In a message dated 5/19/2005 8:37:41 PM Central Daylight Time, andreas@xxxxxxxxxxx writes: It's not apparently as bad as the last two, but that says very little, considering how really bad they were. Anything, even an Adam Sandler retropective, would be better. By the way, the New Yorker's review is extremely funny. Hi, Having gone to the 12:01 am showing, I won't spoil it for you... (I spoiled it for a couple at work today--inadvertently <wry look>. I thought EVERYONE had read at least three of the novelizations of the screenplay.) For the last two, we have gone on opening day--and I don't generally do such things. But, one of my child's best buds has his birthday right about now and the last two were all released about the same time as this one--when he was what? Six? He decided that George Lucas KNEW it was his birthday and thus had released it at that time in honor of that. He's a little older know and (kind of) knows better--but as it is, as you say, the end of an era, the boys talked his mom (who, along with the boys, talked me into going...her husband thought we were crazy and would have no part of it <g>) I will say that the graphics were much better--but we do know how it 'ends'...so it is not as great as if we did not. (Though there are, apparently, a couple of surprises if you have not been keeping up with things...so I will say no more...) Live long and prosper--oops. Rather--May the Force (or the Great Collective Unconscious) be with you, Marlena in Missouri ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html