And we're done.

[prillalar]

Revenge of the Sith. No actual spoilers, but serious commentary so think before you read.

I've been reading a book called Everything Bad Is Good for You, which is about how popular culture has become more complex and challenging in recent years, how movies and television, including children's fare, follow many intricate plot threads and use indirect, subtext-laden dialogue that makes us work to fill in the gaps.

George Lucas didn't read the book. George Lucas is as subtle as Jayne Cobb and writes worse dialogue than Ed Wood. (God, what I would give to see an Ed Wood version of Star Wars!) His romance is less sophisticated than Sweet Valley High and his talent for getting fine actors to give mediocre performances is unsurpassed. His plots have fewer twists than uncooked spaghetti and it's six years too late for him to break my heart.

I checked my watch 4 times.

The fight scenes were cool, though.

Comments

[sarahofcroydon.livejournal.com]

*applauds*
I haven't even seen number three yet. All I know is that I get excited whenever there's a Star Wars repeat on TV, and then ten minutes in. when Jar Jar hasn't even made an appearance, I think to myself... "....why?"

That book sounds interesting, I find myself inclined to disagree with its premise. Who's the author?

[prillalar]

The book is by Steven Johnson. It's quite interesting.

http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/1573223077/

[chzbrgr-of-doom.livejournal.com]

I liked the original three movies. I was never a crazy fan, but my mother and I enjoyed watching them together. I saw episode one at a friend's house back when it was first on video, and I thought it was incredibly boring. She got mad at me and told me I wasn't paying enough attention to it and that was why, but I just didn't like it. I never bothered with episode two and I probably won't bother with episode three; I'll just let someone summarize it for me and then be happy with that.

[prillalar]

As a movie, it sucked. But I'm still in fangeek mode over the new information we got, no matter how badly it was presented.

We just route around the damage. :)

[laurashapiro.livejournal.com]

I'm very glad to hear that he can't break your heart anymore. I was worried about you.

::glom::

We will probably go see it, just to be completists. Nothing, but nothing, could get me to Hitchhiker's, though -- that could still break *my* heart.

[prillalar]

It's sweet that you were worried. :) I really didn't have very high expectations from the film. But then I enjoyed the opening sequence a lot and that made me think, oh, maybe, maybe...only to be crushed the moment Anakin and Padme were on screen together.

[holyschist.livejournal.com]

Ah, but Jayne is far more endearing and entertaining than GL, in his special unsubtle way.

I want to see this for completion, but after flipping through the novelization (my GOD IT'S BAD) and seeing a few stills of Whinykin with Darth Maul eyes, I am not optimistic.

[prillalar]

Of course Jayne is more endearing than GL. I would never want to burn Jayne in effigy, for example. *g*

I wonder if the novelization could possibly be worse than the film. Hmm, that would be a first if it were better.

[branchandroot]

Yeah, thought that might be the case. Honestly, someone should take away Lucas' Joseph Campbell books before he hurts himself with them. Any more.

Oh, and don't forget his amazing ability to find rigidly plot-driven authors who then attempt to write character-driven novelizations. ...of course, Terry Brooks does that all the time anyway. *shudders*

[prillalar]

God, why didn't he let Spielberg take this one? I'm so glad I cleared my palate with Unleashed this weekend.

[trinityhelix.livejournal.com]

I clapped along with the rest of the cinema when I saw the Lucasfilm logo.

...I choked on my drink when I saw "War!"

-_-;;

Having been a hardcore fan since I was, like, in diapers, this movie pained me when I was watching it. Pained me greatly.

"You're breaking my heart, Anakin." among one of the many, many stilted lines of dialogue that made me want to cry.

I smirked when I saw Obi-Wan grab unto Anakin in the elevator shaft and I cheered when he said he loved him, though, so that's something. The slash fan in me just wouldn't give it up... Lol.

[prillalar]

Somehow, the "I loved you" line didn't get me at all. Anakin and Obi-Wan seem so sexually inert with each other. Which is not how it should be.

[kestrelsan.livejournal.com]

Your reaction is pretty identical to mine *g*. I'm still using my Vader icon, though, because he's pretty.

[prillalar]

Hee! You are shallow! I would never be drawn in by a pretty face.