having trouble parsing this - it seems equivalent to saying that the Eiffel Tower is taller than a tree but comparably sized to a toddler. am i missing something fundamental?
Yeah, a difference in our perception of value between referents.
To me, I is disappointing; it's a kiddie movie, with a kid hero and a childish computer-generated sidekick. It wasn't terribly good, but it was bearable. Or at least those bits without Binks were. Even by contrast, II is bad. It's two hours of bad dialog, bad direction, and bad acting, with forays into fan service (Jengo Fett, the stupid stupid fight/chase at the end, Padme's implausibly-exposed midriff) and tie-ins to spin-offs (the scenes in the bar, that random informant alien), a still notable appearance by the hated Binks-creature, but mostly eye-gougingly painful teen-angst-courtship written by a 60-year-old.
So, now, III was not a good movie, but it by and large wasn't painful to watch. There were a few just stupid bits, but mostly the movie was flat, boring, and not credible. So, to me, my analogy is more like "a miniature poodle is tougher than a rabbit, and about on par with a dachshund."
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Date: 2005-05-31 02:06 am (UTC)Thought it better than II, on par with I.
having trouble parsing this - it seems equivalent to saying that the Eiffel Tower is taller than a tree but comparably sized to a toddler. am i missing something fundamental?
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Date: 2005-05-31 03:23 am (UTC)To me, I is disappointing; it's a kiddie movie, with a kid hero and a childish computer-generated sidekick. It wasn't terribly good, but it was bearable. Or at least those bits without Binks were. Even by contrast, II is bad. It's two hours of bad dialog, bad direction, and bad acting, with forays into fan service (Jengo Fett, the stupid stupid fight/chase at the end, Padme's implausibly-exposed midriff) and tie-ins to spin-offs (the scenes in the bar, that random informant alien), a still notable appearance by the hated Binks-creature, but mostly eye-gougingly painful teen-angst-courtship written by a 60-year-old.
So, now, III was not a good movie, but it by and large wasn't painful to watch. There were a few just stupid bits, but mostly the movie was flat, boring, and not credible. So, to me, my analogy is more like "a miniature poodle is tougher than a rabbit, and about on par with a dachshund."