My Thoughts During RotS [SPOILERS]

[Vocenoctum]

I guess I'm one of the few that found very little to redeem this movie.

R2 with the oil slick?

I guess one of the biggest things for me with this movie is the total lack of suspense. I mean, the things that are designed as tense moments...

Yoda lives, Obi-Wan lives, Palp and Vader live... these things we know. Vader's quest to bring peace and save Padme? Maybe with a better actor, I'd care.

Vader killing the children?

The fact the Jedi are all killed by Clone Troopers, it just lacked. I thought Grievous and/or Vader were Jedi Hunters, but whatever.

It looked to me like Palpatine was CGI'd for the lightsaber duels, and all the lightsaber duels looked blurred and rushed. Nothing like the original trilogy's, let alone Maul's fight.

Space battles were horrible, they weren't exciting enough to not notice the Physics Engine was broken. The little cutter droids were just lame.

Grievous' rasping breathing... then he escapes into space? Does he breath or not?

Yoda going to fight Palp, ugh.

Vader balancing on the little droid to fight over the lava. I guess that little droid has a "Jedi Battle" subroutine that directs him to keep close to the opponent when being ridden by a Jedi.
Sure that doesn't explain Obi-Wan's control of the platform, but I guess both are just chalked up to the Force.

I also thought Padme looked bad in this movie. Her face was flushed, the makeup looked more clown like than her Ep 1 stuff. She was pregnant, sure. Even after having the kids and dying, she was still quite swollen. It would have been fun to have folks spreading rumors about how Padme got knocked up. Everyone knew she was pregnant, but no one knew of the marriage?

Yeah, anyway.

I enjoyed Yoda knocking the two guards out, but otherwise only the lone Jedi from the academy gave even a bit of thrill.

Frankly, I can't understand what people liked. The pacing was bad, the CGI was mediocre, except the Lizard, which was abysmal and insulting. The acting was bad, the plot predestined, no tension, only revulsion.

 

[Vocenoctum]

Hello,
did anyone notice the grav stretcher that Anakin was carried in after losing his legs in the fight with Obi-Wan? Despite him losing about half of his legs, the stretcher is a snug fit?! Is it adjustable in length (and for what puprose if so) or did they pick a stretcher meant for some other, shorter race than humans?

They couldn't figure out how to cover it and keep their patient out of the rain either.

Medical technology sure was primitive a Long Time Ago.

 

[Viking Bastard]

Yeah, this is even explained in the Clone Wars cartoon. When Greivous is dueling/training with Dooku, Dooku says that Greivous is a good lightsaber fighter, but that he'll have to be even better to take on someone like Obi-Wan.

Also, I took it as a de-powered Greivous. With the coughing and all. Mace Windu had force
crushed him shortly before (in the CW cartoons). He was not in primary condition. He was
already hurt.

 

[Viking Bastard]

I say it was incompetence on the medical droid's part. Damn MD unit couldn't diagnose, so it made up some story about "losing the will to live". Or something like that.

It's an insurance thing.

If the MD can't diagnose properly it's programmed to say that to negate any incompetence claims.

 

[Cthulhudrew]

And on the note of Yoda's "miss you I will" to Chewie...that's a completely different thing than missing someone AFTER DEATH. He's telling Anakin to let go of people and accept that death is a natural part of life. To Chewie, he's just saying goodbye, not telling him he's dead.

Except that Padme wasn't dead yet, either. That's like saying, "well, everyone's going to die sometime, might as well accept it and let go of them now." Which doesn't seem all that nice to me. If the Jedi really feel that way, why bother being the champions of life, anyway? Makes them sound like Bleakers- or is it Dustmen?

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

Except that Padme wasn't dead yet, either. That's like saying, "well, everyone's going to die sometime, might as well accept it and let go of them now." Which doesn't seem all that nice to me. If the Jedi really feel that way, why bother being the champions of life, anyway? Makes them sound like Bleakers- or is it Dustmen?

Anakin never said who he was talking about. Anakin said he saw someone close to him die. Yoda told him not to miss the dead. Why? Because you HAVE to let go. Its a simple part of life, and then add in the Force, if you don't let go you're doomed to fall to the Dark Side. So its even MORE important that Jedi learn to let go and accept certain things as the way life works.

Anakin never could, which was the root of his problem.

With Chewie, Yoda simply said goodbye. It had nothing to do with death at all. There's a difference between saying "Miss not the dead." and "Goodbye, miss you I will." One is accepting an inevitability in the way life works, and the other is simply acknowledging a friendship in a farewell.

 

[John Crichton]

Except that Padme wasn't dead yet, either. That's like saying, "well, everyone's going to die sometime, might as well accept it and let go of them now." Which doesn't seem all that nice to me. If the Jedi really feel that way, why bother being the champions of life, anyway? Makes them sound like Bleakers- or is it Dustmen?

Yes, it does sound cold, but that's the point. The Jedi are all without strong attachments to loved ones. It's pretty obvious that none of them can relate to Anakin and his strong emotions for his mom and wife. Add in that none of them know he is married or in love. They are simply speaking of the teachings they live by. Bottom line is that Anakin should have never been trained as a Jedi. Obi-wan never wanted to do it. He did it as a last request to his dying master. Which essentially doomed the Jedi.

 

[Dagger75]

Medical Technology sure is bad, Yeah they have FTL travel, repulsors stuff but there healcare system is weak.

I mean TODAY we can re-attach limbs. Them, nope, easier to replace. People dying in childbirth. We have brought back people who have been dead for 30 minutes or more. And poor Anakin, I hope they at least removed the bruned cloths that where melted onto him. Maybe having an annoying septic itch for the rest of your life will make mad and evil.

 

[Flexor the Mighty!]

Medical Technology sure is bad, Yeah they have FTL travel, repulsors stuff but there healcare system is weak.

I mean TODAY we can re-attach limbs. Them, nope, easier to replace. People dying in childbirth. We have brought back people who have been dead for 30 minutes or more. And poor Anakin, I hope they at least removed the bruned cloths that where melted onto him. Maybe having an annoying septic itch for the rest of your life will make mad and evil.

I'd rather have good quality bionic/cyborg replacement limbs that the originals myself. Have you ever seen the 6 million dollar man?

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

I'd rather have good quality bionic/cyborg replacement limbs that the originals myself. Have you ever seen the 6 million dollar man?

On that note, how much do you think poor Vader is worth? Considering how painful it looked, I think the Emperor went with the cheapest options...