A Visual Masterpiece

Rating: 10/10 (7 January 2003)

Many need to understand that film is a visual medium. If a filmmaker such as George Lucas decides to put so much emphasis on visuals than dialogue, then it is perfectly fine. The visuals in Attack of the Clones are there to tell the story. I always viewed even objects such as the ships to have personality, as characters, something few sci-fi filmmakers can ever acheive.
Dialogue is not the be all, end all of a motion picture. If this was the case, then such film genres as anime, silent films and foreign films would suffer extremely harsh criticism.
No one should be surprised at Lucas's approach since it has been the same for decades. He has always said the emotion of the films rests in the music and the acting style is similar to films found in the 1930's. The visuals are the key to the stories progression.
A film that came out this year with a similar approach, Minority Report, was never attacked for it's lack of emphasis to the script's dialogue. Can anyone truly remember a line from the film that seemed truly inspired?
So really, in the end, the complaints found in most of the previous reviews are invalid and embarrassingly ignorant. Of course most won't learn and will choose to insist that film ( a VISUAL MEDIUM) must require skillful dialogue to be enchanting.
By the way, most of the sets in Attack of the Clones are miniatures created by humans, NOT CGI. Oh well, I guess ignorance is bliss for many film viewers.