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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!



Discussion Thread: 141 comments

Waitwaitwait. There’s a new Star Wars? I’ve got to call my friend Pope John Paul II!
What? Oh geez.

Chestnuts roasted by jhnnywalkr @ 05/19/2005 3:44 PM

I really liked this film and I’m far from a Star Wars fan (I call the previous prequels Snore Wars). About the only thing I didn’t like was the way Padme died. A broken heart? Yeesh. I would have had her be mortally wounded during the Anakin/Obi fight. Plus, she came up with her children’s names awfully quick. I also wanted more Wookies.

Otherwise, I give the film 3 stars.

Chestnuts roasted by JLAJRC @ 05/19/2005 4:55 PM

R2D2 is one ass-kicking little bastard.. Padme/Anakin scenes made me naseous..
Space fights and light saber duels way beyond expectations. (waaay beyond)
All in all I gotta say (certainly not for the first or last time) that it’s definitely the best of the prequels. IMHO it is better than ROTJ as well. Basicly it’s probably exactly what you are expecting.
(click my link if you know how to usenet)

*(not so) major spoilers below*

and OMG.. Darth Sidious is Senator Palpatine??! Who woulda thunk it!
/sarcasm

Chestnuts roasted by Cyanyde @ 05/19/2005 5:13 PM

Went to the midnight showing last night, was totally blown away. Best of the prequels by far.

A workprint has been leaked and is showing up on all the filesharing networks as we speak, near dvd quality but it does have number at the top of the screen and a dodgy aspect ratio.

Chestnuts roasted by Vhaal @ 05/19/2005 5:54 PM

I didn’t mind the Ani/Padme romance as much as the dialog surrounding it. When he was giving his big speech in "Clones," about how he shouldn’t give in to his feelings, but blah, blah, blah, I said to Little Brother and his wife, "That is the most complicated explanation of Blue Balls I ever heard." Then somebody behind me said, "Shh!" But, I believe the damage was done. I’ll have that in mind when I go to see "Sith."

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 05/19/2005 6:01 PM

I think ol’ Padme was really just a non-entity which was odd due to her huge significance to the plot. I agree that she should have been injured somehow and then died. It would have given Anakin more motivation.

Chestnuts roasted by The Manimal @ 05/19/2005 6:32 PM

Every review I’ve read so far has been very favorable, not all scattershot like with the first 2 prequels. I want to wait until the first huge wave of people flock to the theaters til I see it so I don’t get stuck sitting next to the guy in the storm trooper costume with massive BO. I’m psyched though. One question, Anakin doesn’t babble about sand again, does he? ::cringe::

Chestnuts roasted by Lammy742 @ 05/19/2005 6:32 PM

Don’t worry.. I’m sure good ol’ George will spend the next 28 years making various director’s cuts of this trilogy just like he did with the last one.

Chestnuts roasted by Cyanyde @ 05/19/2005 7:42 PM

I saw the midnight showing last night. I really enjoyed it, and I would say its aobut as good or a little better than jedi. The dialouge was much better, but padame was still pretty bad. I thought Hayden Christansen did a much better job this time, but most people I’ve talked to still hate him.

I’ve noticed a continuity problem. In jedi Leia saya she remembers her mother, but in ep III padame dies right after childbirth. Leia could have just remembered he adoptive mother, but it seemed pretty clear she was talking about her real mother.

Chestnuts roasted by BrightNoah @ 05/19/2005 8:07 PM

Saw the midnight last night. Good stuff! I still refuse to accept Anakin as Darth Vader, though.

Chestnuts roasted by Eddie Lightning Frog @ 05/19/2005 8:50 PM

"One question, Anakin doesn’t babble about sand again, does he?"

Well, he doesn’t SAY anything on the subject, but it’s safe to assume he still doesn’t like it that much. Has a bit of a nasty experience on a beach of sorts.

"I’ve noticed a continuity problem. In jedi Leia saya she remembers her mother, but in ep III padame dies right after childbirth. Leia could have just remembered he adoptive mother, but it seemed pretty clear she was talking about her real mother."

