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Star Wars Episode III; Revenge of the Sith
Topic Started: May 20 2005, 03:32:24 PM (637 Views)
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WARNING ACTUAL GENUINE SPOILERS!!!
THIS IS NOT A DRILL!!!
TURN BACK IF YOU DON'T WANT TO BE SPOILED!!!
AND STOP READING THIS ARTICLE AND SEE THE MOVIE YOU MORON!!!
POST ONLY IF YOU SAW IT!!!
OR READ THE COMICS OR NOVELS!!!
OR WANT TO BE SPOILED!!!
LAST CHANCE!!!


And so...

A few of my buddies and I decided to get together and see the movie today. Because I didn't get into the art show, I needed something to lift my spirits. And so, with out further ado, I give you the final chapter of the greatest saga of our time, Star Wars Episode III Revenge of the Sith

The Plot

War! The Galatic Republic is crumbling at the seams. General Grevious, the commander of the Seperatist Droid Army has in a bold move invaded and captured Supreme Counciler Palpatine! Obi-Wan Kanobi and Anakin Skywalker have been sent to resuce the Counciler. In the process, we see some funny scenes with R2-D2 and our favorite Jedi. Obi-Wan and Anakin battle their way through Grevious's ship, and Anakin engages and decapatates Count Dukoo.

After a dramatic crash landing, Anakin learns some wonderful news, Padme is pregenant! But, Anakin soon starts having disturbing visions of Padme dying in child birth, and begins his quest to find a way to save her.

Palapatine appoints Anakin to be his personal representative on the Jedi Council. A move the Jedi are apposed to. The suspect Palaptine is a threat, and don't trust that Anakin can handle the temptation of the Drak side.

Obi-Wan is sent by the council to destroy General Grevious, and Yoda Commands the Wookie Counter-offencive. Anakin remains on Courosant, where is finds out that Palpatine is the Sith Lord, Darth Sidious. Palapatine promises Anakin a way to save Padme, and Anakin is torn between what he should do.

Upon informing the Jedi of this disturbing news Mace Windu tries to arrest Palpatine, but fails when Anakin intervines and saves Palpatine, who kills Mace Windu. Palapatine then orders Anakin to hunt down and destroy all Jedi, and begins the legendary genocide.

Once the Jedi Temple's occupants are destroied, Anakin is sent on a mission to kill the last droid commanders. Palaptine organizes the Empire, and Padme is horrified to learn what her husband has done. When she finds him, she is horrified as to what Anakin has become. Meanwhile, Yoda and Palpatine do battle.

Obi-Wan and Anakin fight, and Obi-Wan ultimately wins, leaving Anakin for dead. Yoda, is forced to rertreat as Palaptine takes control of the galaxy. Anakin is later resuced as Padme gives birth to Luke and Leia. Padme, without any reason to live dies, and Obi-Wan and Bail Organia Seperate the Skywalker twins. Darth Vader, meanwhile is born of darkness and beigns over seeing the Death Star's construction.

My Take
An Awesome movie that neatly wraps up the new trilogy and the old one. Everything is left neat and tidy, and all makes sence now. At last Lucas has recaputred the feeling of Classic Star Wars. Words can not descibe the awesomeness of the betrayal, seduction, pain and sorrow that is expressed in this movie. My god, is this movie awesome! I'm glad I spent that $6.00 seeing it! I'm definately seeing this again!!!

Bottom Line: 10/10!!!
Retrosepct: 8/10 with some credit.
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It was reasonable but I had a hard time believing the story. Sure, I know it's sci-fi but I can forgive a lot of stuff in a sci-fi flick if I believe the characters are really into things. It just didn't feel like the emotions were natural.

I did enjoy all the technology and fighting. They had some creative battle sequences that kept things hopping. Ironically, the droids seemed to have more life and humor to them than the people.
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Awesome!!! What an amazing film. The battles and duels were super, the script wasn't quite so good- but thats Lucas for you. General Grevious was pretty cool, the lightsaber fight between Obi-Wan and Anakin at the end was awesome.

It was interesting to see Bail Organa as well, and also you get a glimpse of a young Tarkin. The stuff actually in the Jedi Temple was a little short IMO, although the clones turning on the other Jedi was done well I thought.

Overall, definately the best of the three prequels and easily almost as good as the originals IMO.

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I thought it was pretty good. There were a coule of glitches like in the in Retuern of the Jedi Luke asks Leia what she remebers about their real mother and Leia says she was sad. How could she know that since she died giving birth?

Other than that I thought is was great but there again I'm easy to please.
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Good to see you around these parts. I'll bet it was all those midi-whats-its.
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I thought it was pretty good. There were a coule of glitches like in the in Retuern of the Jedi Luke asks Leia what she remebers about their real mother and Leia says she was sad. How could she know that since she died giving birth?

