Caught Star Wars. Was way better than expected in terms of action sequences and storyline. But as usual... the acting sucked... it was just some typical action-packed/comic-relief-induced movie like X-men where there's fancy footwork and flashy 3D animation but the actors never walk away from the award ceremonies with something, let alone get nominated for anything... like some Arnie movie...
I don't usually take note of who wins or gets nominated during those ceremonies but frankly, i really don't think it matters and i can't be bothered to do any research... In the event that one of them actually wins something, it's probably just politics then anyway...
If anyone should win an award, it'd have to be Yoda's animators... He was sooo keuuoot! One minute he's an old ah pek with a walking stick and a bad case of autism, the next he's a cute little fairy wielding a magic green wand in one hand and pulling David Copperfields with the other while prancing around another old ah pek whose mommy never loved him...
Somehow Yoda always reminds me of Kermit from the muppets... maybe it's coz they both experienced a sense of loss at one point in time during a movie (Yoda & the dead Jedi and Kermit & Miss Piggy)... or maybe it's coz their co-actors always tend to crouch when having a word with them... or maybe it's simply coz they're both green... -_-"
The light sabre duels were kind of yawn inducing... nothing spectacular... kind of routine and monotonous and a real drag... was expecting the unveiling of some fancy new light sabre or maybe a whip made of that deadly-amputating-colourful-glowing-'zssshrreel' sound producing-light thingy...
Count Dooku vs Anakin & Obi: You see the Count lifting Obi by the neck using the force on one hand and on the other, fending off Anakins blows. And then you kinda wonder why the whole bunch of these Jedi/Sith-lord dudes don't levitate their opponents *force grip on neck style* and then just skewer them...
Yoda vs Darth Sidius: Expected Yoda to go 'squeak-squeak-squeak' when he fell off the martian-spaceship-disc-shaped-balcony thingy. One 'squeak!' for every hit... like some soft toy...
Obi-Won vs Gen. Grievious: Was too simply executed and concluded... just hit enemy light sabre 3 times and then chop off his hand (lots of amputations in this movie)
Darth Sidius vs Mace Windu: Ridiculous... The good guy accompanied by a couple of his gung-ho sabre-wielding jedi confont the bad guy and the good guy's posse too easily get iliminated one by one like the squishing of ants. The whole sequence is practically done in slow motion...
Anakin/Darth Vader vs Obi-Won: boring..... cept for the ending... it's the usual routine of -i try to hit you here- -you block here- -i try to hit you there- -you block there- and we just take turns... But the finishing blow, or should i say slice will probably be the flick's signature scene. Anakin gets his 2nd and 3rd amputation of the series, compliments of Obi-won kenobi. And they then proceed to enjoy a nice barbeque by the lake... *Note to parents: when Obi says 'don't do it', proceed to cover your kiddy's eyes immediately. |
