I think Hopper was genius in "Blue Velvet" but the role was wayyyy too dark and disturbing for the Oscars !! Frank, the character, is really so cruel and sick, I mean, too creepy (in a way, Hannibal Lecter or the vilain played by Denzel Washington in "Training Day" have a certain "grandeur" along with their dark side, but Frank is completely unlikable by any stretch of the imagination : EVERYTHING is wrong and weird with him)...By the way, Isabella is soooooooooooooooo wonderful in that interview !!!!!! Magic :) And she has her own personality and amazing style (I think she is too patient and kind regarding people who keep saying to her "You look exactly like you rmother" : this opinion is so repetitive and lazy...).
I don't know whether Joe Strummer was depressed or on skag but Mick Jones is carrying him in this interview. The journalist has her pre-set agenda and doesn't respond to their mood. I can't remember the timeline but at some point Joe Strummer has a breakdown and disappears. Shame because they maintained their creativity to the end.
I remember standing in line for a few hours to see this when it came out. Awesome film experience! As soon as we walked out, our first thought was: “If Luke and Leia are brother and sister, why did they make out in the last movie?”
Nice interviews that I’d never seen before. I’m glad Marquand directed. ROTJ was excellent - especially with the direction of the Emperor in the movie.
ROTJ sucks, here’s why. Han Solo wasted as a character, Ford phones in cheesy perf. Doesn’t die a hero like he should have. Lapti Nek. Palace pig guards have motionless unclosable rubber mouths, super fake. Palace rescue has no logistical planning, even checking enemy whereabouts as they are ALL hiding silently behind a curtain, after hours, mere feet away. No epic Boba Fett battle, character wasted as a stupid burp gag after falling into sand vagina monster. Leia’s Jedi potential isn’t remotely explored. Leia and Han spend the movie deactivating some shield thing in most boring subplot ever. Their victory is against faceless stormtroopers, thus no character resonance whatsoever through their battle. (Even teaming up with Wookies could have had some significance for Han) Yoda repeats old dialogue that is merely jumbled around, then dies. Kenobi’s force ghosts sits to rest on a rock, Guinness could understandably give a shit, thankless encore dialogue. Lucas trades awesome Wookie army for kiddie crap teddy bears to sell more toys. Teddy bears destroy galactic military with I genius log technology. Teddy bear has apparently seen Earth movies, copying Tarzan’s jungle call perfectly. Space Hitler Vader has unearned redemption with deathbed repentance and we’re supposed to cry. Lucas end with another easily destroyed Death Star in creatively bankrupt retread. Teddy bears Nub Nub song sounds like soundtrack to a bad Disneyland ride. Now we have Hayden fucking Christianson’s ghost there, tainting the OT with toxic prequel stank. Also he gets to be young in afterlife, but tough luck Kenobi. All in, hover bikes withstanding, Jedi is crap, only good compared to prequels & Rise of Skywalker. Hamill seems the only one giving a committed performance expanding his character. Let’s stop pretending OT is a great trilogy. It’s 2 out of 3, then filmmakers coast through the final stretch like a lazy victory lap while already drinking the championship champagne. Lousy conclusion to two masterpieces.
What I think the real issue that people had with Empire Strikes Back wasn't so much the fact that "the good guys lost" but the fact that they lost and you had to wait another three years for the next chapter....and you had just experienced what it was to wait that long.
I did roll my eyes when he said he preferred Jedi to Empire but that did serve to remind me that Jedi has grown in my affections enough that it might have overtaken Empire if Empire had slipped a few notches in my affections………but it hasn’t and I know it never will ! And here’s a strange thing, first time I saw Jedi It wasn’t the Ewoks that irritated me most, I was more disappointed in the fact that someone let off fireworks at a celebration in Star Wars, I remember thinking that’s stupid, fireworks were invented by humans on planet earth which doesn’t exist in Star Wars……..it took a worryingly long time to realise that shoes and trousers were also invented on planet Earth 😂
@@ddm62571 ROTJ is definitely great Star Wars and doesn't always get the love it deserves. In my opinion, it has the single best scene in all of Star Wars (when Vader finally turns to save his son). But ESB will always be the best overall for me.
The FX are fantastic and there is a lot of cool stuff you can point at -- but overall I feel Jedi is mediocre in comparison to the first two. Han Solo is mostly reduced to "why I oughtta!" screwball schtick. Carrie Fisher seems bored as Leia. And the stuff with Obi Wan as a force ghost feels really contrived and offers a preview of the messy storytelling of the prequels. Just doesn't hang together overall nearly as well as the first two. But hey, the space battles are amazing!!
