Ok, well, still amusing, even if not homegrown.

It occurred to me, while Darth was being suited up, how utterly ridiculous that suit is. What the hell kind of helmet is that? Really?

I believe it was supposed to look samurai-esque, going back to the Jedi as samurai angle from the original trilogy.

I can't really blame Natalie Portman. I complain about my sought-after job, and my boss doesn't make me look bad in front of a billion people.

Saw RotS on Friday evening. It was meh for me, but I'm assigning some of that to my horrible mood. The acting threw me out of the scene quite a few times. As others have said, no passion in the performances at all, even with Vadar at the end. I will say that McDiarmid was the exception to that, he was pretty damn creepy. I think that when I'm in a better frame of mind, I need to see it again. I did think that the action sequences were very impressive and the CGI for Yoda was way cool, much better than the either PM or AotC.

I love Ewan's performance now that I've seen it twice. I don't love it enough to go back and watch AotC again, but he just breaks my heart in the big final battle scene.

But promoting her work is part of her job. Is it part of yours?

But promoting her work is part of her job. Is it part of yours?

Yes, but point taken. Not nearly to the same extent. I haven't seen it, but my BF made me laugh, hard, when he pointed this out:

Imagine you're looking for a good place to live. What goes on your list of desirable features? In our world, the list probably looks like:

affordable
nice neighborhood
good landlord

and so on.

In George Lucas's world it looks like:

Must be made entirely out of lava.

Yes, there's a planet that seems to be mostly lava, and people have buildings set up on top of the lava (well, technically they're set up on volcanic rock, but there's still lava all around them).

But it gets dumber.

Obi-Wan and Darth Vader have a fight on top of a bridge over the lava. While they're fighting, a lava eruption lands on the bridge. It destroys the bridge. The bridge's getting destroyed causes the whole building to fall into the lava.

Now, here's the thing. You'd think the people who made this building--y'know, the one entirely surrounded by flowing, bubbling lava--would make it impervious to the lava. Maybe they can't. But in that case, this is, like, the 56th time this has happened to their building. Which, really, shame on them.

Actually, IRT whitefont: Earlier we see the buildings have energy shields on them that protects them from the lava. There's a shot pre-fight where we see lava dripping onto the roof of a building causing a shield to spark. When Obi-Wan and Anakin are fighting in the control room, they knock out the controls for the shield generator.

Ford famously improv-ed the riposte "I know" to Leia's declaration of love.

I've heard that she was so stoned she kept messing up the scene, and "I know" came out of his irritation at that fact.

Though I think I like the scene better if that isn't true.

So wishing I could've seen a more usual SLJ..."When you wanna lightsaber every motherfucker in the room...you really shouldn't. This force thing is all spiritual and shit."

I love this line.

I also like Natalie Portman, generally. I think she should meet me for dinner somewhere, and we can discuss how bad the Star Wars movies are over filet mignon and a nice cabernet.