(December 18, 2015 at 11:22 am)TheRealJoeFish Wrote: I dunno. For episode I, looks like all but one of the 36 reviews the 51/100 was based on were published at the time of release. Granted, that one was a 0, so maybe bump it up to 55/100. But I just don't think it's accurate that Ep I got mostly good reviews. It got some, and many middling ones. I remember extreme disagreement in the fanbase about whether it was worth seeing and whining about how Lucas was whoring himself out and whatnot. The reaction to this one has been a lot more positive, critically.
Did you not see this link I posted? http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/star-w...enace-1999
It got 3.5/4 in that review, Episode III got the same, and Episode II got 2/4 on that review site. Reviews were mostly positive for Episode I when it came out, and mostly positive for the next too as well.
TFA may be getting great reviews now, and yes it's a style of action that I personally don't like, but the style put aside, the film has absolutely no depth. Everything promised in the trailers turned out to be false - grand armies, Rey exploring the depths of an abandoned spaceship (I thought that was going to play out more like Alien, but no it served no purpose at all and we never got to see it - what was in the trailer was basically all there was). CGI completely overused. Like I said before Lucas had only a handful of CGI characters in the prequels, and you can count them on one hand. Watto, Jar Jar, Yoda, General Grievous. That's basically it. There are others that appear only once, but those are the main supporting characters that are CGI in the prequels. And they were spread out - Jar Jar barely appears in II and III, Watto barely appears after Episode I, General Grievous only appears in III.
Why isn't Chewy's hair grey? What are they afraid to age a Wookie or something?
The Force Awakens CGI characters: Maz Kanata, Snoke, Unkar Plutt. Literally every alien species the characters interacted with, other than Chewy, was CGI. Ah you might say - wrong... Plutt was played by Simon Pegg in a suit. And you'd be right, aside from the fact that I've seen the movie and I know they replaced his head with CGI. Even Lucas wouldn't have gone that far with CGI - at least he never did before. All his characters were either physical or CGI, he didn't use CGI heads on physical suits.
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The WIN/Gallup End of Year Survey 2013 found the US was perceived to be the greatest threat to world peace by a huge margin, with 24% of respondents fearful of the US followed by: 8% for Pakistan, and 6% for China. This was followed by 5% each for: Afghanistan, Iran, Israel, North Korea. -LINK
"That's disgusting. There were clean athletes out there that have had their whole careers ruined by people like Lance Armstrong who just bended thoughts to fit their circumstances. He didn't look up cheating because he wanted to stop, he wanted to justify what he was doing and to keep that continuing on." - Nicole Cooke
The WIN/Gallup End of Year Survey 2013 found the US was perceived to be the greatest threat to world peace by a huge margin, with 24% of respondents fearful of the US followed by: 8% for Pakistan, and 6% for China. This was followed by 5% each for: Afghanistan, Iran, Israel, North Korea. -LINK
"That's disgusting. There were clean athletes out there that have had their whole careers ruined by people like Lance Armstrong who just bended thoughts to fit their circumstances. He didn't look up cheating because he wanted to stop, he wanted to justify what he was doing and to keep that continuing on." - Nicole Cooke
