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May 24, 2005
The Force of Nostalgia Is Strong In This One
Oh, George Lucas. Horrified as I am by the awful love scenes, I can't help but smile like an idiot when I see "Lucasfilms" and then ... after a pause ... the huge STAR WARS taking up the whole screen with that opening music and receding into the starry background, followed by the scrolling story and inevitable pan down to a droning ship. I am a geek at heart. These things appeal to me. Especially when plot lines developed over decades are finally resolved.
We saw Episode III at the Ziegfeld tonight (the PROPER place to see such a movie) with a huge tub of popcorn and hundreds of other people. Cliche after cliche should have worn us down but there's something to be said for Jedi fighting -- no matter how bad the dialogue is or how much of the plot is borrowed -- those robes and light sabers are awesome. And it's a damn good story.
The audience tended to laugh at the goopy stuff -- Annakin-Vader's "Nooooooo!!!!", for instance, and the soap opera love scenes (I could barely watch it was so embarrassing). The nostalgic tie-ins to other episodes were satisfying -- Chewbakka makes an appearance, twins are stashed on separate planets, yoda speaks bad English, epic battles are fought. And of course, Darth Vader gets his famous headgear, at which point I had a vivid flashback to Space Balls and Dark Helmut ripping it off and saying, "I can't breath in this thing!"
Posted by csageday at May 24, 2005 02:03 AM