The New Star Wars Movies

Here's my beef this week. I was watching Star Wars Episode 4 this past week and it got me thinking about the Star Wars movies they came out with recently. I am a big Star Wars fan just as the next person and I was very excited to see the new Star Wars movies beginning with The Phantom Menace. I even camped out at a movie theater over night so I could get tickets to see it opening day. I was very disappointed in all three of the movies that they came out with. They focused too much on the special effects than creating the story and having good character development. The acting and the dialog in those movies were horrible and cheesy. There was no chemistry between Hayden Christensen and Natalie Portman which didn't help the movie's lack of story. The special effects in the newer movies were more advanced than the special effects in the older ones even though the older movies were to take place after the newer ones. I think they should have filmed it like they did the older movies and use special effects only when you have to. I also think that George Lucas should have stopped directing after The Phantom Menace and let someone that's a better director direct the remaining two.You might think that's mean of me to say. All I have to say to you is "remember Jar Jar Binks. Need I say more" I love the old series of Star Wars because the story is well written, and the characters are well developed and the special effects help tell the story not be the story. It will remain in my top favorite movies of all time. I will not buy the newer Star Wars Trilogy and If I'm looking for some crappy movies to watch I'll borrow them from my brother.

The crappy pirate show in Las Vegas

So here's my beef. My wife and I went to Las Vegas last week. While we were there we wanted to see the pirate show that they have at the Treasure Island Casino. I'd seen the show years before and heard that they'd changed it. My wife hadn't seen it before and I was excited for her to experience it. The one I remember had a fight between pirates and the British, and there was cannon fire with explosions and people falling in the water, eventually resulting in the pirate ship sinking the british ship. I was expecting an exciting show similar to that. We walked from the Excalibar Casino to the Treasure Island Casino (practically the whole length of the strip)which took about an hour. Then I saw the lamest show ever. It had a ship full of scantily clad women who were "sirens" and then a pirate ship shows up and they start shooting off their canons at the siren ship because the sirens had kidnapped one of their men, trying to lure more men aboard. The sirens get mad and how they get back at them is they do a sexy dance (which was actually pretty lame) which then somehow results in the pirate ship sinking. What is that all about? Then the pirates swim over to the siren ship and start dancing with the women. After I saw this I was very disappointed. It was definitely not worth the walk. I thought to myself "Why did they have to change it?" It was a really good show before, with an actual story to go with it. I guess Las Vegas is trying to not be family friendly anymore so they're going for sex appeal. This is not necessary. Hundreds of visitors are attracted to the volcano at the Mirage and the Bellagio fountains, neither of which are sexually oriented. People liked the Treasure Island show the way it was before. I think this new show is going to turn more people away from the casino because it's ridiculous in comparison to the cool pirate show that they used to perform. No one would want to go back to see such a lame performance.