Well, I've seen AOTC

[kivrin]

I want to see it again.

A sign that George Lucas let someone who knows one end of a pen from the other help him with the script:

"You don't want to sell me death sticks. You want to go home and rethink your life."

A sign that George Lucas should have had MORE assistance on the script:

"I do truly, deeply, love you." (The line which caused my friend Kristi to groan aloud, and say "Just kiss her, Anakin, kiss her quick!" To which I had to add, "So she'll shut up!")

Things I really, really liked.

- Obi-Wan going to the diner for information. So original trilogy. And he looked so happy.

- The aforementioned "rethink your life" exchange.

- Female Jedi kicking butt. (Now, if only one of them would ever get to *say* something)

- Yoda training all the ittybitty padawans.

- Anakin in his cloak. I don't know what it is, but the way his cloak sweeps... oh, boy.

- Dooku flinging things around with the Force, and Yoda stopping them without breaking a sweat.

- Obi-Wan playing along with the situation he discovers on Kamino. "That's why I'm here!"

- Qui-Gon's voice crying "Anakin! ANAKIN!" during the massacre of the Tusken raiders. (I take my Qui-bits where I can get them.)

- The total absence of any blabbing about midichlorians.

- Fewer of the three-lines-then-a-wipe "scenes" that are so irksome in TPM

- More visuals of Coruscant

- No [expletive] pod race! The Coruscant chase was a rollercoaster, but there was a plot, for which I was and am extremely grateful.

I was not as irritated by Anakin as I was expecting to be from bits of the trailers. That's not saying a whole lot, but it saying something. The things that bugged me seemed more to be things that were, plot-wise, supposed to bug one (like contradicting Obi-Wan in public, etc) rather than things that were supposed to charm and irritated instead (little Ani shouting YIPPEE! at every opportunity.)

All in all, a highly enjoyable cinematic experience.

Oh, and my theory about the phantom Master Sido-Dyas who negotiated the clonemaking with the Kaminoans, and who Obi-Wan believes died about ten years previously... I think it's Dooku's Jedi name that he abandoned upon leaving the order. And that mentions of Sido-Dyas in the archives say that he died, rather than admitting that he resigned.

Comments

[drood.livejournal.com]

I just got back from seeing it myself. Most of the items on your list were the things I liked about the movie, but I'd add all of Amidala's outfits in the middle third of the movie, and the wedding dress at the end, but minus the hippie dashiki thing she's wearing on that sand planet place.

A lot of the dialogue was terrible, though. That part about "I hate sand...it's coarse and rough. Not like you. You're soft and smooth" made me snort aloud.

[kivrin.livejournal.com]

Awk! I'd successfully blanked out that 'sand' line. That was, indeed, physically painful.

And oh, yes, Amidala's wardrobe. I liked the packing-to-leave-Coruscant dress quite a lot. I figure she borrowed the big blue sack from Beru, or picked it up among the loud hawaiian shirts for sale at the Mos Eisley tourist trap emporium.

[glimmergirl.livejournal.com]

Wait... I liked that blue hippie girl dress/outfit she wore on Tatooine...

Eh, oh well. I'd wear it. Which, let's be honest, isn't saying very much.