Movie craze, ROTS musings, etc

[dangermousie]

I am going to see Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants today. Yeah, yeah I know: stupid, chickflickish and trite. But after all the tragedy of ROTS and hard-edginess of Layer Cake I want something comfort-foody: mindless fluffy sap. Though I'll probably mock it throughout.

There are SO many movies on my hit list. Leaving out Bollywood (Parineeta this weekend), I want to see Lords of Dogtown (reason: hot young surfers. Yeah, I am shallow), Kingdom of Heaven for the third and last time (reason: obsessive), ROTS for the third but not last time (reason: really obsessive). Plus, I am mildly interested in Mr & Mrs Smith and I am VERY interested in Batman. I am doing my part in keeping poor Hollywood honchos in expensive cigars and young women.

On to ROTS musings., Part II as promised.

(1) This is inspired by something thelana wrote. I was thinking about Anakin losing to Obi-Wan. Anakin is the Chosen One. He kills Dooku who trashed Obi-Wan. And yet Obi gets him. Why? A variety of factors, IMO.

For one, if the two of them fought on even ground, both in control and well rested, I'd think Obi would be toast. However, Obi-Wan is a lot "fresher" than Anakin who just had a lovely prolonged killing spree which is bound to be exhausting. Also, Anakin is very angry, grieving, and messed-up (from the Padme thing, from his better nature, from everything) which would take the edge off his focus. Also, they were doing pretty well until by accident Obi got the higher ground. After that, skill or no skill, Ani was toast.

(2) You know the big Jedi v. Droids v. Clones fight at the end of AOTC? It's yet another part of Palpatine's strategy. Even if the Jedi ultimately win, the droids are going to decimate them (as they did) and weaken the Jedi order considerably. So many of them get wiped out in the first battle. Thus during ROTS they are stretched thin, with one Jedi per clone division (makeing it easier for Order 66), and precluding any possibility of something like Jedi shock troups like the Green Berets who could take out Separatists a lot more efficiently. And it's not like the Jedi can get more Jedi right away since it requires intensive training and it's not as if they can just relax their standard as they are scraping the bottom of the barrel (so to speak) anyway, as the person either has the Force or not, and they take all Force sensitive kids. Plus, their kid supply is even more disrupted by the war, since I doubt separatist planets mail their kids to the Jedi and a lot of force-sensitive on separatist or war-torn planet turn onto TPM Anakin: someone who would be a Jedi but the Jedi never get to him.

More (Part III) later.

Comments

[ayn-rand-fan-13.livejournal.com]

Did you read my review of Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants? I loved that movie so much.
I'm seeing Mr. and Mrs. Smith on Friday. I'm kind of dreading it being really akward if I see it with my family.
I'm probably seeing Lords of Dogtown for Heath Ledger.
I was really excited for Batman, but the movie theatre I go to only plays that preview on the tv in front of the place where you wait online. My interest has waned.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Batman overkill? :)

I'll see how I like TSotTP....

[grace-om.livejournal.com]

And it's not like the Jedi can get more Jedi right away since it requires intensive training and it's not as if they can just relax their standard as they are scraping the bottom of the barrel (so to speak) anyway, as the person either has the Force or not, and they take all Force sensitive kids. Plus, their kid supply is even more disrupted by the war, since I doubt separatist planets mail their kids to the Jedi and a lot of force-sensitive on separatist or war-torn planet turn onto TPM Anakin: someone who would be a Jedi but the Jedi never get to him.

And where do the midi-whatsits come from, anyway? If they're inherited, which is kind of implied by the Skywalker lineage, then the Jedi are driving themselves into extinction by not permitting themselves to fall in love and (presumably) BREED.

Grace

[lazypadawan.livejournal.com]

I long since figured the idea with the Clone Wars was to cull the number of Jedi and stretch them thin. There were only about 10,000 of them at the beginning of AOTC and I'm sure over the course of the wars, many were killed before Order 66 went into effect.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Yes...divide and conquer, indeed!

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

OTOH, maybe they are afraid that by breeding someone will become too powerful. Sort of like the 7th son of a 7th son in Pratchett.

LOL!

[grace-om.livejournal.com]

In that case they should have drowned Luke and Leia at birth :D Or at least Obi-wan should have somehow let Luke know that Leia was off limits (if he didn't want to explain about her being his sister). He really seemed to have a crush on her for a while there, and *that* could have ended sooo badly :O

Grace