The Force, man. The FORCE. Yeah, it’s the Star Wars equivalent of "a wizard did it" but I can accpet it as an explanation. Remember "Through the Force, things you will see, other places, the future, THE PAST, old friends long gone" It’s reasonable enough to say Leia just had some sort of weird force vision/memory thing.

Chestnuts roasted by Darth Frankenstein @ 05/19/2005 9:13 PM

I saw the midnight showing and had a good time. I also went to Hooters first, maybe that helped..

Chestnuts roasted by Review the World @ 05/19/2005 9:36 PM

"I’ve noticed a continuity problem. In jedi Leia saya she remembers her mother, but in ep III padame dies right after childbirth. Leia could have just remembered he adoptive mother, but it seemed pretty clear she was talking about her real mother."

Uh-oh, here comes another edition of the original trilogy.

Chestnuts roasted by MutantHamster @ 05/19/2005 9:40 PM

Isn’t it remarkable that someone so completely devoid of writing talent was able to create an entire universe of lovable characters that mean so much to so many people?

Chestnuts roasted by The Yeti @ 05/19/2005 10:44 PM

I’ve thought long and hard about how to make a succinct review – I studied several different paragraphing styles, expressive punctuation and checked a lot of facts:

Woo! Star Wars! Woo!

Chestnuts roasted by Ryan @ 05/19/2005 10:57 PM

fuck, when Anakin sliced off Dooku’s hands… man. and then he cut off his head… shit.

that’s awesome…

Chestnuts roasted by gramsci @ 05/19/2005 11:17 PM

Man, daughter has a play (practice all week until Saturday) and I have a football game on Sunday three hours out of town.

Why the anger? Well, only a few military base theaters will carry Star Wars this weekend, and none are near me (at least an hour and a half away to the closest one). Plus, after this weekend…nothing!!! The base schedules for all the theaters do not list Star Wars at all and their schedules go all the way up to June 15th!!!

I hope it sucks would just too evil for me to say. I hope its good and I get to see it soon…

Semper Fi,
Erik Majorwitz

Chestnuts roasted by EMajorwitz @ 05/20/2005 12:13 PM

Didja guys see the Falcon?!? That was my big geekout moment.
I am still a little too wowed to really formulate my thoughts. I’m not thunderstruck, you know, but there was just SO MUCH to absorb. Some stuff from above: I thought it was pretty clear from ROS that Leia would have been remembering her adoptive mother in ROJ. It’s a little counterintuitive, but it’s definitely not a continuity problem. I mean, I’d have the rewatch Jedi to be sure but I’m confident. Actually, I think maybe Darth Frank’s hitting it…it’s always about the force.
I hate to say stuff like "the dialogue is soooooo much better" because it’s so pejorative but…dudes, the dialogue is like 800 thousand times better. There are some moments that are clunky or don’t really ring perfectly true but with how much they manage to cover without feeling crammed or frantic I think they did an awesome job. For a movie that’s 1/3 sword epic, 1/3 romeo & juliet story and 1/3 political drama they really tied it all together.
Yeti, I gotta take issue with what you’ve said. If someone was able to create an entire universe of lovable characters, they’re not completely devoid of writing talent. That’s like, oxymoronic. I think a lot of people will agree that maybe Lucas is missing something when it comes to writing believable dialogue. But that doesn’t make him devoid of talent. Of course, you were probably just exaggerating a little and now I’ve taken all the fun out of your hyperbole. Sorry :D
King, Grevious is really really cool. I caught just a little of Clone Wars during Friday’s marathon and now I’m dying to see all of it. Yoda doesn’t pull the move I think you’re referring to, but he has some BADass moments. And I thought the badass was going to be Mace.
More wookies would have been nice, yes. But I think that could be said of a two hour film of nothing BUT wookies, so there ya go.
I’m having the most trouble analyzing the digital effects…they were state of the art, as in the other prequels…they were sort of cartoonish, like the other prequels…they were so shiny and pretty and seamless, not like anything I’ve ever seen in CGI whether Sin City or The Incredibles (which I finally saw).
Did anybody else feel the urge to go the library after the show and pick up some EU books? I don’t think I’ve read any in years, but seeing the end (which I think did a good just of getting us into Ep. 4, in terms of all the political manuvering, personal transformation and freaking giant alien iguanas) made me want to go back and revisit Han and Leia and Luke.
spoilers: So Obi’s chilling with dead Qui Gon in that cave the whole time? A new slashdom is born…and somewhere, perhaps, an angel loses it’s wings. Hehe. I loved that the Emp tells Vader that he killed Padme (not that he’s not culpable for her death anyway, but it wasn’t from the choking), it’s just so creepy and jibes with the twisted master servant relationship we see from them later. That was a good bit altogether, with the breathing and the shaking and even the NooOOOOOooooOOoo!
Speaking of Padme, I did think it would have been cooler if Obi had said something like "You’re married!" to Padme instead of "Anakin is the father, isn’t he?" I mean, duh. The girl never leaves her room and Annie’s the only one coming in, who do you think the daddy is? Show me some Jedi intuition!

Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 05/20/2005 1:13 AM

Great movie, bbut I did pick up on a continuity error (and I’m an extremely casual fan). Obi Wan was there when padme had and named the twins plus he set up the hiding locations for both of them. However in the originals he says that luke is their only hope and yoda has to tell him that there is another.

Chestnuts roasted by Jotenks @ 05/20/2005 5:29 AM

Whoa…good lookin’ out, Jotenks. I didn’t even think about that. Allow me to reiterate a previous blog entry:
"Isn’t it remarkable that someone so completely devoid of writing talent was able to create an entire universe of lovable characters that mean so much to so many people?"

Chestnuts roasted by The Yeti @ 05/20/2005 7:15 AM

Blue Balls, ‘Klash? Is there something you ain’t telling us?

Star Wars only opens on Friday here in sunny SA. Will go prepared to laugh at Lucas. Oh yes, I think he should have let every fan on the planet help him write the script, and then given it to Spielberg to direct. And have it edited by Jamie Bruckheimer. Or something. Because, let’s face it – Jar jar Binks. Aargh.

Maybe Obi Wan was sexist: he didn’t see Leia as Jedi material, cos she’s a girl.

Chestnuts roasted by eminentfreak @ 05/20/2005 7:31 AM

Or Yoda was just reminding him of Leia to drop a hint on US, the AUDIENCE.

They cut out the scene where Qui-Gon Jinn talks to Yoda about becoming part of the living Force, and a load of other scenes.

Believe it or not, in the scene were Anakin finds the kids hiding in the Council chamber, they did film him killing them.

Chestnuts roasted by Fit For Natalie @ 05/20/2005 10:54 AM

I have not seen it and I have not read any of the previous comments. I just want a new blog update so we can move past this and get on with our lives! ;) ;)

Chestnuts roasted by kidneyboy @ 05/20/2005 10:58 AM

They could have very easily packed all three of these movies into 1 *maybe* 2 episodes, and then spent the 3rd installment following Darth Vader for the next 18 years. There is _still_ the gap from when Luke and Leia are born, until we actually see Leia’s ship get boarded in the begining of EpIV, and in my opinion, the first half of this trilogy is utter waste.

As I have said, Episode III is easily the best of the 3 new movies and probably better than ROTJ as well.

Bottom line: Go and see this movie in the theatre. DO NOT wait for this to come out on DVD. Find the biggest, loudest theatre in your area and bring beer. It is worth it just to see the big bad space ships blowing up.

Chestnuts roasted by Cyanyde @ 05/20/2005 11:46 AM

In Attack o’ da Clones, listen to Ani’s speech in the scene where Padme is in her leather lounge wear. Way too many word for "I’m horny."
As for Yoda-sensei having to tell Ol’ Ben about Leia, Kenobi was wrong about Anakin being The Chosen One (insert Kung Pow joke here). Maybe in a bout of chauvanism he never considered the little girl as a possible choice. Or the Force was just dormant in her.
The above statement either makes me a super geek or possessed of amazing intuition. It just popped into my big empty head.

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 05/20/2005 11:49 AM

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