Wars...still

A short time ago I purchased the box set of Star Wars episodes one to six on BlueRay and felt pretty good about the purchase.

Having first seen the movie Star Wars as a little eight year old kid with my dad, a memory I cherish, I've been hooked. What I wasn't happy about is the set was not complete as episodes seven, eight and nine (the latest movies in the saga) were not included in the set and the store didn't have the three disc set in stock. I ordered it of course.

It finally arrived last week delivered to my door to the fucken post office because I was not home when the delivery guy turned up and I wasn't able to get there to pick it up as I've been travelling for work...but yesterday I went there and got it. Crisis averted.

Over the years, the movies have gotten better different mainly through the advent of CGI and these latest three are pretty decent indeed but I crossed out better because I don't think they are, not generally anyway. Sure they look better on the surface, as do the two spin-off movies Solo and Rogue One due to the CGI, but there's a certain...umm...comfort that comes from watching the older movies and their (often terrible) special effects and questionable acting - sometimes movies these days can seem too polished I think. Of course, the eight year me thought those effects (everything about the movie) was the best thing I'd ever seen.

I'm pleased to have the final three movies and look forward to watching them however lament the good old days when actors needed to act and when special effects didn't all happen on a computer screen. This is not to say there's no skill in CGI, there certainly is, but it's less human and more computer and I'm an old-school guy. What I love is that I still love these movies and how they make me feel young at heart, excited and how they make my imagination work just like they did all those years ago.