Kevin's Watch

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Thanks for the news, MAYOR. That donut is making me hungry.

My feeling about the title crawls is that the ones for A New Hope and Empire Strikes Back were the best. After that, they became a little lame (kind of like the films themselves).

In A New Hope, you had: "It is a period of civil war..." Ooohh!

In Empire, you had: "It is a dark time for the Rebellion..." Aaahh!

Then in Jedi, you got (I'll watch the DVD later to get the exact words): "Luke Skywalker meets with his Muppet friends on Tatooine to rescue Han from Jabba yada yada yada meanwhile Miss Piggy and Kermit..." Okay, I exaggerate, but my point is that they lost the epic feeling.

I only vaguely recall how the crawl begins for Phantom Menace...something about Canada-U.S. softwood lumber trade talks? Oh, sorry, it was the Trade Federation-Naboo Lumbering Jar-Jar Talks.

And I don't remember at all the crawl for Attack of the Clones. I'm guessing it had something to do with clones.

At least with Revenge of the Sith, it starts with a bang: "War!" That's more like it.

I thought it was pretty good . . . until I read General Grievous.

GENERAL GRIEVOUS????!!!!!

Sounds like a lame parody name from a SNL skit.

Why not just call him Colonel Catastrophic? Or Admiral Abominable?

Sheesh!!!!

I agree, "General Grievous" is a groaner. (Ha ha, say that 3 times quick!) Sometimes I think Lucas used up all his good names in the original trilogy.

"Dooku" was pretty bad also....

Thanks for the link!

Dooku sounds like another slang name for feces. Which may have been the point . . . but I doubt if Lucas is thinking enough for that.

Dooku was chosen because it's the word for poison in an Asian language, I believe Japanese. Doesn't make it any less silly though.

General Grevious? Oy.

Our cable company has a channel called "on Demand" giving accesss to channels and movies when u want to watch. One section is for theatrical trailers and Sith is there. Really cool. Dark. Warry. All wrapped around a background sound of Vader's wheezing. Anything like the preview... wow.

Okay, I have a question. Is James Earl Jones gonna do the Darth Vader voice overs in "Sith"? I keep seeing his Verizon commercials, and his speech is beginning to slur....one of the many joys of getting old. Anyway, I'd still rather it be Jones than anybody else.