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Anybody else excited to see Revenge of the Sith?
I think Lucas got it right this time.
I think Lucas got it right this time.
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Yep, MK, I can't wait for this one. It looks to be a really fitting conclusion to the saga. I bought tickets for an 11:59 p.m. showing this Wednesday night, but won't have any trouble staying up late!
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I think it is going to be so cool that I am declaring it a movie day at my office. I am letting my employees go to the movie Wednesday afternoon ....while on the clock.
I think it is going to be so cool that I am declaring it a movie day at my office. I am letting my employees go to the movie Wednesday afternoon ....while on the clock.
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What a swell boss!
One report said that it will cost U.S. employers $627 million this Thursday and Friday due to Star Wars absenteeism.
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One report said that it will cost U.S. employers $627 million this Thursday and Friday due to Star Wars absenteeism.
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I am predicting that this movie will break ALL box office records.
A co-worker got to see it two weeks ago at a private screening as his wife works in the entertainment industry-- he said it was the best one so far.
MK, I wish more bosses would let employees off. Way to go!
A co-worker got to see it two weeks ago at a private screening as his wife works in the entertainment industry-- he said it was the best one so far.
MK, I wish more bosses would let employees off. Way to go!
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My only problem is whether or not to be a total geek and wear my custom-made Ben Kenobi Jedi robes or wuss out and wear normal clothes!
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Go Kenobi. So far as far as we know you only live once, and if youlive more than once you don't remember the previous life so have fun.
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After the Return of the Jedi my taste has soured for the Star Wars thing. I stood in the longest line in movie history (at least miny history) with my brother for the first Star Wars, in Cleveland, Ohio. I saw Jedi in Okinawa, when I was a Marine, in the early Eighties. That movie (Jedi) sucked royally.
I saw Raders of the Lost Ark, while attached to a Navy LHS, that's a ship, in Subic Bay, Phillipine Islands.
I saw Raders of the Lost Ark, while attached to a Navy LHS, that's a ship, in Subic Bay, Phillipine Islands.
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Excited? No. More like I feel an obligation to get it over with. And my teen kids are even less excited than I am! At least the reviews are heartening...
My observation, based on long participation in many other forums and personal experience, is that there is a particularly strong generational divide involved in how folks respond to Star Wars. People who first saw the films as children and have grown up with them have a very different response to folks who were older when they first encountered the films.
I had just graduated from college in 1977, and as a lifelong SF fan (I had watched Star Trek from the very first broadcast, 2001: A Space Odyssey had changed my life when I saw it in a theater during its original run, etc.), of course I loved it. But, with my double major in English and History, I had also already studied many ancient mythologies and literary plots/techniques (and I was a mega-movie buff too). I immediately recognized Star Wars as a brilliant synthesis of a lot of very old ideas, and old movie plots, dressed up with flashy new effects. I also seemed to be among the few to immediately realize that it was a fantasy film, not real SF (it takes place in the past - not a future extrapolated from our own technology - and despite its technological trappings, is really a story about warring wizards that depends on magic and not science)... But I still saw it multiple times and totally enjoyed myself. And when Empire came out, I was very impressed with how much deeper, grander, and more emotionally valid it was. (Also, I don't think younger folks can understand the stunning effect of Yoda in 1980 - the first movie nonhumanoid alien who was really believable!) But after Empire, it was all downhill...
So, while I admire and enjoy Star Wars, I have simply never adored it and revered it in the way that I see that folks younger than me do. The prequels have not been "events" for me, and Lucas's astoundingly clunky writing and indifferent direction of actors hasn't helped. (I recently showed my kids American Graffiti, to prove that Lucas once actually could direct actors well. What the heck happened?!?) But I am hopeful that this final film will be better... I'm just not planning on seeing it on opening weekend.
And BTW, I don't for a minute believe that this is the final film. George will change his mind yet again and let his chosen successors make the final sequel trilogy. To someone like me, who's been reading the trade press and SF movie press since before Star Wars (I simply will not call it "A New Hope"!) came out, I have heard George change his story so many times that nothing would surprise me. (E.g., I recall *before* he wanted to class up his image and claim that his inspiration came from the mythological stuides of Joseph Campbell, when it was clear that the Flash Gordon serials, The Wizard of Oz, The Adventures of Robin Hood, westerns, WWII war flicks, Asimov's Foundation series, and Jack Kirby/Stan Lee Marvel comics were his true touchstones!)
A very fascinating site on the inspirations for Star Wars:
http://www.jitterbug.com/origins/
My observation, based on long participation in many other forums and personal experience, is that there is a particularly strong generational divide involved in how folks respond to Star Wars. People who first saw the films as children and have grown up with them have a very different response to folks who were older when they first encountered the films.
I had just graduated from college in 1977, and as a lifelong SF fan (I had watched Star Trek from the very first broadcast, 2001: A Space Odyssey had changed my life when I saw it in a theater during its original run, etc.), of course I loved it. But, with my double major in English and History, I had also already studied many ancient mythologies and literary plots/techniques (and I was a mega-movie buff too). I immediately recognized Star Wars as a brilliant synthesis of a lot of very old ideas, and old movie plots, dressed up with flashy new effects. I also seemed to be among the few to immediately realize that it was a fantasy film, not real SF (it takes place in the past - not a future extrapolated from our own technology - and despite its technological trappings, is really a story about warring wizards that depends on magic and not science)... But I still saw it multiple times and totally enjoyed myself. And when Empire came out, I was very impressed with how much deeper, grander, and more emotionally valid it was. (Also, I don't think younger folks can understand the stunning effect of Yoda in 1980 - the first movie nonhumanoid alien who was really believable!) But after Empire, it was all downhill...
