They do. Go back and watch that scene again.

Maybe they would be improved, but Christensen doesn't deserve the hate he gets. True, his scenes with Portman were unwatchable, but thats the fault of a bad script and bad direction, not just bad acting. And really, outside of Ian McDiarmid, Ewan McGregor, and MAYBE Lian Neeson, NO ONE gives a good performance in…

Dude, the Endor space battle is the coolest 20 minutes of film ever made (I'm not being hyperbolic. Can anyone name anything better?). You are completely wrong here.

The contempt was for Luke fancying himself a Jedi, not the idea of lightsabers themselves

I'd have had them go with their original plan for RotJ and instead of Endor and Ewoks, the Death Star was orbiting Kashyyyk and being built by wookiee slaves, who would have taken the place of the Ewoks in the climax.

A Wind in the Door! Nice reference. Really underrated book. It's the equal of A Wrinkle in Time I think.

You got it exactly right. Isard is the perfect comparison. Compelling, interesting, and a credible threat.

Pallaeon maybe, but Daala is a joke. Classic case of "informed ability." She is supposed to be this elite super genius, but she utterly fails at everything.

Gotta love that half of these are from the same three books. Timothy Zahn was on a real creative peak with the Heir to the Empire series

Yeah! That part was great. And the assault on the atoll is great too.

This is just an impression that I have, so I'm not going to be able to give you a list of citations, but for a long time this movie has just been a punchline. I think most people who actually watch it end up with the reaction that you have, which is that it'd fairly average, but the vast majority of people who have…

Sure sure, it's no masterpiece, but it deserves better than it's reputation as one of the biggest flops of all time.

Waterworld is actually a pretty underrated movie. So much of the bad buzz and "biggest flop ever" status that surround have to do only with the huge, budget, not the movie itself. While I definitely have a thick set of nostalgia glasses for the film (it was the first rated R movie I ever saw), it's really not that…

…wow, you got us there. Damn, if only you'd told us sooner we could have saved all this time!

I don't really have a specific actor for this, but what about WWII Bond? Bond is a young, hotshot OSS agent who gets recruited by the newly-formed MI6 to foil some Nazi plots in exotic locales. Or it could be immediately after WWII, and have Bond versus Stalin.

I wish I could say you were wrong but…yeah, that does kinda happen. It's marginally less stupid in context. Marginally.

I haven't seen John Carter yet, so I can't comment there, but come on, what fucked the movie up was that it was atrocious.

I remember having that same reaction when I first read the books, particularly the Amber Spyglass. I re-read them years ago to get ready for the movie, and I liked the later books a lot better the second time through. The whole Land of the Dead part is brilliant, and the betrayal (you know the one I mean) is the…

Got linked here from the article on the possible TV show today. This review is preposterously generous. God this movie sucks.

I'm wondering that too. Maybe they use puppets for speaking parts, and only us CG for the transformations. Although unlike Game of Thrones, the budget for sets, costumes, and location shooting will be much lower, so maybe they can get a larger budget for CG?