Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith

[Daniel Johnson]

   Just saw this at the midnight showing last night. Don't want to give away any spoilers since most people have not seen this one yet. All I can really say is that I would probably rank this better then Episode I, but below Episode II and no where near touching the originsl trilogy. Without giving anything away I think that the best part of the movie was definately the imagery.

[odinn7]

RISE, LORD VADER!

I wanna see this but the way I figure it, I won't get into a theater for weeks.

[BeyondTheGrave]

I just saw it and It did feel darker than the other two. What they put more of is poltical babble and felt some undertones about the current administration in here in the US.  Daniels right about imagery they put a hell of alot more of eye candy. Overall I enjoyed it. Also keep a look out (for better or worse) at the end what looks like CGI Peter Crushing.

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Post Edited (05-19-05 17:20)

[Alan Smithee]

I thought it was terrific. I'd rank it behind ANH and ESB. It's much better than the last 2 movies.

I'd admit. that  "youger" Moff Tarkin looked silly, He looked more like that guy from Deep Space Nine. Lucas could've easily left Tarkin OUT.

Wonderful movie, nonetheless.

**thumbs up**

[odinn7]

If all goes well and according to plan, I am sneaking out of work early today to go view this. There's a place up the road from where I work that has this movie in 2 theaters and they have early showings. With any luck, I'll be able to squeeze in there somewhere.

[Wence]

Episode III was much better than I expected, but it had many scenes that were unwillingly funny or embarassing or kiddy-like.
F.e. when R2D2 sets the two Droids on fire, then there are Droids that speak slang, the voice of General Grevious sounds very strange, etc.

the best thing of this movie - the great highlight - is, that JarJarBinks has his filthy mouth shut.

Can anyone explain why  this ridiculous General Grevious coughs? It´s just a robot, so why the hell does he cough and gasp for air?

[George]

Grevious coughing distracted me as well.  This all comes from the Clone Wars cartoons on Cartoon Network.  Windu and Shaak Ti gave Grevious an ass whipping in the cartoons.  I just assumed it must have been left over from that....perhaps damaged lungs from those battles.

On a personal note, I loved the film.....but the novelization was better.  The Grevious battle was better in the book.  As was much of the expanded dialogue.

All in all...a good way to cap off the second trilogy.

[trekgeezer]

Grevious was a cyborg. Obi-Wan clearley exposed his heart and lungs, that being the reason he targeted that area with the shock stick thingy they were using.

It was all good, but some of the intimate moments. Lucas is well known for not being an actor's director so I never let that part bother me.

[Scott]

Just saw STAR WARS EPISODE III tonight and thought it was a very good film. The strong points overcome the weak points for a very good film and fits nicely into episode order. The whole Saga feels complete. Overall well done. You will get your moneys worth on this one.

Strong points.

1.) Palatine/Vader scene at the end by the lava river. (don't want to say to much)
2. ) Chancellor Palatine is a highlight.
3.) The actor playing Anakin Skywalker was decent
4.) The actor playing Obi Wan Kenobi was decent.
5.) Focus on the strong point of the whole Star Wars thing which is really Darth Vader and the "Force".

Some Draw Backs.

1.) CGI (still a minus, even though much better use this time around) Also just looked at the openings scene to the orginal movie a few minutes ago and thought it was much better done with the model. CGI is lazy movie making.

2. ) The reasoning behind Darth Vaders transformation was extremely weak, but it didn't matter as Palatine/Vader scenes overshadow this flaw. He could have been converted by some other more obvious reasons.

3.)Obviously Lucas knew little about family, child bearing, mother/child ties, and what the word hope means when he wrote this story. Either that our he was just trying to show us how mixed up the parents of Luke and Lea were.  This part didn't work for me. (don't want to give up to much info here.)

Lucas does manage to put a two good scenes on the screen that are reminicient of some very old horror films moments. Well, just want to say the film is good and definately worth seeing.



Post Edited (05-20-05 20:25)

[Susan]

One of the morning shows here had a guy show up at the midnight premiere where people had been camping out in line dressed up in their star wars costumes bearing light sabers. So recording the whole thing on a hidden mic he jumps to the front of the line and shouts

"CAN I PLEASE HAVE EVERYONES ATTENTION!"
The crowd quiets down
"WELCOME TO THE MIDNIGHT PREMIER OF STAR WARS, REVENGE OF THE SITH!"

