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17th August 2008, 2:27pm
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#1 | | Super Discunt
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| Star Wars: The Clone Wars
Already out at the cinema but there isn't a thread here?
Anyone seen it yet? | 
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17th August 2008, 2:27pm
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#2 | | Better not to err
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| Re: Star Wars: The Clone Wars
Does anyone care by this point?
You would think Lucas would've burned through his goodwill with the last three movies. | |
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17th August 2008, 2:33pm
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#3 | | Sith Triumvir Moderator
Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: RFS Ravager
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| Re: Star Wars: The Clone Wars
It's metacritic score of 35 pretty much says it all.
And this review is amazingly damming: Quote: |
George Lucas is turning into the enemy of fun. This all-animated chapter Star Wars: The Clone Wars sounds like a perversely logical evolution of the series, which has been built around increasingly thick gobs of digital eye candy. But you never knew how much you'd miss all that lousy, wooden human acting. The animated Anakin, Obi-Wan, etc. (all with faux movie-star voices) are drones, and the repetitive combat sequences only add to the turgid videogame anonymity of it all. Lucas' fantasy empire has morphed into a machine that plays itself.
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17th August 2008, 2:43pm
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#4 | | Super Discunt
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| Re: Star Wars: The Clone Wars
If only we could create a machine powered by denial, we could run it solely on interviews where Lucas is asked whether this film and forthcoming series wil disappoint fans. | |
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17th August 2008, 2:48pm
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#5 | | Sith Triumvir Moderator
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| Re: Star Wars: The Clone Wars
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Originally Posted by pANDAS Radio  If only we could create a machine powered by denial, we could run it solely on interviews where Lucas is asked whether this film and forthcoming series wil disappoint fans. | The TV series has received much more positive reviews so far. | |
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17th August 2008, 2:54pm
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#6 | | Super Discunt
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| Re: Star Wars: The Clone Wars
I'm looking forward to the live action series, foolishly. | |
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17th August 2008, 9:24pm
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#7 | | Tannhauser Gate Veteran
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| Re: Star Wars: The Clone Wars
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Originally Posted by Hammer The TV series has received much more positive reviews so far. | This film IS the TV series, though.
First three episodes released theatrically as one movie.
I've heard bad things... Gonna try to take Morgan to see it tomorrow anyway.
No doubt she'll love it regardless. Yes Semp, I'll like it too.  | |
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17th August 2008, 9:32pm
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#8 | | Fattly Drawn Boy Editor
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| Re: Star Wars: The Clone Wars
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Originally Posted by MarkMono Does anyone care by this point?
You would think Lucas would've burned through his goodwill with the last three movies. | Lucas has just (by 'just' I mean in the last ten years) discovered CGI and new cinematic techniques, and he's like a grandad with the internet. He wants to do everything at once, without taking the time to understand it. And he's undermining his franchise by doing so.
He's been sticking in CGI that is frankly stupid since the updated original Star Wars films.
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17th August 2008, 9:33pm
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#9 | | Infrequenter
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| Re: Star Wars: The Clone Wars
Judging by the trailers the rendering and animation look woeful. More like machinima than a feature film. 
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17th August 2008, 9:42pm
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#10 | | Wench
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| Re: Star Wars: The Clone Wars
the trailers made me want to see it but then hearing all the bad press is kinda putting me off.
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18th August 2008, 12:46am
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#11 | | Registered User
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| Re: Star Wars: The Clone Wars
if they could make a clone of monoman he would be remarkable
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18th August 2008, 3:09pm
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#12 | | Super Discunt
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| Re: Star Wars: The Clone Wars
You love him, you want to kiss his feet (then his peehole). | |
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18th August 2008, 7:22pm
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#13 | | Tannhauser Gate Veteran
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| Re: Star Wars: The Clone Wars
No opening crawl.
Wrong music.
Shite baddie.
Stretched plot.
Bad voice acting.
Good designs.
OK fights.
Will work better in episodic format, I feel.
But overall a disappointment, especially given the awesomeness of the original CW series. | |
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18th August 2008, 7:30pm
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#14 | | Auf Wiedersehen
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| Re: Star Wars: The Clone Wars
Take one surprisingly awesome miniseries.
Expand to full series (and a sort of film) by subtracting the brains behind the whole thing, Tartakovsky, and adding CGI animation.
Voila! Mediocrity on a plate.
Nah, I haven't actually seen it yet. But this never had a good vibe about it.
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21st August 2008, 4:27pm
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#15 | | Registered User
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| Re: Star Wars: The Clone Wars
Was OK. I liked it.
Five main problems:
1) Jabba's son. Pretty much the adea of him, as well as the whole cutsey thing.
2) One of my favourite things about the cartoon was that you could see the different fighting styles. Dooku versus Ventress for example, has him with a straight back, almost fencing with her, while she rabidly attacks him in any way she can. In the CGI thing, they all just...fight each other.
3) Jabba's uncle Cartman, sorry, Zero. Yes. Zero, not Cartman.
4) There was no real need for it to be CGI.
5) Droids doing comedy. I'm with Chefelf: "A military droid should not communicate via sound waves nor should one outrank another. They should simply draw weapons and fire. Not only would this make them a scarier foe but they would also probably spend a lot less time drawing comic attention to themselves and falling apart in a humorous manner". "Good boy". Good boy? What? Fuck off.
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