OFF: RE: Star Wars

[Joseph Brooks]

Thanks to all for the OFF stuff.. Me not being any sort of HW fan and with
the current lack of all things BOC, I haven't had much to say on this list
of late..

Starwars.. I saw it when it came out (I was 18) and was blown away by the
special effects.. The movie itself was fun, in a campy sort of way.. I
always thought of it as a western in space, bad guys in black hats and
all... Harmless adventure fun.. The following two got progressively worse in
all but the fx dept. with the final one being almost hilarious in its
hackneyed, cliche`-ridden story line.. "Luke, I am your father!".

Why couldn't they have just let ol' Darth be evil, even in the end.. He was
such an archtypical villian, it spoiled it for me when he turned out to be
just misguided...

I'll go see this new one, once the crowds die down.. I just hope against
hope that they got better writers.. It seems aimed at a pretty young
audience though so I don't feel very confident. It will probably be worth
going just for the "gee-wiz" factor.. Lucas can afford some hefty special
effects bills, I'd imagine.

JB

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John A. Swartz [mailto:jswartz at MITRE.ORG]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 1999 9:27 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list BOC-L
> Subject: OFF: Star Wars
>
>
> Wow - been a long time since *I* spawned such a long thread...  ;-)
>
> My perspective on the new Star Wars movie is simple -- like KISS and
> BOC, Star Wars came into my life at age 13 -- a time in a
> boys life when
> I'm beginning to believe is a time which will forever shape (or WARP)
> his future existence (this doesn't necessarily seem to be the case for
> women - not my wife anyway - she laughs at me during these times...).
> Anyway, when I was growing up, Star Wars was IT - or, as they
> sometimes
> say these days, Star Wars was the shit (although that
> expression doesn't
> particularly appeal to me as calling something "the shit" hardly seems
> complimentary).  Now, I wasn't a fanatic - I only saw it probably 5
> times, and 2 or 3 times for both Empire and Jedi - of course that
> doesn't count video rentals - and the fact that when the "Special
> Editions" came out 2 years ago, I went to a theater complex
> and watched
> them back to back to back.
>
> I will be shortly trying to get myself a ticket for Episode 1 -- I'm
> psyched in a big way for this.  Yeah, the overhype can be
> draining, and
> the marketing isn't something I buy into (I do have the soundtrack and
> storybooks - unread until I see the movie -- I really don't
> want to know
> the plot before I see it -- when "Jedi" came out, my local paper gave
> away the whole plot before I saw the film and I was really
> pissed), but
> all that doesn't matter to me.  Bottom line is that this is
> going to be
> one kick-ass movie that *I* want to see, and I'm gonna see it
> -- and I'm
> gonna be excited about it.  And if the rest of the world doesn't share
> that enthusiasm, that is cool -- to each his/her own - just don't
> anybody rain on my personal parade here... :-)
>
> John
>
> PS:  I would hope that anyone who posts info here would refrain from
> giving away anything in the movie -- at a minimum, please post spoiler
> warnings prominently at the head of your post.
>
> --
> John A. Swartz - The MITRE Corporation, Bedford MA - jswartz at mitre.org
>
> "Fear is the path to the Dark Side.  Fear leads to Anger.
> Anger leads
> to Hate.
> Hate leads to SUFFERING."  -- Yoda (Star Wars: Episode 1 -
> The Phantom Menace)
>