"Mark M, post: 104440, member: 5058" said:
I won't say Ewoks as I loved the Ewoks cartoon. :)
I only saw two episodes of the Ewoks cartoons and I really liked them. I don't exactly remember the title of the episodes but one was about a plant that was given by one female ewok to another to take care of and she kind of forgot to water it and it started dying and the second was about some crystal cloak and the bad guy was a bat-like humanoid demon.
"Mark M, post: 104440, member: 5058" said:
One of the biggest problems I had with The Prequel trilogy is that they basically seemed to miss out and skip over all the important bits of the Clone Wars. A lot of the events and adventures in Clone Wars would have made a far better story and exciting movie than TPM and AOTC. ROTS had very good parts especially the start and the end. The middle and bits with Grievous let it down.
I have not seen the Clone Wars, but I do agree with your point. The prequels spent too much time on developing the "boring" aspects of the characters rather than their interesting history and backstory. Like in TPM too much time was devoted to Anakin doing his "kiddie things" and in AOTC, the romantic scenes between Anakin and Padme really slowed down the pace of the movie. I think Lucas did a good job of fixing some of those problems in ROTS and I liked the darker tone of the movie. Even Christensen's acting was slightly better in it than in ATOC. You know, only after I finished watching all six movies did I realize that Star Wars is actually just the life story of Anakin Skywalker. From his childhood in TPM all the way to his death in ROTJ. :)
"Mark M, post: 104442, member: 5058" said:
The Burton Superman movie would definitely have been interesting, especially the casting of Nicholas cage. Visually Christopher Reeve was a perfect Superman. 2 was the best of the films. Although I don't think any of them have really captured the story of Superman comics.
Yeah. Even though Chris Reeve did not look like the Superman from the comics, his brilliant performance as both Superman and Clark Kent sort of made him into the benchmark for all future Superman performances. If the Salkinds and Donner hadn't had that falling out, I think we could have had some great Superman movies, probably ones in which Superman was pitted against some of the more powerful foes from the comics.
Whenever people (mostly the younger generation) talk about the original Superman movies, they are very critical of them, saying how the special effects look terribly dated etc. I'm not surprised since most of the kids of today have grown up watching Michael Bayesque CGI laden movies. But what they don't realize is that what made the original Superman movies so great was not the special effects but the performances. The way Reeve convincingly portrayed anger, humor, love and sadness has not yet been paralleled by any other superhero actor, IMHO. If you look at his outfit it looks like something you would see people wearing at Comic Con, but it was his performance that made us believe in Sup0erman instead of laughing at this grown man dressed in tights with his underwear outside! :-)
"Mark M, post: 104442, member: 5058" said:
Have you seen Man of Steel. I thought that was really boring also. The trailers did not help it at all. Him with a beard on a bot, you would think it was a trailer for a movie about Trawler Men or Deadliest Catch instead of Superman. Although it was more interesting than Superman Returns.
I could only bear to watch half of Man of Steel. After that I changed the channel as I couldn't tolerate it anymore! The makers goofed up big time with that one. I think it was a REALLY wrong decision to make Superman dark and gritty and realistic a la Batman Begins. That tone suits Batman as a character but definitely not superman. If Batman represents the night and shadows, Superman stands for bright sunshine and hope. Back then everyone was going the Nolan way, turn everything dark and gritty. I remember, before Man of Steel was even announced, I read a post on a message board by a Nolanite saying that every movie should be like Nolan's Batman movies. So I, in a jestful manner, replied by saying that maybe in future Superman movies we could have him living in exile and suffering from depression. I guess the makers of Man of Steel must have taken my post a bit too seriously! LOL!
With Superman Returns, I think the makers were trying to go the TFA way, relying on evoking the nostalgic sentiments of fans to make the film a success. They cast Brandon Routh, who looks a LOT like a young Chris Reeve and there were many homages and references to the original movies and some of the basic plot elements were almost lifted from the original (Luthor again steals Kryptonite from the Museum and again comes up with a plan to get control of land, killing millions in the process etc.). I think the overall story was just too weak and all over the place.
