revenge of the sith

so the teaser trailer for episode iii has been going around for a bit now. it only has like 12 seconds or so of actual footage, but i'm very excited. i'm reminded of how good the trailer for episode i was: better than the actual movie. this makes me not want to get my hopes up. i enjoyed episode i and thought it was a great star wars film intercut with a large amount of unbearable scenes. episode ii, however, struck me as every bit a star wars film and i was largely happy. it seems that they simply cannot go wrong in ep.3, given the storyline and the decreasing dependence on jar jar binks.

i certainly hope that's the case, anyway. a part of me looks forward to when i'm 50 or so and the super-special-post-mortem-director's-cut of ep.1 comes out, where they replace "ani" with a computer-generated child actor who actually does a better job, and cut out jar jar binks entirely, simultaneously cutting out the kindergarten potty humor. i mean, i didn't mind the gungans on their own. most had decent voices and demeanors.

a guy can dream, can't he?