Chris Petescia
Co-founder of Carrot Creative, design geek, practical hippie, music enthusiast and generally creative individual who finds inspiration through imagination.
Located in Park Slope & DUMBO, Brooklyn, NY.
Dreaming in a galaxy far, far away....
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
I really wanted to like this movie, to believe that Lucas can still make compelling films…
But alas, no.
I think I could write a novel on why this movie was poorly done, but a few bullets will suffice:
- Awkward cuts and short scenes that start and end abruptly
- Horrendous acting and writing for (specifically) every white person in the film. The rest of the cast did a solid job, but I can almost guess who Lucas might have personally written dialogue for, himself. If you see it, just plug your ears when the bomber pilots speak. It’s worse than battle droids as “comic relief.”
- If you thought the Amidala/ Anakin love affair of the Star Wars Prequels was awkward, brace for another round.
- Awkward sub stories and side threads (awkward is a big theme in general)
- Unfinished threads in the story - the climactic mission ends anti-climatically… what happened with the mission? Did they succeed? Was the fuel concern actually a concern?
- CG paper airplane. Yes, really.
One thing I did get a kick out of was the apparent homage to the Cantina scene in Star Wars: A New Hope. Black Pilot “Lightning” walks into a white pilots’ bar whose entrance way actually looks just like the Mos Eisley Cantina, and he is told “we don’t serve your kind here” essentially. Are directors allowed to nod to their own movies? Or was Lucas trying to explain the droid-prejudices (droidism?) that C3PO faced?
It seems like a great story of American heroism against prejudice in war time, but I don’t think it was properly told in this instance.
