lockedoutlogic
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- Apr 26, 2007
pilferk said:I agree with (and have said, in other places) 99.9% of what you said.
Just the bit above I sort of disagree with.
Portman, Neeson, Lee, Jackson....there are a good number of actors in the Eps 1 - 3 who have PROVEN they are not hacks.
And, for the most part, they were HORRIBLE in the SW movies. Which makes you wonder how much of it was their acting ability, and how much was the way they were directed, the dialogue they were given (using your analogy, Olivier couldn't have saved those scripts, IMHO), and the editing/filming of the shots. Oh, and the fact that the two "romantic" leads had absolutely ZERO chemistry between them...which means casting was pretty lousy too.
I've often said that green screen acting, as a whole, must be the hardest thing on the planet for an actor to do. No set, no energy, no context. Given all that, your cast would have to really mesh well for it to work. And at least with voice acting (where you basically never see anyone other than your sound engineers)...you usually get some rough-ins to watch or general context to work with.
I'm with you, though. Less focus on technical wowwie toy use and more on story and character development. And don't let George write one word of dialogue or offer one "insight" to an actor while filming. Creative consultant, indeed.
Lol...
By disagreeing with me...you are actually agreeing with me...
My point was that mark hammil was such a BAD actor that it was the worst thing about the originals...
Turn the page 20 years...and his acting looks good - in fact - compared to the "better" actors of the new movies.
It was the dialogue...and the horrible direction...and the pathetically BAD computer generated characters...
(Anyone else notice that the "fake, puppet" yoda actual had better interaction in empire strikes back than he did as a ninja in the new "advanced" movies? Because there was nothing palpable about him...no mass...no texture)
That's my point...horrible stories...bad lines...bad process...with better actors.
Just bad...and that is all on Lucas and mccallum
Lucas said a couple of years back in a whiny sniveling interview that the prequels would have been "four hours long" if everything had been put in...
So? Would nobody have shown up then? You couldn't have charged more?
It is a pathetic excuse that told the real truth: the movies were bad because the stories were bad...and he had no clue how to tell any of the story types he tried...none.
You'd think in 20 years you could come up with at least a coherent story...
But no...bad corny "humor"...kids characters that didnt resonate with kids...the worst "love story" ever tried...dead end plot lines...and no reasons given for primary plot lines...
Horrid.
After 3 days...I'm sure if it: Disney can't do any worse...and it's very critical to them for future revenues that they do better (and they and everybody else knows it)