I don't know. Ewan and Samuel Jackson and Liam Neeson are all excellent actors and Lucas makes each of them look worse than Mischa Barton. Natalie could've been more of a team player on the junket, but I haven't heard her slagging stuff so much as giddy to be done with it.
Don't you just love this party? Everything's so fancy, and there's some kind of hot cheese over there.
Kaylee ,'Shindig'
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DavidS - May 23, 2005 9:12:36 am PDT #3160 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Scrappy - May 23, 2005 9:14:33 am PDT #3161 of 10002
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
I think she did try, she's just not an experienced enough actress to give a good performance without more direction than Lucas gives. Same with HC, who gave a good performance in Shattered Glass, so I know he CAN act. I also think for some freaky reason Lucas WANTS that flat style--Smits can be an explosive, charismatic actor and I know he was thrilled to be in the film, yet he plays the whole thing like a zombie.
Also, back during the first movies Lucas was still listening to the actors, so if Ford or Carrie Fisher said "This line rings false. How about if I say...?" He would let them.
Kathy A - May 23, 2005 9:15:23 am PDT #3162 of 10002
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I like the BK commercial where a Joe Schmo is about to partake of a Whopper in his apartment when he's interrupted by a knock on the door. When he opens it, there's Darth Vadar, saying, "Joe, I AM your father!" His reply is something, "No, you're not, and you can't have my Whopper." DV then comes back with "Joe, I AM your uncle!" at which point Joe shuts the door in DV's face. I giggled at that one.
Frankenbuddha - May 23, 2005 9:15:32 am PDT #3163 of 10002
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
She cashed the check...that's the time to lie back and think of Alderaan, imo.
Well, she signed the contract before she cashed the check; probably for all three back with Phantom Menace. Not that it excuses not trying, but she may have had very few options that wouldn't involve self-mutilation if George wasn't inclined to let her out of it.
Betsy HP - May 23, 2005 9:15:58 am PDT #3164 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
I thought Smits was hot. t /shallow
Oh, wait, that tag doesn't close.
Scrappy - May 23, 2005 9:16:46 am PDT #3165 of 10002
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Hot, yes. Interesting performance, no.
DavidS - May 23, 2005 9:17:01 am PDT #3166 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Also, back during the first movies Lucas was still listening to the actors, so if Ford or Carrie Fisher said "This line rings false. How about if I say...?" He would let them.
Ford fampously improv-ed the riposte "I know" to Leia's declaration of love.
A bit more of that irreverence would've helped in the Anakin/Padme romance.
"You're beautiful because I love you. No wait, actually I love you because you're hot. I got that part backwards."
erikaj - May 23, 2005 9:17:19 am PDT #3167 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
So wishing I could've seen a more usual SLJ..."When you wanna lightsaber every motherfucker in the room...you really shouldn't. This force thing is all spiritual and shit."
Kathy A - May 23, 2005 9:17:32 am PDT #3168 of 10002
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
if Ford or Carrie Fisher said "This line rings false. How about if I say...?" He would let them.
Ford did improvise the classic reply to Leia's "I love you." Originally, it was the standard "I love you, too," but Harrison knew that wasn't a Han line, so Lucas and Kirshner let him substitute "I know."
ETA--should have known that would be a x-post!
Frankenbuddha - May 23, 2005 9:27:49 am PDT #3169 of 10002
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
So wishing I could've seen a more usual SLJ..."When you wanna lightsaber every motherfucker in the room...you really shouldn't. This force thing is all spiritual and shit."
Hand me my light saber.
Which one is it?
The one that says "bad motherfucker".