Showing posts with label revenge of the sith. Show all posts
Showing posts with label revenge of the sith. Show all posts

Saturday, April 4, 2015

UNBOX-KING #10 STAR WARS COMMEMORATIVE COLLECTION: REVENGE OF THE SITH!



Lesson of this week's episode of Unbox-King?

While it is wise to preserve the value of collectibles by keeping them in the box, sometimes you gotta play with the toys you buy.

I take a look at the Star Wars Commemorative Collection: Episode III set and, as it, as far as I know, the first 3.75 inch figures I've ever had, I gotta admit I got pretty excited.

Wednesday, April 1, 2015

WORD OF THE DAY! 4/1/15!

REVENGE OF THE SITH IS THE BESTEST MOVIE!



We meets again, at last. The circus is now completed. When I lasted meeted ya'll, I was but a learnin o-possum. Now I am the blogger.

And I has returned to revenge of the jedi! Or was it the return of the sith? I never figured the difference between the two types of space samurais? They both use light swords and wear snuggies and use big words that I can't understands. Why aren't their any o-possum jedis? That's reese's  discrimination! I want a Reese's Peanut Butter cup or I'm not finishin' mah dang ol' review...


I gots mah snacks. Now I can gets back to brass tax.

I have been commiserated into reviewin' a new film from the brilliant mind of Jorge Lukas. I gots the Laser Disc in mah P.O. Box (mah dumpster) and I have been assured the new film, while not continuin' the heart breakin' tragedy of the Fett Clan, is the epic concussion to the original Star Wars trilogy.

Let's talk about revenge of the something!

The movie starts like a vidja game that I can't afford cuz the hyoomins at Gamestop won't let me trade in any more copies of Fifty Cent: Blood on the Sand.

Annie, the feller with the awesome rat tail and now more awesome mullet, and Ben Kenobi, a British secret gay, are flyin' around at the speed of sound, got places to goes, gotta follow their rainbows and they save one of the clone babies of Jar-Jar Fetts that all growed up and joined the United States Space Army (I guess). They have an important mission to save President Palpatine from the space terrorists. This is President Palpatine.

He is a trustworthy candidate on the Space Republican ticket. He is a good ol' boy from the South of Naboo, a self-made man who rose to the top of the ladder by steppin' on the little guy, and he is a snazzy dresser. He is pro-clone military, anti-space climate change, and he is the only man in the way of Space Obama!

This is Space Obama:

He is one scary mother f***er!

If ya'll remember mah last review, he done kilt Jar-Jar Fett with that giant purple light sword he likes to swing around town like some sorta pimp! He wants to be space president and cure diabetus through space obamacare-- I like mah diabetus!

It helps me sleeps after a big meal and I couldn't roll down hills to gets away from hawks if his space wife got rid of mah favorite foods! I can't wait to see him gets what he deserves!

President Palpatine has been kidnapped by the robot a-rabs that are led by General Osama Bin Laden but this time, cuz he done got shot in the head, he is like a giant skeleton robot man with four arms and light swords and he sounds like he has a cold.

He runs like a big ol' chicken when he sees Annie and Ben Kenobi! Ben and Annie try to get President Palpatine back onto Air Force One so they can fly him back to the city planet but they're stopped by the Colonel.

I don't really get the point of the next scene cuz I mean the Colonel works for President Palpatine, right? The President gave him exclusive rights to open up space KFC/Taco Bell restaurants all over crescent city planet in exchange for the secret recipe's eleven herbs and spices and all of the Doritos Locos Taco cheese powder he can eat.

So, why is he workin' with the space terrorists? Maybe it's like a test for Annie to prove he is man enough to become the Space Vice President? I dunno.

Well, the Colonel whoops some ass up like a ten piece combo meal right up until the point where Annie gets the upper hand by cuttin' off his hands! President Palpatine has been watchin' the whole thing and I'm sure is thinkin' "this is rad but how can it get more rad?"

Oh that's right! If he could create a white light sword, give Annie an extra arm, and have him take down the samurai hippies back on crescent roll planet. Well, he figures he can't go playin' god and instead to just make Annie a good ol' fashion Walker: Texas Ranger style 'Murican badass! And what's more 'Murican than cutting off the Colonel's head?

Attaboy Annie!

And with that Annie realizes that President Palpatine is prolly his best bet if he ever wants to become Space Vice President and President Palpatine has found his runnin' mate in the next campaign.

I mean, think about, Annie is pretty durn handsome, he is a vetran war hero in the clone wars, and he can shoot the eye off a womp rat and they're hardly bigger than two meters (whatever that means but it means shootin' animals that ain't o-possums and I prove of that). He is a total maverick that the Republican party has been lookin' for and the best vice presidential candidate since the Governor of Alaska, Sarah Palpatine!

