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Originally Posted by Biggles:
Star Wars: Episode I sucked.
I have to admit that I was one of the many, many fans that eagerly awaited the latest stash of Star Wars creativity to emerge from the muse of George Lucas. What is unfortunate is that the muse turned out to be an orifice, and when Episode I was finished being expunged, it returned to its previous mission of ejecting fecal matter. In fact, if you didn't examine both carefully, I doubt a definitive distinction could be made between the two.
It wasn't all-bad, of course. If you took out the Jedi duel and possibly the pod race and fused them together into a plotless mass of mindless imagery and pretty sounds, I think it would be equally if not more satisfying than standing the original product. Hell, most of us would lay a friggin' egg if you just took out Jar-Jar. Thankfully, and mercifully, some fans did just that with their 'edited' version of the film.
After Episode I, I was fairly certain that my thoughts on the matter were the norm.
But no, oooooh no. It appears that there are two very deluded young men from rain-raped city of Seattle that blow that theory to hell.
Allow me to take out an excerpt to illustrate both my newfound confusion and anger at guys who, in my personal view, should be banned from the human race forever:
Guth, 32, and Tweiten, 24, claimed the widely uncoveted first and second places in line outside the Cinerama on Jan. 1. Boldly thumbing their noses at hygiene and day jobs, they intend to wait there with only short, alternating breaks, for the entire four and a half months. They're using sleeping bags, and if the weather gets too much like the ice planet Hoth, they say they'll sleep in a van. The Force is so strong in them that they're undaunted by the fact that they don't know whether "Episode II" will even play there. Neither does Cinerama's management.
Guth is president of the Seattle Star Wars Society, and counts among his favorite pieces of memorabilia a tuxedo custom-made from a set of "Star Wars" bed sheets, which he wears to all special "Star Wars" functions. "No one else has one in the world," he said. Tweiten is one of the club's roughly 1,200 members, and has a life-size Yoda replica he won in a "Star Wars" trivia contest.
There's much more to this then what is mentioned here, but after reading about this "special" Star Wars tuxedo, rock-bottom was already reached for me. The fact that one of them still lives with his parent's merely tosses in a shovel to keeps diggin' all the way to hell.
"Do you have girlfriends?" asked Melanie King, who came to see Guth and Tweiten after reading about them on the movie fan Web site, "Ain't It Cool News" (www.aintitcool.com). Both men are single.
At least the genetic code will die with them if their 'unique' attitudes persist.
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posted 01-06-2002 17:09
