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I'm sure you've all been waiting with baited breath to find out what I thought about Sith. Yeheh. Gotta be honest: I didn't love it, and for the first few minutes after leaving the theater, I wasn't even sure I liked it. Truth be told, I think I was just overly spoiled. I'd read every last aspect about the movie prior to seeing it. Hell, I'd seen stills from every major scene, pretty much frame by frame. The movie had no chance of surprising me, and in many ways, it never had a chance to win me over: Having only seen the stills, I had weeks and months to make up in my own head how the scenes were going to play out. That rarely works in favor of the actual product.

Which isn't to say that the product isn't completely without blame. My complaints aren't original so I won't repeat them for the millionth time, but fuck man, I can't get past 'em either. Save for ol' Palpsy, I just couldn't shake the belief that nobody onscreen really wanted to be there -- an idea I willingly out as being unfair, since it's not like Hayden and Ewan didn't give it as much as they could. I dunno. Obviously, I'd much prefer to be in LOVE with the movie, and plan to see it again soon. Maybe my opinion will swap. I loved Attack of the Clones when it debuted, hated it a few weeks after. I'm hoping for the reverse effect with this one.

But beyond all that, it's easily the most literally exciting of the prequels. I dug the entire "Order 66" sequence, one of the only parts of the entire prequel trilogy that got a genuine emotional response outta me. Palpatine's various freakouts were also a plus. Bleh. Gimme a few weeks...hopefully I'll come around.

In other news, the reason you didn't get a new article this past weekend is because I was out of town -- so that means you get a, drumroll, trip report this weekend. And how.

Posted by Matt on 05/23/2005. E-mail me!



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this guys is outta his mind

http://boards.theforce.net/Classic_Trilogy/b10002/19934829/?29

read this to get a good laugh…

Chestnuts roasted by phunqsauce @ 05/28/2005 3:43 AM

http://chud.com/contests/3137">CHUD CONTEST: FREAKED DVD
(http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0007WFXTE/qid%3D1117295291/sr%3D11-1/ref%3Dsr%5F11%5F1/102-6350055-4127347">Release date: July 12, 2005)

Chestnuts roasted by ME @ 05/28/2005 11:49 AM

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00094ARHS/qid=1117295495/sr=1-3/ref=sr_1_3/002-2963066-1688844?v=glance&s=dvd">Bill & Ted’s Most Excellent Collection to be released on the same day.

http://www.alexwinterfansite.com/NEWS.htm">Alex Winter News (He directs comedy sketchs for Jimmy Kimmel?)

Chestnuts roasted by ME @ 05/28/2005 11:54 AM

"SuperShadow is a lying sack of shit. – DarkPrimus"
Entirely true.
Supershadow.com is a big lie. Read the following link at Wikipedia if you need proof. There are many, many people who are pissed at this guy for posing as George Lucas and for lying about being involved in the production of the Prequels. (not to mention the girls he claims are his girlfriends but aren’t)
His site was hacked by a group called the g00ns (http://www.g00ns.com) for these reasons and more.
DO NOT take anything he says seriously unless you see it on Starwars.com or theforce.net. Even George Lucas himself is aware of this fake.

Wikipedia article – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supershadow

SuperSTUPID – http://utenti.lycos.it/superstupid/
(hilarious parody of supershadow.com)

This has been a public service announcment.

Chestnuts roasted by Cyanyde @ 05/28/2005 12:14 PM

RE: ME: (Bill and Ted)

Damn it! I just bought Excellent adventure, and now they have a box set with extras? Arghh…

Oh well…Excellent adventure was only 7 bucks at wal-mart.

Chestnuts roasted by Cameron T. @ 05/28/2005 12:16 PM

Thanks for the links, Cyan. That side seemed way shady.

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 05/28/2005 12:58 PM

np, I don’t want to see loyal fans taken advantage of. He even has a pay section which i sincerely hope no one has actually paid for.

Chestnuts roasted by Cyanyde @ 05/28/2005 1:00 PM

I just checked out that website. What a load of garbage. There is no way that guy could honestly believe he was the least bit connected with Lucas. Laughable and entirely self-delusional.
P.S. one can also tell that it is fake because Lucas rarely concerns himself with thanking the fans, etc.

Chestnuts roasted by The Manimal @ 05/28/2005 2:39 PM

George Lucas also would never call one of his fans "geeks" or "nerds" (even though we already know it to be true) ;p

Chestnuts roasted by Cyanyde @ 05/28/2005 3:13 PM

This is off the subject of "sith" but i figured someone here might know. Does anyone remember a live action kids show from the 80′s where they would get smashed with jelly doughnuts? It was somewhat like "you can’t do that on television". I have been going nuts trying to remember the name of it.

Chestnuts roasted by kb @ 05/28/2005 3:17 PM

I’ve been going on the Supershadow site for about a year now…got there with a Yahoo seach for the Sith script and spoilers. The guy is very dilusional. He talks about hanging out with Lucas, helping with editing, stuff like that. It’s almost laughable how out of touch with reality the guy is. That’s half the fun of the site.

Chestnuts roasted by Y2JB78 @ 05/28/2005 4:13 PM

Well, I’m afraid his site won’t be around much longer.. I can pretty much promise you that. ;)

Chestnuts roasted by Cyanyde @ 05/28/2005 6:04 PM

kb- Yes, it was called "You can’t do that on television". I used to watch it when I was a kid-What in the heck has happend to all the good tv shows?? Ha ha.
I liked the movie very much, but let’s face it y’all, they don’t make them like Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill, and Carrie Fisher, do they??:)
My son has ADHD- he sat through the whole thing without blinking an eye, and that was magic enough for me!! That’s what it’s all about, imo. It made me remember what it was like for me when I saw Empire in the theatres.
The only gripe I have is, Mace Windu’s death sucked. I like Samuel Jackson, but geeeeeesh!! lame.
Other than that, let’s all remember, it’s just a movie. And, yes, I am a die hard SW fan, but it’s already been made, and there is nothing any of us can do about the way it turned out. I knew it wouldn’t be the same as the old ones when I saw menace. Ugh.
Oh, and for those of you talking about Padme being weepy in ep 111,
Remember, pregnancy can make ANY strong woman fragile, especially if you are expecting twins. I wasn’t exactly expecting her to go confront Anakin and whip out a lightsaber. ;)
Hope everyone has a wonderful Memorial Day weekend! Let’s not forget those who fought for us.

Chestnuts roasted by TW @ 05/28/2005 10:40 PM

Have Padme lightsaber-duel Anakin? That would have been a movie!

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 05/29/2005 2:06 PM

You know what king? Now that I think about it, that would have been cool!! ha ha
I guess as long as the saber wasn’t past 15 lbs., she would have been ok swinging the thing while pregnant, without endangering the pregnancy!!!! ;)

Chestnuts roasted by TW @ 05/29/2005 3:52 PM

rots is better then star wars galaxies any day though.

Chestnuts roasted by the80sruled @ 05/30/2005 5:53 AM

I like dog buscists if your paying attention and I went pee pee on my self

Chestnuts roasted by Mutt @ 06/10/2005 6:12 PM

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