Veknoid_Outcast on 07 April 2017
| Super_Boom said: I'm not crazy about the series, but this probably aligns with my rankings mostly, give or take a spot or two. I like your thoughts on episode 3. People keep telling me it's the "good" prequel, when I still found it to be really lame. CGI everywhere, stupidly transparent subtext, characters acting purely to advance the scene rather than acting naturally. And those dialogue scenes; it seemed like every single one of them was just two people sitting down (with sometimes one person standing up and looking out a window), or two people walking slowly somewhere. Don't mean to begrudge people for enjoying it though...just something I couldn't really enjoy. |
I think you picked up on something that runs through the entire prequel trilogy: George Lucas can't be bothered to frame or block a dialogue scene with any sense of style. He just has the actors sit on a couch or walk down a hallway and then cuts back and forth in shot reverse shot (this was hammered home in the Plinkett reviews). It's like he just wants to get the talking part out of the way so he can focus on the visual effects. Lucas has never been an actor's director, but in the prequels he didn't even pretend to try.
