Begun, this clone war has
Dec. 21st, 2002 11:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
andrewduckerI just watched the Attack of the Clones DVD and I have to say I'm mystified by the number of people who have complained about Hayden Christian's acting in it, saying that he's whiny and brattish.
For goodness' sake - he's playing a 16 year old kid, raised as property, handed vast amounts of power and madly in love with the girl he's had a crush on for the last 10 years. He's more powerful than those around him (including some of his teachers) and has been repeatedly told by the president galaxy that he's going to be the most powerful Jedi ever. Of course he's whiny and brattish!
The film looks great, is great fun, has some wonderful homages to pulp SF cinema and even some cool direction (the lightsaber fight between Kenobi and Dooku, where you see nothing but their faces illuminated by the clashing blades, for instance).
Sure, the dialogue is occasionally sucky, but by and large it's a damn cool film for what it is.
For goodness' sake - he's playing a 16 year old kid, raised as property, handed vast amounts of power and madly in love with the girl he's had a crush on for the last 10 years. He's more powerful than those around him (including some of his teachers) and has been repeatedly told by the president galaxy that he's going to be the most powerful Jedi ever. Of course he's whiny and brattish!
The film looks great, is great fun, has some wonderful homages to pulp SF cinema and even some cool direction (the lightsaber fight between Kenobi and Dooku, where you see nothing but their faces illuminated by the clashing blades, for instance).
Sure, the dialogue is occasionally sucky, but by and large it's a damn cool film for what it is.
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Agreed.
Date: 2002-12-21 05:21 pm (UTC)However. Let us not forget Lukes plan at the start of ROTJ involved EVERYONE GOING TO JABBAS PALACE AND GETTING CAPTURED ONE AT A TIME. Fairly fucking implausible.
I thought that from a directorial POV, it was a step down from TPM. The camera's far too static for much of the film. Only the CGI scenes look dynamic. Kind of understandable though due to the incredibly bulky prototype digital cameras they shot with.
But it does look *fantastic* on DVD. Really crisp. Lots of depth on the colours.