I do agree that Hamill wasn't terribly stellar in the first film, but he gets progressively better as the movie goes on. However, Carrie Fisher is badass and I will hear no words to the contrary.
I do agree that Hamill wasn't terribly stellar in the first film, but he gets progressively better as the movie goes on. However, Carrie Fisher is badass and I will hear no words to the contrary.
As an actor I'd offer that I thought he did a fine job straddling the line between a lot of contradictions: naive but wise, yearning but anxious about new things, talented but inexpert, uncommonly brave (and sometimes brash) but frequently scared (or overly cautious) while still maintaining a character (even if he is defined archetypally and is easy to project onto). Also I'd say the way that he managed to carry a character arc, one that lead him to a very different place than the one he began in while still having a clear through-line, over the course of three films is pretty impressive in and of itself.
Also I'm not sure about your "as the film goes on" qualifier because filming is out of order.
the slave girl costume does nothing for me, though
i dunno, i mean i would never have said i found her particularly attractive myself but i feel that's sorta besides the point? she's an important character to the story, for a reviewer to dismiss her because he wasn't attracted to her is just shallow, and patronizing, and also very mean
She gets like cut up a bunch and it's weird because maybe it's just me but everything that happens to her is simultaneously visibly, viscerally painful and totally played for wank fuel. It's gross as fuck.
They fight giant animals in the arena. Padme goes up against this cat-like monster, which manages to tear off the midriff of her outfit, then give her three big cuts on her belly.
The injury didn't strike me as that bad, but I dunno. In any case, it wasn't bad enough to bump the film to a PG-13 rating here in the US.
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I liked her better in the slave girl costume in Jedi but of course I would say that
but that worked, imo, in that it helped reinforce that what we were watching was taking place in some distant galaxy with its own culture and fashions
at least, that was how i took it, it could be that it's just a dated hairstyle i'm not familiar with?
i dunno, i mean i would never have said i found her particularly attractive myself but i feel that's sorta besides the point? she's an important character to the story, for a reviewer to dismiss her because he wasn't attracted to her is just shallow, and patronizing, and also very mean
i don't remember it but that sounds super gross
there was a praying mantis type creature, and something like a rhino which i remember a toy commercial identified as "in charges the mighty reek"
and i'd always pinch my nose and go, "ugh, mighty reek" because that was the level of my sense of humour when i was 12
the third prequel got a 12 certificate
the bit with Padme getting attacked didn't strike me as sexual, though i suppose it revealed more skin than was necessary
i dunno, i could see someone being bothered by it
but that's probably a can o' worms we don't want to open