Eye candy

Rating: Null/10 (6 September 1999)

The whole movie is eye candy ..... nothing more and sadly something less!
Fewer characters, more emotion, more heart, simpler backgrounds (instead of fleets of ships buzzing like mosquitoes in every second shot)would have been appreciated.
The lightsabre duel with Darth Maul caught my attention ...but ONE scene in a 2 1/2 hr movie? I thought Lucas could have done better, so what went wrong? Lucas himself did, here's how!
In 1976 nobody wanted to know about Lucas's "Little" project called Star Wars.
In 1998 everybody was counting down until the release of anything Lucas had put together.
In 1977 Lucas was kept to a small budget of 9.5 million when most movies around the time getting the green light had 3 x that budget. Lucas had to make his movie LESS about space battles and MORE about the characters.
In 1999 Lucas was so rich that he S###T money and had the autonomy to make his movie any way he wanted without anyone second guessing his script (you know the type ...they're called screenwriters!)He also had the ability to use more special effects than anyone else!
Jeff Goldblum had a line in Jurrasic park that is relevant. To paraphrase "You were so busy finding out if you could, you never stopped to think whether you should!"
Sorry Lucas ....... a small mars bar on screen is nice but too much eye candy just rots the viewer's brain! (Presuming people who saw multiple viewings had one at all)