Mr. and Mrs. Lawhawk will be seeing Star Wars tonite. The jury is out on whether we'll love this movie or not. Will the movie be as good as it could have been?
In other words, could a different director done more with the same material?
Would Quentin Tarantino, late of the highly acclaimed season finale have not only left his mark on the franchise, but exhibited his frenetic and engrossing banter among the characters? I think he would have.
What about Peter Jackson, late of the Tolkien saga - Lord of the Rings, and soon to be appearing King Kong? Absolutely masterful use of CGI, the padawan learner is a master of mass carnage filmed on the big screen, yet capable of pulling you into a good yarn of a story.
Sam Raimi? That's the guy behind the blockbuster Spiderman series. It's possible, but only if he can include his car (and Bruce Davidson) in a shot somewhere.
Bryan Singer? Guy brought it on with the X-Men series and showed he can do drama with the Usual Suspects, so we know he can do sci-fi pretty well.
In each case, the directors mentioned are all highly acclaimed, and capable of doing great things with the material.
The trick now is to reimagine a particular scene from the new movie in the style of each of the aforementioned directors.
And for that, you will have to wait until after I view the movie.
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I saw it last night, too. The action was good and the effects were wonderful, but as a movie it, er, bit. I would not have imagined that Samuel L. Jackson, Jimmy Smits and Natalie Portman could have acted as badly as they did before I actually saw it. Acting this bad is almost always the fault of the director.
And what's with the "death star" under construction at the end of the movie? In a wired galaxy, they managed to keep it a secret for the thirty years that elapsed between the end of III and the beginning of "A New Hope"? Asinine.
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