Yes, I saw it, and was sadly disappointed in the lack of dressed-up Star Wars nerds seeing it with me. No stormtroopers, no guys with light sabers, no Patalie Nortmans with big prosthetic fake bellies, nothing. I guess I would have had to go opening night or something for that, huh. But as someone who had not seen either of the first two prequels -- or really paid much attention to the originals, thereby requiring visiting guest G. (of G. and C., of Lanky and college fame respectively) to provide a preliminary briefing on the way over -- I was still able to appreciate the story and the horrendously bad acting from formerly good actors. (The guy playing Anakin is also the guy who played Stephen Glass in "Shattered Glass," which was incredibly distracting because I LOVED that movie in an "oh my god this is so painful I feel like I'm going to lose my mind" sort of way.) And don't forget the insanely political overtones. Anyone who believes Leorge Gucas really wrote these movies 20 years ago and didn't intend any blatant reference to Beorge Gush and his administration has been brainwashed by the dark force.
Anyhow. I'm not sure I get the big debate over the whole thing, and in my mind the Lord of the Rings stuff is 80 million times better and deeper and more meaningful. If you are wearing a Bewchaka costume right now because you love it so much, I apologize for my blasphemy. But it was fun.
Also fun: Going to the American History museum Saturday and standing behind a kid who, upon viewing the display of first ladies' dresses, says (as quoted by C., somehow I missed this display of awesomeness), "Mom, this is just like a really boring trip to Old Navy." Yay for the youth of America!
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Bwa HA HA HA HA HA! I laughed my ass off at this entry. Why is consonant swapping is so hilarious? ha ha ha
Yeah, I fear that Lord of the Rings has forever spoiled me. Now THAT is some brilliant fantasy filmmaking.
I thought this episode of Star Wars was mildly better than the last two, but it was still pretty dismal. Bad script, bad acting, no character development of any kind, ugh. Where's Harrison Ford when you need him?
The best part of going to see Star Wars was that the theatre showed the trailer for Narnia! Yay!
hee. Bewchaka prompted much laughing... and a "you ok over there?" :)
Anyway.... I totally agree about the Bush comment. I've read a couple of people commenting that we crazy lefties are just reading something into it because we want it to be true, and the story was written 20 years ago, blah blah. And.... yes. Perhaps the story WAS written 20 years ago. But don't pretend that he wrote the dialogue 20 years ago and didn't change a word since. That has to be the most lame argument I've heard in ages.
Bewchaka. Hee. :)
Bewchaka! I love it!
I still haven't seen it...the last one was so lame, I'm not sure I want to waste money on it.
Cindy,
There's a rumor that Tom Stoppard was ghost-writing part of the dialogue, but I don't know if there's any truth to that... Nothing stuck out as Stoppard style to me.
The Narnia comment gave me goosebumps too! I didn't even like those books when I was little -- I think my mom thought C.S. Lewis was pushing religious propaganda, and though I know I read at least the first one (I was allowed to read anything I wanted, which ultimately resulted in me reading a terrifying REAL propaganda book about the horrors of teenage drinking and steered me away from alcohol until I was in college), I was never super into them or anything.
Anyway. What was I talking about.
Oh, yes: I totally want to see the Narnia movie now.
Also also, I heard the Tom Stoppard thing too, but I don't believe it. the dialogue sure didn't sound like any decent playwright had a hand in it. This Tomato Nation essay -- http://tomatonation.com/sith.shtml -- makes a perfect point about the dialogue sounding like it was run through Babelfish... that's exactly right. Interesting stuff about the villainy stuff, also. Bewchaka!
My impression is that the St@r W@rs dialogue in all the movies was intended to be flat but forced, if that makes any sense. They're supposed to have a sort of comic book melodramatic feeling.
The only complaint I have against the later episodes is that I'm no longer eight years old. Leorge Gucas(Ha ha ha!) got all the St@r W@rs action figure revenue he was gonna get out of me well before The Empire Strikes Back made it to the theaters.
Our theater did not show a trailer for Narnia! coming soon, it is?
We didn't get Narnia, either! :(
We got Fantastic Four, though....
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