The Shrine

<div style='font: 14pt "Sans Serif"; text-align: justify; padding: 0% 15% 0% 15%; '>Totally packed theaters. Forget about getting there an hour early for tickets. You had to get there an hour early just to get <i>food</i> to take into the theaters. In a word, it was insane. I stood in line for 15 minutes before realizing it was totally pointless, and decided to just look for a good seat instead. Never seen concession lines that long.

The audience was primed for this one and it was incredible fun. There were parts where we all roared in laughter and awe at the same time. It's been a <i>really</i> long time since I've been to a movie like that is why the film ultimately succeeds. This movie is in the same spirit as the old school Star Wars flicks and it was great to watch.</div>

<div style='font: 10pt "arial narrow"; text-align: left; padding: 0% 5% 0% 5%; '>Bah, we're still gonna hear fucks complaining that it "just wasn't like the old ones". I just got home from a noon showing, and it was really swell.</div>

<div style='font: 14pt "Sans Serif"; text-align: justify; padding: 0% 15% 0% 15%; '>After seeing some of the reviews, I'm convinced some folks will complain about anything. This is a great movie and is way better than the little nitpicks some whiny critics masturbating off their version of wit would have you believe. I *really* don't understand the negative reviews at all.</div>

<div style='font: italic bold 14pt ; text-align: center; '>this weekend is going to suck....for everyone else. I only have to work 12 hoyr shifts.But it's ok because I get to see lots of good movies. Being an usher is better than a ticket taker or concession. I feel sorry for them. But my god.</div>

<div style='font: 11pt "comic sans MS"; text-align: left; '>"Yoda" - That's all I got to say. I was like this face --> =8^U</div>

<div style='font: 11pt "comic sans MS"; text-align: left; '>Critics prefer dramatic movies. I remember arguing with someone here who thought I shouldn't slam critics. Bah! Critics suck. Don't listen to'em.</div>

<div style='font: 14pt "Sans Serif"; text-align: justify; padding: 0% 15% 0% 15%; '>heheh, me too. That was the laughter and awe at the same time part I brought up. I was laughing and yelling "HOLY SHIT! GODDAMN!" all at the same time." Too awesome...Theater got really loud....</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Odd, that's how I felt about Phantom Menace</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>It's all a matter of taste in what you like, don't like, and focus on, but there are some critics that are quite good, whether you agree with them or not</div>

<div style='font: ; text-align: left; '>Right on, Lucas got the reaction I think he was aiming for with those scenes =).</div>

<div style='font: ; text-align: left; '>Oh man, the theater here sucks so hard...about a third of the way through the lens got warped or something because everything was out of focus for the rest of the film =(.</div>

<div style='font: 11pt "comic sans MS"; text-align: left; '>A lot of them are jaded. Does anyone remember the movie the beat out Star Wars for Movie of the Year in 1977? I had to look it up. Woody Allen was in it. Damn critics.</div>

<div style='font: 10pt Arial; text-align: left; '>That was me, and I never said you shouldn't slam critics, just that you shouldn't freak out and get all insecure about what they write. "OH MY GOD! THEY DON'T LIKE EPISODE II! CRITICS SUCK!!!"</div>

<div style='font: 11pt "comic sans MS"; text-align: left; '>Well, they do. That was my point.</div>

<div style='font: 10pt Arial; text-align: left; '>Ah, movie populism. "I like it, so if the critics don't, they must suck." Wisdom for the ages.</div>

<div style='font: 11pt "comic sans MS"; text-align: left; '>If you think so, thank you. =8^)</div>

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>A dissenting opinion has to be made - Episode II - like Episode I - my friends and I were divided, with one of us feeling it was great, two feeling it was mediocre, and one (me) feeling it blew goat chunks hard.</div>

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Annie Hall.</div>

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Which is not to say at all that I think you should agree with me. But I thought the movie was forgettable on its own and lacking in the mythos of the first trilogy (yes, I said it, and no, I don't expect you to agree with me.)</div>

<div style='font: bold 9pt ; text-align: left; '>and Anakin starting to go nuts was so awesome.

