Stop me before I pay Lucas $8!
Well in totally opposite in opinion to you on this, the acting was no better or no worse than any Star Wars film i’ve seen, sure there are moments that are not brilliant, but on the whole it certainly did not degrade the film.
I’m not a follower of Lucas in the respect of just worshipping him for the sake of it, and I don’t believe that the film should get high praise because it’s an SW flick.
What really annoys me is that some people go to great lengths to bite huge chunks out of a film because they are looking at a film in a way that shouldn’t really matter.
Like I said, the acting and performance is not what really matters, if people come out of the cinema feeling that they enjoyed it, then that’s what’s important.
What’s the point of being overly critical, well for places like here it serves a purpose, but on the whole it’s people showing they have the ability to disagree with the masses.
SW2 met all of the criteria of what it set out to do…entertain.
If you want to see a film that is weighed down by someone’s acting ability, then you are most definitely looking in the wrong place, but then you should know that.
This film has the troublesome task of appealing to all ages, which is never going to be simple, so it’s got to get a balance of staying within the realms of being understood.
Spiderman is a film I’m looking forward to, but it’s going to win because of the fact that Spidey has never been on the big screen, that alone will attract mass interest.
As for the critics, well most are more inclined to choose a movie that does not grab the attention of the general public, but when something comes along that just wants to entertain it’s rubbished.
Personally I could not see anything of what you said in this film, no it’s not the greatest movie of all time, but it’s acting was acceptable, the story was well told and left you with questions about what would happen next, and the CGI and action was top notch.
As for the story not showing enough of Anakin’s anger or contempt, well for starters it had to be tempered with his Jedi training, it was unlikely he was going to go completely mad, especially as it is Sidious that is pulling his strings. If he had done so then the game would have been given away, Yoda would have known that he was beginning to turn to the dark side, so it had to be subtle, which it was.
You couldn’t expect him to turn into Darth Vader in one outing, this was just to show that the seeds had been sowed, his very first brush with the dark side, it’s going to be several years before Palpatine/Sidious has turned him into a sith lord.
So with that it mind it was told well enough, I doubt very much that fine actors like Samual L Jackson and Christopher Lee would entertain acting in such a film if they felt as you do about the story, they have been around long enough to see a stinker.
Lucas is going to know that there are those who will be overly critical, moderate or will just enjoy the film for what it is, luckily there is more of the latter.
Certainly in this country we have so many critics who have their heads up their *****, yet most people cannot see what they are talking about.
I suppose most people just choose to be entertained with a good action flick, rather than a tedious melodrama which bores you to tears.
Squishy