p e n g u i n d e v i l

Ah yes well, the Oldboy still goes unseen, but one down. I finally made it out for Episode 3 today (or yesterday, I suppose). Quite the flashy sci-fi yarn. Finally. The series that we began that long ago summer of ’77 is now done. Can you believe it’s been 28 years since Elvis died and we stood in those round-the-block lines to watch the start of a space opera? Well. I would say that this one was alright. I was dissapointed to Have Christopher Lee die soo early on (and I hope to never hear the word “dooku” again), but the abbey road stylings at the end where Lucas was like, “let’s just play one scene after another that all connect directly to scenes in Star Wars” I could have done without… Darth in his armor, C-3po being handed off to Cap’n Antilles, Chewbacca, The Death Star (I mean, come on…), the sunset on over the moisture farm on Tatooine… I’m suprised that they didn’t show the death of the big skeleton thing and the jawas bumbling around… Just to be sure. Of course, the worst was their fake Grand Moff Tarkin. I mean, leave him out of it. it upsets his purity in Episode One and his standing as the best character in all of the Star Wars universe. Sigh.
But it was still pretty fun.

Another funny thing was the plot: a selfish and evil man cons his way into being the big man on campus then uses a contrived war to get the senate on his side so that he can expand his powers well beyond their normally acceptable limits and then uses the “war” to label the people who really care about truth and democracy as traitors and anti-democratic. Hmmm… Strangely timely.

Anyway. They had a preview of the new Lion Witch Wardrobe movie, which realy just made me, once again, want to go and buy the awesome 1988 Chronicles of Narnia TV series. Oh well, and I also downloaded the trailer for Oldboy which makes me want to see it more. I have no idea.