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Saturday, March 16, 2002 Attack of the Clones Taking a one-hour break from tech rehearsal for the opera to write this and eat dinner (I'm going to go crazy! They told us last night that today we'd be done at 5:30pm instead of the scheduled 10pm, so I made plans, only to discover at this afternoon's rehearsal that we're probably going to go until 10pm now or whenever we get done if it's before that. Grrr).... Everyone who knows me knows that I'm a huge Star Wars fan. I've got cardboard standups of Darth Vader, Luke Skywalker, and Darth Maul (I didn't buy the last two--they were gifts, I swear) and a Star Wars throw and comforter among other things. I was one of the wierd kids who wore a costume for opening night of Episode I. I guess it's a bit of dorkiness coming out in me.  So I just got a chance to watch the new trailer for Episode II, which looks promising (much better than the "love story" trailer for the same movie). The special effects and action look amazing, which makes me hope that they didn't forget that it's the acting that carries a story, not fancy digital tricks. It's hard to tell the quality of a film's acting by its trailers, but so far that doesn't look like a huge improvement from Episode I, which was terrible. It could have been a decent movie (what was up with the pseudo-Japanese aliens who couldn't have possibly spoken more slowly and Queen Amidala's absolute lack of real emotion?); if the acting in the next movie is as bad as the first I'll have to throw my hands up on the whole new Star Wars thing. At least we have the originals and the books.... Right?
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