Music & Movies

Star Wars dialogue isn't bad, except the Anakin/Padme scenes. I think the movie would've been better if the corruption had been much more subtle, but just as powerful. Maybe a bit along the lines of Frodo in The Lord of the Rings. He sounds like a whiny little kid very often - How does he get that from losing his mother?

I think although Lucas doesn't seem to like critics, he could use some constructive criticism.

Prof, I think to be fair to Natalie Portman, it was Padme that sucked, she did the best she could with some very contrived bits. And you're right. The "I love you now" dialogue does make logical sense in the context of "Well we're probably going to die now", but you're right, it's not about the logical sense, it's about whether or not it sings or goes clunk. And there was definitely a loud clunk on that scene. Maybe she could have blamed it better. I find it funny that whenever a movie goes really well the actor/director takes the credit. When it sucks the first person to get the blame is the writer.

Well, in this case the director and the writer are the same...

I saw the Bourne Identity tonight. It was all right. It's got a bit of an unsatisfying ending and there's all this voodoo thrown in there that in my mind really detracts from what otherwise could have been a solid, kick-ass story. The acting is pretty good. Funniest moment: "That guy just jumped out a window! Why would anyone DO that???"

To see what was on the other side?

okay thanks. I think I will check that movie out then.

I don't watch a whole lot of movies, but I've noticed most action movies are very cheesy, such as Spiderman or The Matrix. I don't really understand why they're so popular.

I thought that The Matrix had the same theme as Men In Black and The Truman Show: namely, what if the world around us isn't what it appears to be?

Yeah!

It's all bunch of eletrical impulses designed to do one thing: to keep humans under control in order to turn us into batteries.

Either that, or it's all a television program called The zx20 Show.

lol

I guess the cheesy-ness of action films is just the more gung-ho version of why soap operas and romance novels work. On some level we want the world to be like that, full of passion, defined in simpler terms of good and evil, where even the smaller actions we take actually have some significance.

That's not what's cheesy about it. It's bad acting, stupid, unrealistic things(like the Matrix's "Dodge this!"), etc. Stuff like that are obvious attempts at making it look cool, creating catchphrases, etc. Take the Star Wars action sequences for example: It's fairly believable(it's in the future, but whether or not future technologies would be like that is a different argument), and as far as the fighting goes, they don't stop in the middle of a battle, say a catchphrase, then cut someone's head off while that person just stands there and takes it(Mace Windu's "This party's over" was a bit of action movie cheese, but at least he didn't say it in the middle of some huge fight).

And the Matrix's theme was much closer to the Truman Show than MIB. The first two showed that your entire world is completely different in reality(more so in the Matrix), while in MIB, there's simply a government organization that knows of the existence of aliens(except for that last scene, with the marbles).