Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by michael w (A) on May 16, 2002 at 01:51:12

In Reply to: The reviews are in! posted by clarkohnsen on May 15, 2002 at 10:12:38:

I got an invite to the first screening here, a special 12:01am show.
A low key affair punctuated by some dweeb dressed as Darth Vader, said dweeb was far too short in stature and a couple of episodes too early.

Better than TPM but that wasn't hard.

This megaflick is a souless, corporate cinematic confection lacking any sense of drama or suspense.

A typical Lucas clunky script (Hayden Christensen has some real howlers), some really bad acting (local guy Tem Morrison and that kid, who sounded like he came straight off the street with heavy newzild accents), comparitively these two put Jake Lloyd on par with Olivier...

Plus some of the worse SFX I've seen in a loooong time.
With all thier expertise one would think Lucas and co. would be able to make the scenes with young Skywalker and Christopher Lee on speeder bikes look more realistic.

Most of the scenes with human/CGI interaction also looked extremely fake.

Yoda looked better as a puppet.
His big fight scene had the audience howling in a laughter.

Thankfully Jar Jar has a much smaller (on screen) role this time out.

And at ~155 min. the damn thing is waaay too long.
No doubt the editor dozed off at this snoozefest.

But Natalie Portman looked great.

Best thing about the whole session was the set of trailers for more interesting films (Blade 2, Minority Report, Spider Man, MIB 2).

Overall ... three yawns.

One can expect the DVD to be a stunning package.

:P

cheerio