Star Wars
I took the Zymeta Development Team to see Star Wars: Episode III this afternoon. Worst movie ever. Okay, maybe not the worst movie ever but it certainly didn’t come close to living up to the hype. And it was nowhere close to as good as the original three. And I think it was the worst of the “new” three movies.
At first I thought that perhaps my reaction was due to the fact that I am now old, and no longer the 5 year old kid entranced with Star Wars. But I still like the originals. And the more I think about it the more I think that the movie was simply over engineered and took what should have been a five or six hour movie and tried to squish it into two hours. I read somewhere that George Lucas spent almost as much money on advertising as he did on making the movie. I’m thinking he should have spent more time and money trying to get a good screenplay written.
Would I recommend going to see Episode III? If you love Star Wars, you will find that no matter what, you have to go. If you don’t see it in the theaters you will likely regret not going. But afterwards, you may regret having spent $15 on what feels like a big, commercial rip off. Personally, I won’t go see the movie in the theatre again, and it’s not likely that I will buy the DVD. I still haven’t bought any of the other movies on DVD either. Am I bitter? Nope. But I am really disappointed and so is the 5 year old boy inside me that never grew up.
Fri, 27 May 2005 18:09 Posted in General
