God bless Lucas for Star Wars

Rating: 10/10 (18 May 2002)

I've loved Star Wars since i could remember watching movies. When I heard Lucas was finally going to make the prequel trilogy, I was ecstatic! Episode I had obvious flaws, but it was still great in my book, it's part of Star Wars! As for Episode II. I Loved this movie!! To attack the critics reviews, here we go:
1. the acting is wooden: Yes, in parts it is. But like many before me, did they watch the original trilogy? And also, these are being modeled after the serials of the 30's and 40's, have they ever seen any of those? This is the way Lucas envisions it, don't knock his vision, we all love it. (Plus you try acting in front of blue screens and characters that aren't there!)
2. The love scene dialogue was bad: Ok, this was pretty bad and cheesy, I'll admit it needed some help. But no one is perfect. They should try writing a film saga in 6 parts sometime.
3. Too many effects: When I came into this film I was afraid that a purely digital Yoda would be a horrible idea, but it plays so much more naturally than I could ever have hoped. Some people gripe about Yoda's fight scene not being natural (if he can do that why does he need a cane?) Come on, it's the force. We've all seen the insane things these Jedi can do when harnessing the force. Love it, Yoda kicks ass!!!
Overall, I was so impressed by this film. I thought it was much closer to the original trilogy, plus loved the use of Darth's theme for Anakin at points! My only gripe is I wish they would have shot on film instead of digital. I had to sit close to the screen, and the pixels showed pretty badly. Hopefully this was just my theater.
Small details aside, This film rocked! George Lucas, thank you for your vision.