CurtPalme.com Home Theater Forum

**AnalogRocks** · Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2008 7:26 am Post subject: NEW STAR WARS!

Wow, this is interesting. Strang though he would release in August. He like's a May release to pump up the summer sales.

http://starwars.com/

Yahoo story:

WanMan · Joined: 19 Mar 2006 Posts: 10270

I guess he still doesn't have enough dough to retire on?

ecrabb · Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2008 2:29 pm Post subject:

Daddy needs a new Ferrari..... dealer. Wink

Seriously, this looks like a pretty cool project. I've known about for quite awhile because a couple of my friends are big Star Wars fans... but I hadn't gone to check it out anywhere. I just checked out the site and trailer and it looks pretty cool. They're animating it with kind of a 3D anime/machinema look/feel to it.

I like Star Wars, but I'm not a HUGE fan. Still looks like it might be fun, though.

Site:
http://www.starwars.com/theclonewars/

Trailer:
http://www.starwars.com/video/view/000478.html

I think it's going to to be worth watching. It's going to be in Cartoon Network (so no it in HD for me), but the article says it will be rebroadcast TNT, so I might finally have a reason to record something off TNT.

SC

**AnalogRocks** · Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2008 5:10 pm Post subject:

It reminds me of video game play. I was never a fan of computer animation.

Person99 · Joined: 09 Mar 2006 Posts: 4899 Location: Flower Mound, TX

Just took my daughter to see this. All I can say is: if any sense you have, see this movie do not.

It was so poorly done I think it even insulted her intelligence (and she is not even 6)!

ecrabb · Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2008 5:21 pm Post subject:

Bummer. I was hoping for something decent/interesting at least. Are you being extra hard on it, Dave? A little hyperbole, perhaps? If not, what made it so horrible?

Reading some of the comments on it, it sounds like it would have been fine on TV, but just wasn't quite up to snuff for the big screen.

A guy in the office here saw it w/his 5 year old and when I asked, he shrugged his shoulders and said, "Not great, not bad." Luke warm is how I would describe his reaction. Or room temp, maybe. Wink

SC

garyfritz · Joined: 08 Apr 2006 Posts: 12088 Location: Fort Collins, CO

The T-Meter critics at RottenTomatoes gave it a 17% rating. The "Top Critics" (Ebert, Roeper, that level) were even more brutal, giving it a 4%. It must be pretty bad.

That said, the RT community gave it over 50%, so SOMEbody must have liked it.

perisoft · Joined: 29 Aug 2007 Posts: 2920 Location: Ithaca, NY

Critics are full of sh*t. The fewer movies a critic likes, the more credibility they'll have - the idea being that the more you know about movies, the fewer movies you'll like, because you can see all the flaws.

Star Wars movies were never supposed to be 'good'. Watch the first three with a 'critical' eye and they're total trash - horrible, cheesy dialog, inane plot, deus ex machina all over the place, you name it. Seriously - Jabba the Hutt? 'Darth Vader' as Luke's 'Dark Father'? What the hell is that?!

But they're not good because they're good. They're just not that kind of movie.

People look at the new stuff and want it to be like the new Battlestar Galactica, or something, with Han Solo having a drinking problem, Luke Skywalker throwing his kid in the brig, and Leia getting raped by storm troopers. Sorry, people, that's not what Star Wars is about. It's not dark, except in very specific instances.

I don't know whether the new animated movie is good or not, in either sense, but my experience is that critics - and to a large extent, even *fans* - don't get that at a basic level, Star Wars is for kids. They love Star Wars because they saw it when they were kids, and when standards for movies and media in general were far different, but can't watch the new stuff with the same eyes.

Maybe it's just crap, but I bet that if you don't watch it expecting The Godfather, it's not bad.

whats6x7 · Joined: 04 Oct 2006 Posts: 5924