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Glad you, quite literally, agree with a lot of what I said :P
Basically, yes.
But I think that the problems with the SW prequels go further than the extensive (almost ubiquitous) use of CGI. They had to do with the lack of character development, the lifeless stories and the incoherences with the original trilogy (Did Leia knew his mother or not? Wasn't Yoda Obi-Wan's teacher?) The CGI should be only a tool to narrate the story better, but instead Lucas focused on creating stories in order to have CGI.
Another problem, the lack of traveling! The prequels are too static, staying too much time on a planet and/or returning to it (specially Coruscant). In the original trilogy all the action takes place in space journeys.
I do not want to spend too much time on stuff I really do not enjoy. For instance I tend to overreact when I hear the name David Arnold in combination with the future 007 franchise. I'd rather spend that time listening to the music of the classic Pink Panthers by Mancini. Or I just found a great copy of the music suites from Babylon 5.
I saw the Transformer movies with my kids because they really love them, I find them a lot of noise and nonsense, and they are not worth to get upset over. Michael Bay does have his great movies I enjoy and the rest I ignore, simply because the man did nothing to offend me and my taste. His genre of movies is popcorn and I prefer mine salted.
The new Star Trek is enjoyable, I prefer the old crew but they will not return so I have them on dvd to enjoy. I do not get the whole hate campaign toward JJ Abrahams, it smells a wee bit like Craigisnotbond.com all over again.
I like Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones and was happy too see him once more, The Phantom menace was lame but had brilliant moments like the race, the Jedi's really doing amazing stuff, etc. Die another Day had Brosnan whom I enjoy in most of his non Bond movies as well and actually ask myself if Barbara & Wilson see any of his more recent outing and wonder if they should have given him more to play with in the franchise.
Just got two hardcover novels: the latest Pendergast & the latest Dune ( always a target for the Dune purists but I actually enjoy them quite a lot) and tomorrow I'll be coaching a team of young girls (12-13 years) in their hockeygame, and having fun and stimulating them is brilliant.
Life is too short to really spend too much resentment on anything really. Unless DA returns to Bond 24, even then I end up more dissapointed than angry.
Brilliant film, as good as the first three. Never understood the hatred towards it.
2 STAR WARS Episode I-The Phantom Menace
Severely underrated. Not as good as the first two, but a lot better than Jedi. Never understood the hatred towards it.
3 DAD
One of the worst films I have ever seen, Bond or not. I understand the hatred towards this one.
Never understand the hatred? Jar Jar, invicible cars, VR glasses... Like it or not, but the hatred could be easily understand. I mean, you go from adventures with human stories into special effects and CGI with some acting scenes.
One of the last pieces of advice Cubby gave to his children was "whenever in doubt, go back to the books".
Babs and MGW decided to not take this advice in the late 1990's. They decided to go back to the worst imitators from the 60's (something that Cubby and Salzman always tried not to do). Wind surfing, invisible car. Even Maxwell Smart and Matt Helm never went that far. In the end, DUD is just a bad parody of itself.
Agree about Jaj Jar. Might as well had Goofy make a guest appearance. At least he was not an Ewok...
The film had fantastic fx and action.The lightsaber battles were amazing and far better choreographed than the ones in the original trilogy.The podrace was an absolutely stunning acheivement and great to watch.There were cool characters like Qui Gon, and Darth Maul.The music by John Williams was of course, superb.The scenery on new planets like Naboo and Coruscant was beautiful to look at.
The film is not without its minor faults ( what film isnt? ) but it and the other prequels are still brilliant entertainment.
The Phantom Menace was just a mess. Let Confused Matthew explain:
I share that sentiment when it comes to QoB, and I never get the time back due to watching that failed Bourne movie.
I just can't wrap my head around why Spielberg thought a sixty-something Indy was a good idea. He even wears the same outfit he did in the other films. That would be like 20 years. How many of you are wearing the same clothes and look you had 20 years ago? Duh...
They would have done better to flat out reboot the franchise with a younger actor playing Jones.
Ewoks are not the coolest characters, but they are way better than the Gungans and the main idiot.
The thing is that at least in Return you have the best space battle (in my opinion) with a great duel (second best) while the fight of the Ewoks isn't at the same level. But at least it's 2/3 greatness. In Phantom Menace only the lightsaber duel is decent.
And the Ewoks reminded me of Tolkien's TLOTR that when the wisemen fail, it's the weaks that come to save the world.
Models and actual sets ( as well as real locations ) were used in the prequels.Yes there was cgi used as well and most of it was very well done ( the cg Yoda in Episode 3 is absolutley brilliant character animation).
I've only ever seen bits and pieces of the prequels. I generally hate CGI though. It usually looks like cartoon animation to me. The chase through the mine in the first Hobbit movie comes to mind - looks like a computer game. Totally detaches you from the film.