I was 15 when it was released, and I thought Star Wars was the absolute coolest, awesomest movie ever made. Now, even without Lucas’ going back and fucking with it (of course Han shot first – he’s a badass!!!), it just doesn’t have the same effect – most of the dialog is just comic-book silly.
Spiny — I was 23 and was so awed by the film I went and saw it 14 times that year.
Yes, the dialogue struck me as comic book simple, but the totality of the film, was unique and engaging. Sci-fi not as gleaming utopia but as scruffy, dusty, otherness. It was Amazing Stories on the big screen.
And it was the best of my fave adventure films of the 30’s & 40’s I loved so from Saturday afternoon tv.
It may not “wow” me as much, but it still holds pretty good for me.
at Ralphs this weekend they had a dejected-looking hooch going through the motions of making guacamole in these sad specimen cups that they set out for so you could taste this exotic festive treat
His cousin Han Valdez delivers my coffee in under 12 parsecs.
I was 15 when it was released, and I thought Star Wars was the absolute coolest, awesomest movie ever made. Now, even without Lucas’ going back and fucking with it (of course Han shot first – he’s a badass!!!), it just doesn’t have the same effect – most of the dialog is just comic-book silly.
Completely off topic, but, wow…
Things I never thought I’d see: jihadis ackbarring an Israeli air strike.
Spiny — I was 23 and was so awed by the film I went and saw it 14 times that year.
Yes, the dialogue struck me as comic book simple, but the totality of the film, was unique and engaging. Sci-fi not as gleaming utopia but as scruffy, dusty, otherness. It was Amazing Stories on the big screen.
And it was the best of my fave adventure films of the 30’s & 40’s I loved so from Saturday afternoon tv.
It may not “wow” me as much, but it still holds pretty good for me.
at Ralphs this weekend they had a dejected-looking hooch going through the motions of making guacamole in these sad specimen cups that they set out for so you could taste this exotic festive treat
I think his name is Javier Jabba.
Is Juan Solo’s sidekick a big, shaggy guy named Chuy?
I think those are considered “assault weapons” in California.
While May 8th can’t come soon enough.
May 8th will come and go. Nothing will change.
I know him! He’s the Captain of the Millenium Burro!
is there a cinco de mustard?