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A Closer Look at Star Wars on Film and Off
mclove writes "Revenge of the Sith comes out on DVD today, and there's an interesting article on Slate dissecting the now-complete trilogy as the avant-garde, intellectual sort of film that Lucas keeps saying it is."` Relatedly inkslinger77 writes "ILM model maker, Brian Gernand, speaks about what it is like to work with George Lucas and why he thinks Star Wars attracts such a huge following, particularly among the IT community. He also gives some information about the technology that is used behind the scenes. "
I think ALL of the Star Wars movies suck, and not just episodes I, II and III. I have a lot against the films, mostly that they are responsible for turning what was (on the verge of turning into) a mature genre into infantile shit. SF, as a genre, has never recovered.
No, I'm not trolling. I've despised the films since I saw the first one in 1977. I've watched them all (on opening night!) desperately hoping that at least one of them would turn out not to be complete drek, but my hope was in vain.
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Being an unwed mother! The Christian right would have boycotted the movie. Then again, I am suprised they didn't boycott the movie for having a virgin birth. There is just no pleasing some people though.
Palpatine tells the story of Darth Plageuis and how his apprentice killed him in his sleep. I believe he said (and correct me if I am wrong), that he taught his apprentice this trick. I originally inferred that Palpatine was the apprentice who killed his master- but in watching the film last night- I ruled that out too since he didn't know how to trick either.