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Post by Adam on May 16, 2005 11:49:57 GMT -5
That must be one ugly naked guy. ;D
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Post by Ampage on May 16, 2005 14:10:35 GMT -5
Trust me. He had hips and cottage cheese thighs. On a dude.
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Post by Adam on May 16, 2005 14:51:23 GMT -5
And he was in motion? Double ugh!  |
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Post by Weeping_Guitar on May 18, 2005 20:50:22 GMT -5
so it ends.........    i sadly will miss out on a midnight showing. firstly i have to get up early for work. second, no advance tickets at my craptacular localest theater so i would have to stand in line by myself. |
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Post by Adam on May 19, 2005 0:34:12 GMT -5
I also have to wait until tomorrow night to see it. One of my friends was supposed to score some tickets to a showing at the local digital theater but he waited until the last week.
Dumb bastard.
The tickets have been on sale for a month and he acted like he didn't know this. He appears to be burnt out at work, but come on.
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Post by maarts on May 19, 2005 2:32:04 GMT -5
Seen it twice now...
Wow.
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Post by Weeping_Guitar on May 19, 2005 5:52:04 GMT -5
i luv ya, maarts, but you gotta die. i have lassoed a couple of my cousins to go too so I am doing my part.
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Post by rockkid on May 19, 2005 7:23:24 GMT -5
Heard a “research” blurb on the radio yest that so called experts figure this movie will cost over 7 million in lost wages what with people playing sick & all.
Personally I’d never give up pay for a flick but hey that’s just me.
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Post by maarts on May 19, 2005 7:29:16 GMT -5
In Australia, 'taking a sickie' is part of the working man's life- in fact you are allowed to take five sickleave-days a year.
Which means, as far as I'm concerned, being an employer and all, my staff can go and watch the movie five times each.
Cinema only was half full this arvo...not too many kids too.
BTW what was the rating for Star Wars in the USA? It got a M-rating here (15+)
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Post by maarts on May 19, 2005 8:12:16 GMT -5
Yeah, I had my doubts about Revenge Of The Sith and even though I still don't agree with Lucas' decision to go back in time to retell a known story, the build-up has been quite good. Like Star Trek: Enterprise it is odd to see that a film/series that precedes an older (and arguably a better one) one looks better through more modern technology and that may be its saving grace. I have to admit that for me this latest trilogy of Star Wars falls in that category with Revenge Of The Sith classified number four in the Star wars-rankings.
First off, the vistas, background scenery and the battles are spectacular. That has always been the part why I wanted to see these films more than once in the cinema- the amazing spread of worlds, spaceships and battles following each other up in high tempo. It is why so many of the 'talk'-scenes are bearable- the city backdrop with the passing ships go by draw a lot of the attention away from some of the static acting of Christensen and Portman. Not that they do a bad job but the script sometimes is painstaking and excruciatingly simplistic. Lucas is not the best screenwriter around. He does well to stick to the explanation of Anakin's defection but he leaves a lot of questions: what exactly entails the Dark Side-training? How could Anakin kill the 'younglings' after recoiling when he killed Mace Windu- that transition is quite large.
Clocking in at a massive 140 minutes it is logical that not everything can be adressed. Perhaps more compressed in the story-area where the Jedi-council vs Palpatine is concerned would have speeded it up a bit and created space to get more into areas that I mentioned earler but my name is maarts and not George Lucas...
I was impressed with Ian McDiarmid's performance. The baddies are really bad, although I could do without Imperial Droids going 'uh-oh' on several occasions. General Grievous was definitely good and his four-armed lightsaberattack versus Obi-Wan was very good, as was much of the swordplay. The rest of the actors perform quite decently but I miss a bit the quality of an Alec Guiness.
Of one thing I am sure of now too- Darth Vader IS James Earl Jones! That voice makes the menace, not the laboured breathing!
All in all it is a good dark ending to a mindboggling saga-- amazing to tell such a tale and not have a good end but that was known. Amazing that this has taken all my childhood, adolescence and large part of adulthood to complete- a circle has been made round. I feel old.
Most puzzling- the credit for Javva The Hut. Eh?
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Post by luke on May 19, 2005 12:35:24 GMT -5
I'll be seeing it sometime early next week, when all the geeks start to clear out. I hate crowded theatres.
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Post by patlogi on May 19, 2005 13:37:09 GMT -5
I wasn't really impressed with the first two. I also have reservations on if I really want to watch all the Jedi Knights and the children in training to become Jedi's get mercilessly slaughtered.
I'll probably see it when it comes out on video just so I can rent all three and have a pizza party for one in my bedroom one Sunday.
My dog will enjoy the crusts.
Only movies I am actually planning on going to the theater to see are Bewitched, Charlie And the Chocolate Factory and the next Hawwy Potter.
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Post by luke on May 19, 2005 13:49:00 GMT -5
I'm very skeptical about trailers, but the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory trailer looks WAAAAAAYYYYYYY too similar to the original movie. Which means that either it's a second-rate film or it has a misleading trailer. If it's the former, then fuck Tim Burton. Seriously. Fuck that guy.
But if not, then fuck that dude who set up the trailer. Goddamn suits, always making movies look crappy in their trailers.
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Post by patlogi on May 19, 2005 16:03:49 GMT -5
Its not a musical so its different in that regards and EVERYTHING Tim Burton makes is always a shade of different...
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Post by strat-0 on May 19, 2005 16:36:40 GMT -5
Let's hope so.
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