Star Wars *OT* (Off-Topic)

by General Vagueness , The Vault of Sass, Monday, July 13, 2015, 16:03 (3646 days ago) @ Avateur

Nah, the special editions just seem to be him adding random things left and right just because he could. He adds in rocks that make no logical sense in certain scenes, some creatures that absolutely serve no purpose other than to clutter the scene and take away from the overall atmosphere, etc. While he may have wanted some of these things originally, the random, out-of-place inclusions in the special editions are sloppy at best and frivolous at worst.

hmm, I may have to look more closely

As for the acting, while some of them are great actors, the point I was making is that they didn't come off as great actors because of the material they were being given and by how Lucas was directly telling them to act and display emotion (primarily with nothing to work with aside from green/blue screen) on top of the horrible script. And I don't just disagree with you, but I'd dare to say you are absolutely 100% beyond a shadow of a doubt empirically and objectively wrong when you say that the lines are delivered beautifully. Those movies are some of Natalie Portman's worst as far as acting goes (and, again, I am totally not faulting her or any of the other actors for that based on behind-the-scenes materials from those god awful movies), not to mention the other actors. The deliveries are largely as soulless as the material itself, and a lot of that is because Lucas was actually telling them to deliver it that way.

Well I didn't mean to say it was all beautiful. (Since it was pointed out to me how Hayden Christensen isn't so much Anakin Skywalker as he is The Incredible Wooden Man, and I first listened for it, it's hard not to hear it.) I meant there are gems in there; oddly enough, or fittingly enough, it seems like aside from Anakin the more powerful the character the better they acted their part. I mean, can you really say Christopher Lee and Ian McDiarmid didn't at the very least do a competent job with what they were given? That's a good point about the green screens, you see the difficulty of acting against that mentioned in interviews about a lot of effects-heavy movies including the prequels, and it makes me a little more optimistic about the new one with it being more physical.