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I find it pretty funny to see so many critics in the media focusing on the
"bad acting" in the latest STAR WARS film... I mean, good acting was never a
hallmark of *any* STAR WARS film, just as it was never a significant factor in
the FLASH GORDON serials that inspired Lucas in the first place. You had a
couple of decent performance in the course of the series, most notably Alec
Guiness in the original movie, but that's all.
STAR WARS has always been about delivering pure swashbuckling
space-adventure... something they forgot about a little bit in the
first two prequels, which is why some fans were less than enthusiastic about
them (not that it stopped them from seeing them 10 or 20 times each, of
course...).
My main curiosity about this last film is how effective Lucas has managed
to mute the inevitable tragedy that he built in to it when he created the first
film. Does he cop out and show Anakin's going over to the dark side as some kind
of noble mistake or does he play it straight and depict it as a corruption of
power that Anacin gives in to?
I do plan to see the film, of course, but I ain't standing in no long lines
to do it, so it will probably be a week or two more for me.
-- JR
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Sent: Monday, May 23, 2005 2:18
Subject: Re: [MOPO] OK, my reaction to
Star Wars
So glad you agree. I can't wait to see what else Christiansen
does. Hopefully now with the Sith money, he can make daring
choices.
Toochis:
I'm
glad you mentioned Hayden Christiansen in SHATTERED GLASS. This
film
(PLEASE CHECK IT OUT ON DVD IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN IT) -- turned me
completely
around about Christiansen's acting abilities. If you listen to
his line
deliveries between his first appearance in Star Wars and what he
does in the
new Star Wars film -- what a DIFFERENCE.
If you
haven't seen "Shattered Glass," it's the true, riveting story
of
24-year-old journalist Stephen Glass, who in the late 1990s got
caught
writing a bunch of bogus stories for the liberal weekly magazine
the New
Republic. We rented the film and made the mistake of putting it
in the DVD
player around midnight, thinking we would watch the first few
minutes and
pick up the rest the next night. Well, we couldn't shut it
off.
Magnificent and wonderful, not art house stuff at all. He carries t!
he
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whole
picture w/his lies, emotional breakdowns and false
bravado.
-koose.
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Subject: Re: OK,
my reaction to Star Wars
Date: Sun, 22 May 2005 00:43:29
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Again, I can't wait to see it. I loved Hayden Christiansen in
SHATTERED
GLASS. What a performance. I think this talented and gorgeous
actor has
many more wonderful performances up his
sleeve.
Toochis
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