| Re: Phantom Menace
dwndrgn, i think you hit the nail on the head. I think the only character i cared about at all was Obi wan, and that could just be because i think Ewan McGreggor is great (i loved trainspotting. Ok, i like danny boyd too. 28 days later is a new favorite of mine)
I would hazard to say that JarJAr is one of the worst characters ever put to paper or film. Although, i do like that he is basically responsible for the creation of the evil empire.... Stupid frogman....
My hope is that if my sci-fi epic ever becomes a movie (or movies), that they will have all of the visual WOW of the star wars movies, but actually have a plot and characters that people care about.
This actually reminds me. I think one of the problems with the newer movies is that Lucas tried Too hard to find nobodies like he did in the originals. The only real "somebodies" in the originals were Sir Alec Guiness and Peter Cushing. A lot of people attribute the originals success to the relative anonymity of the main actors (in the beginning, at least). George Lucas went out of his way to find actors that he thought looked the part, and were unkown. He ended up with Jake Lloyd and Hayden Christensen. Hayden wasnt TOO bad. The writing hurt his performance (he never really hadf a chance with the lines that were given to him), but Lloyd was just bad. I dont care if he is just a kid. Look at Daviegh Chase in the Ring. That kid is incredible. |