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movie review - The Empire Strikes Back

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Toronto, 1997.03.05

The second in the Star Wars trilogy, this nicely retouched classic features the trilogy's pivotal scene, where Luke learns that Vader is his father (sorry everyone, if I ruined that for you). New scenes were absent, but everything looked better. Even after having been in the theaters (the seconds time around) for three weeks, this one was still filling a lot of seats even for the 10:00 PM show.

Strongly recommended.

rand()m quote

For a long time I was very bitter that the people who controlled the means of anybody ever hearing my songs were never gonna play them. They only favored music that I specifically and particularly hated, and I wanted them dead. Suddenly, there was another avenue. I started hearing my stuff coming out of bars and then it started to happen little by little — a movie song here or a TV ad there.

—Iggy Pop