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May 20, 05
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star wars tragedy!
okay, so i'm in the granville 7 downtown (apparently the new downtown theatre isn't playing star wars?) and we're watching Star Wars. all is good. the movie is okay, not great, but better than the first two; so i'm pretty happy about it all. i'm enjoying myself, sucking back my gallon of coke that cost me half as much as my ticket...when all of a sudden with ten minutes left in the movie (at a very climatic moment, i might add) the screen goes blank.
no sound, no picture, no lights. nothing. as you can imagine there is a huge roar in the theatre. then someone comes into the theatre that works there...a power outage they cry. a fucking power outage in the last fucking ten minutes of the last star wars movie ever...on opening fucking night! they started the movie up again in 2 minutes when the power returned, but i took a great lesson from all of this: god hates the star wars movies and possibly george lucas. as for the movie: 3/5 dialogue during the love scenes was corny. anakin turning to the dark side was a little weak...i think they needed to play up his motivation more on his feelings of the jedi's betraying him and less on the deal with padme. thought the political statement was funny. apparently george dubya bush is a sith lord? heh. good one lucas. 
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May 20, 05
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hah, that sounds like when i saw episode 2...
the screen went black(but there was still sound) during the scene when all the jedi were "captured" and put in the arena to battle those animal things... then they brought it back on(the bulb burnt out..what are the odds eh), everyone was choked, so they gave us all free passes
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May 20, 05
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I live/work downtown and was at work when the power cut...we can see across to north van and for a short while it was all dark...
Tho I'm surprised the theatre's generators didn't kick in - I would assume they have some - ours kicked in quick enough that the computers didn't even shut down...
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May 21, 05
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May 21, 05
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nobody can hate on Lucas. he shaped the way hollywood looked at movie making. he started out with absolute garbage in the way of animation, unable to make what he really wanted to in the beginning with his 'vision'.. then him and his crew basically started a new way of doin animation 'pixar' and sold it off so it could be developed more and produced movies like toy story etc.. then sorta came full circle and he used that to make really spectacular scenes. the new star wars is sorta like a lifetime journey to get there, so i have a certain amount of respect for it.
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May 22, 05
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May 22, 05
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May 22, 05
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May 22, 05
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lucas wrote that himself.
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May 22, 05
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let me re-state then: the scripts for star wars were never well written. especially the new ones. han solo had some good lines though in the old ones.
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May 22, 05
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what we need is star wars w/ a band of brothers screenplay, throw in some natalie portman porn scenes, (actually A LOT of natalie portman porn scenes) and i think we'll have the perfect movie!
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May 25, 05
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I've never been a Star Wars fan, and this movie proved once again why. What a bunch of crap! The storyline was about as interesting as reading the National Post. I mean the writers of Blossom are way more talented than Lucas. Acting was garbage thanks to the worst screenplay I've seen in years. I felt sorry watching greats like Samuel and Ewan deliver their lines like pupets in a local Midas commercial.
The only thing - and I mean the only thing interesting about this movie - and lucas probably doesn't even know it - is that he posited the to-be darth as a Hamlet-like tragic figure, who's downfall was aided by his love of a woman (its the woman's fault!) and his twisted alligence to a dated form of fraternity, who, on countless occasions broke their own laws of conduct. I don't even think darth had it in him to be as evil as he was if he were not such a pawn of fate. The Jedis, for all their nobility, failed in saving one of their own, and their inability to recognize the sith for who he was is a testiment to their uselessness. Its a bloody miracle they know how to wipe their own asses. Anyway, lucas needs to get head out of the 8th century dungeons and dragons-inspiring heroic epics next time. I say thank god it's over and I'll never get dragged out to one of those eye-rollers again. It's pretty tough to respect someone who has millions and millions at their fingertips and produces, overall, drivel like that. Any talent in this flick was on the part of the computer programmers who put basically the movie together.
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