So, while I admire and enjoy Star Wars, I have simply never adored it and revered it in the way that I see that folks younger than me do. The prequels have not been "events" for me, and Lucas's astoundingly clunky writing and indifferent direction of actors hasn't helped. (I recently showed my kids American Graffiti, to prove that Lucas once actually could direct actors well. What the heck happened?!?) But I am hopeful that this final film will be better... I'm just not planning on seeing it on opening weekend.
And BTW, I don't for a minute believe that this is the final film. George will change his mind yet again and let his chosen successors make the final sequel trilogy. To someone like me, who's been reading the trade press and SF movie press since before Star Wars (I simply will not call it "A New Hope"!) came out, I have heard George change his story so many times that nothing would surprise me. (E.g., I recall *before* he wanted to class up his image and claim that his inspiration came from the mythological stuides of Joseph Campbell, when it was clear that the Flash Gordon serials, The Wizard of Oz, The Adventures of Robin Hood, westerns, WWII war flicks, Asimov's Foundation series, and Jack Kirby/Stan Lee Marvel comics were his true touchstones!)
A very fascinating site on the inspirations for Star Wars:
http://www.jitterbug.com/origins/
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and so on and so on
Now he'll have to remake the original just because the state-of-the-art computer animation in the new film will make the original look crude...
Now he'll have to remake the original just because the state-of-the-art computer animation in the new film will make the original look crude...
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...sounds like you ran over a Wookie back there on the expressway
He's already done that with the first few- added scenes and effects...
I saw Star Wars when I was 11 and it was pretty mind-blowing back then.
I guess when the later(earlier) trilogy came out, I was expecting more and they didn't deliver- so far. At least one of them was actually pretty bad.
George Lucas seems a little limited and samey- and I guess he's working within a world of his creation, so it has its limitations. He's been a little tied up with the Star Wars stuff over the last 30 years- I'd like to see if he can do anything else.... THX-1138 was interesting, 'Graffiti was fun...
I remain open minded and look forward to seeing it.
Might even stretch to seeing it at the theater...
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He's already done that with the first few- added scenes and effects...
I saw Star Wars when I was 11 and it was pretty mind-blowing back then.
I guess when the later(earlier) trilogy came out, I was expecting more and they didn't deliver- so far. At least one of them was actually pretty bad.
George Lucas seems a little limited and samey- and I guess he's working within a world of his creation, so it has its limitations. He's been a little tied up with the Star Wars stuff over the last 30 years- I'd like to see if he can do anything else.... THX-1138 was interesting, 'Graffiti was fun...
I remain open minded and look forward to seeing it.
Might even stretch to seeing it at the theater...
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MK said:
Of course he left out that he is the only employee he has...
But, I', looking forward to seeing it at some point. It looks like a well done effort to bring the saga full circle.
So much so that my 8yo spent his own money to buy the original trilogy on dvd this weekend.
My hope is that this movie makes up for the last two train wrecks he put out.
Dalexs (ducking for cover...)
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It's a World wide premier, the 19th, so I might even get to see it in the movie theater before America...he-he-he
if only by a matter of hours...
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if only by a matter of hours...
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No need to duck, Dalexs, as a hardcore fan of the series I agree that the first two prequels were mediocre at best. Particularly the Padme/Anakin "You are softer than sand" love angle.
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Agreed. I, II & Jedi are not as good as the others. This new looks like it be more like what we have been wanting all along.
What country are you in Belly Tank?
Agreed. I, II & Jedi are not as good as the others. This new looks like it be more like what we have been wanting all along.
What country are you in Belly Tank?
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I'm even reading Star Wars books in preparation for the movie! And it opens the day after my finals are done with. Obviously it's a sign.
At first I was only warm to it, hoping that if the trend of Ep. 1 being lame, and Ep. 2 being less lame (by the way, "You're not like sand" is my favorite line in a movie. What a pickup line!), that this one would be at least really less lame. But now I think it might be Return of the Jedi (my favorite one) minus the damn Ewoks. And since I rate the movies based on how well the lightsaber fights are, I think this one will be awesome.
At first I was only warm to it, hoping that if the trend of Ep. 1 being lame, and Ep. 2 being less lame (by the way, "You're not like sand" is my favorite line in a movie. What a pickup line!), that this one would be at least really less lame. But now I think it might be Return of the Jedi (my favorite one) minus the damn Ewoks. And since I rate the movies based on how well the lightsaber fights are, I think this one will be awesome.
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Be sure to watch The Clone Wars on Cartoon Network, they lead directly into Episode III. If you can, rent them.
http://www.starwars.com/clonewars/
http://www.starwars.com/clonewars/
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One Danish TV channel has been having a Star Wars 'season'-
'Clones' tonite-
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'Clones' tonite-
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It was awful nice of George to hold the opening on my birthday, but he didn't have to go through all that bother just for me!
I'll probably go see it after all the brew-ha-ha has died down. I'm sure I have all summer to catch it. I only saw the LAST one on DVD, totally missing it on the big screen.
I was there in the theater in 1977 too, and for each succeeding sequel, and was in my early 20's. I was very impressed, but like others, not to the point of dawning a storm trooper outfit and standing in the theater lines that followed for the past almost 30 years. That happened to me when Indy came out...
Regards! Michaelson
I'll probably go see it after all the brew-ha-ha has died down. I'm sure I have all summer to catch it. I only saw the LAST one on DVD, totally missing it on the big screen.
I was there in the theater in 1977 too, and for each succeeding sequel, and was in my early 20's. I was very impressed, but like others, not to the point of dawning a storm trooper outfit and standing in the theater lines that followed for the past almost 30 years. That happened to me when Indy came out...
Regards! Michaelson
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