[Magee]

I hadn't read your reasons in a while, but I started a new job and we were talking about how much we hated the prequels and I sent your reasons around. I noticed that you had edited them.

One of my favorite reasons had been the Jimmy Smits one. It appears like this now:


Reason #5
Jimmy Smits
I don't mind Jimmy Smits. He seems like a nice enough guy. There is just something so utterly distracting about him in this movie that I can't stand it. Thankfully he's only in a few tiny scenes or I wouldn't have retained a damn thing about this movie. Every scene he is in I am forced to just stare slack-jawed at his magnificence/out-of-placedness. It may be narrow minded but I am just seeing Bobby Simone from NYPD Blue. Okay so I've never actually seen an episode of NYPD Blue but I've seen the commercials.

But I remember it differently. Didn't you used to say something like:

"Every time I look at the massive man I can't help thinking 'Good lord, what is Jimmy Smits doing here?'"

I don't know why you changed it, my friends and I had used that phrase in a bunch of different movies where a character was being played by an actor who was best known for another role and whose presence was utterly distracting.

For instance we spent many of the scenes in Walk the Line going "Good lord, what is the T-1000 doing here?"

I just thought your old Jimmy Smits thing was hilarious, and really nailed a classic example of how unconcerned Lucas was with drawing the audience into a fictional universe.

[Chefelf]

Hey, Magee!

I think I might have said that (it sounds like something I'd say). I definitely haven' t edited it. I think there may be two entries on Jimmy Smitts, one on the AOTC reasons and a second on the ROTS reasons.

I'm sure it's there somewhere. It may also be in an introduction.

I hope that helps.




Here's the search results:

http://www.google.co...amp;btnG=Search

[Infernus]

Yeh it is there on the ROTS page.