Monday, May 23, 2005

Just like Christmas eve

Tomorrow is the day I find if what is seeming sweet will convert to bitter gall. Exiting as that is I'm trying not to think of that right now.

Every since I can remember I've been a Star Wars fan. I was 6 years old when I saw the first movie. I only saw it once but instantly I was a huge fan, even thou admittedly I couldn't remember anything of the actual movie. From the age of 6 I started collecting the toys and eventually got into buying two of each toy, one I'd play with, the other I'd leave in the package. I did this till one Christmas my mom sent all my toys to the Philippines with the intention of replacing them later (because they were packaged she thought them new and current) not knowing they were irreplaceable. I think I collected the toys till I was like 15-16.

I remember seeing Empire when I was about 10. It was my best friends b-day and we went to the theatre and got to vote which movies we got to watch. I figure one of the two had to be Star Wars so I wasn't too worried. Son of a...Empire only got one vote! We watched Caddy Shack and something else. At one point I left to take a peek at Star Wars and came in on the lightsabre meets the Ton Ton scene. I was soo amazed. I didn't know that kangaroos could be ridden. After explaing to the others what I had saw in the other theatre they all got up to take a look. It wasn't till Caddy shack was over did I realize that they all didn't come back. Mofo's watched SW and didn't bother to fetch me. Mofo's!!!! I went home so pissed off that my mom took the whole fam to see it the next day. I cried at the end when I thought Han Solo was dead. My mom tried to explain to me that he was sorta sleeping indefinitely, "He's dead!!! Bwahhhhh!"

When I watched Return, my brother took me. We took the bus to Granville street and stood in line all day. From the line up I saw some guy get beat down by three other guys. I saw a guy on a bike get hit by a bus. It was funny because the guy didn't get hurt but the cops questioned him for like two hours on how one could be so stupid as to be hit by a bus moving 1 kph. I can't believe it, we got the last tickets of the last showing, we came into the theatre and the movie had already started. The movie ended at like 2am and we had to call our dad to pick us up from dt. He was pissed.

Phantom was the best episode so far. Empire was the best of the original series but Phantom was just insane. Lucuas comes up with the coolest bad guys. Vader was the original baddy, then Boba Fett, then finally Darth Maul. OMG, how cool was that guy? The only thing of significance that I remember watching that movie was me, my bro and Coy jumping up and down yelling during the final fight scene between Qui-gon, Obi and Maul.

Clone Wars was a movie I originally didn't really care for originally. Anakin grew up into a whinny biatch, Padime fell for a whinny biatch and Obi,supposedly the greatest Jedi ever, went out like a chump. The more I watch this movie the more I appreciate it. IMO More than any of the other movies the storey line was the star. This was the story that had to be told to set up not only Episode 3, but the original 3 movies. I'm glad we finally got to see Yoda kick some booty.

Today I will be watching Episode 3. Revenge of the Sith. I fricken can't wait. And tomorrow...I can't wait for that either. Good news or bad, lets put that sucker to bed.

Rhoel