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Bad Acting on Star Wars

Posted by rcpopart • 4/05/08 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: Acting, clones, dark side, darth vader, natalie portman, skywalker, star wars

So the Spike channel is showing all the Star Wars episodes starting this weekend and all I can think of is how unbelievably bad the acting is on it. I remembered the dialogue and acting to be not so smooth when I first watched it on the big screen and I was pretty unimpressed with the newer episodes back then, but now that I see it again, I'm appalled at how horrific it is.

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4/05/08

machinehuman

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1. 4/05/08
  
  acousticguitarist
  
  check whether the synrax is right, you may have left out a bracket ,inverted commas or an equals sign
4/05/08

midnightdreams

Stars Wars as a whole has never been known for the acting. It's about the story.

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4/05/08

ekim941

Regardless of any bad comments you have about Star Wars, it did manage to bring in a little coin.

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1. 4/05/08
  
  Dukepro25
  
  Tcha - a little! lol
  
  It was only the highest grossing sci-fi movie of it's time.
  
  It revolutionized the industry.
  
  Ok, ok...that acting isn't that great, but hey...
  
  It's a pretty awesome series - you have to admit. Lol
2. 4/05/08
  
  ekim941
  
  I agree and I am not even a fan.
  Actually, it created the industry in part. ILM was created as a powerhouse to handle the FX of star wars and to date is the leader in FX.
  
  Star Wars was a pioneer film, the grandfather of modern sci-fi.
3. 4/05/08
  
  Dukepro25
  
  Heck yah!
  
  They had to invent new ways of doing things to pull off the vision that George Lucas had.
  
  George Lucas didn't even really care for the movie.
  
  It was just a stepping stone in his life.
  
  He really wanted to make Indie films and have complete creative freedom with his life.
  
  He hated the idea of being tied down to any one idea.
  
  But…it took over his whole life.
4/05/08

Donlewis

Hey! Come on. Chewbacca never dropped a line.

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4/05/08

rightcommentary

.... I find your lack of faith... disturbing...

"Unc"

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4/05/08

JoyChaser

Hehe. But the bad acting was what made it so great. Part of that is the quirkiness of the dialogue, I think. Even the actors commented on how unnatural-sounding some of the lines they had to read were. And when you can't read the dialogue naturally, it's bound to come across badly when you're acting it out.

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4/05/08

jackpayne

Disappointing series. Nobody spoke Klingon.

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4/07/08

kdawg68

I thought the original 3 movies had much better acting than the latest 3. Cheesy? Yes - but that's part of what made the films so "feel-good."

Harrison Ford, Alec Guiness, and James Earl Jones made the first film from 1976 the most well acted.

I'd say the worst ones were the latest two featuring the insufferable Annekin character.

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1. 4/07/08
  
  LGramlich
  
  I agree. I can barely stand Episodes I-III. Not just bad acting, but plot holes big enough to throw a horse through...apologies in advance. Not to mention the cheap-seeming, slapstick style of humor (that just wasn't funny.) Trying to include 90% of the characters from episodes IV-VI were (in many cases,) just too much of a stretch that just didn't need to be made.
2. 4/07/08
  
  kdawg68
  
  well said - Yoda with a lightsaber was the "shark jumping" moment for me. I thought the final 15 minutes of episode 1 were redeaming - but I may have been more forgiving since it had been years in the waiting for a new film. Episodse II and III were unwatchable to me.