Star Wars Episode Three is nearly upon us. I say it can’t get here soon enough. My reasoning is that the sooner Ep III debuts, the sooner the whole Star War thing goes away. And I can’t wait for the entire Star Wars thing to fade into obscurity joining such fan faves as Space 1999 and Enterprise (please, oh please just let the over exposed franchise die for awhile).
Strangely enough I used to be a huge Star Wars fan. I loved the original Star Wars, as a kid I must have paid to see the thing fifty times. That movie had it all, light sabers, Bigfoot, robots, and spaceships. A seven year old kid can’t ask for much more, heck we used to get into actual fist fights over whether or not the storm troopers were robots (Ross Lyons ended the disputes by erroneously pointing out that the back of a storm trooper action figure said “oil”). Then Empire rolled out and, surprise, it was even better than Star Wars. Sure the story was a little on the bleak side of things but the action was intense and, face it, Darth Vader whipping things around with “Force” powers was fairly awesome. Naturally enough everyone went home and concentrated really hard to see if they could make a fan fly across the room or something.
Then came Jedi. I didn’t realize it at the time but this was the beginning of the end of decent SW flicks. Lucas stuck ewoks in the movie to pander to kids and the entire goofy ending was horrible. I mean X-wings launching fireworks? Darth Vader, Yoda, and Obi Wan as ghostly apparitions smiling down on Luke? It was all a bit much but since it ended the trilogy everyone gave Jedi a free pass.
Years later Ep 1 rolls out (The Phantom Menace). It was freaking horrible. I mean if you had a rash as awful as Ep 1 you’d rush to the emergency room and run every red light. Everyone points to Jar-Jar Binks as the lowest moment but what about those robots constantly saying “Roger, Roger” to the mother ship? Coupled with the fact that the source of the force was revealed to be some weird disease…Ah well, suffice it to note that there was a lot not to like about Ep 1.
Ep 2, most folks maintain, was marginally better. Usually they’ll point to the excellent action in the massive Jedi duel. I empathize, that particular scene was pretty cool but it is a bit like wrapping tender filet mignon with hamburger from Wal Mart, yeah the nugget of meat in the middle is delicious but all the crap you have to wade through to get it makes it not so rewarding. So there may have been one decent scene but on the whole that moved blew.
Which brings us to what will, hopefully, be the all time final installment. Ep III (Revenge of the Sith). There are three ways this thing could go: awful, average or fantastic. Unless it is fantastic, and spectacularly fantastic at that, people will look at the series as a whole and note that it consisted of two really good flicks and a bunch of schlock. Right now the series average has be somewhere around 2.4 out 5 (SW=5, ESB=5, RotJ=2, EpI=0,EpII=0) so unless Revenge of the Sith is great (which it won’t be) the entire run will go down as decidedly average.
I guess the big lesson in all this is quit while you’re ahead or leave people wanting more….hmmm, there’s a lesson there for yours truly..
Time for the plug, gotta have sponsor and all. Today’s entry is brought to you by:
iMovie on the Cheap. Man, who could’ve ever predicted that plot twist? Actually I’m feeling really good about the book right now and not just because of the massive sales. Nope I feel good because VideoBob had this to say:
I was skeptical that CS was so full of BS that he couldn’t write a straight sentence, but I’m partway through his first ebook and it’s a winner. Worth much more than the cheapo price, and loaded with helpful info. Take it from a real on-the-cheap videographer: this is a real deal. (VideoBob)
That makes me feel great, a complete stranger and everything. Sure Guy Serle also had some nice things to say but, well I’ll be honest, I paid him to say them.
Onto linky goodness:
I called Jedi the harbinger of Star Wars crappiness and that was perhaps a bit misleading. The true omen was The Star Wars Holiday Special. That link takes you to a montage of truly awful scenes.
Fatboy Slim Praise You video.
The song is okay, the video is outstanding.
Lots of fun:
Innocent Escapes
Game Pick:
PowerFox 2
Wow, no Hello Kitty. How am I going to end this thing? I could note that there is a good chance I might make a very small contribution to the MyMac podcast ( I think Chad and Tim are producing outstanding podcasts) this week…Well that isn’t satisfying. Hmm. hey how about a little old school stuff:
Tridiot Rating:schfifty five
Free iTunes code:
G6SOS
ESO3W
Hey if you use it leave a note, you know to keep others from trying to pound the code in. Thanks in advance. Hey, Who Loves ya?
Leave a Reply
You must be logged in to post a comment.