Anonus Watches Star Wars: The Prequel Trilogy

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  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    this "are you an angel" exchange sounds so stupid
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    Aliroz said:

    Anonus said:

    Now here's a cheesy CGI spaceship.


    The CGI in these movies has always looked stupid to me. The original trilogy is hand-crafted and tactile. The CGI here makes these movies feel like inessential corporate Products.
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    so they did do practical stuff! cool!
  • My dreams exceed my real life
    Strong enough to rip the ears off a gundark
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    also Jar Jar just ruined this movie's attempt at emotional resonance
  • For once, or maybe twice, I was in my prime.
    Odradek said:

    Strong enough to rip the ears off a gundark

    Half-wit, scruffy-looking... nerf herder!

    Who are you calling scruffy-looking?
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    the thing with the CGI I was kvetching about mostly pertained to the characters, who don't look real or tactile to me

    this is not Weta Digital-tier stuff
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    I mean ILM is a very good effects shop but still

    Also, this "meat" Jar Jar is eating doesn't even look like meat

    This meat vendor's wares look like rubber chickens and such
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    Sebulba!
  • Touch the cow. Do it now.
    is available?
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    it feels weird seeing C3-PO without his gold shell
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    section is right they really are the only good things about this movie
  • We can do anything if we do it together.
    It's sorta telling that their story is the most resonant in the original Star Wars saga.
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    this whole thing feels like it was just stapled onto the Star Wars saga
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat

    It's sorta telling that their story is the most resonant in the original Star Wars saga.

    I feel like the franchise is/was really good at defining its non-human/Basic-speaking characters, like Chewie
  • For once, or maybe twice, I was in my prime.
    Anakin Skywalker being C-3PO's maker does lead to some weird implications about the OT.
  • We can do anything if we do it together.
    The fact that The Force Awakens is better at developing its human characters than its non-human characters is an interesting reversal.
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    like what?
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat

    The fact that The Force Awakens is better at developing its human characters than its non-human characters is an interesting reversal.

    I felt like Lupita Nyong'o played Maz Kanata pretty well at least
  • For once, or maybe twice, I was in my prime.
    Like, did Darth Vader recognize Threepio in Cloud City? Did he give the orders to leave Threepio in Chewie's cell so he could be reassembled? Did Vader stop Boba Fett from shooting Chewie solely because Threepio was strapped to his back at the time?
  • edited 2016-12-20 03:15:49
    ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)

    Anonus said:

    the thing with the CGI I was kvetching about mostly pertained to the characters, who don't look real or tactile to me


    this is not Weta Digital-tier stuff



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  • For once, or maybe twice, I was in my prime.
    Anonus said:

    The fact that The Force Awakens is better at developing its human characters than its non-human characters is an interesting reversal.

    I felt like Lupita Nyong'o played Maz Kanata pretty well at least
    I hope she'll get a bigger role in Star Wars Episode 8.
  • We can do anything if we do it together.
    To my understanding, The Phantom Menace used practical effects more than the subsequent two prequel films did.
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    MetaFour said:

    Like, did Darth Vader recognize Threepio in Cloud City? Did he give the orders to leave Threepio in Chewie's cell so he could be reassembled? Did Vader stop Boba Fett from shooting Chewie solely because Threepio was strapped to his back at the time?

    ooh

    yeah
    Aliroz said:


    Anonus said:

    the thing with the CGI I was kvetching about mostly pertained to the characters, who don't look real or tactile to me


    this is not Weta Digital-tier stuff



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    C-3PO looked real to me at least

    Also I am more than 45 minutes in and I feel like I have watched nothing

    Though now they tell us Anakin was a virgin birth, and also here's Greedo or some other member of his species
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    oh here's Jar Jar doing something "funny" again
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    "You're quite right. He's very odd indeed."
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    here's Darth Maul surveying Tatooine I think?
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    Tatooine is really vibrant in this movie

    Like I thought it was a half-dead husk
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    Here's Sebulba being tended to by these blue women

    Who are admittedly hot >_>
  • My dreams exceed my real life
    No desert really is, when you look closely

    'cept maybe Alaska
  • For once, or maybe twice, I was in my prime.
    When Jar-Jar gets his hand stuck in the turbine, nearly everyone just stands back and does nothing. Apparently hoping that he'd get sucked into the engine and die. They didn't count on Padme having the patience of a saint and saving him.
  • kill living beings
    wretched hives of scum and villainy are still hives.
  • For once, or maybe twice, I was in my prime.
    Anonus said:

    Tatooine is really vibrant in this movie


    Like I thought it was a half-dead husk
    What Odra said, and also this is one of the larger cities.
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    Odradek said:

    No desert really is, when you look closely


    'cept maybe Alaska
    I thought Tatooine was like the refuse pile of the galaxy, ruled by criminals and shit
    MetaFour said:

    When Jar-Jar gets his hand stuck in the turbine, nearly everyone just stands back and does nothing. Apparently hoping that he'd get sucked into the engine and die. They didn't count on Padme having the patience of a saint and saving him.

    apparently not!

    And here's a pod race now

    This two-headed commentating team is disturbing
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    There's Sebulba! He's available
  • For once, or maybe twice, I was in my prime.
    He's the only one available, because he keeps killing the other racers.
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    These flags look really cool

    Also some sort of space camel/elephant just farted in Jar Jar's face
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    MetaFour said:

    He's the only one available, because he keeps killing the other racers.

    so he's like Dick Dastardly, unencumbered by Standards & Practices?
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    Oh I have an umbrella with pod-racing Anakin's head on the handle
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    There's Jabba, robbed of life by jerky-looking CGI
  • For once, or maybe twice, I was in my prime.
    Anonus said:

    MetaFour said:

    He's the only one available, because he keeps killing the other racers.

    so he's like Dick Dastardly, unencumbered by Standards & Practices?
    Perhaps, but I think the intended reference is Messala from Ben-Hur.
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    Well yes but you know me
  • For once, or maybe twice, I was in my prime.
    The podrace was made into a pretty good game on the N64.
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    This movie is deathly boring, and if I need to feel that the wacky beat goes on to spice it up, then I will
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    MetaFour said:

    The podrace was made into a pretty good game on the N64.

    ooh, Nintendo!
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    Jabba just bit the head off a squirming creature and spat it at a gong

    Anakin's pod has been sabotaged and won't move, as has this fat yellow thing
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    Now Anakin and the other dude have got it working

    Okay the pod race actually looks pretty cool

    It feels like it exists largely to fill ILM's demo reel, but still
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    Somebody blew up
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    Tuscan raiders are shooting at Anakin
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    Why is there no fucking music over this pod race? John Williams seriously couldn't have cooked up something cool?
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    Sebulba blew up someone else's pod
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