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White Knight

Which one of the Three SW Prequals do you like best?  

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Episode 3! gag me! the story was so bland! Just a bunch of petty little saber battles. You could watch the last 20 minutes of that movie and it would wrap everything together.

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Laudate_Dominum

[quote name='zunshynn' date='Jul 19 2005, 12:15 AM']Episode 3! gag me! the story was so bland! Just a bunch of petty little saber battles. You could watch the last 20 minutes of that movie and it would wrap everything together.
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I liked it for some reason... can't explain it.

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[quote name='White Knight' date='Jul 18 2005, 10:03 PM']Valcano is better than Dantas Peek. other unrealistic valcano film.
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Actually I liked "Dante's Peak" better, but mainly because of the beautiful scenery. Plus I can't stand Anne Heche.

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[quote name='zunshynn' date='Jul 18 2005, 10:15 PM']Episode 3! gag me! the story was so bland! Just a bunch of petty little saber battles. You could watch the last 20 minutes of that movie and it would wrap everything together.
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All three of the newer Star Wars movies are uneven in their pacing. They have good parts and bad parts. But of the three new films the "Revenge of the Sith" was the best, and the most like the original Star Wars movies. I also liked parts of "Attack of the Clones."

But I have to say this, George Lucas cannot write dialogue., and the absolute worst scenes in the last two films were the "love" scenes between Anakin and Padme. Both Natalie Portman and Hayden Christensen are good actors (well pretty good), and the fact that their scenes together come off as stiff and dull, is a consequence of the poor dialogue and direction. George should have hired someone else to write the scripts and direct the movies, and he should has remained in the background as the man with the "vision."

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[quote name='Laudate_Dominum' date='Jul 18 2005, 09:54 PM']I wanna copy you Apotheoun.. the Church scholars should match. hehehe
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No you don't want to copy me, because then you'd have to leave the Roman Rite, and become a Byzantine Catholic and a Palamite theologian.

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I basically agree. I've heard Lucas admit that he makes effect movies so I imagine he's aware of his inability to bring the best out of actors. You also have to consider that almost all of the scenes were shot with blue screens. I heard there was not a single shot in all of 'attack of the clones' that didn't involve blue screens. I can't imagine being thrust into random scenario after random scenerio where you are surrounded by blue and expect to act.

And while Lucas did the rough drafts himself, I know some other fellows were involved in developing the scripts. Also, I think one of the reasons empire is the best star wars movie over all is because Lucas didn't direct it.

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Laudate_Dominum

[quote name='Apotheoun' date='Jul 19 2005, 07:50 AM']No you don't want to copy me, because then you'd have to leave the Roman Rite, and become a Byzantine Catholic and a Palamite theologian.
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I was going to get a nice St. Bonaventure avatar and write "The Bonaventurian Theologian of Phatmass", but I changed my mind. Couldn't find a picture that I ilked, and the writing below seems too long. :)

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[quote name='Laudate_Dominum' date='Jul 19 2005, 05:54 AM']I was going to get a nice St. Bonaventure avatar and write "The Bonaventurian Theologian of Phatmass", but I changed my mind. Couldn't find a picture that I ilked, and the writing below seems too long. :)
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The difference between Bonaventure's position in the West and Palamas' position in the East, is that the doctrine of grace set forth by Palamas (and which corresponds to the Maximian position as well), is a doctrine in the East, while Bonaventure's views are merely the opinions of a particular school of thought in the West. Thus, the distinction between the divine essence and the uncreated divine energies isn't merely an opinion in Eastern theology; instead, it is intimately bound up with the doctrine of God and [i]theosis[/i], and as such it cannot be denied.

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Every scene in ROTS was filmed indoors, except for Tatooine (which was actually recorded during the AOTC production).

Revenge of the Sith is my favorite out of the three, but I still like the other two to an extent. Each film had it's strong points. The love scenes could've been done better, but you also have to think of it like this: do two teenagers/young adults in real life actually speak romantically in elaborate language to each other, everyday? :P

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[quote name='Paladin D' date='Jul 19 2005, 06:44 AM'][. . .]

The love scenes could've been done better, but you also have to think of it like this: do two teenagers/young adults in real life actually speak romantically in elaborate language to each other, everyday? :P
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Well, I'm not familiar with how young people a long time ago, and in a galaxy far far a way, spoke romantically to each other, but if the dialogue written by George Lucas is a true representation of how things happened in that galaxy, one can only have great pity for young lovers there.

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White Knight

[quote name='Apotheoun' date='Jul 19 2005, 08:51 AM']Well, I'm not familiar with how young people a long time ago, and in a galaxy far far a way, spoke romantically to each other, but if the dialogue written by George Lucas is a true representation of how things happened in that galaxy, one can only have great pity for young lovers there.
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George Lucas writting is genius, itsj ust that writting romance is so hard, its almost impossible not to make it cheesy.

Say something that sounds really corny, and your job is to not make it sound corny. Thats how hard it was for them. I agree the romance acting could have been more realistic, I dunno why GL stuck with those takes but there still good to a certian degree.

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[quote name='White Knight' date='Jul 19 2005, 11:18 AM']George Lucas writting is genius, itsj ust that writting romance is so hard, its almost impossible not to make it cheesy.

Say something that sounds really corny, and your job is to not make it sound corny. Thats how hard it was for them. I agree the romance acting could have been more realistic, I dunno why GL stuck with those takes but there still good to a certian degree.
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George Lucas does not know how to write dialogue of any kind, and that's why entire phrases are repeated throughout the Star Wars series of films. He is more of a man with a vision, and not a writer.

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White Knight

Did he not write some of the most famous lines in movie History? you have to be pretty darn good/rememberable to do that.

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I agree, the romance story in the prequals was really cheesy. But the rest of the movie makes up for it, especially Episode III!!! I love ROTS! :P

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