Tuesday, 18 January 2011

My 'Star Wars' hero

I wonder how many people there are who, like me have never seen Star Wars. I rarely go to the cinema, mainly because it's a luxury I cannot afford now that I am retired and when I was working, I was always too busy doing other things when I got home anyway.
For the last two Staurdays one of the television channels has shown Star Wars movies both of which were 'prequels' to the original Star Wars of which I had only seen trailers years ago. I thoroughly enjoyed the films although I must admit it was the special effects that got my attention to start with, rather like the special effects that were used in 'Avatar' which I found more interesting than the story!
Anyway, I was trying to get my head around the plot and the characters and wasn't quite sure where some of them fitted in. That is, until I spoke to Harley, my grandson. For his birthday and Christmas over the last couple of years I have bought him Star Wars lego and also a game to go on his PSP (I think that's what he calls it)! He knows all the characters and the stories inside out and backwards because he has seen them all both in cartoon form and film on several occasions.
I'm just beginning to get the hang of it and there's another film this weekend so Harley has already told me that I will get to see 'Darth Vader' for the first time and I will understand how he got to be on 'the dark side'. All I have to do is phone him on Friday to remind him it's on (because he wants to see them again) and then if there's anything I don't understand I will be able to ask him on Saturday evening when they phone me.
He's my real Star Wars hero at the moment, I just hope he thinks Grandma is 'cool'!

3 comments:

  1. Hi Grandma!

    Nothing bonds people faster than Star Wars. Ray and I are also huge fans of the movies and Ray has a Darth Vader costume he's worn on Halloween. It's a really nice costume, and on his 6'2" frame it also looks very convincing.

    I'd say you and Harley are going to have loads to talk about.

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  2. Hi Robin!

    I know I've got some catching up to do but at least I know who to ask when I get stuck.
    The grandchildren also bought me the boxed set of Lord of the Rings trilogy for last Christmas but they are quite long and I still haven't found time to watch those yet. I'll have to do that when the weather forecast gives us a bad forecast for 3 days! :D

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  3. Hi Grandma!

    The Lord of the Rings are our second top films. They're really good too. I think you'll enjoy them if you can find the time.

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