What if?

Rating: 9/10 (20 May 2005)

Since many many people have now paid their money and seen this film, I'll not go into plot details or trivia since you have 600 other reviewers for that. Most of the time while watching the film I kept thinking about two things. First I wonder what the filmmakers could have done with all this power and ability given a truly great science fiction novel or story like the Foundation Trilogy or John Carter of Mars or so many other great novels or short stories in the hands of great writers and screenwriters. Second what if Darth had just simply taken his wife hopped on a ship and joined his "brother" out on the desert planet and become a simple farmer giving us a kind of space opera Green Acres? It's like I'm the weirdest of the Star Wars movie fans because I wonder about all those people in all those zillions of background buildings that go whizzing by while everyone's watching the leaps and explosions. Is that really what all these movies over nearly 30 years are all about? That millions of beings living in really cool looking buildings seem almost eager to be ruled by a creepy guy and his almost robot like sidekick and their millions of faceless troops? Are all these people too busy voting for the next crappy pop singer to really know what's going on? Did any of them get to see Team America World Police? We may never know.