Notes on The Empire Strikes Back

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Notes on The Empire Strikes Back

Thursday, October 21st, 2004 | A&E, Best Of, Star Wars |

I bought the Star Wars DVD boxed set as a birthday present to myself, so this week Melissa and I are having a Star Wars marathon. Some notes from tonight:

Luke Skywalker turns out pretty well for an orphan farmboy who dropped out of Jedi school.
At Christmas time between episodes IV and V someone must have given Darth Vader the Old Spice Helmet Polish Gift Set. That is one shiny helmet.
The scene where Leia kisses (her brother!) Luke to make Han jealous is grody.
But Leia’s hair looks a lot better than in “A New Hope.” Actually, everyone’s hair looks better. But the movie would have more sci-fi street cred if everyone had ’70s feather hair, like in Battlestar Galactica. Can I get an amen?
If Princess Leia had paid off Han’s debt to Jabba she wouldn’t have spent the next episode almost naked and in chains in Jabba’s cave. That would have been a great loss to all of us who went through puberty in that era.
Speaking of which, there’s a Web site called Leia’s Metal Bikini, or as I like to call it, The Greatest Web Site on the Entire Internet.

1 Comment to Notes on The Empire Strikes Back

Creford
April 24, 2005

There were extremely excellent scenes in the movie “The Empire Strikes Back”.
Good originality and great imagination in this movie!
I’m very interested in science fiction movies.