"WHO WANTS TO SEE THIS MOVIE?"

"WELL LET ME TELL YOU THAT I HAVE SEEN THIS MOVIE AND IT IS FANTASTIC!"

"AND IT HAS A TWIST AT THE ENDING THAT YOU WON'T BELIEVE!"

"AND THIS IS HOW IT ENDS.....GENERAL GRIEVOUS IS KILLED WHEN HIS HEART IS CUT OUT"

This is where the boo's and hisses turn into cussing and the crowd about to beat him down. Naturally he was making up the plot twists but he wanted to see what a crowd of star wars fanatics could do if someone spoiled the ending when they were about to go in to see the most anticipated movie of the year..lol

After the crowd became angry security came and escorted him out.

I heard the movie is already on file sharing and in mexico they are selling bootlegs on dvd

[odinn7]

***Possible Spoilers***



Well, I left work early yesterday and was able to get in to see this. I'm still not completely sure if I liked it or not. I know that I liked it more than Eps 1 and 2 but certainly not as much as the orginal 3.  But, I just don't know if I was happy with it or not. One thing that let me down was how it was implied (at least to me anyway) that Darth Vader would be a big part of this movie. Sure, you could say Anakin is Vader and the fact that he became Vader throughout the film means that the film did, in fact, make Vader a big part of it. I was just somewhat let down by the fact that Vader in the suit didn't appear until almost the end. I also had reservations about 2 of the things that Scott mentioned above. Anakin did seem to convert entirely too easily. It could be argued that he was blinded by the fact that he may be able to prevent the death of Padme but I had to wonder why, as a Jedi, he wasn't able to determine that perhaps he was being tricked into believeing this. Also, throughout the years, I have always assumed that Vader was the baddest of bad, that he became Vader  because of hatred and anger. Sure, that had a little to do with it but it seems more like he became Vader almost for a noble cause, to attempt to save the life of someone he loved. As Scott pointed out, weak. Scott also brought up the point of Padme giving up so easily just because she lost Anakin. Huh? She just had 2 babies, don't they count for anything? She had no desire to live for them, she was being selfish because she lost Anakin? I feel this could have been handled a little bit differently too.
I'm glad I saw it and I was quite happy with most of it but I was just left feeling somewhat uneasy and maybe annoyed.

[saintmort]

My friend summed it up well

"It's best of the 3 prequels which is to say it's the turd that floats to the top but at the same time the dialogue sucks, the acting is horrible and the 2nd half is far superior to the first half but on the plus side it leaves you wanting to watch the original trilogy."

I know right after the movie I wanted to go out and purchase the original star wars Trilogy DVDs (none of the special edition crap)

worst part in the movie

Vader: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

[odinn7]

"worst part in the movie

Vader: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"

Oh my God...yeah, I blanked that out...That was something I never really needed or wanted to hear from Darth Vader. That was just poor.

[Mr_Vindictive]

My wife and I finally got around to seeing the flick last night and.....well....I was impressed as hell.  This is exactly what I've been waiting for - a good prequel!  I thought the film was much better than the earlier prequels.

The only problem that I had with the film was that it was too short.  Sure, it was 2hrs and 10 minutes but I would have loved to have seen some added exposition when it came to Anakin turning into Darth.  I would have liked to have seen him battle some more with his choice of turning to the darkside.  They could have cut a lot of scenes in this film as well to make room for that exposition.  Hell, the Wookie planet battle was just there for them to introduce Chewie.  

I didn't expect to like the film at all.  I have hated the other prequels and just went to see this one "just because".  But, by the end, my eyes were wet.  It was pretty fulfilling to see this story that was SO MUCH a part of my childhood and psyche come full circle to where it began.  Watching Luke being delivered to his family by Obi was something I've been waiting for all of my life.

I applaud Lucas for actually making a good prequel.  I'll certainly buy this one when it comes out on DVD and possibly see it a few more times at the theater.



Post Edited (05-22-05 08:54)

[Fearless Freep]

I want to take my kids to it but I want to see the Genndy cartoons first and I'm waiting for Netflix...

I wonder if people will think better of  the first two after this one brings the story together and more of it all makes sense.  I happened to like the first two.