And a few more things
May. 26th, 2005 10:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
plutherusOnly slightly related to Star Wars:
It is a measure of how sick I was, that I waited almost a week to finally see it. Ugh. It looks like I'm pretty much completely over whatever the hell it was, though. Though I still have the appointment for the X-ray on Tuesday.
The theater I saw it in was the coolest! I saw it at the Moolah Temple: instead of the usual seats, they've got big stuffed pleather couches (at least, I'm assuming they're not real leather), which are shockingly cleaner than you would expect. There's also a bar, where you can buy a drink and take it into the theater with you, and set it on the end tables between all the couches. It reminds me a bit of the McMinniman's Baghdad theater in Portland, only more comfortable, with a bigger screen, and kick-ass sound system.
Speaking of cleanliness: someone mentioned how everything seemed all clean and polished, and not lived-in like the earlier movies did. This was true in only certain places: the Jedi Council chamber was neat and shiny, as was the Senate chamber, Amidala's apartment, and the bridges of the military ships we saw. The outsides of the ships, though, were all battle-stained, pockmarked with black spots and rust to be seen, and the industrial areas, the Jedi fighters, and various other places all looked well-used.
C-3PO positively gleamed for the first and last time in his long career, and was all the better for it. After all, he was a senator's aid during most of this movie.
And, as for the political parallels: Yeah, I see 'em. I'm kinda surprised the extreme right does, too, though, as they usually try not to admit publicly that they know Bush wants to be the Emperor. The famous line about "This is how liberty dies - to thunderous applause" is spot on. Of course, the idea of a representative republic becoming a tyrannical empire wasn't exactly a reaction to the Bush regime. We knew this would happen all the way back in the original Star Wars movie in 1977. And, of course, it's not exactly unprecedented in history, from ancient Rome to Hitler, tyrants often don't sieze power so much as they are gratefully given it by a fearful people...
(And, one more spoiler: in about 17 years, Palpatine will finally dissolve the senate altogether, turning power over to region governors, trusting in fear to keep the local populaces in line. Of course, the more he tightens his grip, the more systems will slip through his fingers, until he's finally undone by the rebellion he started. And that big-ass space station that apparently takes almost twenty years to build only gets to be used once before it gets blown up because, in all the budget cuts in it's construction, aside from not building any guard rails, they also cut out the grating that was supposed to go over the thermal vent from the reactor core...)
It is a measure of how sick I was, that I waited almost a week to finally see it. Ugh. It looks like I'm pretty much completely over whatever the hell it was, though. Though I still have the appointment for the X-ray on Tuesday.
The theater I saw it in was the coolest! I saw it at the Moolah Temple: instead of the usual seats, they've got big stuffed pleather couches (at least, I'm assuming they're not real leather), which are shockingly cleaner than you would expect. There's also a bar, where you can buy a drink and take it into the theater with you, and set it on the end tables between all the couches. It reminds me a bit of the McMinniman's Baghdad theater in Portland, only more comfortable, with a bigger screen, and kick-ass sound system.
Speaking of cleanliness: someone mentioned how everything seemed all clean and polished, and not lived-in like the earlier movies did. This was true in only certain places: the Jedi Council chamber was neat and shiny, as was the Senate chamber, Amidala's apartment, and the bridges of the military ships we saw. The outsides of the ships, though, were all battle-stained, pockmarked with black spots and rust to be seen, and the industrial areas, the Jedi fighters, and various other places all looked well-used.
C-3PO positively gleamed for the first and last time in his long career, and was all the better for it. After all, he was a senator's aid during most of this movie.
And, as for the political parallels: Yeah, I see 'em. I'm kinda surprised the extreme right does, too, though, as they usually try not to admit publicly that they know Bush wants to be the Emperor. The famous line about "This is how liberty dies - to thunderous applause" is spot on. Of course, the idea of a representative republic becoming a tyrannical empire wasn't exactly a reaction to the Bush regime. We knew this would happen all the way back in the original Star Wars movie in 1977. And, of course, it's not exactly unprecedented in history, from ancient Rome to Hitler, tyrants often don't sieze power so much as they are gratefully given it by a fearful people...
(And, one more spoiler: in about 17 years, Palpatine will finally dissolve the senate altogether, turning power over to region governors, trusting in fear to keep the local populaces in line. Of course, the more he tightens his grip, the more systems will slip through his fingers, until he's finally undone by the rebellion he started. And that big-ass space station that apparently takes almost twenty years to build only gets to be used once before it gets blown up because, in all the budget cuts in it's construction, aside from not building any guard rails, they also cut out the grating that was supposed to go over the thermal vent from the reactor core...)
