Oh, well. I was secretly rooting for this, but during the Avatar series finale I saw Clone Wars trailer geared towards the younger viewers, featuring Jabba's kid as this har-de-har fart machine and Ahsoka the cutie-pie padawan saying "nothing in my Jedi training prepared me for this." Ugh.
Here's what Rotta the Hutt's Lego minifigure looks like.
This sounds better as a DVD viewing. And anyway, I saw my movies for the summer. WALL-E and Dark Knight.
Here are my thoughts on Clone Wars going in.
1) Before Ep 1 came out there was a truly hideous level of tie-in products. So much stuff that certain items from the end of the run (including some rather cool toys I wish I had) are very rare; by that time no stores were ordering any more Star Wars crap because they hadn't sold the first batch yet.
Something about finally doing more Star Wars movies 20 years later, delivering a trilogy, and then a little later launching a CG movie-and-TV franchise feels to me kind of like early 1999. There's a little disappointment in the air.
2) This is nothing to get outraged about, but I'm sure no Clone Wars movie would be coming out now if the original cartoon series wasn't so kick-ass. For my money the action scenes in Clone Wars are put together with more heart and good timing than anything in the prequel trilogy. And it's great to watch because it's the director is clearly so damn inspired by the greatness of Star Wars. If you haven't seen it, I highly recommend it.
August 10, 2008 11:45 PM
[Image] From AICN, [excerpt] Then they introduced Baby Jabba aka Rotta the Huttlet aka Stinky. At the point of this character’s introduction – it officially became, the worst character in the history of STAR WARS. If you hate George Lucas cutsiepoo bullshit – oooooooh boy. You’re gonna have a field day of venting and hatred directed at this unbelievably fucking awful little shit.
Oh – but wait… Little Stinky the Hutt isn’t the worst character in the history of STAR WARS… because Stinky got introduced earlier in the film. As much as I hated lil Stinky… I was weathering Stinky. I seriously was. But later there was a character of such immense shit – offensively bad. The character was so bad, so incredibly awful – that it was a slap to the face. It woke me out of my shit-accepting stupor and made me angry. SUDDENLY my “inner fanboy rage” was awoken.
As I watched this terrifyingly awful character named Ziro the Hutt. A seemingly female Hutt – with tattoos and make-up that sounds like a racist take on a Black New Orleans Crack-Dealing Whore. Because this Hutt speaks ENGLISH – and it is many times worse than I’m actually describing. This character was actually too much for me. So bad that every flaw I was looking past, was now a road sign to inadequacy and mediocrity. All of a sudden my brain realized that Asajj Ventress’ voice no longer was acceptable – and sure enough – the amazing Grey DeLisle, who originally voiced the character back in 2003 – had been replaced by a Nika Futterman – and that voice was missed. The character didn’t have that snarling menace anymore.
I realized that nothing in this animated film felt right. I felt time expanding. It seemed that the film was dragging – nevermind that lots of shit was firing all over the place – and stuff was going boom and things were being revealed. I just didn’t care because this wasn’t what I wanted.
I hated the score, the animation, the shots, the characters and most of all the retarded fucking idiot story.
"Clone Wars awful? Harry thinks so"
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Oh, well. I was secretly rooting for this, but during the Avatar series finale I saw Clone Wars trailer geared towards the younger viewers, featuring Jabba's kid as this har-de-har fart machine and Ahsoka the cutie-pie padawan saying "nothing in my Jedi training prepared me for this." Ugh.
Here's what Rotta the Hutt's Lego minifigure looks like.
This sounds better as a DVD viewing. And anyway, I saw my movies for the summer. WALL-E and Dark Knight.
Here are my thoughts on Clone Wars going in.
1) Before Ep 1 came out there was a truly hideous level of tie-in products. So much stuff that certain items from the end of the run (including some rather cool toys I wish I had) are very rare; by that time no stores were ordering any more Star Wars crap because they hadn't sold the first batch yet.
Something about finally doing more Star Wars movies 20 years later, delivering a trilogy, and then a little later launching a CG movie-and-TV franchise feels to me kind of like early 1999. There's a little disappointment in the air.
2) This is nothing to get outraged about, but I'm sure no Clone Wars movie would be coming out now if the original cartoon series wasn't so kick-ass. For my money the action scenes in Clone Wars are put together with more heart and good timing than anything in the prequel trilogy. And it's great to watch because it's the director is clearly so damn inspired by the greatness of Star Wars. If you haven't seen it, I highly recommend it.
August 10, 2008 11:45 PM