Word: jedi
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Enter Emily. The roommate. You would think she was normal to look at her. Maybe "a little short for a stormtrooper." (Just kidding, Em.) She likes Star Wars. She likes The Empire Strikes Back. She likes Return of the Jedi. But the first words out of her month: "I can't believe you're going on opening day. Not only are you going to see it, you're going to see it on opening day. I have to say, I've just lost a little respect...
...absence of our swaggering friend--"the scruffy-looking nerfherder," if you will. Where are the big three--Luke, Leia and Han Solo--now? Leia (Carrie Fisher) still acts, although not usually in leading roles. She writes, both novels and screenplays. (I guess that iron bikini in Return of the Jedi was a little much.) Luke (Mark Hamill) works on comic books. He can also currently be seen in a series of commercials for Big Bear, the supermarket chain. (He uses the Force to move his shopping bags out of the store. Hmm.) And Han Solo (Harrison Ford...
Diehard fans contain their disappointment and rate it better than "Jedi" but no "Empire," and in a different category altogether than the dreadfully scripted, poorly acted and infinitely enjoyable "Star Wars." Critics range from "crap" (The New Yorker's Anthony Lane) to a wan "up to snuff" (the Times' Janet Maslin). No matter: "Episode 1: The Phantom Menace" is here, having opened in theaters on Wednesday morning at 12:01 a.m. And with pre-sold-out, round-the-clock showings in every theater from here to Tatooine -- and an estimated 2.2 million people playing "Wookie Hooky" from work Wednesday...
...plot is familiar to anyone with access to a computer or magazine. Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn (Liam Neeson) and his apprentice Obi-Wan Kenobi (Ewan McGregor), hoping to settle a dispute between the flabby Republic and an insurgent Trade Federation, find Queen Amidala (Natalie Portman) on the planet Naboo. Diverted to Tatooine, they meet the boy Anakin Skywalker (Jake Lloyd), who has a mysterious force--perhaps the Force. They amass for a fierce face-off against battle droids and the malefic Darth Maul (Ray Park...
This is the work of Lucas the compulsive chronicler of his own imaginary galaxy. But there are other Lucases. One is the grownup kid who loves wise heroes and fast cars. That Lucas created a terse, looming Jedi knight in the person of Qui-Gon, and orchestrated a spectacular, turbo-thrust drag race through sculpted desert rock that consumes 12 minutes and most of the audience's adrenaline supply...