{"id":312,"date":"2002-05-28T11:26:00","date_gmt":"2002-05-28T19:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=312"},"modified":"2002-05-28T11:26:00","modified_gmt":"2002-05-28T19:26:00","slug":"312","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=312","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">Spoiler alert. Some thoughts on <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/Title?0121765\"><em>Episode II<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Impressive special effects alone do not a movie make.<\/li>\n<li>For a film created almost entirely by computer, it seems awfully unrealistic.<\/li>\n<li>Remember how they once used miniatures and filmed on location in exotic places like Tunisia? Wasn&#8217;t that cool?<\/li>\n<li>Remember when Yoda was a puppet? Did <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/Name?Oz,+Frank\">Frank Oz<\/a> develop arthritis or something?<\/li>\n<li>George Lucas apparently never met a wipe edit he didn&#8217;t like.<\/li>\n<li>Worst love story, ever.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;I don&#8217;t like the sand. It&#8217;s coarse and rough and irritating, and it gets everywhere. Not like here. Here everything&#8217;s soft&#8230; and smooth.&#8221;  Oh dear god, kill me now.<\/li>\n<li>We&#8217;re not supposed to be <em>happy<\/em> when he goes over to the dark side, are we?<\/li>\n<li>It has often been said that acting is reacting. Reacting to imaginary images can&#8217;t be easy. Kudos to those brave few who can pull it off.<\/li>\n<li>There is absolutely no reason for C3PO to leave Tatooine except to serve as comic relief.<\/li>\n<li>Boba Fett looks cool and is a fan favorite, but he really isn&#8217;t that <em>important<\/em> to the story of the first (or, rather, last) three films. He&#8217;s just a bounty hunter in a neat costume who happens to deliver Han Solo. Turning him &#8212; or at least his genetic material &#8212; into such a pivotal character is a little like including a senate delegation of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nitpickers.com\/movies\/nitpicks\/4654.shtml\">E.T.s<\/a> in <em>Phantom Menace<\/em> &#8212; true believers will love you for it, but ultimately it doesn&#8217;t make much sense.<\/li>\n<li>Okay, let&#8217;s say you&#8217;re the Jedi council. You&#8217;ve successfully traced the plot to assassinate Senator Amidala to the planet Kamino, where apparently they&#8217;ve spent the last ten years building an army of clones using bounty hunter Jango Fett as the model. They seem to that think they&#8217;ve been building this army for the Jedi on behalf of the Republic, but this is the first you&#8217;ve heard of it, and you quickly come to the conclusion that Fett is himself connected to the attempt on Amidala&#8217;s life. You eventually track Fett to Geonosis, where you learn that he is apparently in league with Count Dooku, a former Jedi and leader of a growing separatist movement, who is apparently building a droid army of his own. To combat this army, the Chancellor (who has just been given supreme power) calls on &#8212; you guessed it &#8212; the clone army to protect the Republic. And this whole thing doesn&#8217;t seem even the slightest bit odd to you?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/font><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">There&#8217;s more, but it mostly boils down to: George, please let someone else write and direct the next one. Special effects should be in service of the story.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spoiler alert. Some thoughts on Episode II: Impressive special effects alone do not a movie make. For a film created almost entirely by computer, it seems awfully unrealistic. Remember how they once used miniatures and filmed on location in exotic places like Tunisia? Wasn&#8217;t that cool? Remember when Yoda was a puppet? 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