Did you want to lick the screen when you were watching AOTC?

Even Episode II's detractors have to admit it was probably the best looking movie ever made, especially compared to the dour, depressing look of The Two Towers and films like that.
I think the digital sheen gave AOTC a delicious quality akin to candy. Candy for the eye, you might say.
So who agrees with me that AOTC's visuals are kind of the hill?

 

SW visual always have that spark that grabs my imagination. AOTC looked fantastic.

As for licking the screen...I couldn't possibly comment.

 

It was gorgeous. I liked the TPM "look" better as far as being pleasing to the eye, but both were suited to the eras they were in, and AotC was wonderfully realized. The settings, the lighting, the visual symbolism (love all those obscuring shots, and shadows, and all the shots of people watching one another), and the costumes (Trisha Biggar deserves an Oscar quite sincerely!).

 

I agree, Bigger's work has been phenomenal.

 

Did you want to lick the screen when you were watching AOTC?

Um....

 

On certain scenes

 

Lick the screen?

Definitely, during the butt-shot scene in the nightclub.

 

I got kicked out of theater opening night for that very reason.

 

AOTC looks good on the DVD, I agree, but the cinema couldn't do the visuals justice. The problem is, of course, that the slick look of the film makes it feel less gritty.

 

It was too shiny and clean, even more so than TPM. I don't like it.

 

I thought the visuals on this film were beautiful, beyond words. But I can't say I wanted to lick the screen.

 

Yeah, you never know what people have thrown at that screen in previous showings...

Lick the screen?

Definitely, during the butt-shot scene in the nightclub.

I'm partial to the IMAX version--Episode 2: Attack of the Six Story Meditatation Shirt.

 

The surrealistic and extremely "artificial" look of AOTC detracted alot from my enjoyment of the film. I prefer the grittier more "real world" look of the original films. The prequels should have continued the look of the previous films because, as I keep hearing, they are all supposed to be just one big movie.

 

One big movie that occurs in different times--the galaxy is of the Prequels is pre-lapsarian, and things are still in relatively good shape (though Tatooine hasn't changed much!). Things get run down under the Empire, and the breaking down of the beautiful is a major thematic point--what happens to Anakin happens to the whole galaxy.

 

TPM was more beautiful, not htat AOTC is ugly, but its not the best looking no.

Ron Fricke's 'Baraka' best cinematography ever.

 

To use a comparison from Roger Rabbit. AOTC looks like when they go into Toon Land and the classic trilogy looks like when they are in the real world.

 

True but there's a big time difference between the PT and OT. Does your house look the same as it did 18 years ago? Probably not. And theres a lot more happening in the GFFA since it goes through a war.

 

I found AOTC to be much more subdued and atmospheric than TPM. Beautiful in it's darkness. The galaxy is on it's way down the toilet, and this movie shows it quite well.

 

I didn't find the settings unrealistic at all--they were clean, yes, and beautiful... but they were perfectly realistic in their milieu. We're not talking about the Starship Marriott, here--Padme and Anakin go to and play in the Italian Alps, a perfectly realistic place (being, well, real). It's well-maintained and well-cared for. The Jedi Temple is soft and (again) clean. The bar looks like any upscale bar I've ever seen, except for the aliens. Theed Palace is, well, a palace. And Senatorial apartments have that posh but anonymous look that one would expect to find for people in that position.

The OT? I'm just not all that fond of grittiness as an absolute value. It looked realistic for what it was--a galaxy in decline--but it would have just looked cheap to have Senatorial apartments on Coruscant with dinged up doors like the one the droids hide behind in Mos Eisley.

 

In AOTC, we see for the first time that Coruscant has degenerate sections -- slums, as it were. It's not the perfect, planet-wide utopia it originally appeared to be.

The ships are clean and well-maintained in the PT because the people have the luxury of doing that. In the OT, it was set during wartime. There was no time to care for the ships beyond the strictly mechanical: making sure they functioned properly.

I like how the color schemes in both movies contrast with each other. In TPM, everything is bright and cheery: springtime colors. In AOTC there are a lot of earthy tones like reds, browns, and oranges: autumn colors. I can't help but wonder what Episode III's color scheme will be.

You can also see the contrast in the two teaser posters. In the one for TPM, there is literally just a shadow of darkness amidst the bright colors: 9-year-old Anakin casting Vader's shadow. In the one for AOTC, it's almost completely dark, with the brooding Anakin and the sorrowful Padme facing away from each other.

 

Eww, disgusting.

Nope, I thought TTT was better looking.

Grittiness.

I like seeing dirt under horse's feet. It's little shots like that, which make a movie for me. I'd like to see sand under people's feet . The 10,000 Uruks looked better. The relationships were better - Frodo, Gollum, Sam. So, TTT in every aspect was a better looking movie for me.


Sorry, just my opinion, please don't flame me. IMAX looked good though. But I didn't want to lick it.

 

Lick the screen? Well, my tongue was thinking all kinds of interesting thoughts regarding Padme...

I loved the fog in the Coruscant approach scene.

Did anyone else notice how Tatooine and Geonosis (landscape-wise) look incredibly similar? (IE when they were shifting between Ani on the speeder/the Tusken camp and Obi on Geonosis, with that huge building Dooku et al were using for their HQ?) The rock formations especially looked almost interchangeable.

The scene with the Clone troopers boarding the transports and departing Coruscant with the Imperial March blaring....WOW!!

But yeah, the settings (Kamino, Naboo, the Wastes, Geonosis) were generally gorgeous and incredibly lifelike, IMO.

And things are more and more starting to resemble the OT...Jedi starfighters, the walkers, Clone troopers, Fetts, etc. AOTC had a far more OT-esque look in that respect than TPM.

-Tim

 

I find the notion of licking a dusty and dirty movie screen an unhealthy thought. Duckman, you need help.

And AOTC is not the best looking movie ever. That would be insulting hundreds of other movies. Movies like Road to Perdition had better cinematography. It was more powerful and symbolic. And then there's TTT with those images of Rohan and Helm's Deep. But i don't know if Duckman was more attracted to the cinematography (which I think was pretty pedestrian) or the quality of the digital image and colors? Are you in love with the artistic input in the shots or the technical gloss?

 

Yeah, I licked the screen... amazingly, it tasted like cherries!

Then again, I'm sure every screen has a different flavor.

 

I thought the point of the first three episodes were to show how nice the galaxy used to be BEFORE it turned into the grittiness that it is in the OT. But then again, this is just a gusher speaking.