"He is f---ing with us numerically, isn't he...'Children, count up to 10!' 'Uh, four five six...one two three...10!"
"What's that?"
"It's the Death Star!"
"What does it do?"
"It does DEATH! Outta my way buddy!"
-eddie izzard, 'circle'
I'll see Star Wars. I will, in that calm sort of, wait-until-I-can-get-a-ticket way. I'm thrilled about it, because it's been going on for almost 30 years, since before I was born - this is the seventh book of HP for the Star Wars fans - but I'm just not in it like the real fans are. I'll sit back and let them go first. This is tremendous for them, and I'm thrilled for them. A colleague today, who is usually dry and completely unimpressed with everything, was running around counting to everyone who would listen how many times he would see the movie this weekend (four; tonight at 10:30, tomorrow ditto, and two matinees over the weekend). Another came over and showed me the NY Times review, and said it convinced him there was nothing really to see, so he just didn't want to go - and I was sad for him, because he didn't get it.
The movie might suck. If one and two are any indication, it will. But that's not it. That's not it. IT is sitting in the theater while those words disappear into that historic vanishing point, it's 'I have a very bad feeling about this,' it's the force being strong with that one and this other one being the last hope but wait, there is another. It's a long time ago and far far away - and wait! It's not! Because it's over. Goddam, is that exciting.
Have a great time, Star Wars fans. I'll know how you feel in a few years.
so, if there is life after 3 there must be life after 7?
Hey, I just thought of someting! Voldemort's goal is to get rid of Harry - so, no matter what, in book seven he wins :o(
I tend to think, as suggested in the animated episodes of "Clerks", that Lucas wrote the Prequels in a drunken bored weekend. Or something like that. Then all the characters demanded their money back for "Phantom Menace".
I'm seeing it tonight at 10:45 which I shouldn't be doing b/c I have work on Fri. I'm hoping the costumes are good, that's something I always look forward to.
I don't expect it to elicit the wonder and feeling of total distraction that the original movies did, and I don't really want to see Anakin become evil; I think the NY Times review said that Lucas didn't really flesh out enough how Anakin turned evil.
There still might be more sequels after episode 6. Ebert comments on this on his review; he thinks it will happen.
I would love to see Palpatine and Voldie duke it out though.
I love both Star Wars and Harry Potter to death. Love the characters, the plotline (well of the original Star Wars lol) everything! This one was good! It was a lot better than the two previous prequels and really tied into the originals. I had a great time seeing it and you're right about the excitement. Despite that I think I'll be sadder to see the end of HP though, because it's different. I was excited for this.. but I'm excited and dreading the last HP book because I don't want it to be over. Star Wars doesn't feel like it is, maybe because I spent half my life with only three and the ones now are prequels not endings. We've seen Harry grown up and grown up with him. I feel like a proud mother (even though I'm only 20). lol Of course I say I kinda dread it now, I might have a different tune about book seven after waiting a few years for it... :)
I love that Eddie Izzard quote! I've not yet seen Circle. Must rent it now!
I've been in the SW Fandom for much longer than HP, so I've been feeling a little odd about the whole prequel thing. I'm an "Original Trilogy" fan, really, and I just hoped the new prequels wouldn't warp my feelings about the films I grew up with. (For the record, I tolerate ep I and II, not love. Tolerate. So I had big fears about this one not living up to what it should be.)
Anyway, I really like EpIII. It ties up everything it should, and Ewan kicks ass. And it DID change how I felt about some characters in ep 4, 5, 6, but it's a good thing. It added new dimensions to them all. But it's weird to think it's all over. :(
And now I'm going through it again with HP, but differently, since the filmmakers aren't making us wait 25 years between films. Imagine how crappy that would be if they did? There would be a fangirl revolt!
In the moments when I can think passed the release of HBP, I do dread the day that I read the last page of Book 7.
Oh, of course I will read and re-read the entire series, but it will never be the same. Even now it is hard to read about Sirius in POA, GOF and most of OOTP, since I know his fate. Harry's glimmer of hope about one day being able to live with Sirius just makes me sad. And I hate every mention of Scabbers all the way back from Harry and Ron's meeting on the train.
I am not a *huge* Star Wars fan either, but I shall go and see it (with an open mind) and hopefully enjoy it as a movie - because I *will* enjoy it as an Historical cinematic event.
I might even go and see it on Monday (during the day so the cinema won't be full)~ because my Kitchen is being renovated, and they have asked that I leave the premises while they are working.
But then again, I have not seen Hitch-Hikers Guide yet - and an Alan Rickman fix would be great at this point!
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