The special edition of Empire Strikes Back doesn't bother me. But the stuff added to A New Hope and Hayden Christensen at the end of Return of the Jedi just bug the crap out of me...
I'd like to see the Darth Bane trilogy made into movies. But with no shitty characters, just sticking to the books and keeping it as loyal to the novels as possible. Maybe they should change the ending, because I felt it was a little too rushed. However, my personal choice for Bane would be Gerard Butler... I'd love to see him playing the Sith'ari... In any case, that's probably not going to happen... buu buu buu. We need a sith lord that's not a pussy emo kid like Anakin, or a suck up cheater like Palpy BANE ftw!
Hayden Christiensen ruined almost everything. I could have coped with the stories, but his acting is so fucking LAME that he ruins everything. Having said that, and in spite of the plot holes and his really obnoxious presence and inability to imprint passion to his lines and act like a human (3PO shows a wider range of emotions than he does) I really like the new movies (the prequel saga I mean). Call me stupid, but I really enjoy them. Some memorable characters like Dooku and Grievous are totally worth it
I won't defend the guy but having a real director would've helped. Plenty of talent can be wasted w/ a shit director.
Indeed, Just look at Sam Jackson. Great actor but he had problems in those movies and Lucas obliviously wasn't able to help. Same with Christensen, He wasn't near as bad in Shattered Glass which came out between the last two movies so I can only assume he was taking the cues that Lucas wanted from him. George Lucas isn't a good director and an ok writer at best. Business is where he shines and even there he got damn lucky.
It probably didn't help that many of the characters were entirely CG, so it likely wasn't easy to put emotion into their lines while speaking to nothing in front a green screen. Lately, I've been thinking about how the prequels removed some of the air of mystery around the original characters: we never exactly find out in the original trilogy how Darth Vader became "more machine than man", which leaves some room for imagination and makes him seem a little more imposing. Then we find out it happened in a platforming sequence that seemed to be designed with Revenge of the Sith: The Gameâ„¢ in mind, and it suddenly becomes lame.
Not sure I'd agree there. Pretty much every modern Doctor Who has to work with blue screen and strange characters but each and everyone of them have to put a lot of emotion into it, especially as The Doctor is rather extreme. In more sedate cases I'd expect the same level of acting - Peep Show can manage it with people snogging a funnel on a camera, why can't these people in big budget Hollywood films?
Yeah, but most movies and TV shows have props on the set to help them act, while IIRC Lucas did everything in CG. Still, that's only one explanation for the terrible acting in the movies, and in my opinion it's simply because the dialogue is so terrible and stilted it's impossible to put emotion into it. The actors are mostly good (with the exception of Christensen, at least) so that can't be it. BTW, that brings me to one flaw in the movies that nobody ever mentions: how come Anakin goes from child to adult between I and II and Padme stays the same age?
Let's assume for a moment that in the first movie (Episode I that is) padme is 14 years old. Let us further assume that she's developed early, probably having a menstrual cycle onset at about age 9 or so. Let's also assume that she's someone with a petit frame and that she still fits in her clothes from when she was 14 (something that actually happens to me, so that one is a pretty realistic assumption). Mystery solved.
