Finished Attack of the Clones
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dangermousieFinished Attack of the Clones last night and I forgive George Lucas everything: the Ewoks, stilted dialogue, rat tail, Carrie Fisher’s non-acting, even Jar Jar.
How did he know what my particular hard-on (yes, wrong gender, so purely metaphorical) and the one that gets almost never explored in movies is two-handed combat! I love it but it is so rarely shown in movies (the only example I can think of are brief flashes of Legolas and his knives in Lord of the Rings). And when it’s not a rapier and dagger combo, but two swords, which they don’t do often as it’s really hard since they both are dominant, attack weapons, then Dangermousie is in hog heaven! To see Anakin fight Count Dooku with two light sabers made me melt into a happy happy puddle of goo. Am now in love with Anakin, so it’s a good thing my taste in RL men is quite different than in fictional as I can’t imagine being able to fight two-handed is a prime consideration for picking a life partner.
Lucas, you did it just for meeeeeeeeee! :D I already rewatched it twice. And I think all of Revenge of the Sith should be about Anakin, Obi-Wan, Palpatin, Mace, Yoda, whoever, fight everyone two-handed. Plot? Who cares… Please? ;) You don’t need to do shippy Lucas, to entice this girl to the theater. Just show me some nifty combat and I am yours.
When you add in the super-uber-cool Yoda-Count Dooku duel, be still my heart :D Yoda is officially the coolest Jedi ever and should have ten thousand ten thousand children. In other news, I want a Yoda doll. Oh, and is it wrong to think a puppet is hot?
Also, I realized that GL has an obsession with hand injuries. If I were Luke’s hypothetical offspring, I’d be pretty careful of my digits. Though Padme and Anakin can probably get really kinky now! Also, I guess that makes Darth Vader handicapped and thus the Empire can’t be all evil since it seems to be an equal opportunity employer.
You know you’ve seen too many movies when category: When Padme and Anakin think they are about to be killed as their attempt to save Obi-Wan goes badly awry, and they wow their undying love to each other (pretty safe promise, since the undying part is going to be pretty short), and then giant doors open and they are taken on a tumbrilly-thing into the Arena, it reminded me vividly of Cecil B. DeMille’s “Sign of the Cross” (an atrocious movie, with much worse acting and dialogue than AotC) where the Roman Tribune Marcus is trying to save a Christian girl Mercia by persuading her to convert. But when she stands firm he converts himself (in a highly dubious conversion), and he hugs her and they walk into the arena. The arena fight is nice, but a bit too crowded. I much prefer individual fights as the Obi-Wan-Dooku, Anakin-Dooku (two swords, people, TWO!) and Yoda-Dooku.
Also loved the scene where Padme falls out and Anakin wants to go for her and yet Obi-Wan persuades him to “do his duty.” However, considering that if they stopped to pick up Padme:
1. Anakin wouldn’t have lost his arm and
2. Yoda wouldn’t have been distracted by having to suspend a falling column to protect the unconscious Anakin and Obi-Wan
I wonder whether it was such a good plan and whether Anakin would think that it wasn’t.
Nifty to see that it’s the Jedis that brought in the clones. True, Yoda had no choice, but how ironic. Just as ironic that it’s Jar Jar that brought down the Republic. I forgive you Jar Jar, Lucas (oh wait, I already forgave you ;)) Overall, loved the really good dense plotting. Now if he only writes half-decent dialogue in Ep 3, the movie would be great.
Someone posited that Prequels aren’t as good simply because they follow Anakin and the viewer knows he will turn evil. But that is actually what I find so fascinating. The whole fall from grace of a good person because of a tragic flaw is a classic Greek tragedy theme for a reason. I find it much more fascinating than good-boy Luke idea. Of course, if Anakin wasn’t redeemed at the end, I’d probably think differently. Or maybe I just like to wallow in angst.
Also, I realized that the quality that will likely be exploited and lead to Anakin’s fall from grace (his losing any rational control when something bad happens to someone he loves and going nuts (i.e. with his Mother's death)) is the same quality that redeems him at the end of RotJ. He snapped in AotC when the tribe tortured and killed his Mother and did something pretty bad: wiped them out. However, in RotJ, when the Emperor is torturing his son is when he snaps and kills the Emperor, returning to the light. So I guess his impetuosity paid off. I am sure there is some obscure moral in there somewhere, like making your weaknesses work for you or something. Don’t care. Just thought it was nifty. I am also a dummy as I realized that the “Jedi” in “Return of the Jedi” is Anakin and not Luke (who never went "away" in the first place).
