Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by PCL (A) on June 05, 2005 at 10:56:01

In Reply to: D'you know what? posted by jusbe on June 2, 2005 at 13:34:55:

Big J,

>>That's actually a half-decent reply. I'd still have to disagree, so I guess that'd amount to a reasonable drinking session to boot.<<

Anything that ends in a drinking session is fine by me!

>>Too old to be bothered about whether anyone else considers my predilections crap or not but I guess I'm curious about the furore instigated by the production of these prequels. We *know* that Lucas left it too long to make them; that the intervening gap left by the absensce of a fleshed-out 'back-story' after the original trilogy was quickly and comprehensively colonised by the collective SF imagination. So why are we surprised then that whatever was produced was going to be a monumental disappointment?<<

Not so much surprised as disappointed. I go into every film looking/hoping to like/love it. That's probably what drives whatever impulse I have to search out obscurities and the like anyway. The case against is pretty basic, really--the fact that he had so many years to plan, prep, think and rethink the options he had, that, with all the resources he had at his disposal..literally the best talent money can buy, and I'm talking in pretty much any and every department...this is all he could come up with? What with the converted already willing to forgive almost any transgression, so long as they got more lightsabre battles (largely poorly staged and shot, I might add). And I'm not even talking a disagreement with a writer/director's treatment or direction...those sorts of disgareements can make for very interesting discussions where the various parties may hold genuinely different but nonetheless valid positions. But just pretty basic level of competence is pretty much missing. And I'm talking when even compared to the two earlier films.

>>And since we're on the subject of effluvia, does anyone else agree that the score for episode 3 was porcelain pebble-dash by compariso with SW1 and 2 (let alone the original series)? Now you can pass me the loo roll!<<

Ha ha..at least we can agree on something!

>> I think you secretly like it all. Just a little.<<

Whoaaa..low blow, low blow!