Our Star Wars Marathon, in short
By Roz Young August 24, 2009
Saturday morning (August 15) we all planned to meet at 10 am to start the first movie. Costumes were, of course, mandatory.
Then I get a phone call from Matt and Eva. Someone (ahem, Matt!) left their car lights on over night and the battery was dead. Luckily, they managed to get a boost and make it to the start of the epic SW marathon only slightly late. In the mean time, I drank coffee to prepare and Allan showed up as Anakin (before the molten lava and severed limbs made him the Darth Vader we all know and love... or just me... he had me at "NOOoooooo").
Matt honored the original trilogy by sporting an excellent Han Solo costume. As Episode II is my favourite (I'll take all you booing bitches on right now), I wore a Padme-like yellow dress with annoying floofy accoutrements. Eva won my heart and also dressed as Padme, in her white badass, torn shirt and pants. Although, I think Matt may have done the outfit "tearing" and gotten a little too overzealous for Eva's taste {editor’s note: It is less torn than the real one}. My husband attempted to be "the Emperor" by wearing his hood up. Well, he doesn't really like SW anyways, and took off to do some other lame things instead.
We all watched Episode I and survived Jar Jar Binks without too many complaints. Good sports all around. Boo hiss to the acting of young Jake though. Everyone agrees that podracing is awesome. And then... Darth Maul fights... and duel of the fates... and well... Le awesome.
Episode II is enjoyed by all and we all swoon for Anakin. Even Matt agrees how great he is. Hehe. No really, Matt hates Hayden Christensen and pansy ass, whining Anakin {editor’s note: Favourites are very subjective, and you can’t really say that someone’s favourite is wrong… except in this case. Roz, you are wrong in saying Episode II is your favourite SW movie. Wrong wrong wrong}. We all agree that Natalie Portman is babelicious and has way too many costume changes. Yoda kicks serious ass in this movie. Some killing of women and children. That Anakin... {editor’s note: Seriously, how could anybody love this fucker? Padme is all like “It’s ok, grief is just human”. Yeah, but slaughtering a town is a little more than “grief”. And he’s supposed to be a Jedi, not just some average joe. Everything that follows is her fault for not smacking him upside the head and then letting Yoda and Obi Wan know that their favourite little Jedi-in-training is a mass murderer. Perhaps they would not have been so quick to send him to hang out with Palpatine.}
For the start of Episode III, Derrick joins us in his Star Wars t-shirt. He's not a huge SW fan, so I let him get away with it, this time!!! Better than his initial plan, to show up as Kirk. Ha! This is a cool movie, fight scenes, light saber battles, hot green chicks... Oh, and then Anakin kills a bunch of little kids {editor’s note: Wow, shocker}. Umm... That's less hot, but hey, he's evil now. The rise of Darth Vader! Warm round of applause for Ewan. His Obi Wan, c'est fantastique!
Nancy showed up for the original trilogy in an awesome costume... Darth Maude! It was great, that lady can face paint like nobody's business. We watched Episode IV with nostalgic affection and recalled our favourite Robot Chicken parody sketches. Allan, in fact, can quote word for word the entire original trilogy. Geek kudos.
Episode V begins and despite some transitions to the floor for better potential napping spots, most people make it through Empire. Our tummies are full of pizza and M&Ms. We all love the scene on Hoth and Yoda's introduction. This sparks a debate over who loves Empire Strikes Back, or Return of the Jedi, more. It's pretty much an even split, the better movie vs. awesomeness of the last SW movie. Romantic tension with Han and Leia is so great in Episode V... But Ewoks are so cute! Hard to choose...
Episode VI has Ewoks on Endor, the incredibly memorable Leia slave bikini, Darth Vader vs. Luke, and the awesomeness of the final battle to defeat the Empire. Despite all of this, around midnight I nodded off a bit. I know! Shame on me! I just can't eat crap all day and watch movies like I used to. Gettin' old you know. But we all (okay, maybe not Eva, I think she was completely gone at this point) watched as Vader fulfilled the prophecy and brought balance to the force by destroying the Emperor. Of course, you can discuss this at length if you wish on the forum. Is Anakin the one mentioned by the prophecy, or is it Luke?
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