Episode II Surpasses $116 Million at Box Office

Domasi writes "The Force is with George Lucas again as the fifth installment of the Star Wars saga, 'Attack of the Clones,' took in $116.3 million in its first four days and to become the second-fastest film behind only "Spider-Man"." Spider-man is better. But I plan to see both of them again.

Re:How is Spider-Man better than Star Wars?

[Malc]

I agree with you about the acting. Lucas does a fabulous job with the technical details and CGI, but when it comes to acting, he seems completely clueless. Character development is poor, and his ability to draw on the skills of top actors and actresses is appalling.

The romance was supposed to be one of the key parts of the story, yet the scenes were jarringly bad. The whole scene towards the end where Natalie Portman was sprawling stunned on the sand then suddenly got up was right out of (no offense intended): "Dummies Guide to Winning Penalties and Freekicks Using the Acting Skills of South American and Italian Footballers"

Re:I'd go see it again

[Anonymous Coward]

I thought Yoda looked more like a Mexican Jumping Bean with a tooth pick stuck in it :)

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[perl_god]

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Could have used a better name...

[mupa]

The majority of the plot development really didn't have anything to do with the 'Attack of the Clones". I think that "Anakin gets his groove on" would have been a more appropriate title.

Re:So who would win in a fight?

[Drachemorder]

Or, since Anakin is E-vile, Spider-Man should win, since Good always truimphs over Evil (just ask the folks who used to work for Enron.)

No, Anakin wins BECAUSE he's evil. Don't you know that evil will always triumph, because good is dumb?

Re:Something to think about (OT)

[Ezubaric]

> Discussing this box office take rivalry is like
> arguing who is the coolest millionaire, Ellison or
> Gates? I don't really care. All I care is how their
> products perform and how they affect my business.

Frankly, neither of them is very cool (pure evil and whatnot). My vote has to go for Mr. Buffet. You've got to respect a man who:

1. never got caught up in the tech buying spree
2. was eating a Dilly Bar one day and said, "Damn, this is good. I'm going to buy Dairy Queen."
3. only uses his computer for playing games (bridge) and slapping Bill Gates around (at bridge)

If Warren had a console out, it would cost $1,000, have the best games possible, and come with ice cream. He wouldn't lower the price (like his stock price) because it would actually be worth a grand.

Re:Spider-man is better?

[jmoriarty]

As plot devices go that's up there with destroying an Alien battle fleet with a PowerMac and Word Macro Virus

I had no problem with that plot device. Any Alien battle fleet that doesn't keep up with the latest Office patches from Microsoft deserves what they get.