So a few months ago it occurred to me that I hadn’t watched the Star wars film in literally years, like cant even remember the last time I watched ‘em long so figured id sit down each night after work and watch one until ive watched them all.
One of the reasons why I think ive put this off for so many years is because i remember these films being amazing, I guess I was kinda worried that it would be one of things that you return to and it’s a bit of a disappointment but I was wrong! (may I add a lot of the viewings were done with Nachos and cheese, perhaps the best snack to go with a film viewing!)
Sat down watched A new Hope. Incredible, saw it on new levels of cool and weird, never quite realised how much of a sex-pest Han solo is, hilarious! Empire strikes back, as a kid perhaps my least favourite, not anymore bumped up to the top! Excellent film dark in so many places and on so many levels! Return of the Jedi, used to be my old favourite, still cool some great scenes and wacky stuff going on but the ewoks are not somewhat quite how I remember them… I mean really Lucas?... teddy bears helping out in the battles?!
Id like to say this was my least favourite thing of the star wars saga but no. I hadn’t watched this in a long long time, in fact I’ve only watched this film once and Id been putting this off for a long time and even more so when I decided to watch all the films, Star Wars : Phantom Menace, this just went from bad to more bad. I wanted all the characters to die except Darth Maul. It was that bad it made me wanna root for the bad guy, im going to be honest it was infact that bad that I had to turn it off as soon as some blue fat guy was introduced that shook his head a lot.
I felt bad that I had switched it off but there was no way I could’ve gone back to it. Definitely not after having such great memories of the first few films, so fresh in my memory. I sat down and put on attack of the clones, I don’t even feel bad in saying this I didn’t get far in this one either, so many scenes of annoying Anakin and princess no personality. Im not going to lie. Never made it through this one either. I started to get more and more bitter, how did George Lucas fall so far from Grace, how can you go so wrong with something!? i didn’t even bother with Revenge of the sith and all the other faff of the cartoon sequels, I wanted to watch em all. I tried, I failed. pfft I lost all interest the moment Return was over and that’s when George Lucas should’ve as well. He should of just stopped, relaxed and spent some of his time and money coming up with fresh new ideas rather than destroying every single saga and world he’s created (Indianna Jones rant is for another day) either that or chilling out and enjoying his much deserved rest! Recently hes announced he wont be returning to block buster film making for the foreseeable future. Too little too late ol’ Lucas. Too little too late.
Image done after reading an interview with him the other day and getting a little bit annoyed at his comments!
