Star Wars

[Tprince]

How is it?

[jrun]

http://www.dyestat.com/forum/showthread.php?t=2997

[idontgetit14]

I have never seen a star wars movie in my life and a lot of my friends told me that i was a deprived child...... am I????

[100% Ozone Safe]

I have never seen a star wars movie in my life and a lot of my friends told me that i was a deprived child...... am I????
yes.

[Sulus]

It was good. However, I am surprised that a post hasn't popped up yet about the (very) thinly veiled political symbolism in the film.

[XCrnr9]

It was good. However, I am surprised that a post hasn't popped up yet about the (very) thinly veiled political symbolism in the film.


I don't think Lucas is trying to make any kind of political commentary, the plot basis was written almost 4 decades ago, however I hope it opens people's eyes towards things like USA PATRIOT act.

[andoverxc]

I think that the political symblism is just a coinsidence of the times we are in now. But I did think that the wookie fighting seen on the beech looked a bit like WW2 as it was portrayed in saving private ryan.

[cnick]

And the dogfights between the starfighters weren't?

Lucas has used WWII for a lot of inspiration in his films.

[100% Ozone Safe]

But I did think that the wookie fighting seen on the beech looked a bit like WW2 as it was portrayed in saving private ryan.
I could not disagree with you more. Watch both again and look at the hhhhhuge differences. Only similarities: there was a beach for a battleground, there was an attacker, there was a defender.

[Biscuit_AQ]

come on. It was very much a nod to d-day.

[nordicrunner]

And the dogfights between the starfighters weren't?

Lucas has used WWII for a lot of inspiration in his films.

and vietnam.

[idontgetit14]

I've got a plan for this summer..... me and one of my friends have never seen a star wars movie EVER..... and we're gona rent all six and watch them some day...... should be interesting........

[MoMo]

Here's a nod to how old I am -- I saw the original Star Wars when it came out, loved it, saw the second, but then didn't see any more until last night, when I saw the latest.

Kind of disappointing, even though at the same time tremendously impressive. The effects, the spaceships, the battle vehicles, the cities, all really cool.

The plot -- well, it didn't have the buildup the original did toward a final huge battle (unless I missed it), and so it seemed kind of anticlimactic (plus, of course, we KNOW what happens later to Darth Vader, to Luke and his sister, etc.). One of the thrills of the original movie, for those too young to have seen it at the time, was the fabulously original special effects, back when computer graphics were brand new. They invented a huge number of effects, and we youngsters at the time were blown away. Now this stuff is pretty much taken for granted.

The political undertones seemed undeniable to me. ("If you're not with me, you are my enemy" ... "so this is how democracy dies" (on a vote that seemed to be on a Patriot Act type law), and so on.

The battle scenes did have a Private Ryan feel; and although nobody's mentioned it, I really felt that the assassinations of all the Jedis were done in a way reminiscent of the scene in Godfather when a whole bunch of mobsters are whacked in a single day.

The acting was O.K., though the script was wooden. The names seemed kinda lame (Count Doofus, or whatever, and Colonel Egregious, or whatever).

One big shortcoming: unlike the movies where Harrison Ford and R2D2 and C3PO were the source of a lot of humor, I don't remember a single laugh last night.

I had dragged my wife along, and she's not a big Star Wars fan. After about the twelfth line from Yoda -- "in danger we are" kind of thing -- she turned to me and whispered,

"Bored, I am."

[jaygray]

I loved what the reviewer in the New Yorker said recently, in skewering the movie: "Break me a f***ing give."

I hated the movie, but I had low expectations so at least I wasn't disappointed as well. Totally predictable, bloated and meaningless. So Anakin has a snit for the whole movie. So what? I could have watched one of my own teenagers for an afternoon.

I imagine a claque of sycophants hanging around the LucasFilm Ranch up in San Rafael going: "Yes, Mr. Lucas. It's great Mr. Lucas. You're a genius, Mr. Lucas." The guy, like JK Rowling, just can't or won't be edited any more -- there's too much stuff and too little story. Imagine if this project had been handed off to someone young, hungry, daring and lean, like Spike Lee or Tarantino a few years ago.

[Dyenimator]

I've got a plan for this summer..... me and one of my friends have never seen a star wars movie EVER..... and we're gona rent all six and watch them some day...... should be interesting........

Can I come?

[TJPatriot]

Can I come?

Me too. Pretty please?

[idontgetit14]

only if you eat all your green vegetables....

[leighpeas]

only if you eat all your green vegetables....
don't eat this green veggie

no one will want to go to a movie that has ole hayden in it with me ever again. i tend to sigh and moan a lot.

yummmm.

who cares about politics with that piece of meat on the screen?