My friend Lisa, who rarely sees movies in the theater, was telling me last night about her new DVD player. She said she was looking forward to seeing the new Star Wars movies finally, since she was such a fan of the original trilogy.
If you’re really a fan, I said, you’ll skip the new ones.
I think this was good advice.
While not holding a candle to the previous trilogy, Episode II came close. If you want a movie that will bring you deep, spiritual meaning and/or provoke thought, watch “The Ten Commandments” or “Gandhi” or something. I watch the Star Wars trilogy when I want to be entertained, and I certainly was entertained by Episode II. Now Episode I….. Well, everyone fucks up majorly at some point in their life, or perhaps he made that one for his kids. At least it was better than Spiderman (2002), that probably being the worst sci-fi movie I’ve ever seen, and I’ve seen some bad ones, let me tell you….
I prefer not to watch any of the episodes other than A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back.
Spiderman isn’t a sci-fi movie. You might as well attempt to apply the Theory of Relativity to Superman. Spiderman is, first and foremost, a movie about Jesus, Our Lord and Savior.
“Star Wars: Episode 2 — Attack of the Clones” has the best sound and picture of any DVD I have ever seen. It was “filmed” completely digitally, and transferred to disc with the highest standards available. It’s a fantastic demonstration of what modern technology has to offer the home viewer. However, anyone over the age of 10 who watches it expecting any sense of fun (or wit, or charm, or excitement, or involvement, or sense) ought to have their head examined.
(Superman is Jesus? Then how come he’s a cripple? Can he still guide his electric wheelchair over water, or on top of the Washington Monument?)
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I go now.
I just watched the Clone DVD yesterday. I could practically hear Lucas screaming “Get those damn people off my movie! They are getting in the way of my cool special effects!”
It was a pretty movie. Ewan McGregor will be Alex Guiness when he grows up.
Oh, Matt — it’s SPIDERMAN = JESUS CHRIST. You read too fast.
Well, maybe I’ll just wait til the third and reserve judgment until then.
I was quite happy with the DVDs I got for Christmas — The Philadephia Story, The Apartment, and the original Charade. I bought my husband a copy of The Thin Man. Now, I have to get started on my Bogart Collection.
Wow, I’m relieved. Jesus has a six-pack and can walk an’ everything. Rokk!
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I go now.