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Tender side of Darth Vader

July 10, 2005

I saw two movies this weekend; one was “Revenge of the Sith,”  where Anneken Skywalker turns into Darth Vader.

The first three SW movies, which I am told were actually numbers four, five, and six in the series, were a lot of fun.  In fact, that’s what their original ads said; “Never before in the history of movie-making has so much money been spent, such effort been made… just for fun!”  They were not serious movies, so you could forgive their faults.  They were fun, as promised.

Then came two new Star Wars movies – “prequels” – that, uh, how shall I say this politely?  Sucked.  They were just horribly bad, and had sparse redeeming humour to make up for it.

You know the drill on this movie: “The other two new ones really sucked, but you might llike this one!” 

I’m here to say, “Or not!”  It’s tedious, even more cliched than the others (if that’s possible) and almost completely humorless.  By the end, you hardly care who kills who… you just want it to be over.

For this crime, I sentence George Lucas: you can’t use any special effects ever again until you have produced one interesting and entertaining movie without them.

I’ll write later about the other movie I saw this weekend.

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  1. July 11, 2005 at 14:05 | #1

    Another movie I have also seen. The day it came out ‘cos Mr Doris had been waiting to see it. Nothing beats the excitement and times of the first and second Star Wars… I’ve seen them all and came out of this one quite gobby (chatty) about the whys and wherefores and most of all poo-pooing it because it turns out the whole thing is not science fiction but a love story! I love love-stories but not these pathetic Romeo and Juliet ones where everyone ends up dead! And not ones that you expect to be a good old science fiction romp.

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