But let's stop talkin' bout politickin' and get back to the story of two good ol' boys.

Annie and Palpatine find out they have a lot in common: they both hate space hippies. Ever since the first movie Space Obama and the other samurais have been holdin' Annie back from his true potential and, even if they did give him that awesome rat tail, they're goin' to use Space Obamacare to take over the galaxy and turn it into a big nanny state! Like Ms. Doubtfire but less funny! And that's not mah 'murica!

So, President Palpatine promises to use space prayer healin's to save Annie and his baby mama's baby and Annie promises to be Palpatine's business partner. What could possibly go wrong?

While Annie holds down the fort, Ben Kenobi rides a space horse like a space cowboy and goes on a Call of Duty mission to the home planet of the Space A-rabs and finds that they're all talkin' bout goin' to some volcano planet (wait until ya'll see how that goes for 'em) and Osama-borg is struttin' around like he owns the place. So Ben Kenobi makes the most 'Murican decision of his life and drops in, litrolly, in the middle of the space arabs and robot terrorist with his light sword!

And shoots Osama right thru the heart!

I take back the "secret gay" thing about Ben Kenobi. He is a good shot and handsome feller. Like a blonder Burt Reynolds.

Meanwhile...

Turns out that the space hippies wanna take President Palpatine to one of their space Obamacare death panels and Preisdent Palpatines like "not in mah 'murica!" and cuts down like a half-dozen of the thugs before facin' off against Space Obama himself! I gotta say that up until this point I kinda figured the President to be too rich and white and important to get his own hands dirty but, bein' a real 'murican, he defends himself with his concealed weapon-- a badass red light sword!

'ventually, Space Obama seems to get the upperhand on the President until...

...SPACE PRAYER LIGHTNIN'!

'cept...unfortunately...Space Obama is too strong!

Annie arrives just in time to watch his best friend get disfigured by Space Obama and he would've cut his head off too but!!

Annie turns his back to the commies of the space samurai and disarms Space Obama right before, with a final push of faith, President Palpatine lightnins Space Obama out the window and avenges Jar-Jar Fett!

With Space Obama out of the way, President Palpatine can declare himself President fer life and makes Anakin like his Vice President and they kill all the space hippies. Even the youngins but they was already turned to the gay side and were card carryin' space Demmy-crats so it is probobolly for the best, right?

At least they're with Space Jesus now.

I thought the movie was over.

I thought I could go back to mah dumpster where they throw out the black trash bags of popcorn from the movie theater after it becomes so butter that it is more butter than corn but I was wrong. Then I would fall into a diabetus coma and never wakes up-- to sleep perchance to dream-- and become a space samurai mahself in the next life. But...

there was still one more scene that I woulda sword came right out of a gawdang Michael Bay movie left to watch! Ben Kenobi vs. Annie Skywalker!


I gotta say, while I found it real sad that Annie got burneded to death, I still was on the edge of mah seat and I'm usually on the edge of mah seat cuz the movie theater seats is too big for an o-possum--even an o-possum with diabetes! Although, I gotta say, the part with Ben Kenobi sayin' he loved Annie makes me re-retract the statement about him bein' a secret gay. I hope he gets the space death penalty for what he done did!

Annie ain't really death tho! He was just playin' possum and pretty good at it too! Ben Kenobi leaves his bestest friend to die in a volcano, like ya do, and Palpy shows up to save him by takin' him to the doctor. 'cept the space doctors are worse than real doctors! His wife dies and he becomes a space frankenstein! I cry evertim.


And I guess that's its for the Star Wars trilogy. It seems like they leave it more open-ended than mah favorite dumpster in town. Guess that'll do, pigs. I spose I'll be leavin' here with a bitter sweet adoo since there ain't no more movies left to review next year.

What's that? Episode one, two and three are just the prequels? What's a prequel? This better not have nothin' to do with prequel rights!? Oh. Then Senor Jorge made more Star Wars movies? You mean...


...there is another.

Friday, November 8, 2013

WORD OF THE DAY! 11/8/13!

exile [ex-ahyl]
verb
1.To banish, kick-out, or expel (a person) from a country or place.
2. To separate someone/something from their place or things.
noun
3. To be expelled from one's homeland.
4. To be banished from a place.
5. To be seperated from one's place or things.
6. To be expelled for a long time.

EX. Blogged not, yesterday. Into exile I must go. Failed I have.

Monday, September 12, 2011

Word of the Day. 9/12/11

 Word of the Day

Today's word is brought to you by the letter 'A'.

angst [engk-stuh]
noun
1.A feeling of dread, anxiety or anguish.
2. Inner turmoil.


