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To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (26112)	5/27/1999 11:48:00 AM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

IMHO, "Return of the Jedi" was the best one....

To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (26112)	5/27/1999 12:25:00 PM
From: Don Pueblo	Respond to of 71178

I was a little mean to George in that earlier post. It is true the film is pointed at kids, and as such, many of my objections weigh less. It is a good film, and memorable. It disappointed me greatly because of the unrealized potential. The overall feeling of the film experience (probably a French word for that that I could use) remains positive, if viewed as a kid would view it. The kids in the audience were enjoying the little jokes Lucas tossed in, like JuJu Beans stepping in some aliencamel poop. I guess my point is this: I have written scripts. I can tell when the dialog doesn't work...but you must view all the dialog in the context of the film; you cannot take movie clips, view them, and make a valid judgement about the actors, dialog, or script. With over one hundred million dollars to play with, had I been sitting next to George when he was revising the script, and had he asked my my humble opinion (for a slight fee, of course) I would have said; You can't be doing goofy stuff at the beginning. You have to set the audience up with stuff that they can believe, whatever that is, and then do the goofy stuff later if you need to. If a Jedi makes a joke, make it a good one, and make him smile when his says it. If he goes for a swim in a full length robe, it ought to drip one friggin' drip of water when he gets out of the pool. If an alien speaks English, make it English that a 12 year old can easily understand, or make it alien. If a Jedi goes to a droid dealer to get some spare parts, and goes with R2D2, please don't have him tell the storekeeper that he has nothing of value to trade. When a kid leaves his mom after he has been freed as a slave, the chances of him deciding to do it, packing his stuff, telling his mom goodbye, walking away, stopping, turning around, walking back to his mom and saying, "Mom, I can't do it.", and then doing it, are ZERO. An alien culture that has the ability to build an underwater city probably has the ability to develop offensive weapons better than slingshots, and making a protagonist general that is a bumbling fool is, how can I say this...weak. The 'tiny aliens in the cells that give hints about the Force' is number 56 on my list of sensible explanations of how the Force works, behind The Magic Pill of Knowledge and The Tooth Fairy. And I hope that sparkly ball at the end is a power source, because if it isn't, I'll be pissed.