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Welcome to our second season and series of Star Wars Apologetics! In this Season we will tackle Star Wars: Episode II: Attack of the Clones. This episode Marc and Justin talk about the two most important relationships in the Prequel Trilogy and arguably the Star Wars Saga - Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi as well as Anakin Skywalker and Padme Amidala.
Read MoreI have to admit that up until recently, Attack of the Clones was one of my least favorite Star Wars movies. I would alternate between Episode II and Return of the Jedi as my least favorite of the Saga. However, during a recent re-watch of the Saga, I realized just how good Attack of the Clones really is and how many important and critical moments there are in this Episode of the Saga.
Read MoreAs this year is the 20th Anniversary of Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, I decided to write down a few things, 15 of them in fact, that I like about The Phantom Menace. This movie lays a lot of groundwork for the Star Wars Skywalker Saga and introduces characters, organizations, and the Force that we will revisit over and over again throughout the course of the next 10 films.
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You underestimate my power!
Anyone who knows that I am a Star Wars fan, should also know that I am a Prequel lover and that Episode III: Revenge of the Sith is my favorite Star Wars movie and one of my all time favorite movies. There are many reasons for this and I was recently reminded of some of them. In an article published on The Chronicle of Higher Education's website in October 2012, the author of the essay, Camila Paglia, enumerates on why Episode III is an artistic masterpiece. The essay is lengthy and discusses George Lucas' beginnings and how he came into Star Wars starting from Star Wars in 1977, but the end of the essay delves into Revenge of the Sith. This essay is actually an excerpt from her book, "Glittering Images: A Journey Through Art from Egypt to Star Wars", which I have yet to read but plan to do so at some point.
“Who is the greatest artist of our time? Normally, we would look to literature and the fine arts to make that judgment. But Pop Art's happy marriage to commercial mass media marked the end of an era. The supreme artists of the half century following Jackson Pollock were not painters but innovators who had embraced technology—such as the film director Ingmar Bergman and the singer-songwriter Bob Dylan. During the decades bridging the 20th and 21st centuries, as the fine arts steadily shrank in visibility and importance, only one cultural figure had the pioneering boldness and world impact that we associate with the early masters of avant-garde modernism: George Lucas, an epic filmmaker who turned dazzling new technology into an expressive personal genre.”
https://www.chronicle.com/article/Why-George-Lucas-Is-the/134942