'A feeling of dread, anxiety or anguish' or what most Star Wars fans feel when watching the Prequels or the digitally enhanced versions of the original trilogy. My favorite film of the prequel trilogy is Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. Its plot is no where near as moronic as episode one's cacophony of crap, it's no where near a politically verbose or stunted as episode two debacle, and even though it is bad, it is enjoyable, even watchable. The best parts of the film are those with the Emperor Palpatine

Ian McDiarmid reprized his role as the bitchy sith lord and seemed to truly enjoy the performance and Palpatine is really the only thing that feels right in the prequels.The idea of a villain who really enjoys his work is refreshing. There is no explanation of the Emperor. He wants power for the sake of having power. IT GETS HIM OFF!
UNLIMITED POWEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!
 I think the other big factor that sets Revenge of the Sith apart is angst. On the other hand, maybe angst is what ruined the prequels. Luke Skywalker has angst. But he is not a bratty, whiny, sociopath like Anakin AKA Lil' Orphan Annie AKA Wanakin.

Anakin's angst raises it hideous wooden head in Episode II. Anakin, for some reason, doesn't rescue his mother from Tatooine or even check on her for the better half of a decade. He already felt guilty about leaving her in slavery. Well, he returns to Tatooine to discover that, lo and behold, she was freed, married and just before Wanakin shows up was kidnapped by sand people.

In a fit of rage, Anakin kills all the sand people, including women and children. He then carries his mother's defiled body back to her husband. I believe this is the moment the character went from annoying little kid to wooden but somehow still angsty teenage a**hole. He then reveals his slip into the dark side to Padme. I dislike Padme because, much like Quigon, without her Anakin would never have become Darth Vader.

When Anakin reveals his dark secret, Padme doesn't just comfort him. She seems to get aroused by his bad boy, murdering innocents and babies. She chooses this moment to kiss him and this is where the disturbing romance really begins. Ugh.
Jabba the Hutt and Leia made a better couple.


Episode III actually has weight behind its angst. We know that it is inevitable that Anakin will become Darth Vader but we're not quite sure how. We know it involves the Emperor and that before the end of the movie there will be an Empire. So where is Anakin's dread/anxiety coming from? Bad dreams. He dreams that Padme and by extension her twins will die.
"They see me trollin', they hatin'."

Ironically, Anakin, being a malleable idiot, is easily made into the cause of the very prophecy he wishes to prevent. Anakin gets twisted around the Emperor's finger, is mad that the Jedi put him on the council but won't make him a master and that they won't take a more aggressive military approach in the war.
If the Jedis had listened to Mace Windu things could've worked out better for everyone.
Anakin becomes suspicious against everyone and the Emperor tricks him into believing he is the only one who can fix everything. Anakin becomes the Emperor's dog, killing all the jedi, and takes special time to kill the children. ((By the way, anyone notice how there were absolutely no children in the original trilogy...hmmmm...))

This is is probably one of the better moments in the film, actually.
But finally, in the last thirty minutes, we get the biggest mess in Star Wars history. On one hand, it is the most epic the prequels got but on the other it is unsatisfying and even silly.

The final battle between Anakin and Obi Wan is big (actually a little too long-winded). Obi Wan survives the jedi purge, btw, Anakin never considered for a moment that Obi Wan was going to die in the Emperor's plans, and confronts Anakin on Mustafar. Anakin is more powerful than ever and has just killed the last leaders who might stand against the empire.

The battle takes place on mining rigs, bursts of molten steel and magma exploding in the background, in the imagery of Hell itself. Two brothers fight each other to the death, a battle of ideals and passions. A battle between Lucifer and Michael with swords made of flame and light. The music pumping in the background is a call back to the epic climax of the Phantom Menace.

"Oh gross....he's like...burnt and stuff."


We reach our big moment. Obi Wan has the high ground and begs Anakin to submit. Anakin's silly transformation is nearly complete with him spouting off, "I HATE YOU!" like a teenager yelling at his Dad for grounding him and "YOU UNDERESTIMATE MY POWER!" as a teenager telling their Dad they don't really understand. Anakin charges Obi-Wan but, in one fell-swoop, Obi-Wan cuts off three of his limbs, leaving him to tumble down through the ash, and catch aflame at the edge of a river of fire. Obi-Wan leaves his brother in the lake of fire that he has put himself in, his mercy and compassion, keeping him from having the strength to finish him.
 Anakin's hate keeps him alive and the Emperor shows up to save him. The Emperor takes him into a room full of surgical robots...this is where we get the silliest moment in Star Wars history. Anakin realizes his new form, which steals his humanity and upon discovering the death of Padme lets out a roar of rage in the silliest moment of Star Wars history.


The genuine angst that the movie might've had going for it...is ruined in one line.