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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ShadowDenizen" data-source="post: 2260950" data-attributes="member: 16485">Back from the midnight show.Well, Ep III was about a 7-8 (on a scale of 1-10). Definitely the best of the preguels.That said....(Warning: SPOILERS AHEAD.)My thoughts on the film (forgive me if they're a little bit "stream of consciousness"):--I really enjoyed the final 3rd of the film quite alot, after a somwhat disappointing beginning and middle.--The dialogue was somewhat wooden, but better than Ep. I & II:  I still found Hayden Christansen somewhat miscast in this role.  At first, I was convinced it was the dialagoue, since HC was really good in "Life as a House" and "Shattered Glass", but now I'm leaning more towards him being miscast as Anakin.--Unfortunately, while the Padme/Anakin relationship was portrayed better than it was in EP. I & II, it still felt a little flat, which is disappointing, considering that that is really the crux of the film.  I wish that they would have done more foreshadowing in the first two films, (maybe have Anakin have dreams of Padme's death in Ep. II, as a start?) using the three stories to tell a sweeping, interconnected tale, rather than leaving everything ''til the 3rd film.  More, I think that Lucas is WAY too enamored with CGI, often at the expense of plot/character development. (And, as an aside, MUST all the CGI creatures make obnoxious noises? Uptapi lizard, I'm looking at you!!)--I think the "Jedi Purge" scenes would have been more effective and poignant if we'd gotten to know ANYTHING about the Jedi that were killed.  Obviously, Obi-Wan and Yoda are in no danger, and the only other Jedi they really defined even peripherally was Mace Windu.--General Grievous? FEH.  What a lame "villain", and an obvious attempt to capitalize on the "Clone Wars" cartoon.  "Ha, Ha, Ha! My devious plan of ESCAPING is now complete!!"   --The "Wookie Army" sequence.. Was this really needed? Especially since there was no clear purpose for including it in the film (other than a lumsy point device to drag Yoda away from Coruscant before the Jedi Purge, of course), and no effective resolution onscreen.--The Emperor? Seriously rocks.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />--Anakin's turn to the Dark Side seemed (IMO) rather sudden, instead of a gradual build-up.  He essentially goes from a confused Padawan to a child-killing maniac in the space of one or two scenes.</blockquote>

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