Comments: SSP

[Dominus Digg]

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[Nicole]

I believe in you, Digg!

I liked the new Indy movie. It wasn't amazing, but it fit into the series. There was a small amount of gratuitous CGI, but given the potential for overuse of the medium, I thought much restraint was shown.

It really felt like a return to the series- same, same, even the color composition was familiar.

Also, the Prestige was better than the Illusionist. Silly raven.

[Dominus Digg]

He did like the Illusionist better.

HA! Gettin all worked up over his opinion.

[Ron]

I can entertain The Prestige over The Illusionist debate for two reasons:

1. You're Nicole. Ron thinks Nicole is swell. In fact, my wife's middle name is Nicole. You think that's an accident? I set that up. Ergo, Nicole's opinion is OK with me.

2. The argument has validity from a faux-official ("fauxfficial"? Fo' shizzle.) rhetorical standpoint because it's entirely subjective. Heck, I like Armaggedon more than Deep Impact, and it's the exact same comparison. So I can dig it.

The Problem with Indy is something else entirely. There are two reasons for this, too:

1. It was empirically bad.
2. Yeah, you could read that first one as facetious, but someone could come up to you and say, "Phantom Menace was good. It fit right in with the series," make their points, and just illuminate the fact that said person was a straight crackbaby. Hard, white crack. Same with Temple of Doom, Batman and Robin, and any number of sequels you know are bad and that we don't need to debate about.

History will remember an old man surviving a nuclear blast by hiding in a refrigerator as one of the low points of cinema. That movie was the Darko Milicic draft of Steven Spielberg's career. I blame Lucas ... but then, doesn't everyone? In this case, I think everyone needs to take the blame for that abomination. It was the worst thing since 400 still shots of a desert lotus before our FIRST VIEW OF THE HULK.

I guess prairie dogs and monkeys are much better. Wait, no I don't. At least nipples on Batman's costume meant nipples on Batgirl's costume. No special bonuses came from the Crystal Skull. It was effing clown shoes.

[Dominus Digg]

Indy 4 fell short in notable ways.

Episodes 1 fell short and ADDED bullshit:
Midi-chlorians
Virgin Births
Jar Jar Binks

Our main difference is that I have a more discriminating palette that discerns more nuance than Epic, OK, cinematic atrocity (which I dont even consider Episode 1 to be).

[Nicole]

The prequels sort of fit right into the series. Except the droids and Boba Fett were awkwardly shoehorned into the movie, and there was a LOT more gratuitous CGI. Plotline aspects were retconned into the universe. (midichlorians, Qui-gon could've sworn Yoda was Obi-Wan's master...., ....virgin birth wtf would've been nice to tell Luke his dad wasn't just a villain, but a freak....)

I was OK with Jabba's cameo. Not so OK with having all that action on Tatooine...in a sky full of stars, the best place to hide a baby is...ooookay..... Making up just one more planet is that hard? But then you wouldn't be able to cameo the whole WORLD.

If a movie with all the other crap I objected to in Phantom Menace had been a sequel (Jar-Jar, gratutious CGI (it makes SENSE that the spaceships are sleeker and more polished, It's the future!) Just-discovered midichlorians, and yes, the droids can still be around and hijinx can ensue. I wouldn't have loved the movie, but I probably would have liked it more. I didn't dislike Phantom Menace enough to avoid going to the rest of the prequels, either.

Also, if Star Wars hadn't created a universe, inspired an EU, and created an epic world and storyline, I would have liked the prequels even more. The bad taste they left in my mouth was more due to the dissonance they created in my ability to immerse myself in the StarWars universe rather than the movies themselves.


Except for Jar-Jar.