Attack of the Clones rant, revisited.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

There is no story being told.

This I disagree with. Like I said, that's the one thing Lucas can do well. I'll give it to you for Episode I, that was completely devoid of all story and was a pathetic attempt at character development. But once he finally got into the meat of the story in Episode II, I actually began to like where he is taking it. The problem lies in the terrible movies that were built up around the story. And those were the result of a bad screenplay, bad direction, and Lucas running into the major pitfall of trying to get TOO clever in intergrating it into the OT (3PO was built by Anikan, how 'bout them apples! ).

Of course, it could have simply not been a trilogy. Episode I had nothing in it. There was no story. Episode II has story, but not a lot, it could have been condensed down to half the length or less with no trouble at all. So when I go back in time and fix everything, I will take Lucas's story, hire Fran Walsh to write the screenplay, and Peter Jackson to direct it, and make it one movie instead of three.