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The Revenge of the Sith Discussion Thread…

Consider the comments field for this entry your discussion thread for Revenge of the Sith. Those wanting to avoid spoilers should be careful while scanning through. I'll be seeing the flick tonight (passed on the midnight opener knowing that it'd require taking today off), and I can't wait. Three and a half stars from Ebert, fifty and a half stars from people who know who played the Wampa in ESB. Can't wait can't wait can't wait. Share your thoughts, anticipations and questions in the comments.

EDIT: Saw it last night. Didn't leave the theater knocked out, but it's grown on me overnight. Will have more to say on Sunday. Oh, those DVD contests? I got a shitload of entries, so let's make the cutoff Saturday, 11:59 PM for entries. Also, since I got waaaay more entries than I was anticipating (likely in the realm of 700 or so), I asked if the PR comp would mind supplying two of each set. So, there will be four winners total. :)

Posted by Matt on 05/19/2005. E-mail me!



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1st? I too, can’t wait. Not as lucky as you guys who’ve already seen it, but I will see it this weekend!!!

Chestnuts roasted by J-Dog @ 05/19/2005 9:33 AM

hey, look at that. second comment.
good movie. best of the three. saw the midnight showing about 9+ hours ago

Chestnuts roasted by jokun @ 05/19/2005 9:35 AM

I’m seeing it at 4:00 p.m. today. I think it’ll be awesome. I read the book and really liked the story, and the reviews I’ve read said that the visuals are breathtaking, so the combination of the two could be awesome.

Chestnuts roasted by Gozer @ 05/19/2005 9:40 AM

Amazingly, it’s really close to the book and they leave VERY little out (even the really gruesome scenes I thought they wouldn’t show. Not that I’m complaining, mind you). Dialogue isn’t that bad; much better than the first two and a lot better than a lot of the critics make it out to be, but still short of the original trilogy. Alas, I wept when Mace met his end (Bad muthafucka, no longer is he).

Chestnuts roasted by Caldo Lanrissian @ 05/19/2005 9:55 AM

it’s funny, so much of it is cgi, but it’s amazingly well done. the effects/environment/characters are all really well done. that, and the story wasn’t bad at all. overall, very fun to watch.

Chestnuts roasted by jokun @ 05/19/2005 9:58 AM

Crowds give me gas, so I’m gonna wait until the masses see it.

Chestnuts roasted by Pedro @ 05/19/2005 10:01 AM

I’m going to wait ’til next week to see it, too. Not only do I have a test and essay to work on this weekend, but when I go during the opening week of a blockbuster I always get seated next to the one Comic Book Store Guy in the whole crowded theater who nitpicks the movie loudly. Sometimes that Darth Vader neck-chokey Dark Side force would come in handy, no?

Chestnuts roasted by Molten @ 05/19/2005 10:11 AM

Man i cant wait i think im goin to see it at 630 if i can get tickets its been sold out all day but i cant wait oh my lil boba will be soo happy to see the movie that took place while his dad was living ……. bless his soul

Chestnuts roasted by Im pregnat with boba fetts baby @ 05/19/2005 10:19 AM

I caught the midnight show and thought the flick was pretty kick-ass, but I’ll have to see it again under more optimal conditions in order to produce a more reliable critique. I found myself in the front row corner of the theater, so everything I saw on the screen was out of whack perspective-wise and it gave me a big headache. Plus, I could barely hear anything over the collective roar of 150 camcorders being used to make black-market bootlegs of the film. I will say this: Lord Sidious was uber-creepy, Anakin was only slightly less of a whiny pissant this time around, the inclusion of Wookiees seemed like little more than an afterthought, and during the last fifteen minutes, the film got in a big goddamned hurry to tie everything together with Episode IV in a way that wasn’t entirely fluid or intuitive. Despite all this though, Episode III is undoubtedly the most action-packed of all the prequels (perhaps of all the episodes, period). I’m sure that once I see it again in an environment that doesn’t necessitate me to lean my chair all the way back into the lap of a heavy-breathing, man-boobed fanboy sitting behind me, I’ll enjoy it a lot more and will be less likely to nitpick.

Chestnuts roasted by The Yeti @ 05/19/2005 10:21 AM

All in all it was a pretty horrible movie. Hayden Christensen is a horrible actor, and definatly not bad ass enough to be playing Darth Vader. A message out there to George Lucas; learn to write a love story if that is going to be the focus of the movie. There were some of the worst dialogue I have ever heard. In a conversation between Anakin and Padmé there some of the dumbest lines ever were said.
Anakin: "You are beautiful"
Padmé: "It is because I am in love"
Anakin: "No, it is because I am in love with you"
Padmé: "Has love made you blind"
Now that was not an exact duplication of the conversation, but it was pretty darn close. There were points that I actually laugh out loud, a lot of them had to do with the Darth Sidious would just randomly growl for no reason. So that is what I have to say about that.

Chestnuts roasted by DJ Homie Fresh @ 05/19/2005 10:25 AM

!!!!**emperor’s make-up job spoiler alert**!!!! was anybody else a little grossed out by the emperor’s poorly done forehead? looked like a wrinkly butt coming out just above his eyes.