Other than that I thought is was great but there again I'm easy to please.

well Im not making excuses for Darth Needstolearntowriteanddirect but,
Perhaps Leia was remembering Mammy Organa?

also the fight between OB1 and Annykins was ok, till the end, then it turned into a Deus Ex Machina

and the DEM at the end, where Yoda tells OB1 abotu the Trancend death thing, cop out
plain and simple. just a way to explain the fact that he forgot to have other dead Jedi talkign to folks,

more gripes to come,


also, I DO NOT believe that Darth Irelyonspecialeffectstocoverupformylaclusterwriting wrote the
whole movie in 1975 as he claims, otherwise OB1 would not have said Yoda was his jedi master,
the But Yoda Teaches the Younglings is well another Cop out.


and dont get me wrong I enjoy them all, but I have my issues with it all.
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Ian McDiarmid as Palpatine was excellent. But then Palpatine has been by far my favourite character all the way through.

The lightsabery bits were awesome, which is the most important part of any Star Wars film surely. The script was quite poor in some places ("losing the will to live", how lame can you get?) I'll admit.
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I believe it was a good movie, and at least redeemed the prequel trilogy.

My review: 27.5 out of 10 bitches!
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Interesting rating scheme. I'm not sure if you're like me, but folks who like Star Wars are often already unpopular enough with the ladies.
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Interesting rating scheme. I'm not sure if you're like me, but folks who like Star Wars are often already unpopular enough with the ladies.

Well, now star wars is in, and even some of the ladies are into it ;)
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Keep i mind I was fresh form the teater when I wrote this. A re evaluation would land it an 8/10 or so now.

Yeah, it had it's problems, but it had some neat parts. Like how Lucas showed how spunky R2-D2 is.

As for Leia remembering her birth mother, she remembered feelings and still frames. It is entirely possible to remeber that stuff, though highly unlikely. But Leia is a Jedi, or will become one, and they have special powers.

The assention thing may have been a cop out, but it was needed for the sake of continuity. Just like how Enterprise explained TOS's lack of makeup for Klingons. And we all know that the real reason was ST: TOS was a low-budget production.

And yes, Ian always gives a good preformance as Palpatine. When I first saw Return of the Jedi at age seven, he scared the bejebus out of me.

I really think they could have done better casting Anakin though. Sure Haydan Anderson is a pretty boy with more inner demons than hell, but he's not that great of an actor. If your principal character is a bad actor, the production goes to hell. *scottbakulakilledenterprisebecausehecantactandmadehischaracterlooklikeplastic* Of couse the same problem occurs with writing. *paramnountandupnshouldlineupandshootthewritersofenterprisefortheirlaziness* *stargateontheotherhandrocksgivethosewritersaraise*
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Keep i mind I was fresh form the teater when I wrote this. A re evaluation would land it an 8/10 or so now.

Yeah, it had it's problems, but it had some neat parts. Like how Lucas showed how spunky R2-D2 is.

As for Leia remembering her birth mother, she remembered feelings and still frames. It is entirely possible to remeber that stuff, though highly unlikely. But Leia is a Jedi, or will become one, and they have special powers.

The assention thing may have been a cop out, but it was needed for the sake of continuity. Just like how Enterprise explained TOS's lack of makeup for Klingons. And we all know that the real reason was ST: TOS was a low-budget production.

And yes, Ian always gives a good preformance as Palpatine. When I first saw Return of the Jedi at age seven, he scared the bejebus out of me.

I really think they could have done better casting Anakin though. Sure Haydan Anderson is a pretty boy with more inner demons than hell, but he's not that great of an actor. If your principal character is a bad actor, the production goes to hell. *scottbakulakilledenterprisebecausehecantactandmadehischaracterlooklikeplastic* Of couse the same problem occurs with writing. *paramnountandupnshouldlineupandshootthewritersofenterprisefortheirlaziness* *stargateontheotherhandrocksgivethosewritersaraise*
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Good points. I think Maybe like what they did for ESB and ROTJ, they could have had Lucas as producer and maybe like Spielberg or another close friend of Lucas direct....
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Saw it last night with a few friends, and OMG - for someone who's not a Star Wars freak (though saw the original trilogy) and Episode I, Episode III was great. I didn't like Episode I because it was too curvy, but Episode III had the 1970s look down do a T. Hayden Christiansen does a great job at portraying Anakin, who's actually my favorite character, especially when he returns to the Light side and with his most famous line as Darth Vader: "Luke, I am your father."

If anything, Episode III is the apex ofhow modern tech can replicate the 1970s look (I saw a flick somewhere on the Net that Ewan McGregor, who plays Obi-Wan, had to go through a lot of makeup sessions just so that he could resemble Sir Alec Guinness, who played the original Obi-Wan) and yet come out with a great movie. Hooray for Lucas!!

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saw it last night... it was awesome.

I'm not sure if Christiansen is that bad of an actor... BUT, him and Portman have like, zero on screen chemistry. At least they solved that a bit by shortening the love scenes.

