I was watching some documentaries from the special material on the Star Wars Ep2 DVD, and I heard some things that made me so pissed.
It all started with the scene in the droid factory. That scene brings really nothing to the movie storywise, and I found it to be just a CG artists wet dream and just a pretty boring scene. What made me angry is that they actually did that scene with that in mind. It was basically just a bunch of useless action and CG effects.
That was only the beginning.
When I went on to watch the deleted scenes, they started talking about how they removed scenes that did nothing other then “promote character growth and backstory”. This is where I just got fucking fumed.
Shit! They removed big pieces of important conversations between Anakin and Padmé, scenes with Padmé’s parents, and a few others.
I mean fuck, here we have a totally useless and boring scene of the main characters playing a platform game in some totally gothic factory, and they are cutting fucking character background and development stories because they just “aren’t that important”.
I’m so mad right now.
UPDATE: I just watched the documentary from Fellowship of the Ring, and I noticed a major contrast versus the Star Wars Ep2 documentary. In Fellowship, they talk about the relationships of the cast and crew, the family that they built.
In Star Wars, they talk about the technology, and we get to see a lot of George Lucas examining works in progress. Also there was one funny quote from the Producer of Star Wars Ep2: “The Dialogue doesn’t make the movie, the effects make the movie.”
Wow, I guess that kind of explains why they all fucking sucked.