k fine, I'll post a review. And a rant. Bonus!

( spoilerama )

So. That is my $0.02. Now the rant.

( why they shouldn't make movies out of preexisting material )

In retrospect, and considering the well hyped polarization of fans into those that like the prequels and those that hate them... I think my stance is that they shouldn't have been made, especially not a decade and a half after Return of the Jedi, time enough to develop the ever present cult following. Again, the original trilogy stands on it's own, and it would have been better for us to imagine what exactly happened to turn an idealistic Jedi named Anakin Skywalker (NOT ANNIE! DUMBEST NICKNAME EVAR. JESUS.) into the twisted evil bit of asthmatic metal with the distinctive orchestral theme song and the voice of Verizon we all know and love... rather than have been told.


All rants and reviews aside, I'm PMSing and homicidal and tonight was weird and off kilter since I arrived at Cinemark. Though bitching at great length above helped, I'm still kinda pissed off around the edges and feeling like the whole long spewage behind the LJ cut is simply me overcompensating because at the beginning of credit rolls I was like "ok, mostly that was kinda cool" - and then three credits later feeling intensely stupid for having that opinion. It's so messed up, all it takes is one negative comment sometimes for me to not enjoy something I like/love as much as I did before someone had to poop on my world... And yes I know I should just suck it up, grow a spine, and deal with the fact that other people are entitled to their opinion as well...

Anyway. Please treat the Andee as you would an impact trigger bomb until further notice.

tee hee

One last Star Wars thing and then no fucking more about the subject - beatgoddess passed along the following link.

http://www.capnwacky.com/sw/sw01.html (work safe)

My favorites are the female Fett and the hippie stormtrooper.

ok i lied.

Some thoughts on my way to work of the snarky variety:

- It's a good thing that Jedi aren't supposed to form personal attachments. Let's just say they'd need little bumper stickers on their cruisers: Yes, I use the Force. No, I will not help you move.

- I forgot to snark heavily about the reappearance of the Gillett Comlink For Women. What the FUCK was the prop department thinking? Talk about instant sabotage of the thing known as suspension of disbelief. It's a chick's razor, fercryinoutloud. No one needs to be hearing Obi-Wan's voice coming out of that.

- Lastly, and unrelated to Star Wars: Rt. 9 by smith has gone blinking yellow light and traffic coppy, since god forbid anyone hit the doddering old alumnae reuniting with the 2 people left alive from the class of 1930.

That is all.

just so we're ABUNDANTLY clear

The next few weeks are going to be insane. Let me spell out what this will mean ahead of time so that people don't get pissy with me later. That already happened once this year, I'd like to skip a repeat performance.

a) Work's eating me alive, and it uses a good bit of my brainpower. It's going to be doing this for the forseeable future.

b) I'm moving in a couple of weeks. This is stressful and will be occupying a good bit of the minute brain capacity left over from work.

c) The remainder of my time and energy will most probably be spent with the wonderquad+jew+beatgoddess. This is for the following reasons: i) either I live with the above, am moving at the same time and into the same building/around the corner as the above ii) these folks actually take the time to seek out my company and drag me out of the hole I retreat to when I'm not dealing with a and b. Much as I'd like to hang out with the rest of you, it's not going to happen unless you approach me and I happen to be free. I really have neither the energy nor the ability to actively head anywhere not easily reachable by PVTA, and this makes me rather disinclined to reach out to people for socialization purposes. Unfortunately due to a and b, the driving project has once again been shelved.

d) I'm probably going to end up skipping everything in LJ except blood, emotional upheaval, emergency surgery or other major trauma. This will probably also mean that if you have a birthday between the months of April and August, I'm probably going to forget it. I'll make it up later.

e) THIS STATE OF THE ANDEE IS TEMPORARY. Regularly scheduled Andee will most likely return after this summer.

I'm sorry if the above seems selfish, but recent thought has led me to the conclusion that I haven't been selfish enough with my time, which has in turn led me to spread myself way too thin and not have any energy to spend on myself, let alone actually important stuff. I figured I'd get out the state of the plate now so if anyone else feels like they can't take me absenting myself from most and sundry they can get off my train now and leave me to the navel gazing and water treading that I absolutely need to do. As for the tone, I recognize I'm being overly harsh and sarcastic, but I've been in low grade homicide mode for a while and the issue of how my time is being spent and how I choose to de-stress is now a major trigger for me, so I'm probably just going to be nasty about it until I get over it. *shrug* You've been warned.