Chris Shortt

Reviews tagged ‘disney-’ by Chris Shortt

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Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End

2007

★★★★ Liked Rewatched

"for a few dollars more meets return of the jedi by way of le rayon vert" - me, for indiewire

Star Wars

1977

★★★★½ Liked Rewatched

ya-hoo!

how did any man in 1977 just carry on living knowing that Harrison Ford looked like *that* and there was nothing they could do about it

Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith

2005

★★★½ Liked Rewatched

I've realised my fondness for Sith has always been inextricably tied to all its accompanying media – Williams' score, Battlefront II, my Vulture Droid toy from Hasbro... but it was always my least favourite set of levels on LEGO Star Wars (much to think about)

off the back of a prequels rewatch, and realising how much I genuinely love Clones, I was a little cooler on this than I've ever been before. Christensen is so much better here, but Portman…

Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones

2002

★★★★ Liked Rewatched

this genuinely might be the funniest Star Wars film ("she seems to be on top of things"), or at the very least it's the only one where all of 3PO's one liners actually land – instead of just making you want to rip his stupidly obtuse head from his body (so of course that happens on Geonosis anyway)

the visual effects are such a huge step-up from Menace, and despite a *very* rocky road to eventually get there, Anakin and…

Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace

1999

★★★ Liked 1

all the trade negotiations and parliamentary stuff that's pretty consistently maligned here is actually kinda... solid? enjoyable? something worth playing with 20 years on? I don't think it's particularly profound, but if this is what CGI-laden blockbusters were attempting in 1999, we've certainly regressed

sadly I just can't ever get past Jake Lloyd's delivery of... anything, and Lucas' extremely suspect racial caricatures (Jar Jar, the Neimoidians, Watto) are really too gross to overlook

((p.s. Qui-Gon and Shmi are 100% fucking))