The Big Finish
I'm done with "And The Sky Turned White...". After a marathon of work sessions, it's off the printer! Can't wait to see how the proof looks. Ready to start on MIV3 and other projects!
After seeing it four times I want to say something clever and insightful about Star Wars 3, but I'm having a hard time coming up with the words. Here are some flashes:
-Ian McDiarmid as the Emperor/Chacellor Palpatine owns the film. You will never find a more wretched and scummy villian in all of the SW universe, or anywhere else for that matter.
-More Yoda! Yoda was great, would pay 20 million bucks ot see and all Yoda flick. You hear me Lucas?!
-Special effects: awesome!
-The acting. Well, uh...it's better, but what the hell are these people afraid of? Sure Lucas' dialogue sucks in most places, but...hey look, WOOKIES!!!
-General Griveous is cool. Very *cough cough cough wheeze* cool.
-A very nice tie-in to the Original Trilogy. It adds a lot more to the landscape that we grew up with, stuff that matters a lot more than Gungans, pod races and double-bladded lightsabers.
All in all, I liked it alot. Better than the first two to be sure. It's kind of a relief that it is all over. I'm done with SW movies for the foreseeable future. I know that there was talk of there being 9 episodes, but let's just leave sleeping dogs lie. No more lightsaber duels, no more planets and names that even I, a die-hard geek, have trouble remembering (whatever happened to cool names like Hammerhead, Walrus Man and Snaggletooth?) and no more intrigue. I'm sick of intrigue where it doesn't belong. Unless Episodes 7, 8 and 9 feature a cranky, old Han Solo single handely wiping out the entirety of the Rodian species, one blaster shot at a time, I don't want anything to do with it. It's just a....
....what's that? A t.v. series....uh...um...
Never mind, long live Star Wars!
After seeing it four times I want to say something clever and insightful about Star Wars 3, but I'm having a hard time coming up with the words. Here are some flashes:
-Ian McDiarmid as the Emperor/Chacellor Palpatine owns the film. You will never find a more wretched and scummy villian in all of the SW universe, or anywhere else for that matter.
-More Yoda! Yoda was great, would pay 20 million bucks ot see and all Yoda flick. You hear me Lucas?!
-Special effects: awesome!
-The acting. Well, uh...it's better, but what the hell are these people afraid of? Sure Lucas' dialogue sucks in most places, but...hey look, WOOKIES!!!
-General Griveous is cool. Very *cough cough cough wheeze* cool.
-A very nice tie-in to the Original Trilogy. It adds a lot more to the landscape that we grew up with, stuff that matters a lot more than Gungans, pod races and double-bladded lightsabers.
All in all, I liked it alot. Better than the first two to be sure. It's kind of a relief that it is all over. I'm done with SW movies for the foreseeable future. I know that there was talk of there being 9 episodes, but let's just leave sleeping dogs lie. No more lightsaber duels, no more planets and names that even I, a die-hard geek, have trouble remembering (whatever happened to cool names like Hammerhead, Walrus Man and Snaggletooth?) and no more intrigue. I'm sick of intrigue where it doesn't belong. Unless Episodes 7, 8 and 9 feature a cranky, old Han Solo single handely wiping out the entirety of the Rodian species, one blaster shot at a time, I don't want anything to do with it. It's just a....
....what's that? A t.v. series....uh...um...
Never mind, long live Star Wars!
posted by Coach Carter at 9:45 AM
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