I could see that in conception many of these sequences were thrilling and inventive. “When it comes to the computer-generated images, I feel that I cannot entirely trust the screening experience I had. With Lucas wanting digital projection to improve during the time of The Phantom Menace three years before, it was clear that not much had progressed by 2002.
Roger Ebert was less effusive in his praise for the film, although he enjoyed it, and made note of the movie’s digital format. And frankly the most entertaining of the Star Wars films for me.” The most viscerally exciting and thrilling of the Star Wars films. This is the most intelligently plotted of the Star Wars films. Personally, I can’t for a second understand that. Knowles wraps up by noting the intelligent nature of the plot and its engrossing action scenes. ‘I’m just a simple man, trying to make my way in the universe.'” But far above the rest, my favorite line… The one I’ll quote for the remainder of my years, months, days, hours or minutes that God or my cholesterol level lets me have on this planet is: I love the throw-down line to Yoda from Dooku… In fact just about anything Christopher Lee said makes me happy. Frankly the ‘This party is over,’ line made me smile. “Now every STAR WARS film has to have a line or two that I love. Now contrary to 90% of the James Bond movies, M (aka Yoda) doesn’t tell Bond, ‘The guy you’ll be investigating is _, you’ll find him at _, your job is to _ him and take control of _.’ Hell, Yoda doesn’t even know that there is A) The Evil Master Plan, B) Giant Armies Massing, C) That getting the Senator off Coruscant is playing directly into the Evil guy’s hands.Īnd while even the most diehard fans among us acknowledge that the script is occasionally functional rather than a Whedonesque quote-fest, there are certainly some lines in Attack of the Clones that raise a wry smile.” M is Yoda, who sends Obi Wan to handle the mystery of the dart and Anakin to safeguard the babe. James Bond is divided into two characters. “This chapter of the STAR WARS saga is essentially the James Bond film to end all James Bond films. Knowles continued to make an astute observation about the film, which in the past has been compared to The Maltese Falcon and Raiders of the Lost Ark and was at the time Steven Spielberg’s favorite Star Wars episode.
Shades of the Imperial droid with a heart of Gold R2-KT. I saw his face, he was a word from bolting. Here, in the final hours, he faces his greatest danger… He comes over to show he has no fear. Looking at me, he sees answers, temptation… evil.
Constantly looking around, the pressure of having stayed completely spoiler free on his brow. Well, actually he was jazzed in the unable to stay still sort of way. Saw the folks in costume… A fellow from Chicago in Jedi robes was first in line and he was… moderately enthused about seeing the film…. A lifelong Star Wars fan, he clearly understood the tone and style Lucas was shooting for.
Harry Knowles at Ain’t It Cool was effusive in his praise for the film. And, after the box office success but critical backlash of The Phantom Menace three years before, Attack of the Clones was about to throw us back into the galaxy far, far away…īut what did the critics of the time make of the second Star Wars prequel? Did they embrace this vast, interconnecting epic story George Lucas was trying to tell, or did they miss the point? As ever it’s a mixed bag. The members of the Fellowship of the Ring were heading towards Mordor, about to encounter the The Two Towers while Star Trek Nemesis was about to falter at the box office. Harry Potter was preparing to enter the Chamber of Secrets while Spider-Man was ready to swing across New York for the first time.
Digital cinema was on the cusp of arriving and the return of 3D was still over half a decade away.Ī torrent of franchises were making big bucks at the box office. We were in a strikingly different place to where we are right now, both in terms of cinema and the saga itself. Cast your mind back 13 years, to May 16, 2002, and the release of Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones.