The thing with getting older...

Rating: Null/10 (15 January 2003)

I'm trying not to say anything that must have been said before (but I didn't read all the reviews so....)
With regard to comparing the new batch of Star Wars films with the old ones; I doubt the ability of some people to understand the difference in experience between seeing a movie first when you're around 10 and seeing a movie first when you're around 30...
With regard to dialog; I'm tired of these over acted stage dramas that Hollywood insist on making of every movie (probably because the old-ones that call the shots have zero imagination.) "Phantom Menace" was a breeze in that respect. I really appreciate that. Some dialog is necessary to understand what's going on but after that every minute that a movie/TV-show shows a close up of two heads talking gets deducted from the overall score of the movie. (That's why "As the world turns" is at the extreme low end of the spectrum)
So Mr Lucas, good going... My humble suggestion; reduce on 'psycho-dialog', let the story march forth at even a higher pace, more detail without explaining (hinting and leaving things unexplained is better). Forget about character development just a few indications of what's going on will suffice in activating the imagination of the viewer. Let's face it viewer imagination is required, don't bother making movies for those people without imagination at all.
Thanks for reading