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GARTH_MAUL
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GARTH_MAUL
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As most of you, I loved the General, I wished we had more scenes with him, maybe killing a minor Jedi or two.
He continued the long line of great and distinct SW villains and proved a worthy opponent for General Kenobi.
The CG was unbelievable, the best I've ever seen.
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Kiki-Gonn
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I have a friend who's an animator and it took her several minutes to decide that he was true CG vs. some other kinds of techniques. Now that's CG!
Anyway, I thought he was great... cyborg/alien vampire escape artist with a grand, European flair and a chronic cough. He was a far less spooky than I thought he would be but it worked very well.
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qui_gon_jinn_83
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Voted for the first option.
I had expected something more "serious", but I love that they made him so "cartoony". He's such a coward too! It's great.
And I just really, really love the voice acting.
"General Kenobi! Hahahaha... You are a bold one!"
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Darth-Seldon
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He is a good minor baddy. I wouldn't say he is great, but I don't mind him.
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Blah, he didn't win me over until Utapau.
I really hated his stupid cough. I realize what happened to him in the cartoons, but why that had to carry over into the film is beyond me. The first time I saw ROTS, I laughed every time he coughed and it killed at attempt at seriousness. I hated his voice too, he was hard to understand.
He was basically everything I expected up until Utapu: annoying and campy. HOWEVER everything he did on Utapau was amazing, I only really hated him on the Invisible Hand.
He looked great, too. And he had cool lines,if only the voice wasn't so annoying to me.
Still, I can't say I'm upset that he had such a short role..
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Worst_Jedi_Ever
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From all the pics I saw of him, I was expecting a MUCH more meancing "evil mastermind" type--then again, that's what you get for being even minorly spoiled!
I too was a little bit put off by his hunched-over walking and cough at first, but he's grown on me since. I think he fits the the Jabba the Hutt role perfectly--secondary villain with a unique personality, and a contrast to the main villain.
Also, did anybody pick up on the fact that if you were totally unspoiled and also stayed away from the EU, you would have had NO idea that this shuffling, almost elderly-seeming, cyborg could fight at all (much less use a lightsaber) until the confrontation on Utapau? Sure, you'd know he collects lightsabers, but would have no inkling that he'd use one, let alone four.
Did anybody have this experience? If so, were you blown away? Having seen the CW cartoons and read LoE, I was waiting the whole film to see him whip out the multiple sabers; I would guess you'd be quite shocked if you didn't already know it was going to happen.
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I think that he was really awesome! Man when he was twirling her four sabers I thought I was going to pee my pants it was so cool! I would have liked to see more of him, so let's hope he gets a deleted scene on the DVD!
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He was awesome and I wasn't disappointed at all. The CG was the best I've ever seen.
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Uber-cool minor villain (continuing in the tradition of Darth Maul, Jango Fett and Boba Fett). I enjoyed watching him and thought the cgi was terrific. He was great in the time he was given, but ROTS had so much going on that any more might have been too much.
I actually thought he fit the separatists perfectly because he was menacing but not too scary. Anakin and Obi-Wan were cocky around him (understandable when you figure Anakin had just put in a "chosen one" performance against Count Dooku). Grievous would probably have put up a better fight if Mace hadn't crushed his chest, but I liked his persistent bluster and pompous personality, classic cartoon bad-guy stuff.
And he has a great death scene.
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Great minor mustache twirler
Old school through & through.
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Just saw the movie again yesterday, and couldn't stop thinking - how awesome is grievous!! He is hilarious, not to serious but enough that you can tell he is someone to reckon with.
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Darth_Zoo
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He was pretty underwhelming to me.
I imagined he'd be pretty hardcore and scary like his image and clone wars spot portrays. In actuality he was just hard to understand and pretty useless overall. He didn't kill or do anything haha (in the movies, now). Just sort of globe trotted and bang.
O~well I think my expectations were very high for him. I didn't have any for Jango Fett and thought he was really cool so I figured GG would top that.
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Ghost_Jedi
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I went w/ "He was a good minor villain." I think I was definetly underwhelmed about him from what I saw in cwc.
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I thought we was a good minor villan. However in ROTS compared to Clone Wars cartoons and LOE I was dissapointed, he sorta got beat down like a punk. It did however provide a nice little side quest for the movie.
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I would've liked something more negative to choose from in the polls. I didn't care for his internal organs at all. Perhaps I don't understand why he wasn't simply 100% droid and that is why it was a bit ruined for me. It would also explain why this thing (I thought was a droid) was coughing all the time. I voted for his looks bugged me.
My opinion is open to change on this [unlike most other things...;) ] once I read some other thoughts on him in this thread.
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