I have not seen Attack of the Clones yet. I will be the first in line to see the midnight showing. I already know I will like it. Why then are there so many criticisms online already. The dialogue is slow. The love scenes are horrible. The actors can’t act. These are comments that are already plaguing the new Star Wars film. You might think that it is going to be bad… but I beg to differ and I need to point out a horrendous oversight that all of these so-called critics have been making.
In Star Wars, Luke Skywalker whines to his Uncle that he wants to go to the Tosche Station to pick up power converters. This is some of the worst acting I’ve ever seen. It doesn’t get much better when you see Mark Hamill’s mouth move like he’s chewing grass when Vader tells him about their family relationship. In Empire Strikes Back, you can see Harrison Ford’s mouth move as he holds Carrie Fisher in the Millennium Falcon. He does this to say her lines to remember his own.
In Jedi we see an Imperial Officer tell a commander "We are starting our approach.” I’m sorry, but that is not very good dialogue. The fact that these annoying characters are in the Classic Trilogy doesn’t help either. Despite never actually hearing the term Ewok in Return of the Jedi, (it was a marketing term) we are still annoyed by them. Threepio annoys us in Empire. Those pesky Jawa’s didn’t make the best case for Star Wars either.
As you read this, you may be thinking, where is he going with this? The answer is simple. All of the poor reviews of the newer films, Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones, talk about bad acting, poorly written screenplays, and annoying characters. They then refer to the Classic Trilogy as wonderful films that the newer ones will never live up to.
The criticisms have ALWAYS been the same. Critics. Don’t sit there and tell me about how new movies are ruining a franchise. Get a clue and go through your newspaper archives before you call the films classics and beat the new ones down for the problems strung across the board.
It’s a well-known fact that between my tattoo, my license plates, and my 40,000-dollar memorabilia collection, I'm a huge fan. That makes me bias which Ill openly admit. But I cannot sit here and watch a franchise get bashed on things that it has never claimed to be.
What it can claim to be is: The most popular movie franchise ever, the basis for the most lucrative toy market in history, and the product of millions of websites. Add this to the fact that it opened up the special effects door to every blue screen and GG movie since 1977, and you have the makings of something great. Make no qualms about what Star Wars isn’t; just remember what it really is.
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