Editing Episode III

[Michael Thomson]

Hey all

Oh the joys of SW debate ! i love it.

What a weird film, which rather than a work on its own stands only as the biggest loose end tie-up in cinematic history !!!

The thing that got me on this film wasn’t the acting, plot, blatant cutting to the dialogue as said elsewhere on this thread, or even as another said the placing of four bladed droids etc in there as the old cool shot having no purpose other than the asthetic. For me they would all be a given before i even walked into the theatre.

What troubled me was in some of the effects. Dont get me wrong i am a big fan of ILM, and some scenes and elements (battle over coruscant etc etc) were amazing but something sat wrong in some scenes.

I think it was almost like a wrong spacial awareness of some of the 3D envirnoments that were constructed. Some of these scenes were, at the embankment beside the Lava lake, particularly when Palpatine shows up, the landing party on coruscant once Anakin and Obi-wan have saved Palpatine etc etc. It happens in a few films were digital keying gets majorly overused. You look at a scene like the AT-AT attack in Empire, the models used whiles about 2 foot tall were genuine bona fide 3D structures, their reaction to the light and camera was believable coupled with a nice matte backdrop which was painted with a perspective that matched the scale of the AT-AT’s. I know that Mattes and stop motion aren’t the way forward, but if you look at the original films the acting is much better and we can relate with the characters and i feel that has got to be something to do with the fact that they are interacting with a set, rather than blindly reading lines without an proper understanding of where they are.

Ah the old days

Just my opinion on it all

[Ric Marty]

that scene would have been interesting except that it would have required and actor.

ric

[Mark]

Well,
Maybe I’ll be the only one, but I loved it !!!!! I thoroughly enjoyed the entire movie. Over the years I have developed my way of de-plugging the editor in me and simply enjoying a good flick with the wife. No trying to figure out what why and when the cuts fx etc are done, rather just sitting back, letting the story in, and throwing some good old fashioned greasy popcorn down. Movies lost their flair when I used to over-evaluate them and watch for continuity errors….no more !!!!!

I will definately buy the DVD when it comes out at Christmas packaged as a trilogy with parts 1 and 2.

MArk