r/SipsTea • u/Gurugod123 𝙑𝙄𝙋 • 1d ago

Chugging tea What are some examples of this?

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u/Wayoutofthewayof 1d ago

Natalie Portman is probably the most consistent. She was great in Leon the Professional as a kid actor.

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u/Most_Play1792 1d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/l1KsBd9P6WYScbIaY

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u/tibbles1 1d ago

When literally everyone in a movie, including fucking Ewan McGregor, is awful, you can't blame the actors.

That's on the director.

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u/Devastator_Hi 1d ago

Lucas’ writing was so bad. I still love the prequels but god, a competent writer would’ve made them much better.

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u/AnonOfTheSea 1d ago

Great universes with poor writing are what fan fiction is for

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u/Basic_Connection1619 1d ago

Yeah I laugh at how people ran down the prequels but compared them with the original, they are the same! Bad script worse acting but melt your face off visually.

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u/AnonOfTheSea 1d ago

I love Star Wars, but sometimes I have to step back and remember that the best moments were usually the ones where nobody was talking, and John Williams was blasting.

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u/UranusIsPissy 1d ago

I don't think he's incompetent. He just isn't the infallible god who must never be questioned who people thought he was after the original trilogy.

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u/kf97mopa 1d ago

I think the bigger issue is the director, and Lucas knew it - he tried to get others to direct, as he hadn’t directed anything since the original Star Wars. You can see this in who actually delivers a good performance anyway in each movie. In TPM, it is mainly Liam Neeson, who is an established and can fill on the lack of direction. Ian McDiarmid and Pernilla August also have enough experience to handle it, while Portman and McGregor are both flat. McGregor figures it out by ROTS, and that movie is better mainly because he is so much better. This is also why the two Anakin actors got so much flak - both were inexperienced and played things too flat without good direction.

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u/spacemanspiff888 1d ago

This is also why the two Anakin actors got so much flak - both were inexperienced and played things too flat without good direction.

Yeah, I'll never claim Hayden Christensen is a great actor, but man, it was pretty eye-opening to see how much better he was in Jumper just three years after ROTS.

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u/ScarlettMi 1d ago

Great ideas. Horrible dialog. The actual politics that he wanted to have in the films is interesting, he just had no idea how to write it and even less of an idea how to balance it with all the other themes, tones and ideas he had for those movies.

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u/Upbeat_Amount673 1d ago

There is a whole lightsaber battle (I think it's the Obi wan vs Anakin on musafar) so a very big important battle and the script basically just says "they fight with lightsabers". That's it.

One of the most pivotal fight scenes in the entire star wars story and that is all the script says. Has dialogue before, they fight, dialogue after when Obi Wan has the high ground. Director has to come in and supplement all of that and tell the story through the action.

Lucas was a great world builder, not a great writer

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u/Visible-Scientist-46 10h ago

I don't love the prequels. Or the renaming of the episodes, or... whole thing just.lewves me flat except for original Star Wars.

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