The writing, the directing, and the editing (not coincidentally, the parts Lucas handled himself, whereas in the original trilogy he either had help or had other people take over completely) are all much weaker.
That I had picked up on.
Much of what I remember about the film is the sense of unmotivated action sequences being flung at the screen while nobody explained why they were doing anything except when they explained ad nauseam. I've seen people discuss the plot in streamlined terms, however, which means that it must exist buried under Lucas' disorganized presentation.
Additionally, AOTC has the same problem as TLJ, which is that a key vertex of the trio (Obi-Wan/Padme and Finn/Poe, respectively) is split up because the writer couldn't figure out how to have them on screen together without their chemistry being too obvious.
That's a terrible solution! (I'm also not sure that's . . . a problem? If your actors have chemistry, surely you want to mine that, not minimize it?)
a full-blown love triangle. Which I don't endorse per se, but would have solved that problem of them being two key figures who never interact.
Do you not endorse it because it wouldn't have worked with these characters or because you don't endorse spackling plot holes with love triangles on general principle?
AOTC was Hayden Christensen's first major role, he got absolutely no direction from Lucas, and he didn't have the experience to bring more to the part like Portman and McGregor did.
I do not hold Christensen responsible for Attack of the Clones. It was the first thing I saw him in, which was unfortunate, but even at a point in my life where I did not think very much about movies I knew you would have to be superhuman to salvage that dialogue about sand. Catching him the next year in Shattered Glass (2003) confirmed that he really could act, which just made the writing and direction of Clones look worse in hindsight.
Also, the droid foundry sequence is completely pointless and should have been adapted into some kind of action sequence that actually served the plot.
. . . I don't even remember the droid foundry sequence.
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Date: 2020-02-24 20:26 (UTC)That I had picked up on.
Much of what I remember about the film is the sense of unmotivated action sequences being flung at the screen while nobody explained why they were doing anything except when they explained ad nauseam. I've seen people discuss the plot in streamlined terms, however, which means that it must exist buried under Lucas' disorganized presentation.
Additionally, AOTC has the same problem as TLJ, which is that a key vertex of the trio (Obi-Wan/Padme and Finn/Poe, respectively) is split up because the writer couldn't figure out how to have them on screen together without their chemistry being too obvious.
That's a terrible solution! (I'm also not sure that's . . . a problem? If your actors have chemistry, surely you want to mine that, not minimize it?)
a full-blown love triangle. Which I don't endorse per se, but would have solved that problem of them being two key figures who never interact.
Do you not endorse it because it wouldn't have worked with these characters or because you don't endorse spackling plot holes with love triangles on general principle?
AOTC was Hayden Christensen's first major role, he got absolutely no direction from Lucas, and he didn't have the experience to bring more to the part like Portman and McGregor did.
I do not hold Christensen responsible for Attack of the Clones. It was the first thing I saw him in, which was unfortunate, but even at a point in my life where I did not think very much about movies I knew you would have to be superhuman to salvage that dialogue about sand. Catching him the next year in Shattered Glass (2003) confirmed that he really could act, which just made the writing and direction of Clones look worse in hindsight.
Also, the droid foundry sequence is completely pointless and should have been adapted into some kind of action sequence that actually served the plot.
. . . I don't even remember the droid foundry sequence.