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Still Mulling The Star Wars Thing...
May. 23rd, 2005 06:14 pm
Perhaps it's because the work day was incredibly slow or maybe I'm just stressed about my up-coming plane trip down to my parents abode (first plane trip since that Xmas fiasco), but I've been mulling over Lucas' Star Wars films in my mind. Rolling them over in my head. Mulling over what worked in the prequels and what didn't. And thinking about the postings on my flist, in area newspapers, and the New Yorker regarding them.
This weekend I re-read![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
the_red_shoes rant on the whole movie phenomena, as well as a lengthy thread in masqthephlsphr's journal. What's notable about both of these entries - is neither person has seen Revenge of the Sith. Red Shoes has no interest in it. Masquethephilosopher fully intends on seeing it, but wants to re-watch the prequels, and Clone Wars first. The two entries do however agree on two things:1)the prequels are no where near as good as the originals, and 2)Why did Lucas fiddle with the originals to begin with?
In case you haven't figured it out by now, Star Wars was my first media obsession. Well, after Kimba, but I barely remember Kimba, since I was only 3 at the time. Prior to Star Wars, science fiction to my child's mind seemed to be a place filled with scarey monsters that popped out of closets and from under my bed. I'm not sure anyone under the age of 35 can truly understand what a phenomena Star Wars was in the late 1970s - a period where there weren't many children's films that appealed to adults. Disney sort of owned the market. Star Wars was a child's movie that adult's could love, it spanned generations, no one was too young or too old for this film. But it was meant as a child's movie. One of the few that my parents could take me and my younger brother to - we were respectively 11 and 8.
( cut for length, no spoilers - well okay slight ones on Star Wars, Empire, Jedi and Attack of the Clones, but none on Clone Wars animated films or Sith. This is also more about me than the movies, by the way. Want a review of the movie? Read my last post. )
This weekend I re-read
the_red_shoes rant on the whole movie phenomena, as well as a lengthy thread in masqthephlsphr's journal. What's notable about both of these entries - is neither person has seen Revenge of the Sith. Red Shoes has no interest in it. Masquethephilosopher fully intends on seeing it, but wants to re-watch the prequels, and Clone Wars first. The two entries do however agree on two things:1)the prequels are no where near as good as the originals, and 2)Why did Lucas fiddle with the originals to begin with? In case you haven't figured it out by now, Star Wars was my first media obsession. Well, after Kimba, but I barely remember Kimba, since I was only 3 at the time. Prior to Star Wars, science fiction to my child's mind seemed to be a place filled with scarey monsters that popped out of closets and from under my bed. I'm not sure anyone under the age of 35 can truly understand what a phenomena Star Wars was in the late 1970s - a period where there weren't many children's films that appealed to adults. Disney sort of owned the market. Star Wars was a child's movie that adult's could love, it spanned generations, no one was too young or too old for this film. But it was meant as a child's movie. One of the few that my parents could take me and my younger brother to - we were respectively 11 and 8.
( cut for length, no spoilers - well okay slight ones on Star Wars, Empire, Jedi and Attack of the Clones, but none on Clone Wars animated films or Sith. This is also more about me than the movies, by the way. Want a review of the movie? Read my last post. )