vmiaptetr said:
How was it? We missed this year. I didn't realize they were doing Return of the Jedi.
I had a great time. It's a different experience watching a movie with a live orchestra. The performance of the score often drowned out the dialogue and sound effects. Of course, that's to be expected, and it's not like I had never seen the movie.
Audience participation in the movie was fun. Applause when highly popular characters first appear, big applause when Vader pitched the Emperor over the rail. I'm not one to cheer at a movie, but it did contribute to the atmosphere.
I always ranked Jedi as the worst of the original trilogy, and still do, but ever since Revenge of the Sith, Jedi has become a better movie. I guess because they are the last entry to their respective trilogies and have some very similar themes, even if some are reversed. But I had another thought while watching the ewoks battle the empire. I was thinking, oh look, another indigenous species defending its home world from an invading army, but as much as I loathe the ewoks, this still beat the pants off Avatar. From the time that the rebel fleet arrives at the Death Star, Luke meets the emperor, and Solo/Leia start to take over the shield generator station, that movie is all gas no brakes (stealing that from sippy). Great pacing in bringing those three subplots to the conclusion. And for this part of the movie, the conductor had told the audience before the movie began that this was 100 minutes or so of continuous music, so that would be a difficult performance for the orchestra.
My only negative for the experience last night was the choad who sat in front of me. This guy seemed to not realize that the 80s are in the past, with a big head of puffy hair on his dome. He kept leaning over to say something to his wife, and every time he did that that hair ball blocked some of the screen. But again, I'd seen the movie, so I wasn't missing anything.
