more Star Wars amusement
Jan. 18th, 2006 04:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
somedaybitchwhoa. drugs are baaaad.
this could arguably be the funniest hallucinogen-induced drivel i have ever read. ever. i'm just stunned. and let me add a caveat here. i am one of THE largest fans of the original trilogy in existence. i loved those films. i think the third was the weakest of the three because that's when Lucas' cheese-factor and 12 year sense of humor really started to gain control, but still, the originals are solid. yeah, there's some dialogue one could argue is cringe-worthy, but somehow it just plays....like, Gimli in Two Towers asking what madness drove the hobbits into Fangorn. uhm, raging Orc hordes?
the second trilogy, otoh, i am VERY proud to say, has never earned a dime of my money. i owe this to Frank, that bastion of Star Wars fandom. God love him...and his drug reps. free tickets and Newcastle are your friend./foj
eta: er,much snark commentary, and also a plea to you to go actually read the whole thing. i just can't do it's stunning inanity justice. as ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
themonkeycabal wisely opined, "i think lucas would just prefer the blowjob." she also thinks the author lost a football bet and hence, the article. the moral here, children? never bet on the Redskins.
heh
so...on to my favorite bits of drivel....
yeah, i grappled...with the total lack of plot because all the stupid bastard cared about was making CGI people in CGI cities. yawn. hell, he could have MADE money during filming if he'd dropped a dime on the 501st Legion. they would have PAID to be stormtrooper extras, AND brought their own costumes. loser.
and
gee, dude, where i come from that's called bad storytelling. there's a HUGE difference between *actual* chance, ie, the droids landing on Tatooine after escaping from the ship - where one could logic that since Leah was actively looking for Obi Wan, it would make sense that she was near Tatooine - to *contrived* chance, ie, Lucas deciding to write for no discernible reason the idiocy of boy!Anakin making his very own protocol droid, just so he could put C-3PO in the damned movie.
and this bit...
no, actually, we don't. what kind of pleasure do i take exactly from dialogue like, "Look. A poison dart." Gosh, Obi Wan, you're brilliant. You been mainlining CSI?
and possibly my absolute favorite bit...
yes. that would the monkey at the keyboard.
i think i just laughed up my spleen.
this could arguably be the funniest hallucinogen-induced drivel i have ever read. ever. i'm just stunned. and let me add a caveat here. i am one of THE largest fans of the original trilogy in existence. i loved those films. i think the third was the weakest of the three because that's when Lucas' cheese-factor and 12 year sense of humor really started to gain control, but still, the originals are solid. yeah, there's some dialogue one could argue is cringe-worthy, but somehow it just plays....like, Gimli in Two Towers asking what madness drove the hobbits into Fangorn. uhm, raging Orc hordes?
the second trilogy, otoh, i am VERY proud to say, has never earned a dime of my money. i owe this to Frank, that bastion of Star Wars fandom. God love him...and his drug reps. free tickets and Newcastle are your friend./foj
eta: er,
themonkeycabal wisely opined, "i think lucas would just prefer the blowjob." she also thinks the author lost a football bet and hence, the article. the moral here, children? never bet on the Redskins.heh
so...on to my favorite bits of drivel....
Everything about the films, from the opening text crawls to the out-of-order production of the two trilogies, foregrounds the question of plot. As an audience, we grapple with not just the intricate clockwork of a complex and interwoven narrative, but, in postmodern fashion, with the fundamental mechanics of storytelling itself.
yeah, i grappled...with the total lack of plot because all the stupid bastard cared about was making CGI people in CGI cities. yawn. hell, he could have MADE money during filming if he'd dropped a dime on the 501st Legion. they would have PAID to be stormtrooper extras, AND brought their own costumes. loser.
and
Most significantly, we start to notice that the films are an elaborate meditation on the dialectic between chance and order. They all depend upon absurd coincidence to propel the story forward.
gee, dude, where i come from that's called bad storytelling. there's a HUGE difference between *actual* chance, ie, the droids landing on Tatooine after escaping from the ship - where one could logic that since Leah was actively looking for Obi Wan, it would make sense that she was near Tatooine - to *contrived* chance, ie, Lucas deciding to write for no discernible reason the idiocy of boy!Anakin making his very own protocol droid, just so he could put C-3PO in the damned movie.
and this bit...
As viewers, we take pleasure in the implausible events that must happen for the narrative contraption to snap shut in a satisfying way.
no, actually, we don't. what kind of pleasure do i take exactly from dialogue like, "Look. A poison dart." Gosh, Obi Wan, you're brilliant. You been mainlining CSI?
and possibly my absolute favorite bit...
But the characters come to understand that there is another agent, external to themselves, that is dictating the action.
yes. that would the monkey at the keyboard.
i think i just laughed up my spleen.
