Re: Clone Armies in Trek

On Mon, 1 Dec 2003, Chris Basken wrote:

> "Mike Dicenso" wrote...
> > Actually, while I didn't like Phantom Menace, I did like Attack of the
> > Clones, although AOTC is still a long way away from being on the level of
> > quality as the Original Trilogy. At least rent AOTC on DVD, and skip over
> > the silly parts, like the Anakin-Pademe love scenes. :-)
>
> Actually, for the most part, AotC was comperable to RotJ for me.  I found most
> of the Jabba Act unentertaining, and the Ewoks insipid.  This left some
> interesting dialogue between Luke and Yoda (and Ben), a nifty, if
> by-the-numbers-for-SW space battle, and a pretty cool confrontation between
> Luke and Vader.
>
> By way of comparison, AotC had a fun opening, with the assassination
> attempt(s) and subsequent chase though the streets of Coruscant, some
> interesting, if underdeveloped character stuff on Tatooine, a relatively cool
> confrontation between Kenobi and Fett, and a nifty,

The opening was a great way to start things off, and the little bantering
between Obi-Wan and Anakin throughoutt the movie finally put back into the
Star Wars what I liked about the Original Trilogy, although the bantering
in AOTC still falls a bit short compared to the one-liners in Episodes
IV-VI.

The thing still missing is a very strong sense of comraderie between the
characters, and development. I still don't have a sense of why, other than
total contrivance, why Anakin went from a nice kid into being a dumb, full
of cum punk.

> not-quite-by-the-numbers-for-SW ground battle.

It was a cool thing, although I'd have liked to see more flinching and
other "human" reactions from the Clonetroopers during the battle. One
thing I really liked as a contrast between Clonetroopers and the
Stormtroopers was the scene where the Clonetrooper gets up, goes over to
Padame, and actually shows genuine concern for her after they had fallen
out of the LAAT.

I honestly can't picture a Stormtrooper doing that for anybody, at
anytime.

Only the wooing scenes really
> hurt, and I can't decide if they were just written for the romantic
> sensibilities of 13-year-old boys (girls are icky, but boobies are nice), or
> if Lucas is just stuck there himself...

Yeah... that was some serious deep hurting... Though not quite as bad as
Jar-Jar's antics from TPM. It was scenes like that, plus the brief scenes
of Jar-Jar that reduced AOTC from being a really great film.
-Mike