a master of evil!") . Yes, Anakin's delivery is akwawrd and weird, but that's the way he was SUPPOUSED to be. An awkward teenager. Hell, I find myself more emotionally connected with him and relating with him now than I ever do, which is why every time I watch these movies I love them more. And how was Order 66 not emotionally resonating? Or Anakin choking Padme? And if you think I'm trolling, tell that to Quentin Tarantino, Roger Ebert, Richard Roeper, Kevin Smith, Joss Wheedon, Steven Spielberg, Felix Vasquez Jr., Michael A. Smith, James Rolfe and the countless other filmmakers, personalities and even university professors who love the prequels.
There is an old line about how if you need to have a character be boring you can't write him boringly. You are rationalizing after the fact why he's a bad actor...and even if you think this bad acting was intentional watch the rest of the film and his leaden performance and see that this isn't acting, it is what he does. Now, he's been in other films and been able to act better than this and I'd guess about 75% of the problem is that Lucas is a hack of a director (Empire is the only good film and shocker it is the one Lucas didn't have his grubby paws on) and can't get good performance out of the clone of Lawrence Olivier and Kate Hepburn.You can see the difference between well acted awkwardness in something like Freaks and Geeks and the just badly done acting in the prequels.
You make him sound like he's Tommy Wiseau or something, delivering no emotion at all throughout the film. I never said he was a bad actor, or boring, I just said that his character required him to be awkward and at times emotionless. Of course, there are moments where he can be very emotional and very intense. Look at the video below. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCw127qWhuU I honestly thought these scenes were Hayden's best acting in Episode II. That look of shock and confusion that he can't save his mother, slowly shifting to anger and resentment towards the sand people who killed her. He has to portray so many emotions in these scenes; fear, immaturity, flawed rationalization, confusion, tragedy. And he manages to switch of between these emotions rather well. The way that he says "I hate them!" with such venom was done extremely well, and I love that as soon as he says it, he falls to the ground realizing what he says, saying his next lines with total anguish, "I'm a Jedi, I know I'm better than this!" He's not Anthony Hopkins, but I thought his acting was great nonetheless. Besides, even if he was bad, it's not like Hayden is the ONLY actor in the prequels. What about Ian McDiarmid's performance as the Emperor? Even you have to admit that he was pretty damn good.
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Well, this is the first thread where I haven't been attacked and pounced on for my opinion on the Star Wars prequels. Then again, that's probably cause Escobar hasn't replied to the thread yet.
No, no in this you are wrong. The prequels are incompetently written, directed and acted. They are awful, terrible, horrific cinematic abortions.
They were no worse written then the originals, having extremely emotionally resonating characters with deep arcs, the direction is no worse than the originals, and the criticisms on the acting are based on fans not understanding the characters (i.e, Anakin comes of as wooden and emotionless because 1) He's a Jedi and 2) He is desperately trying to hide and restrain his natrual emotions and teenage angst/confidence which come in conflict with his identity as a Jedi. And I don't know about you but I thought Hayden did a GREAT job in the scene where he tells Padme about the Tuskens as well as the scene on Mustafar in Episode III) They were smart, masterful, cinematic masterpieces that are merely hated on because they are so different from the OT, although personally I believe Episode III is the best of the saga and Episode II is the 3rd best of the saga beguind Empire and Revenge.
Now I know you are trolling. If you think anyone did a great job while delivering a "this sand is so rough but your skin is so soft" line Annakin did then you'd obviously be incapable of forming complete sentences. There iis no emotional resonating in them. One of the best jokes I've seen is to ask people to describe the characters in phantom menace without using physical descriptions or function. In other words,describe what sort of people they are. The first 3 are not great either. Only Empire is really a good film overall. The first 3 shine though compared to how poorly the prequels were done.
You missed the point of the sand scene. The reason Anakin said that was sort of a metaphor for his own background on the sand planet of Tatoinne, an unloved slave living a meaningless live of misery, with his description of the water planet of Naboo being a metaphor for his feelings for Padme. It was cleverly written, albeit cheesy, but then again this is Star Wars ("At first I was the pupil, now I am the master" "Yes, but only a master of evil!") . Yes, Anakin's delivery is akwawrd and weird, but that's the way he was SUPPOUSED to be. An awkward teenager. Hell, I find myself more emotionally connected with him and relating with him now than I ever do, which is why every time I watch these movies I love them more. And how was Order 66 not emotionally resonating? Or Anakin choking Padme? And if you think I'm trolling, tell that to Quentin Tarantino, Roger Ebert, Richard Roeper, Kevin Smith, Joss Wheedon, Steven Spielberg, Felix Vasquez Jr., Michael A. Smith, James Rolfe and the countless other filmmakers, personalities and even university professors who love the prequels.
Anakin went from good guy to bad guy in like 5 minutes with no realistic character development. Absolute divel. And don't get me started on Jar Jar Binks and all the excessive superfluous effects.
