Tuesday, November 09, 2004

Please don't suck

Yes, I agree that it will most likely be god-awful. But the trailer looks cool, at least.
As regards the suckitude of the heretofore released prequels: I had a brief conversation with a movie-buff acquaintance of mine at my other job (the movie theatre [ok, former other job, but that's another post]), and he fumed that they "were made for little kids!" That got me a-thinkin. "Well, yeah," I thought. "That's kind of what Lucas was going for. The original movies were for little kids. Remember how much you loved ewoks?"
Of course, I'm older now (not to say wiser, although I now realize the error of my ewok-lovin ways), and I'm thinking that my generation's worship of the orignal films may be just as much a symptom of our nostalgia (yes, it's a disease) as it is due to any actual artistic validity the films may possess. As compared to real movies, their greatness can certainly be contested, and reasonable people can disagree as to their worth, but we love them because we remember loving them as kids. Kinda like why we all seem to like He-Man. Or Jello.
If today's little kids love Jar-Jar, great. They'll grow out of it. And they'll grow up to love the prequels just as we grew up loving the original films, flawed as they most certainly are. The movies, I mean. Not the kids.

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