Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television.

[sanpaku_backup]

Poor former actor Ewan McGregor. George Lucas drove a big dump truck full of money up to his house. And just like that he was lost to the Dark Side.

So fucking exhausting and boring. I spent most of the film trying to figure out which parts of the "dialogue" Tom Stoppard worked on... and then it hit me: Jar-Jar didn't have a single line in the film! "That's my only change, Mr. Lucas. That'll be one hundred thousand dollars." Worth every penny!

The Mrs. has decided that, from now on, she's going to say "I sense Count Dooku" whenever someone farts.

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[then.livejournal.com]

A-1 perfect use of that icon.

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

Jar-Jar didn't have a single line in the film!

I noticed that right away. Every time (well, both times?) he came on screen, I cringed loudly -- and then he never said a word. Awesome.

Didn't connect it with Tom Stoppard though. :-)

[sanpaku.livejournal.com]

Since "they" say he script-doctored it... I wondered where it could possibly have been done. I mean, no one thought to change "younglings." I cringed every time they said that.

Yeah, Jar-Jar's appearance on screen was definitely a "fuck, no!" moment. "He's going to Jar-Jar me for my ten bucks... not again!" Maybe the reason everyone likes this film better is connecting that feeling of relief to the rest of the mess.

Jar Jar

[flw.livejournal.com]

I remember when the last film came out a couple of years ago, they said, "Oh and don't worry, Jar Jar Binks has a very dignified role in this film." And what was his dignified role? He gets tricked into starting the Empire by the Dark Lord of the Sith in a gambit that you couldn't put over on most three year olds.

Oh, Jar Jar, look at all the broccoli left over! We can't eat all the broccoli! If only a BIG BOY would help us eat the broccoli, but there are no BIG BOYS here.

Meesa BIG BOY. Meesa eat ALL the broccoli!

Re: Jar Jar

[sanpaku.livejournal.com]

Can I even remember a single thing from that movie? No sa.

Re: Jar Jar

[flw.livejournal.com]

I just got back from seeing Episode III and I must confess, I rather liked it, a whole lot, even though the parts I liked best were the parts going on in my head. This one had the advantage of having few situations where I wasn't gritting my teeth and thinking, "suspend disbelief... extraordinary situation, people might say things like that... Gad! No! It's just too effing stupid to believe."

Re: Jar Jar

[sanpaku.livejournal.com]

De gustibus non est disputandum!

Re: Jar Jar

[flw.livejournal.com]

The food is not disputable?

Latin 101

[sanpaku.livejournal.com]

There's no accounting for taste!