I’d run down stairs, take away his gruel, and hit him with a bag of oranges again.
The Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith trailer will premiere during Fox’s O.C. on March 10.
The reason this bugs me is simple. It’s just another reminder that someone convinced George Lucas and his entourage that the Star Wars movies were always intended for kids. In fact, I’m kind of surprised they aren’t showing the trailer on Spongebob Squarepants.
If Lucas had made these new films grown-up movies that were accessible for kids, rather than kids movies which appealed to the nostalgia of grown-ups, he would have remained one of the greatest filmmakers of all time. He’s still laughing his way to the bank, but the movies have become something of an embarrassment. I truly don’t understand why this is so hard to grasp. The Incredibles was more oriented toward adults than Phantom Menace was. I know I’ve said this a million times, but the key to the original Star Wars and Empire Strikes Back was that they took themselves seriously. They didn’t apologize for being sci-fi. If the audience thought sci-fi was stupid, that was on them. The worst thing about the new Star Wars films — besides from being at times abysmally written generally (“I hate sand” indeed) — is that they constantly wink at the audience; “we don’t take ourselves that seriously.”
Anyway, Kathryn’s moving her finger dismayingly close to the button that activates my pain collar. So I’m going to go walk Cosmo now. He understands…