Chestnuts roasted by jokun @ 05/19/2005 10:35 AM

"NOOOooOOOOoOoOOOooo" – A certain lord of the Sith.

Well done Lucas. In three or so lines you ruin Darth Vader. Nice to hear JEJ back, but he was clearly putting on the highest pitched voice he could achieve to try and match up with Hayden.

Overall though it was a lot of fun. Yoda’s entrance to the Duel at the end is officially the most badass moment in the entire saga.

Chestnuts roasted by Darth Frankenstein @ 05/19/2005 10:42 AM

By the way, the only reason that Ebert didn’t give this film a full four stars was probably because Padme didn’t whip off her top and do a pole-dance. Ol’ Roger is the biggest perv in the movie-review business.

Chestnuts roasted by The Yeti @ 05/19/2005 10:50 AM

I think this would be awesome if you hadn’t already seen part 4. Sadly, there were no surprises left.

Chestnuts roasted by Sweetie @ 05/19/2005 10:53 AM

Sadly, i had to agree with matt and decided not go to the midnight show.(damn work!!) But, in a badass turn of events, my company is throwing a private screener!!! Its tommorrow, but hey..its free, and its a theater that serves beer and TGI Fridays-esqe food. So thats alsome.
Happy Sith day everyone!!

ps. I brought one of Kuse’s brothers with me to work today… hes chillin on my monitor. :)

Chestnuts roasted by KillaHill @ 05/19/2005 11:17 AM

I’ll also be seeing it a little later. Mainly I’ll be waiting for Greivous, and any good fight involving Yoda. Does he do another of his "Blooming Ground Flower Attacks" that was soo cool in II? Light fuse, then away you get, yes?

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 05/19/2005 11:34 AM

Yoda doesn’t make the same high pitched whining noise from what I can remember. His fight/s are much more believable this time round – not that the one in AOTC wasn’t awesome or anything.

I was giddy as a schoolgirl during the ‘the shit has hit the fan’ montage of Jedi death. You see one Jedi after another bite it, then it cuts to Yoda. And you KNOW that Yoda is going to do what all the others could not – see the attack coming and survive. Man, he does it in STYLE!

Chestnuts roasted by Darth Frankenstein @ 05/19/2005 11:47 AM

no ewok or anything ewok like i am to presume?

Chestnuts roasted by Shadow of doubt @ 05/19/2005 12:02 PM

Really good movie, extremely entertaining. The script seemed a little forced to get everything to line up with episode 4,5, and 6 but otherwise the nerds would be over every single detail that was off.

I thought although it stumbled a bit at parts that just didn’t seem "logical" (even in star wars) I thought overall it was excellent and plan on seeing it a few more times. Also throw in the fact that I had to sit second row and my eyes were bugging out and I was in a general bad mood the whole night so it was probably even better then that.

Chestnuts roasted by The Modern Day Pirates @ 05/19/2005 12:19 PM

It was awesome. Not an oscar winner, but if you are a Star Wars fan, you will definitely be fulfilled. I’ll saw many things that just made my hair stand on end based on coolness/wow, we finally see it!! Battle scenes are great, Hayden’s acting is MUCH better, still corny dialogue, but it is Star Wars, you just have to deal with it. Only part I didn’t like was the "birth"…and I’m not talking about Luke and Leia.

The theater was cool…let us in at 8 so we didn’t have to stand for 4 hours. Then they sold hot dogs, sodas and popcorn for $1 each.

Chestnuts roasted by Y2JB78 @ 05/19/2005 12:23 PM

I went to the midnight AND made it to work.
General Grievous was quite a let down. He seemed so cowardly and unnecssary (especially since he does so well in CLONE WARS). Much improved dialogue and, yes, it was legitimately funny. I enjoyed it. Better acting too. I am sure we will be hashing this out on the blog forever so I will leave it at that.
P.S. yes, the wookies were added on as an afterthought

Chestnuts roasted by The Manimal @ 05/19/2005 12:27 PM

Anyone seen that it’s been posted on bittorrent. I’m not saying that’s OKAY or not illegal. It’s even rumored to be a pre-release verison, so maybe good quality. The camcorder versions I’ve heard can look dark and grainy.

Chestnuts roasted by RAS @ 05/19/2005 12:55 PM

I also made it to both the 12:15am show and to work at 8am. But damn was it worth it. ROTS is, in my opinion the 2nd best SW of all time (behind ESB obviously)
It was the first time during any of the prequels when I found myself feeling like I was watching a SW movie, and not some community theatre troupes redition of an EU novel…

Chestnuts roasted by oldschool @ 05/19/2005 1:03 PM

Mind you all the people that saw it at midnight were probably serious fan-boys so this might be slightly biased…

I haven’t seen it yet but I plan to this weekend

Cheers

Chestnuts roasted by Ant @ 05/19/2005 1:09 PM

The change in Grievous character could be attributed to the force crush that Mace preformed on him at the end of Clone Wars. It was evident by the nagging cough he had which showed he was weakened(sp?). Still, the fight between Obi-wan and Grievous was pretty awesome.

Chestnuts roasted by Wirehead @ 05/19/2005 1:52 PM

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