Star Wars (here be big spoilers!)

Saw the new Star Wars yesterday. Yes, loved the action. Yes, would love to see it again. Yes, seeing Yoda with a lightsaber makes me all excited in many ways most of which you don't wanna know about. But still...

Couldn't Lucas for once hire somebody who can write? One would think that he could already have figured that he cannot. The dialog is so painful that I don't know how the actors manage to pronounce it with straight faces. In fact Hayden Christensen does not manage to pronounce it with a straight face at many points.

And how could Obi-Wan have fucked up so badly at the end and not kill Darth Vader? If I fucked up like that I would also go to a corner or to Tatooine for twenty years and just sit there being ashamed of myself.

And the trasnformation of Anakin is soooo believable. Yeah, a guy for whom personal is the same as important and who chooses personal relations over duty would surely immediately become a lot more dutiful after switching to the dark side and start killing old friends right and left. Right.

They hid the kids in such good places, too. Good thing Darth Vader was not looking for them.

Finally, I was so looking forward to seeing a violent death of Jar-Jar Binks, but no such luck.