Rate Revenge of the Sith *SPOILERS*

D+1 said:

Oh, and the denouement sucked - even if it IS a prequel.

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I love your turn of phrase here! Very unorthodox with the highly-literate "denouement" and the completely street-slang "sucked". Great stuff (and I'm not bein' facetious!) BTW, I agree. The denouement did suck - eggs in fact. Overall, though, I can forgive a lot just because it's Star Wars

In case you were wondering:

Total Votes: 259
Mean rating: 7.529
Std. Dev.: 0.848
Median: 8

I actually like the fight choreography of most of the fights. Its just too bad that most of the time (like in final duel between Obi Wan and Anakin) that its too dark or too close to see it properly.

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Go to a different theater. I had the same gripe at the midnight showing but went Thurs evening to another theater and didn't have that same problem. It's how they (the projectionist) set the settings on the projector.

wingsandsword said:

People have always interpreted Star Wars through the eyes of their day. Everybody knew this was a movie about the collapse of the Republic and the rise of the Empire, there had to be some political statements for the movie to even work.

I've read several reviews that say Lucas made Episode III as a modern day political allegory. I think that's just continuing a long pattern. Remember that Reagan used Star Wars as an allegory for the Cold War, and comparisons with the fall of Rome and Nazi Germany are also popular. Throughout history there are familiar patterns of rise, fall, domination and rebellion, civil war and uprising, tyranny and freedom, and Star Wars is an embodiment of it all.

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Maybe the reason why we see this is simply because several elements of history constantly repeat themselves, and we naturally also use them in our own stories...

Kai Lord said:

I give it a 10. Not a perfect movie, but a movie that facilitated one of the most perfect movie going *experiences* of my life. *This* was the SW movie I've been hoping for for decades. And its better than I would have imagined. Bravo Lucas. So many great moments, so many moments in the original trilogy that are now greater because of this movie.

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I knew eventually that we'd agree on something.

Hypersmurf said:

Of course, Obi-Wan and Yoda started referring to Palpatine very casually as 'the Emperor' instead of 'the Chancellor' as well... did they even know he'd declared the Galactic Empire at that point?

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I don't recall it being casual at all. In the security hologram Palpatine says "Now, Lord Vader, go and bring peace to the Empire." Obi-Wan and Yoda begin referring to him as Emperor thereafter.

The only two nitpicks I really consider noteworthy here:
1) Who built those stupid missles that were chasing Anakin and Obi-Wan in the beginning? They hit you and then droids begin to damage your ship? Okay, that might have made sense in Matrix with the Machine Drones, but this was a bit... stupid.
Maybe they were tired of the standard "evasive" procedures, but I still think a real dogfight would have been neater.

2) Why didn´t Obi-Wan finish Anakin off? I mean, come on, your old friend is lying there, lost one arm and two legs, and just suffered a severe burning that will probably eventually kill him. Okay, maybe he has betrayed you, your order and the people you care for, but doesn´t he deserve a bit of mercy? If Anakin had died, it would probably have been the worst imaginable one...
Well, maybe it was the Force that made Obi-Wan do it, it "knowing" that Anakin still had to fulfilll the prophecy...

John Crichton said:

I knew eventually that we'd agree on something.

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Yep. Five days later and *many* scenes from the film will just pop into my head throughout the day.

1. Anakin marching up the steps of the Jedi Temple with a platoon of clones behind him.
2. Bail arriving at the scene and witnessing a young padawan (Jett Lucas I believe) sans master being overwhelmed by clones and then the clones chillingly telling Bail to just leave while he can.
3. Yoda showing up to confront Palpatine *by himself* after Mace and several Jedi *Masters* were all slaughtered in that very room.
4. The battle of Kashyyyk; Yoda decapitating two clones in one leap and then jumping onto Chewie's back for a ride.
5. The opening space battle
6. Kenobi taking on Grievous one on one just to distract him long enough for the clones to arrive.
7. The Anakin/Obi-Wan duel! Who says that 20+ years of expectations can't be met! Amazingly awesome!
8. Obi-Wan saying, "I'm sorry Anakin, I've failed you..."
9. Yoda, Obi-Wan, and Bail on the Tantive IV
10. The Jedi purge
11. The last shot of the Tatooine sunset
12. The juxtaposition of Padme giving birth and Vader being reconstructed.

I really could just list almost every scene in the movie if I continue. I didn't even bother reading over the posts of the people who didn't like it. The film met and *far* exceeded my expectations, and that's just awesome. I can't believe I just saw a Star Wars movie that both awed and kept me on edge throughout the entire picture, just like when I saw ANH and ESB in the theaters as a kid.

I loved it. My wife loved it. In our household this will be a movie long remembered....

Kai Lord: Two thumbs up! Those were great scenes!!

Mustrum_Ridcully said:

1) Who built those stupid missles that were chasing Anakin and Obi-Wan in the beginning? They hit you and then droids begin to damage your ship? Okay, that might have made sense in Matrix with the Machine Drones, but this was a bit... stupid.

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Er... the droids didn't come from the missile. The missile exploded when it hit one of the droids.