tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2118574901486983093.post4386712498866915661..comments2024-03-03T10:32:45.969-08:00Comments on Mr. Peel's Sardine Liqueur: Like Something Out Of A DreamMr. Peel aka Peter Avellinohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10553482286909862975noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2118574901486983093.post-74060167274570441822015-06-26T11:02:01.491-07:002015-06-26T11:02:01.491-07:00However late it might be it's definitely appre...However late it might be it's definitely appreciated. Thank you very much Mark!Mr. Peel aka Peter Avellinohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10553482286909862975noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2118574901486983093.post-71947319546601176272015-06-26T02:13:33.051-07:002015-06-26T02:13:33.051-07:00Coming to this very late, sorry, but a great littl...Coming to this very late, sorry, but a great little essay.Mark Westhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12103997496549941279noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2118574901486983093.post-77219083056737357192010-06-09T22:30:53.959-07:002010-06-09T22:30:53.959-07:00No, thank you for that wonderful comment, John, th...No, thank you for that wonderful comment, John, that really was touching. And though I had seen STAR WARS by 1980, I certainly remember what a role Dynamite Magazine and that old Story of Star Wars album played in it all. <br /><br />And thanks to everyone for their fantastic comments. Long live STAR WARS, long live EMPIRE. At least in their original versions.Mr. Peel aka Peter Avellinohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10553482286909862975noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2118574901486983093.post-76372957814735703512010-06-09T02:49:33.217-07:002010-06-09T02:49:33.217-07:00I first saw Empire as a part my friend Jon's 8...I first saw Empire as a part my friend Jon's 8th birthday party. I hadn't seen the first film by 1980 (my parents never took me or my sister to movies) I was intimately familiar with Star Wars thanks to books, audio adventures and Dynamite magazine. <br /><br />After the screening, a bevy of kids piled into a station wagon. The wood panels along the side had to have been shaking from the half dozen kids collectively going apeshit in the back. I chose to sit next to Jon's mom as everyone else squeezed in the back. I was quiet. She asked if everything was okay and didn't I like the movie. My response was simple, and one I will never forget.<br /><br />"I want to go to sleep right now so that I can dream about it."<br /><br />Its the film that made me want to be a filmmaker. Its a dream I never want to wake up from. Thanks for articulating that, Peter.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12691722182468764659noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2118574901486983093.post-80966844686136258192010-06-02T08:47:42.540-07:002010-06-02T08:47:42.540-07:00As always Mr. P , beautifuly written article about...As always Mr. P , beautifuly written article about a part of my youth. The series of films and as you say the time of year always remind me too of what it was to wonder about life in the other universe far, far away.<br /><br />As for actualy being in the presence of some of those concerned, you're a very lucky man.<br /><br />Thanks for your blog, one of the best around.<br /><br />Mark D Land of forgotten passwords, UKAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2118574901486983093.post-52631593792088475542010-05-28T14:51:01.243-07:002010-05-28T14:51:01.243-07:00Great post Mr Peel and you are very lucky to have ...Great post Mr Peel and you are very lucky to have been able to see the film in such good company. Even here in the UK there was a photograph in one of the newspapers of Harrison Ford and Peter Mayhew outside the cinema.<br /><br />TESB was when Star Wars started to go wrong for me. In Star Wars the Force is perfectly understated. A few throttling incidents aside it could almost be an allegory for faith, or concentration. Even as a nine year-old I knew something had gone badly wrong when when it morphed into telekinetic powers in that icy cave on Hoth. <br /><br />Alex Gunniess was no longer a disembodied voice, now he was a hologram or a ghost or something much worse, a thesp with a contract stuck in a sequel. <br /><br />The 'meteorite' crashed twice to show we had clumsy narrative. The young star suddenly looked different, we had a green <i>muppet</i> as a principal character. In the next movie there would be <i>teddy bears</i>.<br /><br />We have a thrilling ice battle and then strongest element with the chase of the Millennium Falcon. Fantastic music and stylish effects, lasers, spaceships and asteroids. Vader loose from his leash with no tactical boss to keep him in check. This is the dramatic centre of the movie right in the middle and everything that comes after disappoints.<br /><br />We have a bolt-on scene to bring the movie up to date after Alien had made dark caverns so compelling. The the Falcon crew plod along with Lando, Luke rolls up his sleeves and has a laboured, slow-mo fight with himself. Nothing much else happens in the swamps. Is this how Jedi are trained? No wonder they were brushed aside in ROTS.<br /><br />I already knew about Luke's dad. I found out in the playground. Even in England.<br /><br />The ending renders the movie as a stop-gap unable to stand on its own. Meaningless without what has gone before, or crucially, after. <br /><br />Mr Peel I am sorry, I love the blog and you are far more articulate than I. We must disagree on this one.<br /><br />MichaelAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2118574901486983093.post-60213320244238676112010-05-27T08:32:53.396-07:002010-05-27T08:32:53.396-07:00Peel!
