First movie, Star Wars Episode 3: Revenge of the Sith. The movie was a lot of hype. Alls it has to offer is closure and while some will pay for that, many won't (there was nothing to be closed for them). Not sure where I fall in this regard. I really wasn't blown away by any aspect of the story or visual effects.
I was actually extremely picky on the special effects. I noticed lots (I mean lots) of funky animation for the humans (clonetroopers, wookies, etc) that simply annoyed me. This movie should have nailed down the motion of characers so they didn't seem to be floating or animatronic, but Lucas failed in my eyes.
I saw this on a digital screen, the only thing I liked about the movie. It was not enough to save this one though. It was neat to see a flawless image, but during much of the movie, you wouldn't be able to tell anyway. I actually noticed that the speakers were vibrating the screen I think in the beginning, blurring the image. That annoyed me.
Sometimes a lot of the screen contents were blurry when the camera was panning. Not like in the normal "background" fashion, but more digitally stuttered. It hurt my eyes. I think they were trying to drive your eyes to the primary action, but I want to investigate the environments. This blurring destroyed this, taking what little fun I was getting from the movie. I felt like it was copyright protection - "Don't look at my movie that way, just the way I want you to." If this was a problem with trying to present all the content in a panning image, then take it back to the drawing board (ironic comment) until you can handle it.
The effects were too overwhelming at times. I was totally incapable of keeping track of what was going on in any of the battle scenes. Some of the starship explosions were cool, but they only appeared on screen for mere instants. Lucas has completely fallen for MTV editing and it ruined the experience.
The acting...yeah, nothing needs to be said. Ok, maybe something. It simply sucked, but we expected that.
The general story - this is the spoiler section (DONT READ ME if you haven't seen this movie!). So no real surprises, I expected this was what would happen in this movie. The fight scene with ObiWan and Anakin was so bad I wanted to puke. He would've killed him, not left him there. The decision to join the dark side was done in an instant, no real contemplation. Not buying that. The scene when Vader get mad about Padme was simply laughable. I think there was already a Cheetos commercial mocking it. That will be mocked till the end of time.
Simply put, Lucas has managed to kill the Force. It is no more. Drained from our minds, we are left with vapid commercialization of a treasured memory.
Second movie - Constantine. Really not that bad, but only worth going to the dollar theatre. Hokey religious nonsense that we are just supposed to accept. Ain't no match for a blaster at your side. Good effects, 1 good scare that almost had me choke on my Buncha Crunch. Nice ending, but perhaps too inline with the standard hollywood ending. He should have died, maybe go to heaven. "Redemption is not easily bought" being the lesson, but something that we strive to emulate even when we cannot achieve it. The fact it ended the way it did was a touch disappointing.
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