I love Ewan's performance now that I've seen it twice. I don't love it enough to go back and watch AotC again, but he just breaks my heart in the big final battle scene.

Ewan has been one of the saving graces of the prequels for me. However, I think this time around he went beyond - I think he knew this was the big one, and it certainly gave him the biggest chance to work in a larger range of emotion. He gets the best humorous lines (and they are very much in that dry, Alec Guiness vein), and he also gets to do the heartbreak and despair.

Although I've liked him in all three, this was the first time I could watch him and just enjoy him inhabit Obi-Wan, as opposed to admiring how well he was dealing with all the inanity he was handed AND synching himself up with Alec Guiness.

Heh. Plei: does it hurt that she's expressed regret over taking that role several times? To be fair, her reasoning has nothing to do with the quality of the movie and more to do with the disturbing psychology of being a sex symbol at the age of twelve, but still.

So? Can she do anything else?

Other than act and look pretty? Perhaps -- but how much are you asking of her?

And I'd rather meet Alyson Hannigan than either of them, and she's both married and too old for me.

t person from same crop as AH mutters something about kids getting offa my lawn...

Damn, I know that my comic book store guy and I were just talking about this yesterday, but when the fuck did I get old?

t shakes walker at whippersnappers.

All I expect from actors is the acting and the looking pretty. If one's strong enough, I'll ignore the other.

Hey, I didn't make the half-plus-seven rule.

Damn, I know that my comic book store guy and I were just talking about this yesterday, but when the fuck did I get old?

Gives people complaining about being old who are at least a decade younger than him the stinkeye.

I didn't make the half-plus-seven rule.

It's not the rule-makers I look askance at, it's the blind rule-followers. AH shows up heartbroken, newly single, and in need of comfort at your doorstep, and you whip out your ... calculator?

Tsk, tsk.

As an actress she strikes me as good at looking pretty in a way that doesn't make me sweat...maybe I haven't seen her best work. I meant like "comic timing" or something, not discovering cures for cancer.

Have you seen The Professional, erika? It's amazing, and she's really good in it. I have no idea if she has any comic timing, but I don't need all actors to be able to do everything (though it's nice if they can and they're cute too).