Have I Got Adele For You
As you saw a couple of weeks ago, the WCG is back in town, so hurricane-force winds are in effect for the duration.
Category: Movies
Toys and Other Stories
Spaghetti Symphony
You knew there was no way I wasn’t going to link to this. The title theme is excellent (I’ve been listening to it for 50+ years and they get it pretty close to note perfect), but stick around for the best four minutes of music in movie history.
(The “waa-WAA-waaaa” lady sounds great, but she looks like she’d rather be doing the dishes.)
If somebody wants to take me to this symphony, I’ll gladly go.
Dirty Dozen, Part I
As I mentioned last time, I watched a lot of movies on planes last month. A dozen of them, in fact. Some of them I’d seen before, some of them I hadn’t, a couple of of them I wish I hadn’t after I watched them. You’re on planes for twenty hours one way, what else are you going to do?
Killing the Past
(Spoilers galore. You had five days; if you haven’t seen it by now, you don’t really care what someone says about it, anyway.)
The most obvious thing after watching Last Jedi a second time? Rian Johnson loves Star Wars, he just doesn’t love your Star Wars. If there was any doubt, he scatters hints throughout the script.
Luke: This is not going to go the way you think!
…
Yoda: We are what they grow beyond.
And, most telling:
Kylo: Let the past die. Kill it, if you have to. That’s the only way to become what you are meant to be.
Best for Last?
No spoilers. Yet. I avoided them all, including the trailer, so I won’t ruin your fun, either.
I’m on record that however good the experience of watching Force Awakens was, the movie itself was essentially a remake of New Hope. I watched it again yesterday in anticipation of … well, you know. After a year away from it, the first 50 minutes are really, really good. And then the Death Star 3 shows up and it’s Newer Hope and you remember who directed it. With Force Awakens, what we knew about J.J. Abrams turned out to be true — he knows how to start a great story, but has no idea how to end one.