Tuesday 27 January 2009

Worst Star Wars lines ever


Okay, I love Star Wars. But I HATE the prequels. One of the reasons, okay one of the main reasons, is the dialogue. Out of all the problems with these prequels (along the directing, acting, story, plot holes etc) it's been the dialogue that has been mostly criticised- by fans and the general public alike- and it's not a big surprise why. Lucas is just a weak script writer and whilst his ideas are great his dialogue isn't- what he thinks sounds good on paper does not mean it comes out good on screan, especially when he directs his actors poorly too.

Here's my personal collection of, in my opinion, the worst lines in the SW preqeuls- which weren't very hard to find at all (in no order, though at some point I will put them in order of crap to worst):

1) Nute Gunray: Shoot them, or something!

2) Little Anakin: "Are you an angel?" (Oh dear god...)

3) Anakin: "YIPPPEEEEEEEEEE!!" (my ears!)

4) Captain Tarpals: "Ouch time." (he's a captain of an army and he talks like a fucking baby, stupidest thing iv'e ever heard)

5) Gungan:"Jar-Jar, usa the booba"
Jar Jar: "Mesa no hava da booba" (seriously, WTF?)

6) Gungan: "Jar-Jar, your in big doodoo this time!" (...)

7) (after Anakin has just explained that he killed all the sandpeople, women and children in blind range with no remorse) Padme: "To be angry is to be human.":.... Is that the reaction one would show when someone commits mass murder and runs amok????!!

8) Anakin: "General Grievous, I thought you'd be....taller..." (Grevious is like nearly 8 feet tall...way to go Anakin).

9) Obi Wan: "Did you press the stop button?"
Anakin-: "No, did you?" (If Obi wan had just asked, obviously he wouldn't have been the one who pressed it. Really stupid bit of dialouge)

10) Yoda: "Not if anything to say about it...I HAVE!" (Some things Yoda says are so stupid.)

11) Obi:"The sith are evil!"
Ani:"In my opinion the jedi are evil!"
Obi: "Well then you are lost" (well gee, thanks for your help Obi, it's like you just gave up helping him on the spot!)

12) Anakin: "If your'e not with me, then your'e my enemy!!!"(can it get any more patheically cliche?)

13) Grievous: "Activate ray-shields..."
*a scene showing some shields coming on* next scene:
Anakin: "Ray-shields!" (well thanks for that Anakin, as if the audience were too stupid to understand that they were ray sheilds having just seen them come on after Grevious just bloody TOLD US!)

14) Anakin: "You will trrrrryyyyyyyyyy!" (yawn)

15) C3PO: "This is such a drag, help i've fallen and can't get up, i'm quite beside myself" (really, what an idiot, and what a lame line of "comedy")

16) Obi:"I saw him...killing...younglings!" (Younglings? LMAO- Lucas needs a dictionary and a thesaurus too if he's coming up with stupid words like that)

17) Anakin: "I killed them. ALL OF THEM. And not just the men......but the women....and the children too! I HATE THEM!!" (LOL, hilarious)

18) Anakin:"They're ANIMALS, and I slaughtered them...... like ANIMALS!"

19) Darth Sidious: "POWER!! UNLIMTED POWER!!! (I expected him to say "It's OVER NINE THOUSAAAAAND!!!")

20) "Army or not... You must realise ... You are DOOMED!!!" (if he's going that far AT LEAST finish it off with an evil laugh at the end)

21) Sidious: "No no no,.... YOU.. will DIE!!" (honestly, is Lucas mentally 5 years old or what?)

22) Shmi Skywalker: "Ani? Ani? you are so handsome. I love... i-i-i lo... i loo00-- uuuuurrgghhhhhh!" (no comment...)

23) Anakin:"Do you like sand? I hate sand. It's coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere." (-is this shit for real? Yes, unfortuenatly it is)

24) Yoda has also been guilty of many stupid sounding lines becuase of the way he speaks, such as "Around the survivors a perimeter create."(completly the dumbest thing iv'e ever heard, alien or not). In fact most of the aliens in the SW prequels have such stupid lines of gibberish (coupled with their weird voices) that Gollum sounds the sanest out of all of them. Jar Jar Binks is mostly to blame here with his nonsense talk Eg Phantom Menace: "Oh mooie, mooie, I love you! No, no, mesa stay. Meesa called Jar Jar Binks. Meesa your humble servant." "My tongue is heavy" "The queen is being pretty nice meesa dinks...pretty hot" ""Weesa going hoooooome!" ......Absoloutly fucking atrocious.

25) Mostly however it's Anakin's and Padme's lines which are soo cheesy and cringeworthy it's like a parody of the worst romantic film you've ever seen. Even Entertainment Weekly also accucsed Ep3 of having the 15th worst line in the history of cinema, with Padme's "Hold me, like you did by the lake on Naboo".

26) Anakin:"I've been dying a little bit every day since you came back in my life..." (cringe)

27) Padme:"You're going down a path I can't follow. You're breaking my heart." (cringe x2)

28) Padme:"I truly, deeply, love you..." (how about:" I love you?" What's wrong with that, eh? Simple...and NORMAL)

29) Padme:"I can't breathe. I'm haunted by the kiss that you should never have given me. My heart is beating, hoping that that kiss will not become a scar. You are in my very soul; tormenting me." (cringe, worst romantic dialogue ever)

30) Anakin:"Believe me. I wish that i could just wish away my feelings" (cringe, Dear God)

31) Anakin: You are so beautiful!
Padme: It's only because I'm so in love . . .
Anakin: No, it's because I'm so in love with you.
Padme: So love has blinded you?
Anakin: Well, that's not exactly what I meant . . .
Padme: But it's probably true! [[.............I giveup. Taxi!]]

