Comments | heath: May the force be with you

heath

May the force be with you

May 27, 2005 23:13

I should preface this entry by saying that when I was six years old, I had Star Wars sheets, and Star Wars curtains and Star Wars Underoos. At some point in my childhood, I had the 12" Boba Fett action figure, which made me the coolest kid on the block ( Read more... )

Comments 6

elgorgo May 28 2005, 06:15:06 UTC

It started going downhill with the puppets in Empire. CGI is just fancy talk for puppets.

But I liked E3. It wasn't a great movie, but it was a good Star Wars movie.

sultansfavorite May 28 2005, 16:06:59 UTC

I loved the first Star Wars when it came out (I was in high school *coughs*), but I have been completely uninterested in any sequels. The new movie? Not even on my radar, but then, I'm not big on most sequels.

heath May 28 2005, 22:49:00 UTC

High School? You'd have been ripe pickin's for me and my Underoos. I had a thing for older women back then.

It wasn't really on my radar either. I saw the first of the new three, hated it and gave up hope. I eventually saw the second one in the cheap theater. I didn't care all that much about this one, but several folks seemed to like it.

sultansfavorite May 28 2005, 23:08:52 UTC

High School? You'd have been ripe pickin's for me and my Underoos. I had a thing for older women back then.

HAHAHAHAHHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!! I've always had a thing for younger men, you're the same age as my hub!

(The comment has been removed)

Re: Reasons for sucky I-III heath May 29 2005, 06:42:50 UTC

Well, if I were going to offer some critique:

Rick McCallum is a soulless bastard. I suspect that he's the primary reason that I-III sucks.

Liam Neeson is a wonderful actor and did a fantastic job in spite of the poor direction. Ewan McGregor passed ok for a young Alec Guinness, but I felt like he never had a grip on the character. Natalie Portman was cool as Amidala in the first one, but that's likely the result of the costume department. So yeah, the casting sucked.

I thought the end bit was a bit cheesy. None of the "tying in" really impressed me because I've known the backstory since I was 12. There were a couple of things that I liked in this one aside from the score, which has always been wonderful. Watching R2D2 get some action was pretty cool and the part where yoda smacked the Imperial guards was neat. Everything else was just kinda, "eh."

dantheserene June 12 2005, 11:41:27 UTC

They lost their soul without Han Solo. And that includes the somewhat wussified Han who fired first and no longer had a death bounty on him in the bastardizations.