Soporific

Rating: Null/10 (2 June 2002)

I have never understood the Star Wars phenomenon and look on
in bemused astonishment when year after year, in poll after poll,
the original is voted the greatest movie of all time.
And believe me, although I tend to find my movie favourites from
before1975, I get enormous pleasure from Summer popcorn. I
have just seen Spiderman - it is wonderful, - Back To The Future,
ET...I've seen Starship Troopers three times! Every year there are
great blockbusters that hit the target because they know exactly
what they are aiming for.
But Star Wars passes me by. And there are many reasons why I
find them tedious. But the main one - and this is what friends of
mine who are afficianados cannot understand - is that I find them
so slow!
Yes, every time one come out I go and see it. I think it's just to
make myself annoyed that I can be so gullible)
I even gave the original a second chance in 1997 when it was re- released and.....what heresy!.....I couldn't handle it, I walked out...in
a near trance.
In 40 years of cinema going I have only ever walked out on one
other movie - Spielberg's 1941)
But - and this is why this post is on this page - when it comes to
mind numbing tedium, Attack Of The Clones is in a league of its
own. On and on it grinds away, lumbering towards some sort of
conclusion that surely anyone with half a brain could not care less
about. Who was fighting whom and why? Could someone tell
me?... only kidding.. I'm too tired to care.
At least Star Wars had the (wholly admirable) challenge of a low
budget film being created by an adventurous and brave young film
maker fullfilling his dream against all the odds.
With Attack of the Clones we see the result of someone who
doesn't have clue, and has $150million available to prove that
point.