Rayman wrote:Anakin was intentionally firing.
Yes, at the robots attacking him, not in an attempt to bring down the ship.
He accidentally shot off his torpedoes while already firing his lasers. A fortunate mistake that was in line with his intentions, not Anakin being not even knowing what the basic situation was, as the RLM review tried to make it look like.
Please point me in the direction that clearly shows Anakin had any intention of bringing down that ship. Because all the scenes leading up to it he was basically trying to just not get shot down.
The RLM review didn't even contain its comments to whether Anakin knew what he was doing during the fight.
Actually it does because he says “Ya might be thinking that it's Anakin, cuz he's like a slave, and saved the day at the end, by
accidentally blowing up the starship.”
It claimed that there was no story because the protaganist (Anakin) had no idea about anything that was happening, misleadingly cutting a few seconds-long shots of Anakin turning his head about.
I don’t completely disagree with you, but I also don’t take everything RLM says so literally. A child that is just following his father figure around, fighting bad guys he doesn’t understand the motivations of and accidentally saving the day does not make for a good protagonist.
Also Plinkett didn’t say he had no idea he said “the things that are happening around him are
pretty much out of his control or understanding”
Anakin has the basic idea, but just like the control ship he’s not actively trying to be the hero, he’s just stumbling his way through the adventure.
Don't talk to me about watching the movie when it's plainly clear that you haven't. In the scene where the Naboo and the Gungans meet to plan their attack, Anakin is standing right there when Padme explains that they're going to infiltrate the palace and try to get their pilots to board the fighters and use it against the Droid Control Ship. Anakin even had a closeup when he turned to Padme, showing him paying attention.
I want to make sure I’ve got this right. You're saying this look:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9QJ9TSMvS8&t=7m17s
Tells you that Anakin understands everything, but the fact that he aimlessly flies around the TF ship never firing a shot until he accidentally crash lands, fires on robots that start firing on him first, then accidentally fires torpedoes, that accidentally bring down the TF ship tells you nothing?
But here you are, cherry-picking meaningless lines or sentence fragments here and there trying to twist them into the stupid claim that Anakin didn't even have an understanding of why they were fighting.
Hahah. And here you are cherry picking a close up of Anakin turning his head to claim that he understood everything. Once again so I'm clear, lines of dialogue are meaningless but head turns tell you everything you need to know about the character's inner thought process?
You know why I cite specific lines, because I can’t link to the entire movie and expect people to watch it. Shit I had to show you the lightsaber battle 3 times before you even realized the mistake I was pointing out to you. Speaking of which…
He wrongly stated that the ship was not hit after R2 made his repairs, even though the ship was struck multiple times.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LefM1yEUGk&t=7m2s
From the moment the pilot says “Deflector shield’s up at maximum” they do not get hit again. Now you could argue that the shields were up at max when they went green or that the light filling the cockpit after the line was a hit, but that’s debatable. RLM edit is not "dishonest"
He asked stupid questions about how the ship could be physically damaged despite having shields, as if the shields couldn't be shot down.
He also ends this line of thought with "aww fuck it." Clearly it was his most important point of the review.
). I’ll still read him though because he’s a good writer. I feel the same way with RLM, but what he lacks in writing he makes up for in clever editing. I disagreed with his review of Avatar, but I still found it to be amusing.
