Diary of an up and coming sociopath

Thought I’d better admit to having paid to see Star Wars this time around (I downloaded episode 2.) I’m not a huge star wars fan, but the third one’s clearly the prequel everyone was actually waiting for. It had only a few cringeworthy parts, and it did have a really good “NOOOOO!” towards the end, which I’m always fond of seeing. Really the high point of the film was seeing Anakin get utterly dismembered, because that’s what I’ve been hoping would happen to him for…ooh, about 3 films now? I’d love to list all the stupid points (”I have studied your Jedi arts” ) but there’s just too much for even I to mock comprehensively. If I ever watch it again, maybe I’ll feel inclined to do so, but with only fading memories of the film I can’t do its insultation justice. I could do a whole star wars mock-o-rama, really. My latest belief is that now Lucas is prone to edit the original trilogy to fit the prequels, they should take lines of dialogue from the prequels and dub them into the original as references, thus building the characters. What we need is Vader saying things like “I’ll try spinning, that’s a good trick.” and “Are you an angel?” and have a badly dubbed line where Obi Wan says “When I first met your father he was [crackle] A CHILD WITH POOR ACTING ABILITY.” Oh, speaking of Children, that one scene in Ep 3 where Anakin goes to sort out the kiddy jedi is just harsh as hell. Funniest scene they did, that’s for damn sure.

I think it’s a sufficient way to describe Ep 3 to say that it was probably in the top two of the Star Wars films, (and I haven’t seen Empire or the Original for many years, which most people would claim at least one of is superior) but being a good star wars film doesn’t necessarily make it a good film. I wouldn’t pay to see it again, though having said that the completist in me is eying the DVD sets with some perverse desire to own the lot. The put them in a box, dammit! A BOX! It’s unfair tactics. I wouldn’t mind watching some of the better bits again, but it took me almost 3 years to re-watch clone wars, and that was just because it was on one afternoon, I don’t think I’ve ever watched Phantom Menace.

Speaking of horrible films, Nikki and I watched Monster in Law on Saturday night, pretty much solely because it has Michael Vartan in, and it was probably Nikki’s turn to choose the film. I can’t adequately express how horrible a film it i. Possibly that’s because I don’t really like romantic comedies (though, this wasn’t very romantic, nor particularly comedic…) especially when they’ve got Jennifer Lopez in. Still, some may have enjoyed it. It’s still a fair point, though, when I read up on it and found that the general reaction was “Jane Fonda broke a fifteen year retirement to make THIS?” I hate to think what kind of financial (or psychological) difficulties would tempt her back to film for such a terrible script.