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Last 'Star Wars' Opens Amidst Much FanfareLast night the family and I went to see the midnight screening here in La Jolla. It was jam-packed but I was expecting a crowd.
NEW YORK — It was a Jedi night to end all Jedi knights.
After weeks of intergalactic hype, the much-awaited and last-ever “Star Wars” movie finally opened at the stroke of midnight Thursday. Fanatics responded with zeal.
The most serious “force” enthusiasts took Thursday off work, waited for hours in line even though they already had tickets and eagerly poured into theaters overnight to see what all the fuss was about over George Lucas’ “Star Wars: Episode III — Revenge of the Sith”
A most excellent movie although my tail bone went numb from sitting in the front row - it was the best seating available for the three of us.
And although I'm technically alive dispite only getting about four hours of sleep (the movie let out about 2:45 am), I'm not really coherent enough to give any kind of detailed analysis. Dispite the overall 'greatness' of the film, there were a few continuity conflicts that both my wife and I noticed....then again, I'm a geek and will always notice slip-ups in the storyline of a science fiction movie of this magnitude.
Short recommendation: see it.
UPDATE: Here's something to make you wonder about people on both sides of the aisle:
Latest 'Star Wars' Movie Is Quickly PoliticizedI will admit that when I heard that line from Anakin about being either with him or you're the enemy that the parallel between it and President Bush's statement made me go 'Hmmmm....', but I blew it off and started enjoying the movie again.LOS ANGELES, May 18 - For sheer lack of subtlety, the light-saber-wielding forces of good and evil in George Lucas's "Star Wars" movies can't hold a candle to the blogging, advertising and boycotting forces of the right and left. (Or left and right.)
More a measure of the nation's apparently permanent political warfare than of a filmmaker's intent, the heroes and antiheroes of Mr. Lucas's final entry, "Episode III - Revenge of the Sith," were on their way to becoming the stock characters of partisan debate by mid-Wednesday, hours before the film's opening just after midnight:
- The liberal advocacy group Moveon.org was preparing to spend $150,000 to run advertisements on CNN over the next few days - and to spread leaflets among audiences in line at multiplexes - comparing Senator Bill Frist of Tennessee, the majority leader, to the movie's power-grabbing, evil Chancellor Palpatine, for Dr. Frist's role in the Senate's showdown over the confirmation of federal judges.
- Conservative Web logs were lacerating Mr. Lucas over the film's perceived jabs at President Bush - as when Anakin Skywalker, on his way to becoming the evil Darth Vader, warns, "If you're not with me, you're my enemy," in an echo of Mr. Bush's post-9/11 ultimatum, "Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists."
- A little-trafficked conservative Web site about film, Pabaah.com - for "Patriotic Americans Boycotting Anti-American Hollywood" - added Mr. Lucas to its list of boycotted entertainers, along with more than 200 others, including Jane Fonda, Susan Sarandon, Sean Penn and the Dixie Chicks.
- Even the Drudge Report Web site got into the act: beneath a picture of Darth Vader, it compared the White House press corps to the vengeful Sith, after reporters peppered a press secretary for pressing Newsweek magazine to "repair the damage" in the Muslim world caused by a retracted report about desecration of the Koran.
There is nothing all that new or imaginative, of course, about politicians borrowing from popular movies to score points; witness Ronald Reagan's co-opting of the "evil empire" metaphor for use against the Soviet bloc, or his critics lampooning his missile defense ideas as something straight out of "Star Wars." And Senator John McCain of Arizona, a Republican rebel of sorts, compared his 2000 primary campaign to Luke Skywalker's fighting his way out of the Death Star.
I can see people making joking comparisons to the plot of a movie and some silly aspect of life. But the shear seriousness of these comparisons - from both the left and the right - is just plain stupid. It's a freakin movie - nothing else.
Now, maybe George Lucas purposefully threw in some jabs in an attempt to draw parallels between his made-up universe and the real universe that some still believe is made-up, but if he did that's his perogative.
If he wants to attempt to throw modern-day politics into his creation, so be it. But I'm thinking that he didn't make a metric ton of money from his movies in trying to dilute his fantasy stories with sobering 'knowledge' of life integrated into them; he's a movie maker....a person that takes a thought, idea, concept, or even a book and creates a three-dimensional representation of it. And he makes boo-koo bucks at it too.
If you're seriously thinking of drawing some 'hidden aspect' of this film and promoting it as a vessel of your idea(s), please save us the trouble. In the end, we'll just end up laughing at you for wasting your time, effort, and energy relying on movie characters or storylines to convey your arguments.
Arguments should be able to stand on their own merits - not how clever you might be about making comparisons to 'digital brownshirts' and 'clone troopers'...
There were extremely excellent and the best scenes in the movie "Revenge of the Sith".
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Davey said:
I just got back from seeing this one. It was probably one of the best films I've seen in a long
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Davey said:
Yeah, we shouldn't politicize Star Wars. That's downright stupid.
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So... F911 is a documentary and starwars is anti bush?... MUST b
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Must be a slow newsweek.
So... F911 is a documentary and starwars is anti bush?... MUST be a slow week.
|| Posted by Yogimus, May 19, 2005 06:39 PM ||Yeah, we shouldn't politicize Star Wars. That's downright stupid.
|| Posted by Davey, May 20, 2005 04:01 AM ||I just got back from seeing this one. It was probably one of the best films I've seen in a long time. I'm about as conserative as they come, and I have got to say that anybody, including conservatives, who try to politicize this film have to be really reaching and are in danger of being seen as crazy.
|| Posted by Davey, May 20, 2005 02:57 PM ||There were extremely excellent and the best scenes in the movie "Revenge of the Sith".
|| Posted by Creford, July 16, 2005 06:28 PM ||Good originality and great imagination, great story in this movie!
Here's Photo gallery for Hayden Christensen(Anakin) of this movie. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0159789/photogallery-ss-0
I love Star Wars series the most!