three hours of sleep later

plus a venti latte with nutmeg in it. no, i didn’t add nutmeg to my latte on purpose. i reached for the chocolate cocoa stuff on the counter and grabbed the wrong shaker and had dropped a good two shakes of aromatic spice into my coffee before i knew the wrong i was committing. this should reflect the state i am in, so be warned.

how can i comment on epi 2 without spoiling? well, i can start with the trailers. undercover brother, be like mike, men in black 2 and die another day — the new james bond trailer, which was just dead sexy if you ask me. there was another one, but i can’t remember it. the promised matrix trailer was missing, but i found it here: what is the matrix?

but what about the flick? was it good? was it worth the hype? okay. here are some simple observations:

1. though alec guinness grew to abhore his connection to star wars, ewan mcgregor has created the ultimate acting tribute to the elder ben kenobi. the voice, the body language, the way he handles himself in a bar…
2. christopher lee has done conflicted evil well for over thirty years and casting him as the nemesis in two of the biggest films in the last year was no mistake.
3. natalie portman is lovely, carries herself like a queen/senator, but the girl simply cannot act her way out of a paper bag. oh, and another thing: amidala has no blaster skills … leia never missed. ever.
4. yoda is the master. fight yoda and he will be on your ass like a badger on crack.
5. the fett family must’ve immigrated from australia.
6. there are more shades of grey to ths story now. the coin-flip battle between light and dark has landed on it’s side. and it’s rolling downhill…

i have more thoughts, quite a few complaints, but i’ll keep those to myself. for now.

May 16, 2002 – 9:23 am | By Thomas | Posted in Observations | Comments (23)
  • Zip

    Ummmm….why is this posted twice?

  • Natalie

    Excellent question Zip.

    If you had seen epi 2 in Lawrenceville (don’t ask) you too would have seen The Matrix trailer. Looks pretty cool…
    Was anyone else sickened by the love scenes? I mean I am a complete romantic, but Portman and Christensen made me ill!

  • http://www.grabbingsand.org Thomas

    sorry about the double-posting. a repercussion of posting from a rather insistent mac that likes to repeat web commands like a stuttering carnival barker.

  • http://theblairzip.livejournal.com Zip

    I would just like to say that I have not seen this movie yet, so i can neither confirm nor deny any thoughts/feelings/etc.

  • http://www.grabbingsand.org Thomas

    yes, but do you sense anything, dear obi-zip?

  • Zip

    I sense a great disurbance in the Force, young Padwan….it’s called ‘hunger’. But I must be careful. Hunger leads to eating. Eating leads to indigestion. Indigestion leads to suffering. Begun these Fast Food Wars have.

  • http://www.changingthestory.com Janice

    So I’m waiting for the porn version where Anakin starts feeling up Amidala’s back and then they go at it like a couple of frustrated teenagers (as would happen in real life as we all know). They can call it Attack of the Bones. Hey – on only 3 1/2 hours of sleep I can be as disgusting as I wanna be ; )

  • Zip

    That’s not digusting…

  • Zip

    …or disgusting, for that matter…

  • http://www.changingthestory.com Janice

    Star Whores: Attack of the Moans – that’s even better

  • Zip

    Now you’re talking!

  • H

    watch your tongue, boy. natalie portman can act her way out of a paper bag if said bag is not called “star wars” or directed by the inept and out-of-touch george lucas (i’m being a little presumptuous here, having not seen the movie, but still bitter about the last one…). she acted her way out of a paper bag called “the professional”, and then one called “heat”, and then one called “the seagull” last summer in central park. and i didn’t see that mother-daughter thing she did last year, but dammit, i wanted to, and i’m not a chick.

  • Darrell

    I must admit to being rather impressed with Ms. Portman. First of all, her wardrobe was stellar. When she was wearing that leatherette corsette…Anyway, I think she seemed lousy playing opposite Whiny-ass Jedi (now we know where Luke gets it). But in the rare moments when she could put some color into the character herself (quick facial expressions, for the most part) I found her rather charming. And tasty. When she’s climbing to her feet after being knocked into the sand, though, can’t you just see her saying, “It’s my industrial strength hairdryer! And I can’t live without it!”

  • Julieanne

    Saw said mother-daughter thing with Natalie Portman and I am ashamed of her “skillz” in this movie. I expected more from her and when I have to start thinking Ewen McGregor is the acting glue holding the editing together I start to get worried. But I knew what I was getting into and for mega-hollywood this movie was typically OK. I actually kind of liked it but I just have a thing for Yoda.

  • http://www.changingthestory.com Janice

    Literally at one point during the movie (when Obi-Wan discovers Count Dooku’s droid making planet – can’t remember the name) – I leaned over to a fellow movie going companion and said “HEY!!! it’s PLANET SPACEBALL!!!” – oh come on – you were thinking the same thing….

  • Zip

    HA! I said the same thing, Janice!!!

  • http://www.changingthestory.com Janice

    Hail Scroob!

  • Zip

    Hail Scroob, indeed. At least Mel is a good director.

  • http://www.livejournal.com/users/jolefay Julieanne

    OK..I didn’t think Space Balls I thought Death Star..Allthough I did giggle when Zip said it. I must be totally geeky I liked it for the kind of movie it was. I am a big Sci-Fi girl but I know what I am getting into when I see that movie. I will agree with Darell though Natalie Portman was better when being chased by somthing.

  • Darrell

    I’d say that most women are better when being chased by something.

  • Julieanne

    Hahahahahahaa! HAHAHAHAA! Beware Darell of the woman who looks like she is being chased but is most likely doing the chasing.. In Amidala’s case she should learn how to shoot her target’s more accurately..*giggles.hahahaa! Next show after coffee ladies and gentleman..

  • H

    “okay, so, what am i doing? oh, i’m chasing this guy. no, he’s chasing me!”

  • Julieanne

    Insert tasteless joke here __…