Thursday, July 07, 2005

RoJ Comments Part Deux

1. Luke: What do you remember of your mother?
Leia: Not much, she died when I was very young (YEAH, LIKE 30 SECONDS AFTER
I WAS BORN)
2. So, they got rid of the "jub jub" song from the Ewoks, which was never particularly popular. But did they have to replace it with a something that sounds like some long-haired dude using an acoustic guitar & a series of synthesizer pedals to have a New Age performance in a mall?
3. The Ewoks: not as annoying as I remember.
4. Darth Vader: Remove my mask.
Luke: But you'll die. (WHAT? HOW DO YOU KNOW THAT?)
5. Luke built himself a lightsaber? What the fuck? Perhaps "Jedi training" includes a number of technical courses.
6. Strange, the Ewoks were going to EAT the landing party until they were awed byThreepio floating. In the midst of all the revelry at the end, let's not forget that the rebels are celebrating with a bunch of beastly little cannibalistic savages.
7. Actual conversation last night:
Sharon: It would be weird to grow up never really knowing who your father is or that you had
a sister.
Dan: Particuarly so, if your father was Darth Vader.
8. I love the co-pilot alongside Lando-the alien with the groovy orange 70's shirt and vest and the funky laugh.
9. Funny...FUNNY during the Vader-Luke confrontation. The whole scene alternates multiple times between Luke saying, "I won't fight you, father," then fighting him for about 30 seconds. Again and again, "I won't fight you father," then "hack, hack hack, slice." I have a theory that he actually defeats Vader because he blows his mind. His brain, which is perhaps more machine than man at this point, starts just steaming-I'm surprised we don't see white smoke coming out of the side of his helmet as he continues to get these confusing and conflicting messages from his son.
10. How can Vader, who surely has heard once or twice that "there are always two Sith, never more never less" not put two and two together and conceive of the idea that the Emperor is wanting to replace him with Luke? Especially when the confrontation is so similar to the Anakin-Dooku battle he himself was involved in years prior.
11. Likewise-moments ago, the Emperor asked Luke to put an end to the defeated Vader. Considering the Sith are evil and known to usurp one another from time to time, is it really wise for him to take his eyes off Vader as he attacks Vader's son?
12. It would be funny if, after the death of the Emperor, Vader & Luke became the two Sith.
13. I see they replaced the ghost image of the older, bald guy who was supposed to be Anakin with Hayden Christensen in the final scene. I wonder if the bald guy got pissed. Anyway, when did they do that? These movies were re-released long before Revenge of the Sith came out-that was quite a sneak preview into Anakin in his prime.
14. And finally, with respect to the ghost images; why does Anakin get to appear as his 27-year old self, but Obi-Wan has to come back at Alec Guinness' age? Hardly seems fair. Would have been interesting, too, to see Yoda in his prime. Perhaps he once was, like, 5'8" but just shrunk and shrunk over his last 800 years or so.

2 comments:

Pat said...

1.
I made a similar comment to Faith. Doesn't she say, 'just images, feelings really' or some such thing. Images of the birth canal and her dead. Great.
2.
Yeah and they beefed up the galactic celebration - what the hell were all these cheering people doing to thwart the empire?
3.
Agreed.
4.
Maybe he learned about Darth from Chewbacca who had been pen pals with Yoda going back to their days fighting together in the Clone Wars.
5.
He did come from a very skilled family relative to building shit. It's no pod racer, but... think of the plans you could find on that long ago internet for a lightsaber...
6.
But they're so cute!
7.
AND to have STRONG romantic urges towards your sister.
8.
He's awesome. Boy that galaxy was friendly towards polyglots - what language DOESN'T Lando speak?
9.
Added to the inherent confusion built into trying to kill your son.
10.
His debt to the emporer is great?
11.
Probably not.
12.
One of whom is supplanted by Leia after she gets some training.
13.
The DVD's were released after Episode 2 I think.
14.
The last time he was good.

Aaron said...

Good comments. Just a quick couple and I NEED to sleep.

5. It is a required part of Jedi training

14. What Pat said.