Posted on 05/16/2005 1:18:49 PM PDT by Destro
I'd have to agree. Some of the stuff Luke says in Episode IV are just embarrasing. "But I wanted to go the academy this season!"
I sure wouldn't call my wookie a "fuzzball" either. Might make him go Ewok on me.
Just got back from a midnight show.
Episode 3 is pretty darn good. Fast, lots of action. Story flows but is not very strong in parts.
I'm just taking it as entertainment, all politics aside from the movie stuff is just that, politics.
This one is redemption for Lucas for serving up bantha poodoo in the first two prequels.
Probably not. We just saw it, and I have a 9yob who is a huge fan of the other five... but I am very hesitant, and my wife adamantly opposed, to Josiah seeing it. To sum it up in two words, "Too dark." And a pair of pretty gruesome scenes ice the cake.
BTW... haven't seen ANY of them? Under what rock do you live?!
Dan
We are watching them right now. LOL I was just never interested in seeing them and the way my children were spaced I've never had to get into it.
Unfortunately my 9 year old is pumped over this new release so my journey begins. ;-)
So far we've watched 3 of them and I don't see that I missed anything for not seeing them all these years.
I can't imagine star wars is darker than LOTR and my son loved those and could handle them. Besides I don't think I'd be able to get away with NOT letting him see this since lots of his friends are going. Thanks for the input.
You're very welcome, and it is totally your decision, of course -- but I've let my 9yo and 5yo see the LOTR movies, yet we still do fast-forward some scenes in 2 and 3.
This is different. There are a couple of visuals that are disturbing, but there are also some very dark plot developments that are not at all "over their heads," and that might connect hurtfully with a child.
My strongest advice to you, offered precisely for what it's worth, is that you see it first. A friend from church went with his daughter, and said he regretted it, wished he'd previewed. I've never yet regretted being cautious. It's a very righteous PG-13.
Dan
Thanks, I will probably preview it then. I just figured if he could handle LOTR which was very dark and violent then he could handle anything. lol
I understand Lucas didn't want to write a kid's movie.. but in the process of being an "artist"- he lost his way. Perhaps he never understood the attraction we all had to the characters,the fun,the campyness and the plain old Good vrs. Evil STORYLINE in the first place.
Too bad.
It goes to show that the cast and crew and set designers and all the other hundreds of people who worked on the originals were the real stars!
I spoke with him at length about what was going to happen in the movie with the violence and I told him his eyes were going to be covered at the part I didn't want him to see and he had no choice about it.
He agreed.
It may sound super silly- but that is how I rationalized letting him go. Beside I wanted him to be able to see one StarWars on the Big screen.
He was fine.
He was disappointed in the movie- but he came out of it unharmed. (and he is pretty sensitive to begin with- he is a cries when cartoon dogs get killed kinda guy)
Ooops... wrong galaxy.
-PJ
Ping for later
I saw the movie - it was not bad. Lucas is a brilliant man behind the camera. This last chapter did kind of tie up some ends which made me go - 'oh, I see now' - but I do think the reason Aniken chose to be Darth was a little forced and thin. It was rushed. We needed the forst two movies to show a long decline of Aniken to Darth to make it work well in the third.
It is a great movie. Is Lucas going to give all the proceeds to the GOP? so what?
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Isn't it a shame? It didn't have to be this way.
Ah well- SW is part of the culture now, and people like us
remember when it was the myth we needed it to be.
I saw the movie - I gave it 3 out of 4 stars.
and families could go- single people could go on dates, friends could go together and we all went to be awe inspired by ships on strings. IT was campy and silly and Darth Vador scared the pants off me! And as my 7 year old chases his younger brother in his Darth Vador Mask, to this day I am a bit frightened of seeing Darth Vador.
Technological advances do not replace Han Solo and his goofy, charming character or the youth and innocence of Luke Sywalker believing Vador was still good deep down inside..None of the current characters displayed any of those themes that I could see.
So it seems that Lucas switched mid stream-and plenty of people will still love this one. A new type of Star Wars is his choice-and the movie will be successful no matter what I say,but I wouldn't say that Lucas is brilliant. The ends could have been tied up better and we could have still walked away loving Starwars.
I wouldn't say Lucas is brilliant at all.. he is cashing in on the original three and everyone who was a part of those movies,IMO.
Of course I need to add that I am not a big fan of hollywood to begin with and I see about two movies a year in the theater. But it is what it is.
I certainly do not want my comments here to take enjoyment away from anyone-but I do want to warn people to be prepared. Getting geeked about seeing a good "old fashioned" Star wars and coming home thinking I would have rather done the laundry -stinks.
There was politics - but the first 3 movies had black and white hat politics so it seems that there was not. In the last 3 politics are grey so you notice it.
Definitely a botched job. Vader was supposed to be intelligent . . . a master engineer. He designed the TIE fighter. Did you ever get any sense that this was the case? The only inkling you had of it was when he was a little kid on Tatooine. They pretty much abandoned that whole aspect of his persona.
I was hoping to see a character who was truly power mad and truly evil. What I got was a punk who was pissed because he didn't get his way. His whole conversion to the dark side was pathetic and weak.
I was very disappointed.
"No performer living or dead could pronounce the word "Naboo" without sounding like a moron"
Interestingly enough, "Naboo" in Burmese means, loosely, "Perv" or "horndog"
"What I got was a punk who was pissed because he didn't get his way"
Lucas really did bring this trilogy down to teenage-level emotional content.
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