Star Wars HD

This has been the weekend of the television zombie. I've been geeking out on non-stop high-definition Star Wars and now my brain is fried. From midnight Friday night/Saturday morning to 7:30 am Monday morning, all six episodes have played in order. Over and over. Fifty-five and a half hours of yummy Star Wars goodness. One wasted, but enjoyable, weekend for moi.

The first night I was determined to watch all six episodes straight, but finally succumbed to sleep around five in the morning. Yesterday I Tivo'd (technically Moxi'd) half the episodes while watching the other half. I also attempted to engage Molliwogg in an ill-fated Star Wars drinking game (see below) that lasted all of an hour before she was toast.

So if you haven't figured it out by now, I'm a pretty big Star Wars fan. C'mon, mid-thirties, male. Toss in the fact that I'm the parent of a 13 year old and I think you can do the math. Coincidently my daughter was the exact same age when the second trilogy came out as I was for the first. I always thought that was pretty cool.

Unlike a lot of Star Wars fans out there, I spent the majority of my teen years and twenties, partying and getting laid. As such, I don't have the same "George Lucas raped my childhood" mentality when it comes to the second trilogy. I even, gasp, like Jar Jar Binks.

At any rate, here are some of my thoughts on Star Wars in HD. First of all, I'm still blown away on how good the CGI Yoda looks in comparison to the puppet. Not just in movement, but the detail and coloration. Beautiful stuff.

I finally saw the X-Wing/Tie Fighter pursuit in Attack of the Clones during the speeder chase. It's only taken me four years, but I finally spotted the little (and I mean little) buggers.

The first four movies don't look a hell of a lot different than they do on DVD. And out of those four, with the exception of a couple scenes, The Phantom Menace looked the worse for wear. In comparison, Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith look amazing in high-definition. As the only two films actually filmed in HD, it's a given they're going to look better, but watching them back to back, as presented by Cinemax, the difference is mind-boggling. Move over Paul, film is dead.

I'm going to have to work out and read books for the next two weeks straight to completely recover from my lost weekend, but it was worth it.

Star Wars: A New Hope Drinking Game (Found on the net.)

1. Anyone turns a lightsaber on or off
2. Anyone mentions the Force
3. Luke whines about something
4. Anyone says "Kenobi"
5. R2-D2 or C-3PO gets damaged
6. Anyone insults the or boasts about the Millennium Falcon
7. Anyone mentions the Death Star's technical plans inside R2-D2
8. Anyone communicates via radio

Tags: Star Wars, HD, Cinemax, m/a/z/e

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