21 May
If you don't want spoilers, come back tomorrow, that's all I can say. Seriously. Beat it.
Not real spoilers, actually, but what I would have considered spoilers back in the olden days (yesterday) when I was avoiding all information on the movie.
So I saw The Phantom Menace yesterday!
It was the noon showing and it totally wasn't sold out or anything, which was fairly shocking, even if it was a weekday afternoon.
I hadn't been to the Union Square UA before, and it's really the greatest, with arm rests that you can raise up and down and head rests and everything.
The only thing is that the front row is a little too close, and if I think that (I always sit in the front row) then no human living can possibly stand to sit there. It's a view straight up the nostrils of the actors.
Anyway, I thought the movie was swell! It didn't cure cancer, but it was fun and cool and I had a fine seven or eight hours at the movies (it really was awfully long).
There were script problems, and the whole movie felt like the middle of the story rather than the start because the beginning was so abrupt, and if you thought you hated the Ewoks you don't know what hate is until you see the loathsome Jar Jar, the Prissy of the Star Wars series, and I quite agree with Diane on the fact that "The taxation of trade routes" is a much less compelling beginning than the bit about the rebel alliance in the first film, and the effects are great but if they are used as a substitute for story and characters then who gives a fuck, and my God that pod race was interminably dull, but all in all...
I liked it anyway!
Liam Neeson is the biggest man alive and beautiful to behold, Ewan McGregor makes a fine Alec Guinness, Natalie Portman was just great (the trailer to the contrary), and the kid was fine though he has a lot of growing to do before he becomes as cool as James Earl Jones. I liked the fact that she's five years older than he is! Older girlfriends rule, man!
And Darth Maul is dead sexy.
God I hated Jar Jar, though.
I think that part of the reason is that I don't much like CGI characters, because no matter what, the actors acting with them will be a little flat, a little dead. They weren't there when they were shooting, you see. You can act against a blue screen with your background added later, you can react to a horrible monster that will be added later, but it's hard as fuck to have a conversation with thin air. Roger Rabbit being the rare exception.
Therefor, puppets and costume characters (Yoda, Chewbacca, R2) will always be better even if they don't look quite as good, because they are really there.
But even if I liked CGI, Jar Jar would still be ghastly.
Okay, yesterday according to Stattrax I had 603 hits and according to Nedstat I had 177. Nedstat is so outta here.
Today's horoscope:
Sometimes you just want OFF the "information highway." Don't be afraid to take a break!
One year ago today:
I'm really popular with the under-three crowd! It's the over-twenty-fives that I have more difficulty with...
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