Star Wars, Episode Two — Attack of the Clones (2002)
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Star Wars: Episode II — Attack of the Clones
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2025 Update: Are you ready to go back to Attack of the Clones?
These were the first impressions I posted after an opening-night screening of Star Wars, Episode Two opened. It’s been more than a decade since then — I write this while fans count down the last 16 days before Episode Seven arrives — and I find that this post reads like a review hastily written in the heat of fanboy debate and conversation. I miss being able to love George Lucas’s worlds the way I did when I was a kid. I’d like nothing more than to find imaginative storytellers restoring a playful sense of adventure, strong characterization, real suspense, and wild imagination to the saga.
I’m preserving this post as a piece of Looking Closer history... a snapshot of a Star Wars enthusiast’s struggle to sustain his love for a fantasy series even as it declined sharply into mediocrity.
Here it is . . .
These were the first impressions I posted after an opening-night screening of Star Wars, Episode Two opened. It’s been more than a decade since then — I write this while fans count down the last 16 days before Episode Seven arrives — and I find that this post reads like a review hastily written in the heat of fanboy debate and conversation. I miss being able to love George Lucas’s worlds the way I did when I was a kid. I’d like nothing more than to find imaginative storytellers restoring a playful sense of adventure, strong characterization, real suspense, and wild imagination to the saga.
I’m preserving this post as a piece of Looking Closer history... a snapshot of a Star Wars enthusiast’s struggle to sustain his love for a fantasy series even as it declined sharply into mediocrity.
Here it is . . .