You're Asian, you must be smart, right?

That is my new chrome broadsword for kung fu. I was considering getting a combat steel one originally, but I figured that since it was my first sword, I was probably going to be putting it through some shit and as such I should buy a cheaper sword so that I don't ruin a nice one. It's a 27.5 inch one, and normally cost $50, but we got a 30% discount and so it only cost me $35, yay.

The handle is kinda nice, the cloth works well but I think there's too little of it. It came off while I was twirling today and I just re-wrapped it with the same cloth. If it comes off once again, I may have to get a longer piece so that I can wrap it in more than just one layer.

I have indeed already nicked the blade. I got a bit overzealous and started chopping up small branches on trees in the privacy of my own yard, and since it's not a terribly strong metal, it has a nick or two on the blade now, oh well.

In other news, I went to see Star Wars : Revenge of the Sith with Sean and Ave.

Altogether, the movie was worth seeing. We saw it at 0010 the day it opened. We left Davis around 2140, got there around 2200, and the line was quite long. Some news crew was there, and there weren't as many greasy nerds as I thought there might be. Apparently people had been waiting since noon or some crap like that, but despite the unwavering nerdiness of others, we still managed to get seats that didn't suck.

The movie itself was about what I expected, if not a bit more. I went in expecting and hoping for two hours and thirty minutes of bloodythirsty lightsabre, spaceship and other kinds of battling and Lucas delivered. The script was fantastically crappy in many places, but that was to be expected. The funny part about that was even Ewan McGregor, a generally pretty good actor, choked on some of the lines because the lines were just so bad. Altogether though, there was not much room for Anakin to ruin the movie like he did the last one. He was pretty angsty in the beginning half, but after "he gives into his douche-ness", as Sean put it, he does a pretty okay job of being pissed and vengeful.

Lucas did an overall good job with the movie though. Even with knowing what was going to happen, the parts of the movie that were intended to be suspenseful were still suspenseful; the sad parts of the movie were still sad. Jar Jar Binks made all of two appearances and I don't believe he said a single word. C-3P0 took over as comic relief and even then he only made a few brief apperances thankfully.


PostScript

There is one particularly memorable moment in Episode III that I feel I must mention. At one point while Anakin is being pissed about something and being all dark-sidey, he starts yelling at someone about Obi-Wan and how Obi-Wan had turned the person against him (Anakin). The shot then pans up to Obi-Wan standing on the ramp of a spaceship with hands akimbo and feet about a shoulder width apart.

I really wish I had a picture of this to show you, because it was quite homosexual. I don't mean homosexual the way that kids nowadays use the word "gay" and "fag" and stuff; I mean it was really homosexual.

Anyway, that is all I wanted to say.
Good fight, good night.

# posted by Yann : 23:52