On Saturday I took my grandson Little Deuteronomy to see ATTACK OF THE CLONES on a big screen with a digital projector. You already know that the plot is stupid, the acting wooden, stately, and lifeless (even Jar Jar has stiffened up for this one), the dialogue stilted, the love story corny, the action scenes preposterous, and the music emotionally manipulative, but go anyway to check out the spaceships, the planets and asteroids, the landscapes, the seascapes, the cityscapes, the nightclubs and arenas, the aliens, and all the other visual delights that Lucas offers up in the rich color and exquisite detail made possible by digital projection.

It's typical of Hollywood that an achievement in special effects has been lavished on a piece-of-shit screenplay. Little Deuteronomy liked the movie, which is understandable -- it's perfectly suited for the indiscriminating mentality of a nine-year-old boy.

My rating on the Watson scale is: 1.5, with a footnote that anyone who has an interest in film technology should ignore the low rating and see it anyway -- but only if he can do so in a theater with digital projection.

The Art of Star Wars - Episode II Attack of the Clones
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