Star Wars Episode VII

So J.J. Abrams is officially directing Star Wars Episode VII!!!!!!!!!!!!!

J.J.
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Star Wars
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brb becoming dead from the feels. Can it be 2015 yet? Please?????

Can you tell I'm excited? (it should be pretty obvious...)

If the Star Trek reboot has proven anything, it should be quite obvious that J.J. knows how to take a revered franchise and re-invigorate it and make it more accessible to a new generation of potential fans.

Episode VII should arrive in theaters in May of 2015, a full ten years after the the end of the disappointing prequel trilogy, and almost thirty years after the release of the original.

Whether you love J.J. or think he's overrated, you have to admit that he will give us an Episode VII worthy of following the original trilogy.

Disagree with me? Well then shut up you ignoramus Jar Jar loving nerf herder. :) Leave a well-informed reason why and I'll try to restrain myself from reaching through the internet and strangling you.

Star Wars Episode One: The Phantom Menace in 3D

Star Wars Episode One: The Phantom Menace in 3D (2012)
Directed by: George Lucas

Phantom Menace was first released on May 19, 1999, three days after my ninth birthday. Obviously I had a Star Wars themed birthday that year, the main event of which was seeing Phantom Menace on opening night (my hometown theater didn't do midnight showings at the time, plus I was nine...) I don't remember anything about the film from that first viewing, but I do remember the wondrous feeling of sitting in the crowded theater, waiting to experience something magical. Of course at the time we didn't know that Lucas was actually playing a terribly evil prank on the world... But the point is that I have a fond memory of seeing the film, which happens to be my earliest memory of seeing a film in the theater. Thus in honor of this memory I attended the midnight showing of the 3D re-release. Once again I was disappointed by Lucas' abomination, and since everyone knows how terrible Phantom Menace is, I won't repeat every review ever written about the film.
We did get pretty cool custom Star Wars 3D glasses. So that was neat.

1 out of 5 stars
Viewed February 10, 2012