That tells me a bunch of movie snobs didn't like it. There are more reviews that I've read of people liking it, not in a great movie kinda way, but not anywhere near the pile of poo most of the RT reviews laid out.
8 in a scale of 1-10. My daughters (7 and 9) loved it, and so did I. Mrs. SwoLy was "the snob" of the group. We saw many KIDS there, but the story is not really for 3 and 4-year-olds.
Is it just me or did it seem like there was absolutely no buzz surrounding this movie's release? I mean, after all it is Star Wars movie.
It was ok....I like the sylish look of it.....but the story was Meh, and one guy played like 5 parts...the guy with the Aussie accent. Honestly it felt like watching a video game. DD
The animation looks like the quality rendered by PS2/Xbox games. Are SW geeks embracing this or hating it?
Not true, the hair was, but it was more a stylistic choice than anything else.... The scenes had plenty of polys...they were just not character centric. DD
See....as a Star Wars fan, this is what irks me: these movies used to be critically acclaimed. Now they're relegated by some as something that's just 'fun' and/or 'for the kids.' While those things in and of themselves are fine, it creates the image that its just a bunch of fan-boys who are upset, and for no real reason. Like we're the ones missing the point. The original trilogy was heralded for its compelling story, vision, and character development. Episode IV was nominated for Best Picture while all of the original three made a ton of Oscar racket overall. To me, that says quite a bit regarding how far this franchise has fallen from its rather once-mighty perch. I haven't seen this one. I guess I just don't know if I can take anymore Star Wars-turned trash. If that makes me a snob, then so be it.
I guess it was too much to ask for the original actors to perform the voice acting for their equivalent characters? That would probably push the budget way high but it may have helped attendance if they could use that in the sales pitch. I think they had one or two doing their animated characters but not the main ones. I doubt I will watch it. I know Lucas is working to bring non-animated Star Wars to TV as a show...assuming he can get the costs down. That will be more interesting.
I have a feeling that the Live Action TV series will be a colossal, abject disaster. Animation seems to me to be the only way to keep the grand scale (a must, IMO) of Star Wars intact without a movie budget. Star Trek could go small and be fine, but not Star Wars. I'll see the Clone Wars movie at some point, probably on DVD. It just looks too obvious to me: Anakin is super-awesome, the lady Sith is super-nasty, Anakin wins the day but gets darker in doing so, killing the villainess and getting his padawan killed as well. I'd slap on spoiler tags, but I haven't seen the movie, haven't been told that, and would have said the same thing 3 weeks ago. If they are spoilers, that's how obvious the plot looked to me. Evan
http://secrethistoryofstarwars.com/natureofthebeast1.html Am in the middle of reading this, it's long. If you grew up loving Star Wars, this is definitely worth reading.
I'm not a Star Wars fan boy by any stretch of the imagination but I thought Clone Wars was decent its much more light hearted than the prequels and its a pretty light story that doesn't carry much weight i.e. there isn't every any real danger in the whole thing. It probably could have been released straight to TV but considering its Lucas we are talking about, I'm sure releasing to the big screen was a chance to rake in some more cash. Also it's the starting point for the new Clone Wars TV show, hence the whole movie feels like a TV show on the big screen.
As soon a they wrote in Jabba the Hutt's son, I was done. But, my 8 year old nephews had a blast, so it was worth it.
