| Clunky dialogue, gaping plot-holes, piss-poor pacing, laughable performances by many of the principal players, abhorrent attempts at comic relief, and reliance on sh*tty fake-looking CGI instead of real special effects.
Many of these are interconnected. Overuse of CGI, for instance, made it so that actors couldn't actually interact with the things they were supposed to be interacting with, the way they did in the originals. Hence, generally lousy acting. Harrison Ford didn't have to imagine the screaming eight-foot-tall ape-man; it was standing right there next to him. He could method-act. Compare to poor Liam Neeson--"All right, Liam, Jar Jar's standing there, where the tennis ball on the stick is. Okay, he's acting like a fag now, look a little annoyed. More annoyed. More. Okay, he just fell down again. Look down at the ground and silently mouth the phrase 'f*cking chode'." One of the best actors out there, and he couldn't compete with the likes of Harrison 'Overrated' Ford, because there was nothing there for him to work with. He's lucky he made it out after the first one (my vote for the best of the prequels, incidentally). |