May the 4th Be With You
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 41 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
And also with you.
Ryan George is hilarious and his Pitch Meetings are the funniest thing on the internet
Are you prepared….for the revenge… of the FIFTH?!?!
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Maybe try keeping your daily intake under a pint if you fear the revenge of a fifth. Okay, Rooster?
That said, there are two good Star Wars sequels to be had out of the three Disney made. If…
1) You retcon SW VI and Luke does indeed kill his father and take his father’s place at the Emperor’s side, so that …
2) The Ben/Rey story arc becomes the Luke/Leia story arc.
Here’s a contrarian view; I agree with Alec Guiness–they’re all rubbish, from I on up. Not valid scifi by any means. Space operas..and with no good singers. Unfortunately I had to see the first and second with my kids…no more after that.
The original trilogy is fun rubbish. The prequel trilogy is self-important rubbish. The sequel trilogy is deconstructionist/feminist rubbish.
Completely agree Ernst.
I actually saw an interview with the good Sir Guiness. It looked like a late life interview. The whole of the interview made it sound a bit less rough. He talked about how dazzling the finished product was, and how it swept the viewer up with its optimistic vision. He still talked of it being fairy tale rubbish and all, but in context it wasn’t quite as bad as the isolated quote makes it sound. It seemed the thing that bothered him most was that people – especially young people – only knew him from these movies, and not the full body of his work.
He was worried that it might have a negative impact on young fans who seemed to be obsessed by it. He was a combat veteran of the Royal Navy in World War II, by all accounts those experiences having a profound effect on him, and I think he had a valid concern about contemporary people often times being too concerned with amusements, the froth of life, rather than with the substance of life.
A fine selection of videos, Don. I will restrain myself and post only 1 fan film.
https://youtu.be/E9GRYa_3gno
Nice!
“You can both shut up, or spend a night in the detention area!”
Brilliant!
I STILL maintain that “Troops” is better than the three Prequels and the three movies set after the Return of the Jedi.
“All suspects are GUILTY! Period. Otherwise they wouldn’t be suspects, would they?”
I’ve heard that as well, that he worried about the obsession that some fans had. I seem to recall a story about some kid running up to him and the kid’s mom there or something. Not the details, just that he was bothered by the obsession. But then, this was a decade after The Beatles, the Stones, and that era where people went crazy for anything and everything under the sun (as they did, it’s worth noting, with some of Sir Guiness’s contemporaries back in the day).
(as they did, it’s worth noting, with some of Sir Guiness’s contemporaries back in the day).
The Bobby Soxer craze over Frank Sinatra was often pointed to back in the Forties as a text book example of hysteria.
As additional penance, I watched The Rise of Skywalker.
Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.