Revenge of the Seething

Bless my mother-in-law, she means well. She knows I’m a Star Wars fan, so she saved me the “special” two-page poster from this Sunday’s USA Weekend. I thanked her, but I’m generally uninterested. About the poster and so too, to some extent, the movie. I am considering not going to the theater to see it and just waiting for the DVD. I will still probably get sucked in and see it on the big screen, but it will be more like late June once the crowds have died down. And I will probably be underwhelmed.

I’ll leave you with the last couple of lines from an Ed Halter column for the Village Voice, If you are interested the rest can be read here: May the Force Be Over

But blockbusters have since become an overbred species, and Lucas’s work has likewise degenerated into unbalanced overproduction. Post-Jar Jar, our expectations have sunk so low that now fans will celebrate a film just because it doesn’t completely suck.