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Yoda Does Break Dancing
May. 29th, 2010 06:38 pmI'm bored at home and I find myself flipping channels to see if anyone has any good movies or marathons on for Memorial Day Weekend. Spike seems to be having a Star-Wars-O-Rama, starting with "The Phantom Menace" today and rounding out with everything else (in order from Episode 2-6) tomorrow. I hadn't seen TPM in quite some time, so I sat down to watch and I wound up with a few thoughts to share. Also, any excuse to use this video is a plus.
I guess it takes a year or two of not seeing TPM to realize how really goofy Jake Lloyd as Anakin is. Now I see what everyone was talking about in 1999. His lines were meant to be delivered by someone much, much older. The cute little boy persona just doesn't fit. Even Qui-Gon Jinn starts to look weary of the kid and probably was happy he got killed off (you know I'm being facetious - Liam Neeson doesn't like to do sequels, generally speaking).
Even back when this movie was new, there was something funny about Anakin someday being romantically involved with Queen Amidala (holy crap, lady you are hitting on a nine-year-old!!!). Hindsight being what it is, I wonder if George Lucas might possibly could have gotten away with having Anakin be a little older in TPM - like 11 or 12 (heck, the Jedi Council would have pegged him as too old to begin Jedi training no matter what). Meh - just my musings. It really doesn't matter. Personally, I watch TPM for two reasons - Ewan McGregor as Obi-Wan Kenobi and John Williams' score (esp. "Duel of the Fates" at the end - makes it aaaaall worth it!). Oh, and Yoda is awesome, but that's almost redundant.
My favorite Star Wars movies will always be the original trilogy from the 70s (the number one on the list being "Empire Strikes Back"). There's some kind of mystique around them in that they didn't have so much computer technology to make those movies, yet they still did some pretty awesome stuff. They had to be more inventive and resourceful to do what they did and that amazing thing is that they don't look terribly hokey when put side-by-side some of the big special-effects orgies they make nowadays (I'm not saying anything's wrong with special-effects in general, but when you sacrifice a good story just so you can get one more big explosion in there, then we have a problem).
(I'm noticing this is becoming quite the little geek-fest blog. Not that it wasn't already. Eh, whatever the special is, that's what I post about).
ETA - I have to say a Happy Birthday to my grandma, who passed away eleven years ago this month. She would have been 91 today. Miss you, Grandma!
I guess it takes a year or two of not seeing TPM to realize how really goofy Jake Lloyd as Anakin is. Now I see what everyone was talking about in 1999. His lines were meant to be delivered by someone much, much older. The cute little boy persona just doesn't fit. Even Qui-Gon Jinn starts to look weary of the kid and probably was happy he got killed off (you know I'm being facetious - Liam Neeson doesn't like to do sequels, generally speaking).
Even back when this movie was new, there was something funny about Anakin someday being romantically involved with Queen Amidala (holy crap, lady you are hitting on a nine-year-old!!!). Hindsight being what it is, I wonder if George Lucas might possibly could have gotten away with having Anakin be a little older in TPM - like 11 or 12 (heck, the Jedi Council would have pegged him as too old to begin Jedi training no matter what). Meh - just my musings. It really doesn't matter. Personally, I watch TPM for two reasons - Ewan McGregor as Obi-Wan Kenobi and John Williams' score (esp. "Duel of the Fates" at the end - makes it aaaaall worth it!). Oh, and Yoda is awesome, but that's almost redundant.
My favorite Star Wars movies will always be the original trilogy from the 70s (the number one on the list being "Empire Strikes Back"). There's some kind of mystique around them in that they didn't have so much computer technology to make those movies, yet they still did some pretty awesome stuff. They had to be more inventive and resourceful to do what they did and that amazing thing is that they don't look terribly hokey when put side-by-side some of the big special-effects orgies they make nowadays (I'm not saying anything's wrong with special-effects in general, but when you sacrifice a good story just so you can get one more big explosion in there, then we have a problem).
(I'm noticing this is becoming quite the little geek-fest blog. Not that it wasn't already. Eh, whatever the special is, that's what I post about).
ETA - I have to say a Happy Birthday to my grandma, who passed away eleven years ago this month. She would have been 91 today. Miss you, Grandma!
