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Saw Star Wars this weekend. I have to admit that I was not particularly impressed. There were good moments, but there were more mediocre and bad moments than good ones. And the dialogue. PAINFUL. If you’re going to put that much effort into visual presentation, don’t you want the voices of your characters to be polished as well? When the movie first started, even Ewan MacGregor was having a hard time making it sound less than wooden. As he’s a phenomenal actor and has managed to have a sparkle in this trilogy regarless of the clumsiness of the lines he’s given, I knew then I was in for a loooong movie. I got bored about halfway through.

So my basic thoughts (may want to avoid if you’re paranoid about spoilers):

• R2 had the best dialogue in the flick. By far.
• Hayden Christensen and Natalie Portman STILL have no onscreen chemistry, making their “epic love story” wholly unconvincing and his willingness to do *anything* for her even less believable.
• I don’t care if I haven’t seen The Professional, one movie does not an actress make.
• Samuel L. Jackson deserved a better death scene.
• If you got that badly, horrifically burned, would you really have enough functional nerve endings left in your body for big dramatic screams of pain? And even if you did, apparently in a galaxy far far away, there’s no such thing as anesthesia.
• In the scene where Sidious and Yoda are flinging the senators “seats” around, is it *possible* to be any more heavy handed with the symbolism??
• Thank God it’s over.

End of rant.

On a related but yet substantially different note, I finally saw Galaxy Quest last night. I agree with a friend who commented that ’tis the best Star Trek movie ever made. I really enjoyed it.

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