It makes it seems like Santa Claus was some 80's kids tv show that made it's way to the big screen to cash in on fad. I didn't realize there were so many: http://www.imdb.com/search/…

I was stumped by this too, I didn't know anyone actually like Jingle All The Way. I watched it once only to see who this Jake Lloyd kid was. Apparently Lucas never watched that movie either.

I think the fact that it is has the weird 80's trope that movies had to be have the subtitle ":The Movie" says it all.

Is that that movie with the company drilling for Oil at the North Pole?

Moore: They must have had a *dramatic pause* falling out, *Eye Brow Raise*

dollymix Regular Potato Chip • 4 minutes ago

I'm hoping this movie is able to bring in some of the more adventurous elements of Bond while retaining the spirit of the Craig Bond's. A little over the top action and megalomania-cal villains with elaborate hideouts never hurt anyone. As long as Bond doesn't go into space or drive invisible cars with an annoying…

I don't think the format "mystery of the week" was the problem in the 1st half so much as that the mysteries were so dull and uninteresting.

The more I watch the trailer, the more I'm in the same boat. It looks like the droid as a personality.

Jar Jar "was the key to it all" according to the behind the scenes doc on Phantom. I still don't even know what the means given that as annoying as Jar Jar is , he doesn't really play any major part in the movie. I mean aside from luring Obi Wan and Qui gon to his city he does practically nothing else in the entire…

I don't know, I was convinced that Revenge was better the ROTJ after I watched the 1st time in theatre, but for me it's the prequel that gets worse each time I watch it.

Recorded and rewound and watched countless times. Interestingly the 1st trailer really down played the Jar Jar factor, even making the Gunguns look cool but having them come out of the mist.

TPM shot some in the desert, and that's the only one the prequels that actually shot fairly well. Yes there are tons of CGI but there also a ton of real environments, practical costumes and characters reacting to their environments.

I don't know, AOTC even without the CGI has some pretty dull compositions, ie. everyone just standing around like a choir in Palpatine's office. Some scenes had loads of crap going on in the background, but some of the sets were big open spaces with zero props.

You know what was amazing, the first shot is of a desert with a guy in a real storm trooper suit, sweating and looking afraid or disoriented. Compare that to the PT where it would have been a head pasted on a cgi body with robots flying around everywhere, with an actor who was in a small air conditioned green room who…

I loved that shot of the X-wings, something about the way it's shot and the detail level of the X-wings. It does remind me a little of the Pod Race shots in the Phantom Menace but while I think the prequels were crap, the pod race was a lot of find effects work. To bad it was ruined by cut and paste inserts of Jake…

"I loved that almost every single scene had tension to it"

I think it does it's job, it teases the new movies, gives us an idea of visually how these movies will look. It does look Star Warsy, actors in real environments and with some good Star Wars shots.

Jurassic Park III is like the old Roger Corman movies that would come in and reuse sets from other movies. They got a bunch of actors together to walk around the Lost World sets and threw in a few CGI dinosaurs but couldn't come up with a story or ending.

Whatever happened to Lucas who wanted to make the experimental films? Everything his name is attached to is the same generic story over and over. The last project Lucas was attached to that actually turned out ok was Last Crusade and I suspect that was mostly Speilberg.