Carl Begai

I’m a geek at the core of my blackened heart. Absolutely.

I have a comic collection that would make present day diehard collectors green with envy. I’m dying to see the new Star Trek movie. I was first in line for Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom on its first day of release, beating out the entire Scarberian Nerd Squad by a solid two hours. I can recite dialogue from the original Star Wars trilogy, much to my own chagrin.

The reason I’m daring to admit this publicly and risk doing irreparable harm to my oh-so-metal image is that I recently spewed out a review of Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace for Suite101. Not something I’d planned on, but after stumbling upon an interview with actor Jake Lloyd discussing the last 10 years living with the fallout from his lousy performance in the film I decided to go back and see if it was as bad as I remembered.

It was worse.
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