Excellent article -- wonderful insight...al...Peel!<br /><br />Excellent article -- wonderful insight...all I can add is "Amen"!Joe Martinohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11960803506051969149noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2118574901486983093.post-41602344803142655212010-05-27T07:20:25.816-07:002010-05-27T07:20:25.816-07:00Thanks for this report on that very special screen...Thanks for this report on that very special screening! Wow, that must've been something else to be in the presence of a movie star of Ford's stature. It's a shame that they used a print of the film that featured Lucas' CGI makeover. The example you mentioned is why I can't bare to watch these new versions, EVER. It's just too painful. I'll stick with my copies of the unmolested versions thankyouvermuch.<br /><br />I certainly echo your sentiments about EMPIRE. I think that for those of us who saw these films at a young, impressionable age, they will always be a part of our lives and will affect us in different ways as we dust them off and watch them again and again. It's funny how you view them with the passage of time and also how EMPIRE instantly transports me back to my childhood every time I watch it. Few films have the ability to do that.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08164105442273577128noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2118574901486983093.post-7770884536273180932010-05-26T18:19:33.561-07:002010-05-26T18:19:33.561-07:00Tickets for this event?!? Now that is a friend, Mr...Tickets for this event?!? Now that is a <i>friend</i>, Mr. Peel. And, you've covered the 30th year look back and the event in this post so damn well, my friend. I'm grateful you shared this with your readers. And that <i>finger point</i> moment... great, great catch (I smiled, too, coming across that image you placed in the piece and reading your words of it). I have no doubt you'll cherish and remember this point in time for the rest of your life. Thanks very much for this.le0pard13https://www.blogger.com/profile/09421175808461787862noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2118574901486983093.post-66637640347369970822010-05-26T17:26:02.982-07:002010-05-26T17:26:02.982-07:00Glad you got to see this. Had I been closer, I mig...Glad you got to see this. Had I been closer, I might have arranged a Wampa "accident" to take your place. <br /><br />I did see Lucas and Ford at the Jules Verne awards a couple years back and that a was geek out moment -- the red carpet was lined with stormtroopers.<br /><br />Would be nice to see this in its original 70mm format -- it was 70mm right?christianhttp://christiandivine.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2118574901486983093.post-38917435817219559732010-05-26T17:21:05.695-07:002010-05-26T17:21:05.695-07:00I was wondering how you'd fandangled tickets t...I was wondering how you'd fandangled tickets to this screening. Very, very cool report, Peel.<br /><br />It's difficult if not impossible to determine who "deserves" credit for a movie like <em>The Empire Strikes Back</em>. As a writer, I'm biased here, but I think that Leigh Brackett and Lawrence Kasdan's script was of equal if not greater importance than the work of Irvin Kershner, who didn't seem to bring much emotion or human scale to the flick he directed right before (<em>Eyes of Laura Mars</em>) and after (<em>Never Say Never Again</em>). <br /><br />Too bad they couldn't show the original version on the big screen, but count yourself lucky that you have FWT (Friends With Tickets).Joe Valdezhttp://thisdistractedglobe.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2118574901486983093.post-670168962812395122010-05-26T16:00:48.758-07:002010-05-26T16:00:48.758-07:00Pete...wonderful article. I'm very jealous but...Pete...wonderful article. I'm very jealous but extremely grateful for your blog and for the wonderful way you've captured for me in words what I'm sure was an even more visceral experience for you being in that theater with those associated with a film so near and dear to your heart. I concur wholeheartedly. I'm gonna watch Empire right now. Thanks again.The Driveindudehttp://www.socaldims.comnoreply@blogger.com