Episode II - Dissapontment Strikes Back1!!! Part 2

Rating: Null/10 (25 August 2002)

***Special Effects***
One word - Game. Tha'ts what all these new fangled cgi thingies do! they turn the whole film looking like a game. You know the part amidala is jumping from place to place avoiding those giant mettel presses? I've played that Game!!! I'm pretty sure you can find all this jumping hokumin the Jawa's Crawler in Super Star Wars on the SNES (so Lucas didn't have to go far for inspiration did he!)
The end battle is pretty decent buyt doesn't cut it the way The Lord of The Rings did. But no Yodas fight was not cool... it was crappy... He jumped around spinning like a young, small Bruce Lee (BUT HE'S 900 YEARS OLD!!!!! He can barely hold on to Lukes back in The Empire Strikes Back). In reality the lightsabvers only came in contact with each other about 10 times - rubbish.
two more points about the cgi - yoda has become a ham actor (i nearly burst out laghing at his scenes) he just looks so daft... the puppet had more dignity! and Does C3PO bend like an organic being? NO... so how come he can jump from hand to hand holding on to a mopving crane?!!?!? he shouldn't!
***Sound Effects***
Question:
If Lucasfilm develop a great meaty sound effect for a pod racer in a previous film... what do they do?
Answer:
They use in in varing pitches for every thing that has an engine in it's sequel of course!!!
What happened to the screeching engines? every thing that moves has a chugging sound as it moves (even little droids)
Maybe they should spend less money on cgi and more on some decent sounds!
***Cinematography***
hmmm... interesting subject no? need a degree in cinamatography to be a cinamatographer i suppose.... or not as Episode 2 shows.
this doesn't usually bother me in films... bad cinamatography i mean... unless they're blatently taking the yellow stagnent water from my bladder!
What should a "chase" scene be like? theres a clue in the question.... "chase" (i hate to be a little dr. evil but it has to be said)? fast!!! a chase scene hould be fast... everybody knows that! so why is it that when obi wan and anakin are "chasing" an assassin, there is nop sence of speed? why doesn't their hair blow in the way it should if their going the speed their going? i was so bored during this 15 minute malarkey i nearly went to sleep... George - take a look at the Fifth Element... that does a better job off displaying a huge futuristic city while not scrimping on the speed and chase part... or no... beter yet... look back at a New Hope... do you remember in the trench with x-wings? That's speed... or even the shot of luke, ben and the droids in the speeder (you know the one where you had to put vasaline on the lense to accomplish) - that was more exciting.
Why is it the the cinamatographer decided to use close ups of Anakin and Tyranus' face during their fight? hmm? i'm waiting... and i can't quite place it.... it's dark... moody... you see the red and the blue of the blades shine on their facese with Christopher Lees wide eyes peering melevolently... and Hayden looking .... well constipated... but no... i can't see why. It could be that we like to see the full fight... the stunning choreography... the blades flashing and humming. zooming in on their faces does not make the scene more exciting - it makes it look long winded and unimportant! go back to school you silly cheese eating electronic donkey bottom biter!!!