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strredwolf) wrote2005-06-15 02:36 pm
strredwolf) wrote2005-06-15 02:36 pm
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Timing... (Star Wars Episode 3)
So, I finally get to see Star Wars, Episode 3...
...on a Tuesday...
...via the matinee ticket (which they pushed the price up).
The theater's empty save for me and whoever comes in the next twenty minutes from the 5:40pm showtime. It's a workday, however, so I expect I'll have the theater all to myself.
Things have changed since the last time I was here as an employee, about two years ago. Some folk are still here, but don't rely on their job as being the sole source of income. One became a EMT while I was gone. Management has changed drastically for the worse, as some of the better managers have left, and the new ones are worse than who have remained. They're hemoraging bodies, and it shows.
Some changes have been for the better: The ad system isn't a physical slideshow, but a computer generated one. Unfortunately, they also killed the piped in music, which now only plays in the hallways to each theater. Maybe they finally give folks a break over the holiday when the staff's burned out halfway to Chrismas.
Ten before. Damn, another person joined. Thought I'd have this huge theater all by myself. Hopefully the other guy who just walked in will turn off his *!)@( cell phone before the movie starts.
Why timing? Origionally, I was to go in, spend two hours debugging hardware. It took longer. Twice as long. The old server wasn't taking well to the new drive that was shoved in, and I had to "monsterize" a setup. That ground to a halt when I found that the OS disks the client has aren't plain
"slap and forget" disks, but "upgrade" disks. ARGH! Plus, since I needed approval for most of everything, I couldn't do much of anything.
Which leads me down to here.
---
Okay, it technically connects the first trilogy with the second.
Technically.
Every multi-twist flip, long run, or even various clones (most of them) and young Jedi were screaming "CGI! CGI!" I could tell when they were not real or not. To me, when a character goes real-*BLINK*-CGI'ed-*BLINK*-real, it ruins the film. It ruins the fight scenes. When I'm reminded that the smallest thing is CGI'ed, it ruins the film. I don't want to be reminded in 5.1 Dolby sterio that this human had CGI augmentation, or the background's getting crushed by CGI and not Vader's mind. It's cheezy, and I'm lactose intolerant.
That said, I will say if the CGI's too good, I'll forget that it's CGI'ed. Jar Jar was one good point with the previous movies. General Grevious is a better one -- I thought he was a 'droid. Maybe he caught a computer virus and this is how the AI's reacting. No, he's an insect with a candy coated
metal shell. Peel it back and you get dangly bits you can shoot at.
Heh. Dangly bits. Intresting choice of words.
So we now have the rise of Vader and the Sith in three movies, the fall in three. The Jedi Temple's destroyed -- Blame Vader. The Clone Wars are over, followed by the downfall of the Empire. Lucas has hinted of a final three stories... but refuses to write them.
Too bad MAD Magazine's not doing any movie parodies. I won't blame 'em. This one's bland. It's not worth full fare, and I wouldn't be suprized if folks who downloaded it got a better deal than what I got.
...on a Tuesday...
...via the matinee ticket (which they pushed the price up).
The theater's empty save for me and whoever comes in the next twenty minutes from the 5:40pm showtime. It's a workday, however, so I expect I'll have the theater all to myself.
Things have changed since the last time I was here as an employee, about two years ago. Some folk are still here, but don't rely on their job as being the sole source of income. One became a EMT while I was gone. Management has changed drastically for the worse, as some of the better managers have left, and the new ones are worse than who have remained. They're hemoraging bodies, and it shows.
Some changes have been for the better: The ad system isn't a physical slideshow, but a computer generated one. Unfortunately, they also killed the piped in music, which now only plays in the hallways to each theater. Maybe they finally give folks a break over the holiday when the staff's burned out halfway to Chrismas.
Ten before. Damn, another person joined. Thought I'd have this huge theater all by myself. Hopefully the other guy who just walked in will turn off his *!)@( cell phone before the movie starts.
Why timing? Origionally, I was to go in, spend two hours debugging hardware. It took longer. Twice as long. The old server wasn't taking well to the new drive that was shoved in, and I had to "monsterize" a setup. That ground to a halt when I found that the OS disks the client has aren't plain
"slap and forget" disks, but "upgrade" disks. ARGH! Plus, since I needed approval for most of everything, I couldn't do much of anything.
Which leads me down to here.
---
Okay, it technically connects the first trilogy with the second.
Technically.
Every multi-twist flip, long run, or even various clones (most of them) and young Jedi were screaming "CGI! CGI!" I could tell when they were not real or not. To me, when a character goes real-*BLINK*-CGI'ed-*BLINK*-real, it ruins the film. It ruins the fight scenes. When I'm reminded that the smallest thing is CGI'ed, it ruins the film. I don't want to be reminded in 5.1 Dolby sterio that this human had CGI augmentation, or the background's getting crushed by CGI and not Vader's mind. It's cheezy, and I'm lactose intolerant.
That said, I will say if the CGI's too good, I'll forget that it's CGI'ed. Jar Jar was one good point with the previous movies. General Grevious is a better one -- I thought he was a 'droid. Maybe he caught a computer virus and this is how the AI's reacting. No, he's an insect with a candy coated
metal shell. Peel it back and you get dangly bits you can shoot at.
Heh. Dangly bits. Intresting choice of words.
So we now have the rise of Vader and the Sith in three movies, the fall in three. The Jedi Temple's destroyed -- Blame Vader. The Clone Wars are over, followed by the downfall of the Empire. Lucas has hinted of a final three stories... but refuses to write them.
Too bad MAD Magazine's not doing any movie parodies. I won't blame 'em. This one's bland. It's not worth full fare, and I wouldn't be suprized if folks who downloaded it got a better deal than what I got.
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