Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: "Tom" Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Re: Star Wars: Episode I Date: Fri, 16 Jul 1999 18:12:32 +0100 Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 61 Message-ID: <7mnqg1$bjc11@chuka.playstation.co.uk> References: <7mn9ip$bjc10@chuka.playstation.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: p11-heron-gui.tch.virgin.net X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2014.211 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2014.211 Rad wrote in message news:7mn9ip$bjc10@chuka.playstation.co.uk... > My opinion's were that it was a great film but not as good as the originals. > I'm sure I'll grow to like it even more as I watch it again. > I guess it could never have been as good as the originals because as the > first film there was too much of the story it had to setup for the following > films. I happened to see Star Wars a while ago and didn't think that much of it to be honest. That kid who played Anakin was really a pretty bad actor, the couple of times he ran off shouting 'Yippee!' pissed me off. > Things I liked about episode 1: (erm...you might not want to read this if > you haven't seen it) > * GREAT special effects The effects were very good, especially the way they finally managed to get the CGI parts too look less like filmed bits with computer effects added over the top are much more natural looking. > * light saber action I agree with you there. In the original trilogy the fights were more like two people standing opposite one another taking half-hearted swipes with shiny sticks. The fight sequences in Episode 1 had much more of a martial arts feel too them (especially when Darth Maul takes on the two heroes). > Things I didn't particularly like: > * Trade Federation's crap skinny army droids who can all be switched off > from one terminal!!! (bring out the stormtroopers) Now come on, the reason they're all droids is that they can be dismembered by the truck load and the film can still get a PG certificate. This theory also holds for Stormtroopers. They never speak with normal voices (always via a radio) and their faces are covered by opaque helmets, unlike our brave Rebel heroes! > * Starfighters generally looked crap, not a touch on the originals. Have you seen the new Lego models? Utter arse! > Something I didn't understand: > * If senator Palpatine was a sith, master to Darth Maul (although I'm not > 100% sure if he was) why didn't the Jedis sense it? We'll find out, probably, in Episode 2... Cheers, Tom PS Call me slow if you want, but as I watched Coming To America on video last night, I only just figured out that one of James Earl Jones' lines was lifted srigh out of Star Wars. "Do not alert him to my presence, I will deal with him myself"