Scott Hamilton
Posted on 07/22/2007 4:38:50 PM PDT by InvisibleChurch
Scott?
Was that aloof and indifferent -- yes! Refreshingly! Totally!
Was it self-absorbed? Nope. He liked people -- what's self-absorbed about that? He just didn't care what they thought of him. It's pretty easy to be around somebody who's not "vulnerable" to your opinion of them. We've all known people like that, haven't we? They're kind of the essence of "cool."
Can you imagine Pacino being Han Solo?
"I think I'm out of the tractor beam, and THEY PULL ME BACK IN!"
I actually liked that film! What a car!
Are you thinking of Scotty Hamilton? I don’t believe he was/is gay though.
hmm...
Unless he's fooling his wife, he's not gay.
I saw it in the theater when I was 9, and I thought it was a bit of a letdown overall. It seemed fairly obvious that Lucas had become disinterested by the end of the original trilogy. Perhaps had he entrusted Irvin Kershner with it, it might’ve turned out better (but I think Kershner was too wiped out after doing “Empire” to make a return).
I’m not sure how I would’ve handled the redemption differently (too much of what made him into a villain was the gross manipulation by Palpatine and obsession with Padme, and he obviously wasn’t thinking clearly, so how much he would’ve had to “pay” is a debatable point). Ideally, I’d have greatly revamped the script and silly dialogue for many of the other films and recast a lot of the roles — crap like that Jar-Jar Binks would’ve never been cast in celluloid, and I also thought Natalie Portman, who CAN act, came off quite poorly overall.
Hayden Christianson’s performance as Anakin was also not up to snuff, he just didn’t seem fully right for the role, playing it as a whiny teenager (ditto with the brat that preceeded him, an annoying kid you wanted to smack). His character, if judging by the “Egg Man” that opened up his mask in ROTJ, should’ve been at least in his late 30s or even early 40s (you had to rather overlook some of the problems of age in between the two trilogies, they shortchanged them by at least 20 years). A lot of flaws all around. Frankly, the saving grace of ROTJ and the second trilogy was the fantastic Ian McDiarmid. I’d have rather seen a lot more of him, and his rise to become the Sith Lord, as alluded to in that scene he was discussing in the theater with Anakin. Without him, they’d have been almost unwatchable and little better than kiddy fodder.
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Yes Ian McDiarmid and for my money, Christopher Lee, made the movies somewhat watchable. Ewan McGregor was good too and I felt it was a shame, since he was one of the few good actors in the movie, that he was paired with a beeping sound effect for most of episode 2.
I don’t think Darth Vader should have been redeemed. At least that’s how I felt in 1983, I’m pretty much over it now.
Empire though, when Darth Vader tells Luke the truth, I couldn’t believe it. I was sure it was a trick. Even for most of the Return I was waiting for the truth to be revealed. One of the best and most memerable movie moments for my money.
One of the funniest things I've ever seen was Kevin Spacey on Saturday Night Live, about the time of the 25th anniversary of Starwars. They did a bunch "screen tests" where "Hollywood stars" were trying for the parts in Star Wars. Kevin Spacey did all of the "stars." He's one heck of an impressionist, and can be really funny. I lost it when he was doing Walter Mathau being cast as Han Solo. I could hardly breath after his "What the hell's a wookie?!"
Mark
Are you thinking of Scotty Hamilton? I don’t believe he was/is gay though.
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Sorry, I was just assuming... (hehe)
Interesting that you should say that. Check on http://www.sithorder.com, and the site Webmaster has written a fan-fiction semi-novel, called I, Palpatine, which you can download. Of course, it's just theoretical but it gives as good an account of how Palpatine became Darth Sidious as any other you will get.
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