Post by ld1449 on Dec 25, 2015 11:12:42 GMT -5
As for Leia, she was captured and needed rescuing in every single OT movie so I'm not sure where you're going with that. Hell she got captured *twice* in RotJ, and in all of those events she only ever broke herself out once, and even then that was thanks to Luke's help.
and 2) Difference is, the Prequels were 5% fight (good ones) 90% SHIT dialogue (because if it was good dialogue it wouldn't be a problem) and 5% retarded fights.
This one turned it on its ear with 90% crisis/fight, 10% good dialogue. The best should be 75% dialogue and 25% good fights. Less is more. And to overflood the movie with action just desensitized us to it.
This one turned it on its ear with 90% crisis/fight, 10% good dialogue. The best should be 75% dialogue and 25% good fights. Less is more. And to overflood the movie with action just desensitized us to it.
Mad Max had quite a few big fights, but in between those fights there was seemingly alot of downtime and character interaction. Enough for Max to chizzle the helmet off, enough for people to learn of Furiosa, the princesses and such, enough to get to know of Nux and have him subsequently join the rig crew, then of course was the rather big chunk between the swamp and the many mothers in the desert.
This movie by comparison only had ONE scene where they weren't getting into some kind of trouble, the Bar with the short lady. And that lasted for about 10 minutes before they were back in the shit.
Furthermore, unlike SW, Mad Max used its fights to give secondary characters time to shine, and thus, give us the ability to give a crap about their characters Notably were Nux, who had numerous moments like the struggle for the gun magazine, the 'Witness me Bloodbag' fixing the car while in the middle of a fight, winching the tree and so on; and the pregnant girl who's name I can't remember. That kinda held true for Finn in this film who always seemed to shine a little more in fights than near everyone else since he was always getting into the biggest heaps of trouble and always experimenting with new things, but for Han and Chewie, not so much. Which WAS fair, given that Han and Chewie are long established characters and Finn is the one we had to get to know and give a crap about, but Mad Max and SW have some fundamental differences in execution (not to mention setting) that allowed one to pull it off whereas the other was somewhat lessened by the emphasis on the violence and crisis, not giving us much of a chance to really dip our feet into this 'new' Star-wars setting of X+ years in the future that is just dying to be defined and explored in depth.