[dogscoff]

Darth maul was cool, and all his fight scenes. Everything else sucked, imho. The pod race was blatantly inserted solely for marketting (IE Games industry) purposes, and Jar Jar Binks is a case for justifiable xenocide- that bit in the final battle where he turns perhaps the most eagerly anticiapted and expensive battle in cinema history (until Helm's Deep, anyway) into a poor Keystone Kops parody... *shudder* *sob*

They relied too heavily on the CGI and threw plot and suspension of disbelief out the window.

There might have been a few good lightsaber bits in AotC, can't really remember. All I really remember were the gaping plot holes and some crap about the force being controlled by general midi or something. that might have been the first one, I'm just not sure. It's taken several months of therapy and hypnosis to get even this much information past the mental blocks my traumatised mind threw around those films. Even Yoda's fight was blatantly ripped off from the classic Kermit vs Long John swashbuckle in "Muppet Treasure Island" (Don't believe me? Rent the film, then watch the two fight scenes back to back.)

So no, I'm not holding out much hope for the third film. Thanks Anhur for Peter Jackson, that's all I say.

/me heads down to blockbuster to rent Muppet Treasure Island, not to compare it to AotC, but just because it's a good film.

[ July 26, 2004, 14:09: Message edited by: dogscoff ]