Sounds delicious, I want.

She serves them each a slice of bacon about that thick, never have i seen someone eat an entire side of bacon.

Maybe it's a whole thing of bacon cut into those filets instead of strips?

Sounds delicious, I want.

Its a joke, guy just not a very good one

Not very good, indeed.
It sounded like the kind of shit logic somebody on FJ could actually have.

Darksydephil, the worst Let's Player to exist. Not only does he suck, but he is a narcistic asshole, insulting everyone and anything, because he is flawless in his own mind.

Coruscant was a planet with high technology...that had speeders flying all over the place in the background...

Mustaar was a volcanic planet shooting lava all over the damn place and had a scene where the main characters were having an intense lightsaber duel on a structure that fell into the lava...

you realize how much sets like those cost?

deserts aren't exactly other worldly or some kind of space fantasy dude.

Coruscant, Mustafar, the Gungan city, and other crazy ass locales, however, were not in Episode 4.

Coruscant was a planet with high technology...that had speeders flying all over the place in the background...

Mustaar was a volcanic planet shooting lava all over the damn place and had a scene where the main characters were having an intense lightsaber duel on a structure that fell into the lava...

you realize how much sets like those cost?

If you have the technology, why not use it to make a more visually appealing movie? I'd take Anakin and Obi-wan fighting with volcanoes erupting in the background on multiple levels of a melting structure over Darth Vader and Obi-wan slowly fighting in a hallway

Consider this: The story is far more important than the special effects. Done right, special effects enhance the story. Done the starwars way, they're a crutch used in place of a compelling story.

In the original movies, people cared about the lightsaber fights not because they were "super cool" looking, but because the movies spent a lot of time getting them to care about the characters and WHY they were fighting. The fight between Obi-
Wan and Darth Vader is significant and sticks in the minds of everyone for reasons other than fight itself. ALL of the ligthtsaber fights in the original three movies were clunky at best, but they were tense and exciting because you were invested in the characters and the fight's outcome.
The only fight in the prequels I really found myself caring about was the final fight between Obi-wan and Anakin. It was really the only maybe there are a few fight the movies give you a reason to care about and even then it went on for far too long. Most of the other ones were just shiny eye-candy.

TL;DR: It's not about the fight itself, but about the characters and their cause, plus associated emotions.

but you're implying a scenario were there is only a good story or only good visuals. The two aren't mutually exclusive. A great example is Disney's "UP". It had a rich, enticing, and meaningful story, and it was done with entirely with computers ("but you need live actors and sets to draw inspiration for the models", shut up internet)

Episode 3, IMHO, is my favorite of all six Star Wars movies so far. The story did it's job perfectly, and it does not even matter if the story was predictable. It would have been a shitty story if it was anything less than predictable.

Don't get me wrong, Episode 4 is amazing too. both movies have their strengths and both have their weaknesses. But visually, the prequals top AT LEAST episode 4, which, aside from the climactic space battle and scenes in the desert, take place in rooms and halls.

i liked episode II

>The problem with that is, real actors need REAL props, in order to give the best performance they can - they need SOMETHING at least. Take a look at that scene from Episode 3 where General Grievous is about to fight Obi-Wan, and he's spinning around his lightsabers really fast, and Ewan McGregor doesn't even react. He just stands there, because all he had to work with was a green background.

You try making a scale model of general grievous that can fight as quickly as he did in the movies and move as quickly as he did in the movies.

^This

Also, consider that he stood in awe because that's what his character would do. It's not every day you see a droid wielding not one, but TWO lightsabers... AND THEN break apart to wield FOUR lightsabers, and then start spinning them in a death wheel.

Hell, I've never directed a movie before, and even I would put the opposite character in awe of such a sight, if even for a couple seconds. It's not because he's not working with something, it's just acting. I'm sure he was actually fighting SOMEONE to give the actor a tactile feel for the scene.

True, but after a while it felt a bit forced. All the "will they/won't they get back together" seemed like it was there to fill scenes between important story points. I do agree, they would need more of that because Electro couldn't go and fight Peter Parker, just Spider-Man, but most of it was repetitive and unnecessary (in my opinion, at least). And I really wish they did more with the Goblin, I was really excited to see how they were going to do him. That scene when Gwen died gave me feels though

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