Very entertained
May. 21st, 2005 01:15 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
melcharHad a very entertaining day today. Started with going to see 'Star Wars, Sith' in the early afternoon at Century 23 [the 1pm showing]. Drove over, no line, got tickets and got good seats. [the theatre was maybe 1/3 full, after the ads stopped].
Reaction to 'Sith' is - it did the job of explaining the transition, but when _Yoda_ [crappy advice-giver supreme] is the best actor in a movie, you have troubles. The actor playing Palpatine was reasonably good, but everyone else was cardboard. Even Samuel Jackson. [shakes head & sighs] Way to many CGI fx and not enough plot or dialogue.
So ranking it, I give it 4th place and 2nd tier. Top tier are 'Star Wars, AKA New Hope' & 'Empire Strikes Back' - and depending on my mood, they trade place for best & 2nd best of the lot.
2nd tier are 'Clones' and 'Sith', respectively 3rd & 4th best.
Then bottom tier are 'Revenge of the Jedi' [I am still miffed they changed that title] ranked 5th & 'Phantom Menace' - which is the worst of the lot. I really hate gungans & ewoks. [shudder] But 'Jedi' at least had Palpatine in it to almost redeem the film.
So AFTER seeing 'Sith', picked up Elizabeth from work, dragged her back to ye olde cave. Got Trey & Treycat & the 4 of us went out to see 'Chess' that night at the SJ Montgomery children's theatre. Really, REALLY good production - even if they have the ending different than the London cast recording. [in the London cast recording, the Russian player who defected is troubled by the emotional blackmail but -wins- the final game, stays a Brit citizen, stays with his lover & his wife returns to Russia]. In the version seen tonight, he loses the match & returns to Russia so his lover's father is released to her, so she can go with dad back to America.
I was just thinking ... since the LONDON cast has the _Brit_ win [essentially] - and this one was a US production and had the slimy US citizen [rather than the defector] win, was the musical scored differently for Brit and US audiences? And does this mean that a Russian production would also be different still?
Reaction to 'Sith' is - it did the job of explaining the transition, but when _Yoda_ [crappy advice-giver supreme] is the best actor in a movie, you have troubles. The actor playing Palpatine was reasonably good, but everyone else was cardboard. Even Samuel Jackson. [shakes head & sighs] Way to many CGI fx and not enough plot or dialogue.
So ranking it, I give it 4th place and 2nd tier. Top tier are 'Star Wars, AKA New Hope' & 'Empire Strikes Back' - and depending on my mood, they trade place for best & 2nd best of the lot.
2nd tier are 'Clones' and 'Sith', respectively 3rd & 4th best.
Then bottom tier are 'Revenge of the Jedi' [I am still miffed they changed that title] ranked 5th & 'Phantom Menace' - which is the worst of the lot. I really hate gungans & ewoks. [shudder] But 'Jedi' at least had Palpatine in it to almost redeem the film.
So AFTER seeing 'Sith', picked up Elizabeth from work, dragged her back to ye olde cave. Got Trey & Treycat & the 4 of us went out to see 'Chess' that night at the SJ Montgomery children's theatre. Really, REALLY good production - even if they have the ending different than the London cast recording. [in the London cast recording, the Russian player who defected is troubled by the emotional blackmail but -wins- the final game, stays a Brit citizen, stays with his lover & his wife returns to Russia]. In the version seen tonight, he loses the match & returns to Russia so his lover's father is released to her, so she can go with dad back to America.
I was just thinking ... since the LONDON cast has the _Brit_ win [essentially] - and this one was a US production and had the slimy US citizen [rather than the defector] win, was the musical scored differently for Brit and US audiences? And does this mean that a Russian production would also be different still?