This one was a bit more like the originals, more action... i thought the betrayal scene (death Windu) was very well done. I also thought General Greivous was really cool.
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I saw it on Tuesday. It was incredibly cool, and the coup d'etat reminded me of the Krech April coup. The 'Order 66' bit was quite depressing.

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I saw it on Tuesday. It was incredibly cool, and the coup d'etat reminded me of the Krech April coup. The 'Order 66' bit was quite depressing.

how so? re: order 66?
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I'm not sure if Christiansen is that bad of an actor...

I was actually praising, not deploring him for his portryal of Anakin, because so many people have been giving his portryal of Anakin a bad rap that's totally unjustified - he has clear command of his voice, and uses it appropriately. Not bad considering that he is only college age and from western Canada (where supposedly most Canadian actors and actresses come from, unless if you're talking Toronto).
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I'm not sure if Christiansen is that bad of an actor...

I was actually praising, not deploring him for his portryal of Anakin, because so many people have been giving his portryal of Anakin a bad rap that's totally unjustified - he has clear command of his voice, and uses it appropriately. Not bad considering that he is only college age and from western Canada (where supposedly most Canadian actors and actresses come from, unless if you're talking Toronto).

STill you have to admit, Hayden Christiansen (or however you spell his damn last name, damn and I thought my last name was messed up lol) was a bit stifff in a few areas in terms of on screen acting in Ep 2 and 3
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Especially 2
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Well, Anderson isn't a great actor. And his preformance in Episode II was poor and wooden. It can be a little hard to beleive him at times, but he's made some improvements. I didn't flame him out right in my last post, though I did flame Bakula. I just said, he could have done better. But, I've given him the benefit of the doubt. And I do agree with the assesment that Portman and Anderson don't have that spark between them on screen.
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how so? re: order 66?


Well, seeing all the Jedi get slaughtered by their allies was pretty nasty. It's not like I was actually depressed by it, but you get what I mean...

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...I felt sorry for all the poor younglings!
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Yes, the younglings was depressing. They even asked Anakin for help before he personally slaughtered them. :cry:

Then again, Hollywood has an unwritten rule in which killing a child on screen is unforgivable. Lucas merely pushed the envelope.

Just a thought, could order 66 be related to order 666?
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Well, Anderson isn't a great actor. And his preformance in Episode II was poor and wooden. It can be a little hard to beleive him at times, but he's made some improvements. I didn't flame him out right in my last post, though I did flame Bakula. I just said, he could have done better. But, I've given him the benefit of the doubt. And I do agree with the assesment that Portman and Anderson don't have that spark between them on screen.

who's anderson and bakula.....??

and yes, mon mothma was in the movie!
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Yes, the younglings was depressing. They even asked Anakin for help before he personally slaughtered them. :cry:

Then again, Hollywood has an unwritten rule in which killing a child on screen is unforgivable. Lucas merely pushed the envelope.

Just a thought, could order 66 be related to order 666?

I dont think so...but interesting thought :ph43r:

Well, technically he did show anakin kiling the kids via the holovids, and they did show a kid being shot by the converted Clone Troopers, or Stormtroopers.

One thing I did kind of get confused at was a few things:

1. Why did the ARC Troopers, who were supposed to be virtually independent in thinking, follow the order?

2. WHERE WERE THE REPUBLIC CLONE COMMANDOS?

3. Why in Ep IV, did obi-wan tell luke his father wanted to have lightsabre and just merely took it and left anakin/darth vader left for dead in ep 3?
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The clone troopers were apparently more loyal to Palpatine and the Republic.
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The clone troopers were apparently more loyal to Palpatine and the Republic.

it still doesnt answer question, lad.
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Well, technically he did show anakin kiling the kids via the holovids, and they did show a kid being shot by the converted Clone Troopers, or Stormtroopers.

One thing I did kind of get confused at was a few things:

1. Why did the ARC Troopers, who were supposed to be virtually independent in thinking, follow the order?

2. WHERE WERE THE REPUBLIC CLONE COMMANDOS?

3. Why in Ep IV, did obi-wan tell luke his father wanted to have lightsabre and just merely took it and left anakin/darth vader left for dead in ep 3?

Opps, forgot that holovid part.

1. ARC? That tri-foil fighter? The clones follow the orders of their commanders. They are soldiers doing their job.

2. Clone commandos? I thought they were there... (i'm not a huge Star Wars Freak so I'm, not sure what you mean.)

3. In the comic adaptation Obi-Wan says he loved Anakin like a son, not a brother. So he couldn't bear to kill Anakin. Plus, if he did kill Anakin there would be no swanky Darth Vader in Eppy IV. Furthermore, Anakin was as good as dead anyway and didn't need a lightsaber anymore. So Obi gave it to Luke.
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1. No, the ARC TRoopers, first introduced in the Clone Wars series and comics, not the ARC-170 starfighters...

2. Clone Commandos - from the Republic Commando game

3. Ah i see.
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