Posted on 05/05/2005 9:12:29 PM PDT by ArcLight
Well, you can all relax. While ROTS isn't a masterpiece, it's pretty darn good.
I managed to slip into a preview showing earlier today and had a thoroughly good time. Yes, it's pretty grim in places. Yet if anything, I'd say it wasn't grim enough.
The opening battle will have your jaw hitting the floor. Wall-to-wall butt-kicking on a cosmic scale. And the betrayal of the Jedi...well, it really, really hurts. Even when you know it's coming, it hurts.
Oh, yes. This one's a keeper.
Explain this 17 cents to DNC for this movie.
Was chattingh with a fellow at the post office who caught a preview also - he said theopening shot was 'breathtaking' and the first 30 mins are much better than the last twofilms combined. He loved it - said it was the movie fans had expected from 'The Phantom Menace.'
I'll catch a matinee opening day! :-)
on that basis we'd never see another feature film ... on the screen or DVD
And here come the Skywalker Ranch black shirts to get you.
I'm sure I'll get flamed for this... but Jar-Jar never really bothered me all that much. :-P
Issa don' know a wha yoo talkin' 'bousa...
Did Spock die?...uh NaNoo NaNoo?
The answer is, if you're a Star Wars fan, YES!
While I can't stand Lucas' political views, I'll still sit through THIS movie. Personally, I can't wait to see it.
And, to ease the burden, I'll go during a matinee showing.
Jar Jar didn't really destroy me. TPM's 'Exsqueeze me' and a few of his antics really hurt, since I'm a huge SW fan. Still, TPM is a good Star Wars movie.
Attack of the Clones was a really solid movie, in general. I really liked it.
Revenge of the Sith is looking to be the best prequel, and easily up the originals.
He's not lying about the first 30 minutes. The movie is good throughout, but the first half hour or so is the best part. Not just because of the blazing action, but also because it's fun, in a way the recent Star Wars films haven't been. It's actually funny in places, not forced Jar Jar funny, but clever and puckish. Absolutely the first part of this movie is the best filmmaking Lucas has done in years.
> Explain this 17 cents to DNC for this movie.
Hollywood is overwhelmingly liberal. Depending on who is
the studio, distributor, producer, director, actors, all
the way down the credits, you need to assume that a
varying percentage of your ticket dollar ends up funding
people who endorse taxing, controlling, enslaving and
killing you.
I very rarely go to (or even rent) movies anymore.
The above is part of why.
Is Lucas a real bad liberal? I've honestly (and I'm a huge fan of his) never seen him being overtly political. Surely he can't be any worse than the rest of Hollyweird.
about your tag line: ELIMINATE PERVERSE INCENTIVES
is that like stopping pedophiles from living across from schools?
I agree that something needs to be done about those perverse.
C'mon... Not even Hollywood could come up with a storyline that implausible. I mean, what kind of a low-down sociopathic slime-ball would the President have to be for that to happen! Never has their been a person so loathesome that...
Wait a minute...
He WHAT!
Oh... Nevermind...
Hey, I don't come to you with my problems.
I'd agree about SW II... pretty solid movie.
Mostly.
Is Chewbacca in this one? If so, how much screentime does he get?
>> 17 cents of every ticket dollar ends up at the DNC
> on that basis we'd never see another feature film
> ... on the screen or DVD
Quite.
I daresay that the few FR readers who have seen F911
paid money to do so, for this reason.
Each viewer needs to decide where to draw their line.
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