11/19/2007 - Halo 3: Star Wars

The more I watch the Star Wars prequels now, the more I think that they are not going to get better with age. I don't know... there something about trying to shoehorn in a backstory which has been told already seems redundant to me. I know that they were trying to humanize and flesh out the character of Darth Vader, but all it does it makes the character somewhat smaller in stature.

They made the same mistake with Michael Myers in the recent Halloween remake. Yes, it was necessary to see him develop his homicidal mania as a kid, but not necessarily the root cause of it. It's much scarier to think that Michael Myers was born a killer, rather than being made a killer only because of a bad home life.

The only movie that bucked this trend was The Godfather: Part II, where we see how Marlon Brando's character in the original movie was made to become The Godfather. In the prequel portions of Part II, they pretty much showed Vito Corleone as being badass from the start. He didn't kill the Blackhand to become Godfather out of revenge or out of desperation. He just didn't want to be extorted and disrespected.

Where was I? Oh, Star Wars... yeah. Well, my rant and general distaste for the prequels should dissuade you from enjoying this next parody of Episode III. They basically took a couple of scenes from that movie and replaced the actors with Halo 3 characters. The way they've done it is very seamless and it's overall very nicely done.