DAH dah dah dah dah DAH dah dah DAH
so i have, at long last, been forced to watch Star Wars.
not just the first movie, not just what i have come to know is called "episode IV", which is all that i thought would be involved when i initially, grudgingly, agreed to watch Star Wars.
no, i have seen all fucking three of the Star Wars, since there are, evidently, three of them.
i have also seen at least parts of Phantom Menace, though i found the (unintentional?) quasi-racism, the hideous acting, the even worse writing, and the sick abuses of CGI too much to stomach at times and fled to another part of the house. i am currently fortifying myself with alcoholic beverages for the coming onslaught that is to be Episode 2 (is it episode 2? something about clones, or something?)
whatever it is, it is about to walk through that door and be shoved into the DVD player. the things we do for love.
posted by anne @ 10:40 PM
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If you thought the acting was bad in episode I, just wait for episode II. Ugh. But I think the racism gets downplayed in that one at least. A lot of people got prety pissed about that in episode I.
THERE ARE THREE MOVIES.
I'm sorry, that was a kneejerk reaction.
I must congratulate you on holding out for as long as you did. Not many people born after 1952 in the developed world can claim your success. But somehow I think it's the sort of thing you have to see for the first time when you're a kid, if only because when you're young it's much easier to run around making TIE fighter noises for days at a time afterwards.
it was quite amazing, the extent to which Jar-Jar and the weirdly Fu-Manchu-ian Viceroys were cut out of the second and third movies. more amazing is the truth that they were in SO MUCH of the first movie, and that evidently NOBODY working on the set thought that they were, you know, hideously objectionable ethnic charactures. (or that no one had the balls to tell that to George Lucas, i guess.)
i will post on them at some point, now having seen all six.
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