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C'mon Dman, the romance between Anakin and Amidala was hokey at best.

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In Reply to: Re: The best Star Wars yet- totally agree!!! posted by Dman on May 19, 2002 at 06:10:37:

You don't have to have bodice ripping, just chemistry! There was NO chemistry between the romantic leads although Natalie Portman tried her best to fake it. The precious moments, coincidences, exposition dialogue and cliches that riddled "Attack of the Clones" ruined any suspension of disbelief, and all the great FX that Lucas plastered up on the screen didn't help one bit.
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Re: C'mon Dman, the romance between Anakin and Amidala was hokey at best. - Dman 05:11:49 05/20/02 (1)
I will concede that Lucas still can't write a good "normal" personal dialog between characters (even with the additional help in the screenwriting process), but I DID feel the akwardness of first love and the temptation of choice there that a person in Anakin's position must have (the whole Jedi for life/ Senator duties thing, etc.).
Maybe I'm a hopless romantic, but I remember being 17 or 18 and feeling so tongue tied with my first love that I occasionally spouted out hoaky cheesy one-liners in an attempt to woo/convince/get lucky/whatever.
I just saw the film for a second time last night, just to verify my own feelings about everything I've felt about it. I am happy to say that I still get the fellings of excitement of all appropriate things within the film. Also, the sadness, happiness and tension where applicable.
IMHO, the best he's done so far.
Dman
- Wow! How different our impressions were! - Audiophilander 11:59:22 05/20/02 (0)
  I felt that the first Star Wars (Ep. IV) came much closer to capturing the innocence of youth with Luke's feelings for Princess Leia and his efforts to seek adventure. True, Mark Hamill didn't have the chops to stretch his acting very far, but he was much more believable than the current actor portraying Anakin. Granted, Hayden Christensen is probably about the equal of the child actor used in Ep. I, but that doesn't raise either film in my estimation.
  I'm forced to agree with many of the current SW critics who've concluded rightly or wrongly that George Lucas has lost his ability to direct actors convincingly, in manner that conveys anything resembling passion. The SW saga is virtually (pun intended) all FX show now and indeed the story suffers for it. Suspension of disbelief has apparantly been traded for the oohs and ahs of an immobile roller coaster ride and character development has been replaced with rapid-fire choreographed action sequences which literally segue into each other from the openning title to end credits, the pace only briefly slowing for the awkward forced romance between the leads. The only logical explanation is that Lucas probably assumes no one will notice the plot flaws and precious coincidences because of all the action crammed into Episode II.
  BTW, the silly light-sabre duel between Yoda and Senator bad-ass was comical to the point that my wife was almost in histerics; I'm quite sure that the humor was unintended; in retrospect, this scene is just embarassingly bad. If Lucas had wanted to convey Yoda's power more believably, he could've had the character bring the fight to him, first with his mental control of objects and then with anticipatory movements in the duel. Of course, big surprise, after the scene started with Yoda using his mental prowess Lucas chose to end it with the "whirling dirvish" Yoda because the rapid pacing showed off the improved ILM special effects.
  AuPh

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