so w/ a piercing headache that i've carried w/ me for the past few days...i trudged, in the babe magnet known to humanity only as...the pulsar, all the way to garden city where i met up w/ the babe to see SW3:ROTS...and rot it kinda did. nan was kind enough to do a mini marathon of empire and jedi the previous evening. i gave her the extreme cliffs notes version of the craptacular TPM and AOTC, aka SW1&2 and up came the movie. overall, i was pretty underwhelmed...not that i should have been surprised...a lot of eye candy, yes, but no change in the wooden acting and dialogue. i mean, c'mon, sam jackson never acted less convincingly throughout the prequels...it's like first year at drama camp...sometimes, less is not more. and hayden...oh jeez, i think that speaks for itself. and i mean, when you can't get natalie portman to emote...there is a problem, was she dying during pregnancy or was she passing out from a hit of smack? but the lightsaber duels delivered, the battles were pretty, as were the wookies...who picks up after the wookies you think? that's a lot of plastic bags. once again yoda, the most fake character plays it the most real...and ian mcdiarmand played the emperor deliciously over the top. overall, i'm relieved that i finally saw it, relieved that it's finally over but i said it once and i'll say it again...the lord of the rings trilogy beats the star wars prequels 1 billion times over...i dare not speak ill of the original holy trilogy for fear of surrendering my geek card...though deep down methinks LOTR is better than all of them...ok, w/ the exception of empire. nan enjoyed it a lot and is now motivated to finish off the prequels...i guess that's the best thing...though she can't get over the fact that yoda sounds like grover and was waiting to be taught about numbers or the concept NEAR...and.............FAR.