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Star Wars: The JP Review
Posted by Jimmy: Thursday, May 19th, 2005 :: 3:46 AM PST :: Comment On This Post

Being the die hard Star Wars fan that I am I just had to go see Episode III last nite...or this morning, however you wanna look at it. The midnight shows were all booked by the real nuts who camped out the day before so I settled for the 1am show. Luckily they let us wait in the theatre so I got to sit in my cushy site until the movie finally started. Ok...enough of the formalities, here's my review...

NO SPOILERS (i.e., it's safe to read)

There were many words I thought I'd be using to describe this movie after it was over...awesome...spectacular...amazing...and while it was all of those, the word I would honestly choose is SAD. Watching Anakin being turned to the dark side while he breaks the heart of all those around him was just plain sad. Everyone tried to save him but it was too late. The Emperor really got to him...like we didn't know that.

There were so many moments in the movie that just made you feel so bad for Anakin and particularly Padme & Obi Wan. It's a really dark film but I guess it has to be in order to segway into Episode IV: A New Hope.

Without a doubt it is the best of all the Star Wars movie in spite of how dark and sad it was. The special effects are amazing and there's some good humor in the movie as well.  Without giving anything away, here's some of the things I found especially entertaining;

• You find out how the emperor got so wrinkly...it's not from old age.

• You find out how/why Anakin becomes so disfigured that he has to be in his suit and even how he gets his name.

• You find out who trained the emperor to be the Sith Lord.

• Jar Jar Binks does not speak in this one! (Woo-Hoo)

• You see the beginning of the Death Star.

• A young General Tarkin shows up at the end.

Darth Vader does emerge at the end of the film but not as much as I would have liked. I was hoping he'd have a few more lines of dialogue but he only says a few words which was kinda disappointing.

Still a great movie and I think I'll be seeing it again in the next week or so and then dying for it to come out on DVD. Now it's off to bed!

Oh yeah...Barry Powell...

♪     I saw Star Wars before you did!     ♫
(Na-na-na-na-naaaaa-nah, Na-na-na-na-naaaaa-nah!)

So we're watching American Idol tonight fully expecting the worst but luckily Vonzell was booted off leaving Carrie & Bo as the final two. I did my part to make sure Bo & Carrie stayed cause I had all 3 of our phone lines on redial voting for Carrie & Bo over and over again for two solid hours. I was so overjoyed to see my efforts pay off.

Now I wonder...does that make me evil? >;^P

Speaking of evil, I'm heading to the movie theatre now to see the midnight showing of Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith. Yes, I'm a true Star Wars fan!

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Just when I thought the whole subtle Spanish take-over of American culture couldn't get any worse, I got this spam from Pizza Hut. Notice how everything is written in both English & Spanish. It's a sad day in America when even our spam is bilingual.

And yes, I'll probably order this pizza anyway...it looks yummy!

And you thought the media was our friend! Newsweek reported earlier this week that soldiers at Guantanamo Bay flushed a copy of the Quran down the toilet which set of HUGE anti-America riots throughout the Arab world leaving at least 15 people dead. Newsweek started backing away from the story on Sunday saying that maybe the story wasn't true and their "anonymous source" didn't actually see a Quran ever flushed down a toilet. This just goes to show you how low the liberal media will steep for ratings and they must actually want to incite hate and violence against Americans.

While I'm all in favor of flushing every Quran down the toilet, what good does it do for Newsweek to report such a thing regardless of whether it's true or not? All it does is fuel the hatred of these ignorant people and generate more death for everyone. It seems like the entire liberal media is trying to portray America as the "Great Satan" that these Muslims idiots think we are but they never seem to report on the evils of the Islamic culture, or the genocide in Darfar.

Way to go Newsweek...way to help your country out!  (Idiots!)

• http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/05/15/newsweek.quran/index.html

Well, you already know what we did on Saturday if you read the previous post so here's what we did on Sunday...we both got up before 10am and had an early brunch. After looking at the Sunday paper, we went for bike ride around the neighborhood. After that, we both headed down to Seaside Lagoon for the annual Cajun festival know as Bayou Bash. Lots of Cajun food and music and just a fun little event to attend. We opted for the shrimp but maybe we'll actually try the crawfish next year...at least they're fun to photograph. We actually went grocery shopping later that night since we hadn't been in ages (we eat out all the time) and believe it or not, I'm going to bed before 12pm tonite which gives me 1 hour and 4 minutes to shut down!

More updates and fun video links later on Monday!

Don't be surprised if the rest of this week is dedicated to STAR WARS!

Jim & Kim made some new friends this weekend and spent most of Saturday hanging out with them in beautiful Marina Del Rey. Jayson has been working for me and Stellar Media Group for nearly two months and it quickly became obvious that we had a lot in common and that "our girls" would probably hit it off as well. Ironically, we introduced our girls to one another via instant messenger and then decided to all meet up for drinks and nachos at Baja Cantina on Saturday.

We headed back to their place after that where we had a few more drinks. Kim & Lisa chatted while Jayson and I talked tech talk half the night and started devising strategies for taking over the internet! Ha! We all had a really good time and are looking forward to spending more time with our new friends!

American Idol almost infuriated us last nite. First of all, Paula Abdul is seriously incapable of developing her own opinion. All she ever does is follow Randy's lead and echo everything he says or at the very least, when someone has a sucky performance, she'll just say "you're a beautiful person" or something like that. It's not a beauty contest or a "great person" contest...it's a talent contest. She should be able to form her own opinion and tell someone when they did bad or she shouldn't be a judge.

Second issue: Vonzell Needs To Go! She acted like a big cry baby last night because she had to sing a country song which she obviously didn't like. Her performance was horrible and proved once again that she is only capable of singing in the high range and totally sucks in the low range. Part of being on American Idol is singing different types of music and everyone has had to sing something they didn't like including Carrie who's had to sing R&B even though she's clearly a country girl. Only difference is she didn't cry about it. She sucked it up and did a great job. The same can't be said about Vonzell and that's why she needs to be voted off...that and the fact she sucked last nite.

Third issue: I don't know what was wrong with the judges last nite. Sure they gave her mad props on her first performance but then they slammed her on her second and we couldn't figure out why. She did great, wasn't "pitchy" and showed she could sing Motown type music while Vonzell was still backstage boo-hooing about having to sing country. The crowd cheered wildly for her but Randy dumped on her which meant Paula had to do the same and well...Simon almost always has something negative to say.

Not to worry, I pulled out all our phones and went to work voting for her...and Bo and Anthony so we'll see what happens tonite!

It's amazing how we went to war in Iraq because they supposedly had "weapons of mass destruction" and yet North Korea really does have them, they admit they have them, and are essentially daring us to do something about it. Sure, I voted for Dubya but I can't understand for the life of me why we let North Korea get away with this. I guess it's because they don't have any oil.

• http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/05/09/north.korea/index.html

It's true that I don't get out of the house much and it doesn't take much to amuse me but this truly blew me away. This woman can pop her eyes pop out of her head/face almost like what you used to see in cartoons. I'd give anything to be able to do this! I would be looking at people from across the room and doing this for no reason other than to freak them out.

• http://www.big-boys.com/articles/bigeyes.html

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