From: DonZipf @ aol.com
Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 12:54:53 EDT
Subject: Re: [ILF] Reminder...

> This is for those of you who got it wrong the first time...
>
> ...maybe you should try again; it still rules, even the second time around.

Is this about that stupid movie?  Sigh....  All right, in the interest of 
warning those who haven't plunked down their money yet....

I certainly agree that the Jedi swordplay scenes are awesome and worth seeing 
twice - if it had been 2 hours of that, I would have been satisfied.  Jedi in 
their prime are badass m*therf*ckers!  I also enjoyed the racks of battle 
droids...good stuff.

What made me heave was the 1.5 hours wasted on telling the story of the 
little boy (who was played by a really lousy kid actor).  It was like a 
nightmare episode of "Family Affair" with Jody building robots and pod-racers 
while Cissy parades around in Kubuki costumes, and Uncle Bill (Qui-gon Jinn) 
and Mr. French (Obi-wan Kenobi) go fencing with their weird friends.  Where 
was Buffy?  Silly, she's off slaying vampires in her own series!

Jar-jar Binx is another reason to heave.  I hate CG characters to begin with, 
and this one is no better than the space-monkey in Lost in Space!  The 
quality of writing for Phantom Menace is about the same as an average episode 
of "Walker: Texas Ranger".  See it, but wait 'til it moves to the dollar 
theater (so you won't feel so ripped off).

Face it, Lucas owns 100% of the merchandizing rights to Star Wars.  He's not 
an artist anymore, he's in the toy business.  Is it surprising that he would 
make the prequels stictly for little kids?

Peace (and may the force be with you!)  -  Z.