![]() ![]() And the decline in just three years was significant. But this isn't just any franchise, this is "Star Wars" we're talking about. Hell, studios would kill for that kind of return now. Now, let's be clear, against a $115 million budget, that is a number any studio would have been thrilled with 20 years ago. In the end, "Attack of the Clones" finished its run with $310.6 million domestic and $346 million from international markets for a $656.6 million total. Whether or not some intervention would have helped is up for debate but this was Lucas' show and he was going to run it the way he wanted to run it. Lucas was going to make the movies he wanted to make and, given that "The Phantom Menace" made more than $1 billion at the box office, Fox probably wasn't going to stop him. And this film is even more of a melodrama than the others." It's in the more romantic period of making movies and adventure films. They don't get that there's an underlying motif that is very much like a 1930s Western or Saturday matinee serial. ![]() "Most people don't understand the style of Star Wars. As for the corny dialogue such as "I don't like sand" or any of the other bits one wants to pick out of this film? Speaking for "The Star Wars Archives," Lucas made no apologies about his approach: Lucas has always been about advancing cinema with technology and, in this case, he was very far ahead of the curve. But from a technological standpoint, it is a wildly important film as it was one of the first movies ever to be shot entirely on digital. At least in some respects, this film is a reaction to its predecessor and the way audiences reacted to it, for better or for worse.Ī lot of pieces are moving around the board in the sequel and it makes for a kind of messy film that doesn't totally come together until the third act. To be clear, this was surely in response to the negative reaction the character was subject to following the release of Episode I, even if Lucas absolutely loves Jar-Jar. One element that we see an awful lot less of is Jar-Jar Binks, with the maligned character getting far less screen time in the sequel. Granted, he gets his head chopped the f*** off by Mace Windu during the movie's climactic battle, but his DNA is, quite literally, entwined in the franchise in a gigantic way. Plus, we get to meet Boba Fett's dad, Jango Fett, whose DNA provided the template for the Republic's Clone Army. It also provides an excuse in the movie's third act to finally see Yoda in action with a lightsaber. Christopher Lee's Count Dooku, Yoda's former apprentice we come to find, is the Sith pulling strings behind the scenes. New episodes of The Bad Batch drop Wednesdays exclusively on Disney+.Aside from the love story, there is also the whole business of the creation of the Clone Army at the center of this, which Obi-Wan investigates. He wakes up in a medical bay, but he’s now less free than he has ever been.Īs long as he cooperates, he gets to live. With one final burst of strength, he calls to the lieutenant and delivers a fatal shot to the man’s chest before collapsing to the ground himself. Mayday struggles through his final breath, and the weight of reality comes crashing down on Crosshair. ![]() The lieutenant scolds both men for not retrieving the crates. Returning to the outpost, Crosshair begs the lieutenant to get Mayday medical help. Instead of leaving his brother to die alone in the ice, Crosshair picks him up and carries him back to the outpost, further injuring and exhausting himself. Not for the clones, but for the Empire’s new “more capable” military.īoth Crosshair and Mayday are seriously injured, and Mayday needs immediate medical attention. Inside, Crosshair and Mayday find stormtrooper armor. When they reach the camp where the crates are being held, their run-in with the “insurgents” ends up breaking open one of the crates. He and his men have been begging for supplies and resources for months and don’t even know why they’re here. On the way, Mayday expresses his disdain with the Empire. The lieutenant orders Crosshair and Mayday to go retrieve them - no matter the risks. The outpost comes under attack again, and two more supply crates go missing. They’re losing their lives just trying to be good soldiers and follow orders. He reveals to Crosshair that they don’t even know what’s in the supply crates they’ve been instructed to guard. Still under the command of more “capable” officers, he has now been assigned to accompany a lieutenant to an outpost under insurgent siege.Īrriving at the outpost, Crosshair meets clone commander Mayday (that’s not sinister foreshadowing at all). WARNING: The following contains SPOILERS for The Bad Batch Season 2, Episode 12: “The Outpost.”Ĭrosshair is not having a good time. ![]()
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