Star Wars Episode II

It took me an age to finally get to see it, and two different DVD players to be able to see it (Netflix grimy disc) but it just wasn't up to the immense amount of trouble it must have taken them to make it. Every scene was stunning, and the computer graphics were getting further away from that look of where people seem to jump and move a little too quickly to be real. However the acting was awful. Yoda, R2-D2, C3P-O, and just about every other thing in the movie which one would have no way of knowing if it looked real or not, did indeed seem believable. However, the people in the movie, (except for Christopher Lee) just seemed plain not-bothered by the whole thing. Ewen Macgregor's terrible accent was back for this installment, but top prize for completely unable to act/react to anything at all, while all the time sound like they were learning to read, instead of acting...goes to....Anakin Skywalker

The other chracters, even Mace Windu were just too cool, and so at no time did you ever get the impression that ANYTHING going on was of any real importance anyway.

Lovely looking, and probably we're to be subjected to a million of those film making documentaries, where they tell us things like "the left leg of Padme is actually a computer graphic which took 18 months in post production to get completely right, it isn't of course, just a piece of her body which we can film along with the rest of her, as that would be too simple." So why is it they can build entire universes of wonderful monsters, robots, and space ships, and yet every time a man has to jump of anything higher than ten feet tall, he looks strangely FALSE!!

I know about the fact it is easier to make unreal things LOOK believable, because you have nothing to base your judgement on, other than what you are seeing for the first time. So perhaps they might want to think about NOT using computer graphics for real people, until they get it looking right. Doing such a good job as they did on this movie, means that the wonderful fantasy items look so good. But that just makes the gap between those things and the supposed 'real' items all the more obvious....having said all that, I will try and catch Episode III at the movies..

I do get the feeling I should like Ewan McGregor but somebody PLEASE tell him to leave that Noel Edmonds beard in the sink for the next movie (although I fear my influential request may be overlooked)