[Closed] Recent Viewing Part III

Just watched and heard 'Revenge of the Sith' on blu-ray, an absolutely stunning presentation if I ever saw one. This viewing has now confirmed that I absolutely love this prequel, it certainly is the best scripted and acted of the three films, and the ending and the way old George wraps everything up has me in tears every time. The music also plays a vital role in my enjoyment, and I must hunt down the complete score of this, because it has all these great renditions of themes from the OT that aren't on the album.

From the moment Order 66 is being executed the film really turns into that Star Wars magic that I love from the sequels. Takes my breath away everytime.

The film is excellent and a worthy addition to the Trilogy.

Really, those two seconds RUIN it for you?
Dude! It's not like they inserted it into the original Tril....oh....wait....

I just watched Alone in the dark and coincidentally Darth Vader expresses my feelings about this movie to a tee.

Peter

None of the prequels comes even close to the class of the original trilogy.



I have to say that I do enjoy this one. It has many faults though, many of which have been pointed out plus I felt absolutely nothing, nothing when Anakin killed the young Jedi's, what should have been a shocking and emotionally crushing sequence merely becomes a shrug of the shoulders, a serious epic fail!

You have a forgiving soul.

David is trying to watch Once Upon A Time In The West at the moment. Taking it in small bites, he is getting through it. He seems drawn to the Western genre. He tried to watch How The West Was Won at the weekend but it wasn't the sort of Western he wants to see.

He watched Dances With Wolves recently too.

Worryingly, no I don't think it was!

Also, yesterday he made an inventory of all our DVDs (packed in boxes at the moment). He made a special point of asking whether Aliens was Alien 2. So, he now knows where to find all the violent films for when Anne and I are next out for the day.

But there are so many films that I want David to see - Alien, Aliens, The Thing, The Omen, etc. But, it maybe still a bit too early for that.

Show him the really great horror films, Alien, Aliens, Poltergeist like when I saw them as a kid, and their impression will last a lifetime. It does for me.

Twelve.

There's so much that he's exposed to that's outside our control. I know that one of his friends is more or less allowed to watch anything that he wants and to play any type of video game.

But at home it is getting to the stage where letting him watch films such as these - that are of good quality and where the violence isn't too gratuitous - under "controlled" conditions may be reasonable.

I know. I remember being bored in the beginning of the movie, but with all the battles and effects at the end I found myself enjoying it. I know that it's even one of the most essential complaints about the prequels, that they filled them up with CGI effects instead of likable characters, well-written dialogue, interesting plot lines etc., but somehow I still ended up enjoying it.

Peter

I would first ask him what sort of movies he has watched.

I remember being 10 years old watching Lamberto Bava's "Demons" at a team party. About 20 minutes in when all the gore and horror starts I ran out of the room scared to bloody hell, crying my eyes out. I was pretty much out of control. I ran upstairs where I dropped to my knees and sobbed. The coaches wife found me there and it took a good 30 minutes for me to calm down. I left a great impression on my teammates.

Now, at that time, I had seen Robocop and some other pretty violence films but was never exposed to horror violence. A few year later I saw Aliens - I was 11 or so and it gave me nightmares for weeks. No word of a lie. But around the same time I saw Prince of Darkness and loved it! Go figure!

I'm sure you're a responsible parent and have already asked these sort of things but that's my own personal experience with the horror genre at that age.

-Erik-

I will make the choice that I believe is right. Slightly different!

I remember Aliens scared the crap out of me too as a 8-10 year old kid. Especially the scene with the woman hanging on the wall. Still, despite being haunted by the memories of that scene, I greatly enjoyed the movie. One of my all-time favourite movies, that I must have seen 10 times since then.

So getting scared and slightly traumatized () isn't always a bad thing. But of course it's different from child to child. Some might get so disturbed by it that it's better if they hadn't seen it at all.

Peter

Poltergeist is the one I remember terrifying me. I was probably about 8 or 9 when I saw it (I think I was in the house by myself, though that does seem like a fairly young age for that to be the case) - my parents wouldn't have let me watch it.

Anyway, next time I saw it (about twenty years later) I thought it was hilariously funny and about as scary as Mother Theresa. Strange how the mind changes.