Huh. I thought Palpatine was the best-acted character in the movie.
Me too. I thought he did vaguely sinister politician quite well up until he needed to drop the subtlety. And then he was supposed to be an iconic evil character, so it worked.
I viewed the latter parts as very similar to what went on with Richard Roxburgh's Dracula in Van Helsing: sometimes a tepid and nonsensical movie can only be made fun when someone blows the roof off by overdoing the cackling evil schtick. See also Alan Rickman in Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves.
I thought he did vaguely sinister politician quite well up until he needed to drop the subtlety.
I liked how during the rescue he kept nudging Annakin towards doing little evil things (like
leaving Obi Wan for dead) without ever making a huge point of it, until he got him to kill Dooku.
See also Alan Rickman in Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves.
"And cancel Christmas!" The only good thing about that movie, once Brian Blessed was killed off. Even Morgan Freeman was painful to watch.
"And cancel Christmas!"
Well, don't leave out Michael Wincott, who made a great straight man for Rickman.
"Why a spoon, brother?"
Even Morgan Freeman was painful to watch.
I didn't so much have any problems with his acting, as with the basic concept of the character.
I liked how during the rescue he kept nudging Annakin towards doing little evil things
Yeah. The scene where he was encouraging Anakin to break into the carpool lane was priceless.
Every time I hear somebody say they can't watch the Godfather, it still makes me sad. I should be used to it, but, oh well.
JZ is me on It Happened... I think it is my favorite of those crazy-heiress movies.
No way is "Purple Rose" better than Annie Hall.(I liked both though.)
Corwood, babe, breaking genre "restrictions" to watch "The Wild Bunch" next week. Between y'all and David Simon, I had to, you know...it's a Wirehead thing. If I hate it, you'll get the hate mail, ok?
Hmm, I need to break down and rent Annie Hall someday.
