To the dearly departed

My sister is arriving today!!!!! Joy oh joy! Three more hours to huggies, kissies, jiggles etc etc. And Hornblower madness. Am estatic.

Watched Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith yesterday. Post-exam celebrations with Nazir. After waiting for half an hour after the official screening time, wading through ads, the movie finally started. A bit much, I thought - half an hour! But I saw the trailer for Fantastic Four - there's Ioan Gruffudd in it, the guy who played Hornblower. Am SO watching that. Another show I would watch - but on HBO - Mr and Mrs Smith, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt. Don't really like either, but the script seems funny - v. like "The Big Hit".

I didn't really enjoy Star Wars, truth be told. I thought it was rather messy, had way too much unneccessary battles, which seemed mostly to be to show off SFX, quite bad dialogue at spots. It only served to give visuals to the back story - which anyone watching 4,5, and 6 would know already - without adding depth to it. The only part I enjoyed was the final battle between ObiWan and Anakin. Ewan McGregor did the snotty crying thing quite well...one can really feel that Obi Wan hates having to kill Anakin, his own loss of a brother and friend. Sigh. Ooh, Yoda and Palpatine was so cute together. Grr, grr, buzz, buzz. Yoda is so sarky. Heh. After the battle, the mop-up was badly executed. Cut to spaceship, to Alderaan, then to Tatooine - very amateur editing, with screen "wipe-out" a la Windows whatisname. The Padme and Anakin thing was better - less purple prose-y. Hayden Christensen did a good job on Anakin though - v weak-minded, but with powers (what a dangerous combination) person. One can see that he's not really bad, just driven by fear and anger. Ripe for Sith apperenticeship - note, he didn't even attain "Master" rank in the Sith world. Ha ha. He's a born servant. Q. sad, especially when all he wanted was to save his beloved wife. Sniff. What an idiot. A cute one though. :D

On the whole, not really a good movie; something which depends on the francise to attract viewers.

Yay to Adik coming....tak sabar menanti, woo woo.