Star Wars III

Another long Wednesday...

First I brought Alex to Jess' school to pick up the yearbook ready to go to the printer. Of course they had last minute changes they had not finished yet. We then rushed and picked up Kathleen and took the yearbook to the printer. At the printer's we realised the kids had not put page numbers in so we added those by hand, redid the Table of Contents and added some parents' names they had forgotten on the Thank You page. This all took so long that we missed Alex' doctor appointment.

Lunch back in Asnières at our favourite café (Le Cercle) and off to Alex' English class. The weather was so nice they had their class outside while I walked around Asnères for an hour.

Picked up Alex and we rushed off to the opening of Star Wars III. Of course fate was not on our side and we got stuck in a massive traffic jam due to construction work being done around the cinema. I dropped Alex off at the cinema and went desperately looking for parking thinking we were going to miss the show and have to go elsewhere. Luckily I found a spot not far from the cinema and after about a half hour of advertisements and previews we finally saw the movie.

The movie was just what it was supposed to be. Amazing special effects, mediocre acting from most and absolutely awful acting by Hayden Christensen (again). Most of the story was well written and developed with, however, some incredibly cliché scenes with amazingly stilted dialogue. Lucas can not write love scenes. Overall another great story and a powerful film which mostly shows just what we can do with technology these days... the computer animation (CGI) guys had a field day with this one!