A week ago I won two clone wars tickets "Oh shit" I thought to myself, I'm actually going to go see this thing. Now, normally, I wouldn't be depressed about winning two movie tickets, and being quite a "geek" winning sci-fi movie tickets should be pure glee. But this is star-wars, correction, new star-wars. And to be forthright I hated all the new movies. But, I'm a hope full guy and so I got my tickets and with a sense of dread went to see it.
How shall I put this?
When I was ten I wrote a short story, I still have it. It is the first story I've written and I'm not ashamed to say that at ten I basically stole everything from star wars. Now in the first chapter I wanted the hero to fall into a trap pit, I wanted the reader to know ahead of it that the pit is there. I sat down to think about and said to myself "The bad guy will ask his servant if he remembers everything about their plan!", Solved!
Over the years I learned that this sort of exposition, while necessary at times, should be managed and woven into the story. I think most of you can guess where I'm going with this.
I counted sixteen times where the villains alone went over their plan again in the most direct, unrelated, clumsy exposition. Sixteen goddamm times! Apparently the dark side of the force causes some sort of short term memory loss.
The movie went beyond spoon feeding the audiance to delivering story by IV, it was painful. And thats just one thing. Characters were forced, "deus ex machina" every other minute, terrible dialogue, and completely ludicrous plot.
I went into the movie ready to be dissapointed by the "uncanny valley" effect or by bad voice acting. The script made all that irrelevent. When the story and characters are that bad, the fact that thier eyebrows occasionally don't move seems trivial.
It shocks me that in the ten of thousands of man hours that went into animation this film, and to be fair; The animation is very well done. No-one got up and said "this is shit", there is a point in every project where we have to admit to ourselves that something isn't working. It's a part of every healthy project, a moment of introspection where you find whats wrong and fix it. And thats the problem with being George Lucas. After all how many of his worker can actually stand up to him and say "You have a great imagination, but you can't write".
How shall I put this?
When I was ten I wrote a short story, I still have it. It is the first story I've written and I'm not ashamed to say that at ten I basically stole everything from star wars. Now in the first chapter I wanted the hero to fall into a trap pit, I wanted the reader to know ahead of it that the pit is there. I sat down to think about and said to myself "The bad guy will ask his servant if he remembers everything about their plan!", Solved!
Over the years I learned that this sort of exposition, while necessary at times, should be managed and woven into the story. I think most of you can guess where I'm going with this.
I counted sixteen times where the villains alone went over their plan again in the most direct, unrelated, clumsy exposition. Sixteen goddamm times! Apparently the dark side of the force causes some sort of short term memory loss.
The movie went beyond spoon feeding the audiance to delivering story by IV, it was painful. And thats just one thing. Characters were forced, "deus ex machina" every other minute, terrible dialogue, and completely ludicrous plot.
I went into the movie ready to be dissapointed by the "uncanny valley" effect or by bad voice acting. The script made all that irrelevent. When the story and characters are that bad, the fact that thier eyebrows occasionally don't move seems trivial.
It shocks me that in the ten of thousands of man hours that went into animation this film, and to be fair; The animation is very well done. No-one got up and said "this is shit", there is a point in every project where we have to admit to ourselves that something isn't working. It's a part of every healthy project, a moment of introspection where you find whats wrong and fix it. And thats the problem with being George Lucas. After all how many of his worker can actually stand up to him and say "You have a great imagination, but you can't write".