32) Padme: It has been far too long, Master Kenobi. Ani? My goodness you've grown.
Anakin:So have you. Grown more beautiful, I mean. Well, for a Senator I mean. (worst pick up line ever).

33) Darth Vader: "I HATE YOU!!!!" (lol, emo)

The prequels are universally regarded as having the worst dialouge in the SW saga- Lucas can't write for sh!t. I know SW isn't supposed to be Shakespeare, but come on, its not meant to be total laughable bullshit either. At lease the originals are fun and don't take themselves too seriously- the prequels do, and they fail hard. Just so bad! Maybe if it was in a different langauge it would tolerable...expecially the Anakin and Padme dialogue- it's just way too cheesy to be heard in English....hmm.. I should probably look for a Hindi dub of them, at least the romantic lines would work better and becom more tolerable to watch....no-one makes cheesy romance sound classy as good as Bollywood!

Friday 9 January 2009

10 Reasons why Jurassic Park rocks

yep

The film IS a masterpeice, an action-adventure classic and one of the if not THE greatest dinosaur movie ever made, and there's nothing delusional about the statement whatsoever!! If Star Wars can get into IMDB's top 250 then so can JP and it's blasphemous that it hasn't already. It's impact on popular culture is pretty much the same.

Further to that, I give you my personal reasons on why the film is regarded as a classic and why it's my favourite film of all time:

1)ILM's revoloutionary CGI. They've only dated slightly in the 15 years since the film's release, and that really is something. However some people including myself still think this film still has some of the best showcase of CGI to date, and i would definitly use it as an example of truly photo-realistic computer imagery next to Gollum, Kong and Davy Jones. I put JP's CGI in the top 3 best CGI of all time, if not number 1.

2)Stan Winston Studio's Animatronics- a life size T-Rex which looks, acts and feels realistic, life-size Velociraptors which move and act with grace and realism- everything that Winston provided was sheer excellence, and truly pioneering.

3)John William's score- what can i say? Pure perfection. Two outstanding themes given to us, one of melancholy beauty and the other of heart-thumping adventurous grandeur, not to mention the rest which is a driving force in modern day awe-inspiring action and suspense. Truly flawless, and more than waht we should have got/expected from a film like this.

4)Ultra-realistic dinosaurs- the likes of which we have never seen before, not since the days of Willis O'Brien and Ray Harryhausen had imagery literally wowed audiences in it's epicness. Rather than monsters, we get natural animals how they would have behaved in all their glory. They act, look, sound and feel like nothing we have ever seen before, revolutionary and mind-blowing. Ficticious some may be in their portrayal, but still as close to realism as we are ever going to get. The first time ever the audience were given the information of dinosaurs actually being related to birds, and shown to do so. And agian, for a 15 year old movie they haven't been bettered.

5)Steven Speilberg- Expert directing from one of cinema's greatest visionaries. They couldn't have been a better man for the job (well, maybe James Cameron....!) but still an absoloutly perfect choice for a 90s adventure movie, and the perfect choice for the first Jurassic Park movie, it epitomises everything of the era. Style, grace, and heart-stopping adventure all come under one- no wonder this film was the highest-grossing movie of all time till Cameron's Titanic took the crown.

6)Jeff Goldblum- Perfect cast choice for Ian Malcolm, all his lines are realistically given with his trademark sporadic style, making everything sound natural and unique rather than straightfoward lines spoken off a card. Not to mention his delivery of humour, it makes him one of the most loved and coolest "quirky science guys" in movie history.

7)Massive imprint on popular culture- Velociraptors, Gallimimuses, Dilophosaurus are amongst a few of the dinosaurs which became normal house-hold names thanks to Jurassic Park. Even the word DNA and the concept of cloning became popular after this movie. Other such iconic images such as the vibrating water glass and the assumption of standing still when confronted by a T-Rex are all thanks to the huge success and popularity of the film.

8)Bob Peck- Such a small role as Muldoon but what was soon to become a legendary character. Everyone knows who he is thanks to this movie and everyone remembers him thanks to the film, the movie made a new genertion of people aware of his talent. His presense and portrayal of what should have been a forgetable side-character made him an iconic fan-obessed figure, and his lines in the movie are some of the most quoted by fans of the movie itself. So many people paid their respects to him after his death, and most of those people knew of him primarly due to this film. If that doesn't say iconic, i dont know what does.

9)Huge increased interest in science and paleontology Museum visitiaion records, dinosaur study and books went through the roof after the movie came out in 1993, and has slowly increased over the years since it's debut. The film provided a massive surge of people now interested in the future science of DNA cloning, dinosaur excavation and in-depth study of their evolotuion and relation to birds thanks to this film.

10)Some of the greatest and iconic scenes in cinema history- the first reveal of the Brachiosaur, the T-Rex main road attack, the raptors in the kitchen- these scenes amongst a few have made a huge impact on the world and people will always remember them. Just as the image of ET and Elliot flying across the moon is legendary, so are the scenes in JP along with the logo forever be in the hearts of the movie-loving audience. Thanks i guess must go to Speilberg for weaving his magic on all these films.