A parting pic:
How did he know what my particular hard-on (yes, wrong gender, so purely metaphorical) and the one that gets almost never explored in movies is two-handed combat! I love it but it is so rarely shown in movies (the only example I can think of are brief flashes of Legolas and his knives in Lord of the Rings). And when it’s not a rapier and dagger combo, but two swords, which they don’t do often as it’s really hard since they both are dominant, attack weapons, then Dangermousie is in hog heaven! To see Anakin fight Count Dooku with two light sabers made me melt into a happy happy puddle of goo. Am now in love with Anakin, so it’s a good thing my taste in RL men is quite different than in fictional as I can’t imagine being able to fight two-handed is a prime consideration for picking a life partner.
Lucas, you did it just for meeeeeeeeee! :D I already rewatched it twice. And I think all of Revenge of the Sith should be about Anakin, Obi-Wan, Palpatin, Mace, Yoda, whoever, fight everyone two-handed. Plot? Who cares… Please? ;) You don’t need to do shippy Lucas, to entice this girl to the theater. Just show me some nifty combat and I am yours.
When you add in the super-uber-cool Yoda-Count Dooku duel, be still my heart :D Yoda is officially the coolest Jedi ever and should have ten thousand ten thousand children. In other news, I want a Yoda doll. Oh, and is it wrong to think a puppet is hot?
Also, I realized that GL has an obsession with hand injuries. If I were Luke’s hypothetical offspring, I’d be pretty careful of my digits. Though Padme and Anakin can probably get really kinky now! Also, I guess that makes Darth Vader handicapped and thus the Empire can’t be all evil since it seems to be an equal opportunity employer.
You know you’ve seen too many movies when category: When Padme and Anakin think they are about to be killed as their attempt to save Obi-Wan goes badly awry, and they wow their undying love to each other (pretty safe promise, since the undying part is going to be pretty short), and then giant doors open and they are taken on a tumbrilly-thing into the Arena, it reminded me vividly of Cecil B. DeMille’s “Sign of the Cross” (an atrocious movie, with much worse acting and dialogue than AotC) where the Roman Tribune Marcus is trying to save a Christian girl Mercia by persuading her to convert. But when she stands firm he converts himself (in a highly dubious conversion), and he hugs her and they walk into the arena. The arena fight is nice, but a bit too crowded. I much prefer individual fights as the Obi-Wan-Dooku, Anakin-Dooku (two swords, people, TWO!) and Yoda-Dooku.
Also loved the scene where Padme falls out and Anakin wants to go for her and yet Obi-Wan persuades him to “do his duty.” However, considering that if they stopped to pick up Padme:
1. Anakin wouldn’t have lost his arm and
2. Yoda wouldn’t have been distracted by having to suspend a falling column to protect the unconscious Anakin and Obi-Wan
I wonder whether it was such a good plan and whether Anakin would think that it wasn’t.
Nifty to see that it’s the Jedis that brought in the clones. True, Yoda had no choice, but how ironic. Just as ironic that it’s Jar Jar that brought down the Republic. I forgive you Jar Jar, Lucas (oh wait, I already forgave you ;)) Overall, loved the really good dense plotting. Now if he only writes half-decent dialogue in Ep 3, the movie would be great.
Someone posited that Prequels aren’t as good simply because they follow Anakin and the viewer knows he will turn evil. But that is actually what I find so fascinating. The whole fall from grace of a good person because of a tragic flaw is a classic Greek tragedy theme for a reason. I find it much more fascinating than good-boy Luke idea. Of course, if Anakin wasn’t redeemed at the end, I’d probably think differently. Or maybe I just like to wallow in angst.
Also, I realized that the quality that will likely be exploited and lead to Anakin’s fall from grace (his losing any rational control when something bad happens to someone he loves and going nuts (i.e. with his Mother's death)) is the same quality that redeems him at the end of RotJ. He snapped in AotC when the tribe tortured and killed his Mother and did something pretty bad: wiped them out. However, in RotJ, when the Emperor is torturing his son is when he snaps and kills the Emperor, returning to the light. So I guess his impetuosity paid off. I am sure there is some obscure moral in there somewhere, like making your weaknesses work for you or something. Don’t care. Just thought it was nifty. I am also a dummy as I realized that the “Jedi” in “Return of the Jedi” is Anakin and not Luke (who never went "away" in the first place).
A parting pic:
