I still disagree -- it's not fair to downplay Carrie Fischer's sex appeal as not a distraction, and play up Natalie Portman's bare midriff as distracting -- I don't think either was overly overt. I think the same criticism that could be thrust at me (that I over-reacted to minutiae) could be thrust at whoever thought Natalie Portman's bare midriff was distracting.

I'm not saying she's not attractive -- I just don't think they played it up as much as y'all are sayin'.
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As for the Natalie Portman debate. I thought her acting was sooooo lifeless and boring in Eps I & II. I thought her acting was much better in "The Professional."
Everyone was bad in those movies -- it had no Direction. L, even Samuel L. Jackson couldn't breathe, he was so stifled (no, this is not from an interview, it is purely my reaction to his acting). Easily his worst role ever.