Some thoughts on the Star Wars DVD's

[kexodusc]

Worf the angry meister, perhaps I should give you back the fine upstate beer I filched from ya. I rather liked the movie(and don't punch me!). Okay, so jar jar was jar jaring my senses, overall I was thoroughly entertained.(now you can punch me..as I run from the room!)

Wow, so I'm not the only one...yeah, it wasn't necessarily better than the originals...but it sure beat alot of late 90's movies.
Why doesn't anybody gripe about Star Trek: Insurrection?
Now THAT was a let down (and I still kinda liked it).

[Geoffcin]

Wow, so I'm not the only one...yeah, it wasn't necessarily better than the originals...but it sure beat alot of late 90's movies.
Why doesn't anybody gripe about Star Trek: Insurrection?
Now THAT was a let down (and I still kinda liked it).

About Insurrection. But Star Trek movies aren't the icons that Starwars movies are.

The real shift, and it's quite obvious after only a few minutes is that EP 1 & 2 are driven by, and really just vehicles for special effects. This is the same problem that I noticed recently with Sky Captain, and it DOESN'T Work! Lucas are you listening!? For all the FX in the originals the real driving force [pun?] was the characters. Ray guns and Death Stars are cool to use, and blow up, but unless you can care about the characters the movie's not going to "move" you. Even the best actors, when used as props for FX can;t help. For me it all comes down to screenwriting, and it's looking more and more like this is becoming a dying art, at least in most of the FX driven movies I've seen lately.