01:45:01 – THE END In my opinion, Act Two of the movie Star Wars (it didn’t become A New Hope until 1981, so don’t correct me) transitioned to Act Three in the exact place where Chapter Seven of the Star Wars Edition of 15-Minute Force ended. There’s not much more movie left to watch […]
Read more "Star Wars (a 15-Minute Force production): Chapter Eight: Born to Trench Run"01:30:01 – 01:45:00 Iconic though the duel between Obi-Wan Kenobi and Darth Vader which opens this chapter of the Star Wars Edition of 15-Minute Force may be, it’s not really very exciting to watch. I think it seemed more energetic back in 1977. But, now, more than four decades later, Obi-Wan and Vader look […]
Read more "Star Wars (a 15-Minute Force production): Chapter Seven: The Empire’s Crazy, Convoluted Plan (and Leia’s Equally Crazy Counterplan)"01;15:01 – 01:30:00 Last week, we left three of our heroes—Luke, Han and Chewbacca—in the middle of a firefight in Detention Block AA-23 on the Death Star space station. They had a loosely formed plan to rescue Princess Leia Organa, who is about to be terminated. Not “immediately” as Grand Moff Tarkin wanted, but. […]
Read more "Star Wars (a 15-Minute Force production): Chapter Six: They Did The Mash (The Garbage Masher Monster Mash)"1:45:01 – 2:00:00 The Gungans come out of the fog and march towards battle while one of them blows on a didgeridoo, as if this were a television commercial for Outback restaurant. They surround themselves with some sort of energy shield as they approach the droid army. You see, I wanted to say “force […]
Read more "Star Wars:The Phantom Menace (a 15-Minute Force production): Chapter Eight: Executing A 14-Year-Old Queen’s 3-Pronged Battle Plan"45:01 – 60:00 You know, it’s come to my attention that I didn’t say anything about Jake Lloyd’s acting during our last segment. Here’s the thing, I don’t really like criticizing child actors too harshly. When a child is an excellent actor, as Natalie Portman was long before this movie, I don’t mind saying […]
Read more "Star Wars:The Phantom Menace (a 15-Minute Force production): Chapter Four: The Results are in…Your Midichlorian Count says…You Have No Father"Here’s what movie critic Owen Gleiberman had to say about Star Wars: The Clone Wars movie when it came out: It’s hard to tell the droids from the Jedi drones in this robotic animated dud, in which the George Lucas Empire Strikes Back—at the audience. What wears you out is Lucas’ immersion in a Star […]
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