Stars Wars, and other stories
Yesterday, I experienced the conclusion to the Star Wars saga. If you were disappointed with Episodes I and II, prepare to be satisfied. While not perfect, this is the kind of movie we have been waiting for. The visuals are incredibly spectacular, and the story is, well, conflicted and sad. Anything else would have truly been disappointing. This is the most mature Star Wars since The Empire Strikes Back, and even though Lucas’ writing of dialogue leaves much to be desired, he manages a few powerful lines here and there. In case your wondering, it is still campy at times, but that’s a good reminder not to take it all too seriously and enjoy it, this IS based on Saturday morning serials after all, and children ARE an important part of the target audience. All along, my point of view on the prequels is that they would give the original trilogy more depth and meaning, and they do, for me. Now I just have to pretend that there was only 1 Matrix movie (there is no spoon 2, there is no spoon 3).
In other news, I can’t define my mood today. Decided I needed some time to myself and drove down to Panera Bread in Denver. It was a pleasant time. Panera is by far my favorite chain restaurant. If only there were one in Fort Collins, sigh. There’s a lot that ways on my mind: work, getting more work, church involvement, coffee house involvement, art community involvement, an art event, girls, God, myself, etc. Not that it all has to be on my mind. Sometimes I would like to think about nothing, worry about nothing. The Jedi notion of not having attachments is an interesting one, and not wholly true, since being a part of the Jedi Order IS an attachment, but we’ll overlook that for now. A lot of religions in the real world have some form of ‘beware of attachments philosophy’ interwoven, with Buddhism one of the most notable. Some of it may come down to semantics, because I think commitments are important to who we are. Perhaps an important distinction would be that we should be free to commit ourselves rather than be driven by attachment. Not sure if that makes sense to anyone else. I’ll leave it at that for now…
June 2nd, 2005 @ 9:54 am
I agree with you 100% on the Star Wars issue, especially in your second statement. The third chapter is indeed not perfect… Just like the OT chapters (before they went in and remastered them) In my opinion, thats all part of the charm, and it helps to make them what they are. I absolutely love it when Lando says, “That was too cloose” in ROTJ.
Just had to put my two cents in here, as I’ve been noticing a big difference between the “perfectness” of episodes I and II and the rougher feel of episode III (dialogue included).
And as for plot holes (of which the movie has a couple, if your a nitpicker)… I think plot holes are a good thing. It gives people a reason to write books, filling said plot holes in.