Saturday, July 26, 2008
THE ORIGINAL
Today's NYTimes Best 1176 Film was George Lucas'
Of course I had seen it before but, as I recall, I was stoned for most of it. It was better this time.
It is hard to respond to a classic. It moved a lot faster than I remembered. Well, that is all in the perception, eh? Grass slows one down a bit.
I could do without all the weird characters and monsters and shit. I am probably the only person who can't stand Chewbacca. The rug.
It is fun to see the youthful stars and to see Alec Guiness one last time. Harrison Ford. Not that good. Still playing the same character in the Indiana Jones films. Mark Hamill. An ingenue. What ever happened to him? 193 credits in IMDb. Almost all B films and obscure teevee. He did OK. Just not a star kind of star. Carrie Fisher. Got to write tell-all books about her troubled life.
These are sideshows.
The movie itself? It is sure better than Star Trek which I had to watch the other day. But it isn't really a great movie. It has vast expanses of film which are rather tiresome.
Net, net? I enjoyed it but I have finished seeing it. Straight or bent.
That makes it a 3 out of Netflix5.
An interesting perspective: How an obsession with special effects killed Star Wars
I have never gone to another film in the franchise. The mere thought gives me a headache.
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