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| I'm about to be pretty positive to a movie that I hate, so I might as well show the best shot in the film |
I've been really excited about Star Wars recently. The new trailer is awesome and haunting, and it avoided the problem most trailers fall into these days which is telling you everything that happens in a movie. I can't remember the last time I was truly surprised by a movie with this much marketing and backing behind it, but at this point (and they released the last trailer a few days ago) I know little to nothing. I think that's awesome!
So in re-watching the trailer a few times today, I thought it'd be fun to look at the trailers for the prequels. I've made no bones about not enjoying the prequel trilogy at all. But I assumed that the trailers are probably really good.
I think I might always be wrong.
So after checking out the trailers for ep 2 and 3 (Honestly Phantom Menace's trailer isn't that bad) I thought it was high time I re-watched what I have always considered the worst of the Star Wars movies, Attack of the Clones.
This movie has a Plot. It is dull. There is a bounty hunter who shoots a magic worm to kill Padme (Natalie Portman) so Anikin (Whiny McBadactor) and Obi Wan (Ewan McGregor) give chase. Then there are some clones, which is dumb because Droids would totally be a better way to wage a war. (From a practicality standpoint droids>Storm Troopers) Anikin and Padme fall in love, because...? Anikin kills a bunch of sand people (off screen, because there are kiddies in the audience) Um... then they just do the battle from John Carter of Mars and... Yoda does a dumb flippy fight? I really am trying to be nice.
It's pretty en-vogue to rag on the prequel movies nowadays. Most people (even the apologists for the trilogy) will admit to them not being perfect movies. Jar Jar Binks is super racist and not funny at all. Haden Christensen is maybe the worst leading man in movie history. And nobody (see: NOBODY) cares about galactic senate meetings. But after watching the movie, REALLY watching it I do have quite a few positive takeaways.
1. Ewan McGregor is an awesome Obi Wan, and every scene he's in seems important
2. The first fight with Obi Wan and jango Fett is really good (Even though the scene before it is crazy bad.)
3. The Silent moment of Anikin going after his mom is probably my favorite scene in the entire Trilogy and Haden Christensen is really good. Which tells me that Lucas is the real problem here.
4. The John Carter of Mars rip off is pretty well done, it's still a rip off, but it does work.
5. Little to no Jar Jar Binks
6. Little to no Jar Jar Binks
7. Mace Windu just straight up decapitating Jango Fett always seemed like a bad move (Like you might have used this interesting character in the next movie) but it's still hilarious if not in the right way.
However all of those positive to semi-positive parts are negated by the worst parts of any of these movies. The terrible and creepy romance of Padme and Anikin, and the really super boring Galactic Senate. You could cut this 2 1/2 hour movie to about 45 min and It'd be pretty ok.
Should you watch this movie? Once
Where can I watch this movie? Rent on Amazon
Recommendation: So in honor of today's movie, I decided to recommend something that I've loved since I saw the first trailer for the series. Cracked's Adventures in Jedi School is a three episode web series that takes place in the Star Wars universe. In it they discuss what an actual Jedi Academy would be like, the tropes of Jedi Training and the merits of "doing but not trying" You can find the entire series here. It's a pretty short watch, and if you love Star Wars it's definitely worth it.
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