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Malevolent
2018 ***1/2 It's 1986 for some reason, and a team of paranormal investigators are making a big name for themselves all over Scotland. ...
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I’m sure none of you except for JPX knows that I’m a bit of a germ-a-phobic. It’s annoying, but manageable. Though, since I met JPX and list...
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I think you're just trying to bait me, JPX.
Two key phrases:
1) "The Wait Is Over" - no, it isn't. We've been under constant bombardment since 1998. Nobody's been waiting for shit.
3) "There is no escape" - totally true.
I'll tell you this, though - from a strict preview point of view, if you could take this promo back in time to immediately pre-TPM, people would have literally died in sheer ecstasy over the images and story that the preview promises. Alas, here we are.
More of what's fueling my fire these days:
The hyperlink function seems to have a bad motivator:
http://www.chefelf.com/starwars/ep1.php
I love that list. My favorite is #20, because he honestly discusses how scenes in a movie can generate extreme embarrassment in the viewer, even though they're sitting there in the dark and nobody's looking at them. That is how it feels when you watch awful stuff like Jar Jar or Baby Geniuses or whatever: personally embarrassing.
I had the opposite reaction to the trailer, however. Seeing original trilogy stuff parked next to prequel stuff as if it's all the same stuff -- wrong, wrong, wrong.
Wrong, indeed. But for a few brief moments, I was able to imagine what could have been.
Maul in the hood, "You were the Chosen One!", etc. I felt that heady pre-Phantom anticipation all over again, as if nothing had happened.
Then Jabba came waddling into view. *shudder*
I still love it all! Okay, not Episode 1, but the rest!
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