AndyLGR
Active member
Having watch KOTCS a couple of times this week whilst its been on satellite, it got me thinking about why did they crank up the more comedic element in the later movies?
Raiders is a great action movie. Granted it has some comedy moments, like the swordsman scene, the frying pan scene and the Toht coat hanger, but in the main the action elements and story are handled with a degree of seriousness that make the original stand out.
Fast forward to TLC and KOTCS and for some reason it seems as though they looking for the next laugh, trying too hard to squeeze it out of the audience. It almost like a parody of itself at times and I never understand the addition of a comedy moment in an action scene, (the fencing tuition in KOTCS is one moment that is cringeworthy).
Is it meant to lighten the tension? Maybe its to take the movies in a slightly different direction to the original? The James Bond series did it too.
I arent bashing the movies for this, I actually prefer TLC over TOD, but I was wondering what peoples thoughts were about why this seems to have happened as the movies went along. Possibly people think I'm wrong and its been a constant throughout the whole series. Possibly people enjoy this aspect of the movies.
I relate this to what happened with the SW prequel trilogy, some of the humour they added in to The Phantom Menace especially was awful juvenile stuff, material that didnt really appear in the majority of the original trilogy. Maybe its something the bearded ones just decided to add.
Raiders is a great action movie. Granted it has some comedy moments, like the swordsman scene, the frying pan scene and the Toht coat hanger, but in the main the action elements and story are handled with a degree of seriousness that make the original stand out.
Fast forward to TLC and KOTCS and for some reason it seems as though they looking for the next laugh, trying too hard to squeeze it out of the audience. It almost like a parody of itself at times and I never understand the addition of a comedy moment in an action scene, (the fencing tuition in KOTCS is one moment that is cringeworthy).
Is it meant to lighten the tension? Maybe its to take the movies in a slightly different direction to the original? The James Bond series did it too.
I arent bashing the movies for this, I actually prefer TLC over TOD, but I was wondering what peoples thoughts were about why this seems to have happened as the movies went along. Possibly people think I'm wrong and its been a constant throughout the whole series. Possibly people enjoy this aspect of the movies.
I relate this to what happened with the SW prequel trilogy, some of the humour they added in to The Phantom Menace especially was awful juvenile stuff, material that didnt really appear in the majority of the original trilogy. Maybe its something the bearded ones just decided to add.