*shrug* the "travesty" of pod-racing? the pod race was one of the few things that kept me awake during episode i
It was a shot-for-shot ripoff of the chariot race from ben Hur,according to my film student friends. It was also a 14 minute long ad for the podracing videogame.
the way ewan mcgregor plays those looks makes me think of obi-wan less as a remote, all-powerful Jedi and more as a human, well-intentioned guy who occasionally gets himself in over his head.
And you can see how he's evolving into the ep. 4 Obi-Wan.
for me the best parts of the movie were the lightsaber duels. watching the line of Jedi charging forward, sabers raised, during the arena battle made me want to leap to my feet and cheer.
When Yoda had it out with Dooku, the audience at the first showing cheered throughout, at the second showing, they laughed until Yoda whipped out his lightsaber, then they went nuts from cheering.
but what was up with everybody constantly dropping their lightsabers in the one-on-one duels?
Constantly using the force to hold your saber would, IMO, distract you from fighting.
was also a bit surprised to see less throwing of lightsabers; i know that if i were obi-wan, standing on the platform watching jango fett's ship lift off, i would have chucked my saber after it, even if just out of frustration.
If a saber leaves the user's hands, it shuts off.
I think AotC ranks as my second favorite of all the Star Wars films, next to Empire.
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the "travesty" of pod-racing? the pod race was one of the few things that kept me awake during episode i
It was a shot-for-shot ripoff of the chariot race from ben Hur,according to my film student friends. It was also a 14 minute long ad for the podracing videogame.
the way ewan mcgregor plays those looks makes me think of obi-wan less as a remote, all-powerful Jedi and more as a human, well-intentioned guy who occasionally gets himself in over his head.
And you can see how he's evolving into the ep. 4 Obi-Wan.
for me the best parts of the movie were the lightsaber duels. watching the line of Jedi charging forward, sabers raised, during the arena battle made me want to leap to my feet and cheer.
When Yoda had it out with Dooku, the audience at the first showing cheered throughout, at the second showing, they laughed until Yoda whipped out his lightsaber, then they went nuts from cheering.
but what was up with everybody constantly dropping their lightsabers in the one-on-one duels?
Constantly using the force to hold your saber would, IMO, distract you from fighting.
was also a bit surprised to see less throwing of lightsabers; i know that if i were obi-wan, standing on the platform watching jango fett's ship lift off, i would have chucked my saber after it, even if just out of frustration.
If a saber leaves the user's hands, it shuts off.
I think AotC ranks as my second favorite of all the Star Wars films, next to Empire.