| Reasonable said: You know, when I'd finished watching this in the cinema, as I wandered out into the cold wondering why all of a sudden everyone in Star Wars land now spoke with strangely familiar accents that bordered on parody, a line from a New Hope occured to me, and it was a fitting one... "I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened"
Alas, it had. Lucas had gone from making a great Star Wars film (A New Hope) to a classic film (Empire) to an okay Star Wars film (Jedi) to a bad Star Wars film. At least I didn't feel like he'd raped my childhood though. Although from the actual real wailing and ranting of some I saw I guess they felt differently. |
I cut my eye teeth on Star Wars. My entire understanding of science fiction, before being introduced to Herbert, was summed up in Star Wars.
When I went in and watched The Phantom Menace, I did not know what was wrong with it. I liked it - I still do, as I enjoy terrible movies sometimes - but I knew that something was off, that some quality I didn't have the perspective to name was missing.
Just
Freaking
Midichlorians, man.
