She Treads Softly: Movie Dude Weekend: Traditional Star Wars Marathon

Saturday, March 13, 2010

Movie Dude Weekend: Traditional Star Wars Marathon

It was the traditional Spring Break Star Wars marathon

Episode I: The Phantom Menace, 1999,

Episode II: Attack of the Clones, 2002,

Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, 2005

Star Wars Episode IV, 1977

The Empire Strikes Back, Episode V, 1980

Return of the Jedi, Episode VI, 1983

Director: George Lucas

Frequently repeated comment heard during the original three movies which were altered with new CGI:

SHAME ON YOU, GEORGE LUCAS!

All the participants, except me, know their Star Wars trivia and often questions are asked and answered. Although I have often had questions, I never have had any answers - until today. A question arose: Did anyone know what Han Solo did that caused Jabba to put a bounty on him? Because I had read Star Wars: Rebel Dawn, book three of the Han Solo trilogy, I knew the answer to that question and several others. Yeah.

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John Updike's six rules for reviewing:

1. Try to understand what the author wished to do, and do not blame him for not achieving what he did not attempt.

2. Give him enough direct quotation--at least one extended passage--of the book's prose so the review's reader can form his own impression, can get his own taste.

3. Confirm your description of the book with quotation from the book, if only phrase-long, rather than proceeding by fuzzy precis.

4. Go easy on plot summary, and do not give away the ending.

5. If the book is judged deficient, cite a successful example along the same lines, from the author's oeuvre or elsewhere. Try to understand the failure. Sure it's his and not yours?

To these concrete five might be added a vaguer sixth, having to do with maintaining a chemical purity in the reaction between product and appraiser.....Review the book, not the reputation.... Better to praise and share than blame and ban. The communion between reviewer and his public is based upon the presumption of certain possible joys in reading, and all our discriminations should curve toward that end.