In the side of our lives where nothing is ever put straight.
Listening to the new Dresden Dolls disc this morning, No, Virginia, an early birthday present yesterday from Spooky. I'm liking it quite a bit more than Yes, Virginia (2006), though I did like Yes, Virginia. Meanwhile, here in La Casa de Kiernan y Pollnac, all is chaos. Well, a very ordered sort of chaos. There are hundreds of boxes, I think. We
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'There's a bittersweetness to the marvelous 1912 prologue, knowing that River Phoenix had only a few years left to live.'
Yes, and he nailed Ford's mannerisms so well that I was never able to buy Sean Patrick Flanery as the young Indy on the TV show. River would've been 38 this year. I sometimes wonder what kind of career he'd have had - if he might've alternated indie fare and blockbusters like his friend Johnny Depp. He's been gone almost 15 years now. Hard to believe.
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you mean A new hope?
The Empire Strikes Back, and Revenge of the Sith (minus that silly and unnecessary Frankensteinesque bit with Vader at the end of RofS).
..thinks...thinks a bit more..in that order? and you mean Revenge of the Sith and not Return of the Jedi?
Thats is a most unusual pick.
Storywise Phantom menace failed in many ways. I liked it for being the one with Ewan without the beard (nothing against the beard) and that final fight was quite nice.
The toddler sucked, the Gungang comic relief sucked, and the Midisomething sucked worst of course.
Once Natalie Portman was out of the royal outfits, she was quite huggable.
But from then on the whole arc is acceptable 2-3 then 4-6. Yes, 6 including, even though it has Ewoks. and 3 even though it has that Yo-Yo fighting Yoda
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