Saturday, January 28, 2012

Only Thing Missing was Luke and Leia's Baptism

               
OK, I finally decided to watch the Star Wars movies, in order...have seen snippets of all six, but never entire movies, back to back, in order. I was a bit apprehensive after vowing to do the same thing with Lord of the Rings and ended up deleting them after I could not make it through the second one, though I tried four times. There is only so much walking, walking, walking I can put up with...the only thing I learned from this was the Dominic Monaghan was cuter in Lost, Sean Astin was better in Rudy, and Elijah Wood bites his nails.


Anyway, back to the Prequel/Endquel of Star Wars.  Not a bad back story, answered a lot of questions, but I do think it kind of reminded me of another movie...I mean, when that horrible old Chancellor told all his cronies to act on "plan 66", I had flashbacks...you know,  like mobsters getting gunned down in the street, and Moe Green getting shot in the eye while getting a massage...seriously. I do not imagine many people feeling the same, as most of the people who watch these George Lucas extravaganzas were not even BORN when The Godfather was made...I have a son that is now 33 and finally admits it was one of the best movies ever, after I FORCED him to watch it 6 years ago when I was visiting him and we were bored.


This is the un-bloody pic, other one too gross
I actually thought maybe I was imagining this, til I went online and found a few others that also referred to the comparison...I mean, they even got into how Anakin was like Michael Corleone,  power-hungry, ignored his wife, and eventually pretty much did not trust anyone. He lived in that huge house with the wife with lots of big windows, too.  At least they didn't ask him to kill a bunch of guys over a spaghetti dinner..