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May 19, 2005
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
I saw the new Star Wars movie tonight at the 12:00am showing. My friend Amy was nice enough to run across from her place of work in downtown Minneapolis to the nearby Block E theater to get us advance tickets to the show. Thanks Amy and thank you Kevin for putting up with sitting next to my brother and me!
I am not going to review the movie because a hoard of paid professionals have done that for us already. I will say that I did agree with A.O. Scott's review in the N.Y. Times which states that this isn't a great film but it certainly is a good Star Wars flick and certainly it is light years better than the previous two. Indeed the point of Scott's review that stuck with me the most was, "Mr. Lucas, who wrote the script...is not one to imply a theme if he can stuff it into a character's mouth."
Did I hear anybody yell, "edit!" out there?
All the same it was great to see all of the fans there. Their youthful enthusiam is great to see! The theater was packed. People, including my brother and his friends (first picture at right, above) where in costume. The guy with the expensive looking polycarbonate light-saber was really impressive and a very nice guy for letting me take so many pictures of him as was the gentlemen wearing the Sith robe his mother made him. I've got to give you guys points for playing! Well done!
When we left the theater everybody seemed properly pleased. That was, until we had to endure the hour long wait to exit the parking ramp. They should get traffic control on these things!
Ally Watches the Final Dual
The wait gave us plenty of time to create some talking points for the movie:
- We learned that, as opposed to the previous Star Wars films, the light side and the dark side aren't so different after all but instead all lead to George Lucas growing in power.
- Padme is with Annakin because she loves him. Thanks! It's clear now!
- General Grievous won his real ticking heart from the Wizard of Oz. He is fighting for the Sith because Count Dooku promised that he would be made into a real boy.
- NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
- The Sith, most certainly, are Republicans. The Jedi represent America's thriving and active "Warrior Monk" party. WM in '08 baby!
Posted by jordanh at May 19, 2005 04:28 AM
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Posted by: Travis at May 19, 2005 06:17 AM