machete order doesn't help

[solarbird]

Sorry folks, Machete Order doesn't make Attack of the Clones any better. Tho' this time I did manage - barely - to stay awake, so perhaps I'm wrong - perhaps that order is why.

But I do understand all the fan edits now, just because christ, the editing on Clones was terrible. So much wasted time, so much pointlessness - it's just full of the kind of waste that makes you think, "Yeah, you know, I could edit this into shape." I think that's an illusion, because it's bullshit all the way down, but it makes you want to think that.

I had someone tell me on Facebook after I commented about this there, and I'm all like NO YOU ARE MISSING THE POINT, COUNT CRAPULA IS A TELL, HE'S CALLED "DOOKU" FOR A REASON. Sure, the three-sentence summary of this plot could be turned into a good movie, but the three-sentence summary of Plan 9 from Outer Space could be too. (And arguably it's called Captain Scarlet vs. the Mysterons, which is excellent, and proves my point.)

There aren't even good bones. Well, okay, maybe a few. But not enough to make a skeleton.

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[birke]

Yeah. I watched Attack the first time in a theatre when I was a teenager and I enjoyed it -- especially the romantic bits -- but wow, watching it again on DVD just a couple years later I realized it was actually terrible. Mind you, it didn't help to have my mom there too, complaining about how unimaginative it was.

[solarbird]

Tonight is Revenge of the Sith, which I sat out - I walked out of Clones saying, "whelp, I'm done."

I think part of the problem with Attack of the Clones this time was just not having enough booze. XD

[birke]

Yeah. I think my own re-watching order -- if I did that, which I actually don't plan to -- would be: Episodes 4-6, followed by reading plot synopses of the prequels online just to refresh my memory.

[solarbird]

After I make it through Sith, I'm going to go look over some of the fan edits on places like YouTube. There's one that combines all three movies into one reasonable-length film, for example. Maybe that'd make it work.