tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8872252.post111681317286637290..comments2023-10-01T04:39:40.541-04:00Comments on The Lipstick Republican: Sith bloggingJamiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00623031374944444521noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8872252.post-1117294993044034102005-05-28T11:43:00.000-04:002005-05-28T11:43:00.000-04:00Jamie, For two people who respectfully disagree so...Jamie,<BR/><BR/> For two people who respectfully disagree so often, I don't know what to say. Your post is some sort of Jedi-mind trick--putting onto the screen the contents of my entire thoughts on this new movie.<BR/> I saw it for the second time yesterday...a matinee this time, where I could drink in the effects, and look for details I missed at the midnight showing.<BR/> I enjoyed the movie, if not but for the closure it provided. I think it was the most emotional of the series, where Lucas actually decided that dialogue wasn't always neccessary to convey feelings.<BR/> Even given the sadness of the movie, it was still funny. To the fully realized robot slapstick of R2-D2 to the cackling menace of the Palpatine, we were finally watching the characters we both grew up with unfettered.<BR/> As I wrote in Jane's blog, what was missing the pre-quels was that sense of fun, primarily provided by Harrison Ford's "Han Solo." I mean, here was one guy, throughout all science fiction that we earthlings could easily relate to.<BR/>I think everybody knows a cocky drifter on the wrong side of the law, with a suped up old vehicle, full of himself, always in trouble but will do the right thing in the end, albeit reluctantly. Two, Solo wasn't weighed down with the Jedi/Sith/Political/Millitary/Alien mumbo-jumbo metaphysics dialogue that every other character in the Star Wars galaxy was infected with. According to interviews, Ford would fight to change scripts, including the best line in the entire series, where he's being frozen into carbonite in Empire.<BR/> When Leia says, "I love you", the script calls for Solo to say, "I love you, too". Fortunately, Ford had the good sense, and good spine to trash the line and give that legendary 70's pimp-reading--<BR/>"I know."<BR/> Han also made fun of the force, ("hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid.") <BR/> It was needed, because Jedi were essentially asexual, monk-like beings who are sworn not to make attatchments. In other words, they really wouldn't be all that much fun to hang out with.<BR/> And lets face it, guys wanted to be Han Solo, and all my gal pals wanted to be WITH Han Solo. But I will give props to Hayden Christensen in Episode III, for the first Star Wars washboard abs.<BR/> (You're correct that Leia stopped doing that as well, into the Episode IV, but she had already established that "valedictorian/class president" character already.)<BR/> Luke's spoke like a typical angst ridden teen at first, wanting to go with his friends to the academy instead of chores. Slowly he turned into Jedi speak as well...<BR/>"I shant leave you here to die.."<BR/>--ROTJ <BR/> Maybe it's my old age, but my friends always talk about that steel bikini Leia wore in "Jedi", so there was that element of eye candy there. It was "legal" to look at Carrie Fisher that way, as opposed to Natalie Portman in the first two prequels.<BR/><BR/> You'll probably be disappointed in Episode II, because it's the "filler episode" in my opinion. And it's probably the worst example of Lucas getting creature happy with his CGI.<BR/><BR/>--CobraAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com