nobody is going to read it until monday, and even then, they’ll have seen it so much elsewhere it will feel dated, even if it’s smoking hot right now.
anywho. head on over to starwars.com and check out the full trailer for the clone wars, which hits theaters august 15th, and i am completely stoked for.
’see star wars like you’ve never seen it before!’
if you mean wooden acting coupled with overwhelming amounts of cgi and ridiculous battle sequences, then i already saw that three times in the last six years. if you mean strong characterization and clever action sequences coupled with an epic sensibility and good production design, i haven’t seen that since the original trilogy ended.
if you mean kinetic action, a joyfully unrestrained use of force powers and a near total lack of realism, plus some decent character bits and a kind of subtlety that was wholly absent in the prequels, then this will be a worthy successor to the clone wars animated series we already saw and loved better than the actual new star wars movies they spawned from.
it’s got obi-wan negotiating with jabba the hutt. that’s awesome. the painful attempts at yoda dialogue, and the presence of ‘cute girl sidekick’ jedi, who looks like shaak ti’s little sister(which is fine with me, shaak ti was totally rad in clone wars season 2) aside, this looks absolutely amazing, and seeing it theatrically will only help.
in any case, it can’t possibly be worse than vader dropping to his knees and screaming ‘noooooo’. see my previous post about the empathy test, and apply it in reverse. somehow, lucas managed to make darth vader non-threatening. now, when i see vader in the original trilogy, i feel like someone should offer him a hug.
