Salzmank Watches “Star Wars”
Dec 2, 2018 4:17:31 GMT
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Post by Salzmank on Dec 2, 2018 4:17:31 GMT
By the way, guys:
Have any of you seen the ’73 Three Musketeers? (If I’m remembering correctly, Primemovermithrax Pejorative liked it.) I wasn’t that big a fan, in spite of a great cast, but I recently caught the second sequel, The Return of the Musketeers (’89). I thought it was great, though it flopped at the box office and had a terrible production (actor Roy Kinnear [Mr. Salt in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory] died because of an on-set accident). Recommended. Anyway, point is…
Here’s Oliver Reed in Return of the Musketeers.
Here’s Mark Hamill in The Last Jedi.
And the characterizations are nigh-identical, including the reluctance to get involved again and needing a new hero to re-interest them in old adventures. (The difference is that this reluctance and shift in characterization fits with Athos, Reed’s character, but not with Luke Skywalker.) The villain isn’t even that far removed from Darth Horseface (though she’s female and a better character). I’m almost positive someone watched these (and they have Christopher Lee in them in a part not that much different from Count Dooku).
On the other hand, The Last Jedi would have been much better if it had followed Return of the Musketeers’s plot points.
Have any of you seen the ’73 Three Musketeers? (If I’m remembering correctly, Primemovermithrax Pejorative liked it.) I wasn’t that big a fan, in spite of a great cast, but I recently caught the second sequel, The Return of the Musketeers (’89). I thought it was great, though it flopped at the box office and had a terrible production (actor Roy Kinnear [Mr. Salt in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory] died because of an on-set accident). Recommended. Anyway, point is…
Here’s Oliver Reed in Return of the Musketeers.
Here’s Mark Hamill in The Last Jedi.
And the characterizations are nigh-identical, including the reluctance to get involved again and needing a new hero to re-interest them in old adventures. (The difference is that this reluctance and shift in characterization fits with Athos, Reed’s character, but not with Luke Skywalker.) The villain isn’t even that far removed from Darth Horseface (though she’s female and a better character). I’m almost positive someone watched these (and they have Christopher Lee in them in a part not that much different from Count Dooku).
On the other hand, The Last Jedi would have been much better if it had followed Return of the Musketeers’s plot points.