When his mom died, I just crossed my fingers and started whispering, "Please, go nuts, please go nuts." hehe</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Episode 2 was excellent EXCEPT for Natalie Portman. Dear Lord, she DESTROYED the love story. Hayden isn't too bad, but she blows heavy chunks. Everything else - particularly McGregor, who ruled - was great</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>That was pretty cool. I was always wondering if that was gonna be a part of the movie and it was</div>

<div style='font: italic bold 14pt ; text-align: center; '>I was more like €=====Ð Ahhhhh Ahhhh Ahhhhh ahhhhhh uhhhhn €=====Ð- - - - - = = = =</div>

<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>What'd you all think of Jar Jar?! :P</div>

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>I thought that they were both absolutely miserable in the love story, but that he was worse.</div>

<div style='font: 11pt "comic sans MS"; text-align: left; '>Yeah, I thought he was the worst of the two. The love story had to be hurried and therefore, ended up contrived and shallow. =8^D</div>

<div style='font: bold 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Natalie Portman is hot so who cares!!! :)</div>

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Well, I don't know. See, I saw the special Producer's Cut, where the NAACP blasts in the doorway of the Imperial Senate halfway through his speech and carries his racial-stereotyped ass away forever .</div>

<div style='font: 10pt "arial narrow"; text-align: left; padding: 0% 5% 0% 5%; '>Racial-stereotyped ass?</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>I really think it was her who dragged it down. He wasn't great by any stretch, but has some potential, if the other person (or script) is any good</div>

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>A lot of people (me included) feel Jar Jar is either (if you're nice) a bad Jamaican stereotype or (if you're not) a bad 1850's era black slave stereotype..."Meesa not know what to do!"</div>

<div style='font: 10pt "arial narrow"; text-align: left; padding: 0% 5% 0% 5%; '>People read way too much into shit nowadays.</div>

<div style='font: ; text-align: left; '>Crime against blacks nothing, Jar Jar's a crime against all of humanity. Besides, if you're going to go into that stuff don't forget that the Trade Federation heads sound like stereotypical evil Japanese.</div>

<div style='font: 9pt Arial; text-align: left; '>I agree. Besides, the Fett's are Pacific islanders, so I'm not complaining. :)</div>

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>I believe that one too. I balked when my friend tried to tell me Watto was Jewish, though. :)</div>

<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light"; text-align: left; '>You only say that because she's not the "star" in this one as she was in Episode 1. She's a good actress, but she didn't have that much material on Ep2. Though, Anakin was awesome.</div>

<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light"; text-align: left; '>The whole point of me going to watch the movie was watching Yoda be a badass! Don't be dissing the short one!</div>

<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light"; text-align: left; '>I, for one, think you are full of shit. Better than Ep1, of course. There. Now my opinion is in the Star Wars arena.</div>

<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light"; text-align: left; '>All it needed was Spybreak playing in the background when the lightsabers came out :P</div>

<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light"; text-align: left; '>Watto?</div>

<div style='font: 11pt "comic sans MS"; text-align: left; '>Spybreak....hmmm....since we have similar taste in music....time for Kazaa. =8^D</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Anakin's master, the flying armadillo</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Who's dissin' him? That was awesome to see. In my post, I was actually referring to what was INSIDE the message. You see, unlike most, I actuallly click on the links and read the messages, not just the subject line</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Actually, aside from Leon: The Professional, I haven't liked her in any film. She's just a static actress who can't act worth shit. That worked fine as a kid, but it ain't cutting it as an adult. She's like a talking cardboard cut-out.</div>

<div style='font: 11pt "comic sans MS"; text-align: left; '>Puhleez. You just don't like Israeli women, that's all. =8^D j/k!!</div>

<div style='font: ; text-align: left; '>What, because he's greedy and has a big nose? Remember kids, it's not racism if you're offensive towards EVERYBODY!</div>

<div style='font: ; text-align: left; '>Oh, let me make it clear that I'm not racist; the only group I'm bigoted against is assholes...though I do think people are reading a little too much into these things.</div>

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>I didn't say *anything* about all of y'all's opinion. *Nothing*. And you're going to tell me that I, not my opinion, am full of shit? That's bitchy. I'm not attacking your opinion. I'm just posting mine.</div>

<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light"; text-align: left; '>I mean nothing personal. I'm merely stating my opinion. When I say that "you're full of shit", that means "I disagree with you".</div>

<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light"; text-align: left; '>It wasn't directed at you, but just everybody in general.</div>