Need I say more?What can you get a Wookie for Christmas (When he already has a comb)?
Need I say more?
If it is as bad as "Phantom Menace," everyone should save their money. That was probably the stupidest, most-boring movie ever.
Natalie Portman, hot she is.
George Lucas, wine he makes.
Lucas was quoted recently with..."I'm glad to be leaving this behind" or words to that effect. Maybe he'll do a shark movie next ;)
An Empire Troll this John Podhoretz is! Yet how many of us this movie will not see?
ROTFLMAO!!!
Lawrence Kasdan, screnwriter of Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi and Raiders of the Lost Ark. Kasdan's wonderful touch is found in the boastful wit of Han Solo, the bitchy Leia's sparring, the intense confrontation beteen Vader and Luke. Why oh why didn't George Lucas hire him again instead of torturing us with his own ham-fisted sophmoric dialoque???
In the context of the times (1970's), Anakin/Vader was the ultimate "Hard Hat"--and the perfect metaphor for the leader of the "silent majority," a la Richard Nixon, that represented the forceful (and, yes, sometimes angry) backlash against the so-called "Counterculture" (who were always a tiny minority made up of malcontents, mindless screamers, incipient terrorists, and other assorted scum) and their enthusiastic boosters in the mainstream liberal media.
Many of us understood this immediately, and instinctively, back in 1977 when that first massive Star Destroyer--spitting laser bolts and brooking no further argument--filled the screen and the magic commenced; that's why a good many of us rooted for the Stormtroopers. Underneath those white helmets, many of us accurately speculated, lurked the ghost of the kid down the street who'd done his duty in Vietnam and returned to be spit on by leftists; and those doing the spitting, we again accurately surmised, where the "heroes" of the "Rebellion": Lucas didn't fool us from the git-go. I, for one, groaned while others in the theater cheered when the first Death Star exploded in Episode IV. I didn't fully understand why, at the time. I do now.
But neither did we turn away from that magic; we just took the side that Lucas disdained in his epic, and have been cheering it ever since. This is the real reason Episode V, The Empire Strikes Back, was and remains the most popular film in the franchise to date. Art has a funny way of backfiring on its creators that way when the tale told is compelling and powerful, but the vision behind it is blurred.
Anyway, enough of this high falutin' talk; suffice it to say that I was the only kid in my middle school who went to his 1978 Halloween Party fitted out as an Imperial Stormtrooper--and that outfit got the loudest cheers and most intense attention among any of my peers, particularly from the girls I was keen to impress at the time...
Long Live the Empire.
duh...watch Vaders death scene in Return of the Jedi and he realizes it himself
If scripts are not Lucas' strong point, then I guess it showed in THX-1138.
Believe it or not, I really did like that movie.
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!
Ooops... wrong galaxy.
-PJ
Ping for later
It is a great movie. Is Lucas going to give all the proceeds to the GOP? so what?
May the Force be with you all.
"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"