On Rewatching Attack of the Clones

I watched Attack of the Clones tonight on FOX. Random thoughts.

Damn, that was terrible.

What was the story again?

Obi-Wan looked positively stupid with longish hair.

Has Frank Oz forgotten how to do his Yoda voice?

CGI Yoda looked kinda fake.

Why the frell didn’t anyone realize that Dooku escaped to Coruscant? Don’t they have ways of tracking ships? Wouldn’t he have had to file a flight plan to enter Coruscant airspace? What the flying frell?

Did this even have a story? I saw a lot of set pieces, and I’m still bewildered at how we got from one to another.

I’m trying to figure out what I was drinking years ago when I thought the novelization was even halfway decent.

The Republic gunships made me think of Apocalypse Now. I kept expecting Mace Windu to say, “I love the smell of carbonite in the morning.”

Damn, that was terrible.

Published by Allyn

A writer, editor, journalist, sometimes coder, occasional historian, and all-around scholar, Allyn Gibson is the writer for Diamond Comic Distributors' monthly PREVIEWS catalog, used by comic book shops and throughout the comics industry, and the editor for its monthly order forms. In his over ten years in the industry, Allyn has interviewed comics creators and pop culture celebrities, covered conventions, analyzed industry revenue trends, and written copy for comics, toys, and other pop culture merchandise. Allyn is also known for his short fiction (including the Star Trek story "Make-Believe,"the Doctor Who short story "The Spindle of Necessity," and the ReDeus story "The Ginger Kid"). Allyn has been blogging regularly with WordPress since 2004.

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