Rate Revenge of the Sith *SPOILERS*

[Mystery Man]

Agree 100%, absolutely.

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[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

Who says the person portraying her has to be the same?

Well, the 'actress' Amy Allen is the one who pretty much started the whole "Aayla doesn't die" thing...but, she pretty clearly does.

Shaak Ti does, too, but her scene being cut down by Anakin in the Jedi Temple was cut from the movie. Hopefully it'll be on the DVD.

 

[Numion]

First of all, big thumbs down to Krug for starting thread too much in advance, and resulting in the first pages being uninformative chatter. Sorry.

Just came back from watching the movie, and I rated it an 8. Good scenery and action, but at points lacking acting and plot. Anas turning to dark side was a little unbelievable.

Best scene: when Anakin enters the room with the young jedi trainees and turns on his lightsabre

 

[CrusaderX]

Well, the 'actress' Amy Allen is the one who pretty much started the whole "Aayla doesn't die" thing...but, she pretty clearly does.

Right. The dead characters really are dead. I'm sure people can come up with improbable explanations as to why Aayla might be alive, but if that's the case, all deaths can be explained away, from Mace (we never saw the body) to Padme herself (the "dying of a broken heart" was an obvious sham, and she faked her own death and burial to hide from Vader and the Emperor...).

I think it's best to let dead characters stay dead, like the story intended, until an official source clearly says otherwise.

 

[Numion]

It seems Lucas included some political commentary. Democracy rarely dies to sounds of protest, but to the sounds of roaring applauds.

I kinda expected Vader to say in the final scene "Sooo .. Palpy, you really think this massive battlestation is such a good idea?"

 

[wingsandsword]

It seems Lucas included some political commentary. Democracy rarely dies to sounds of protest, but to the sounds of roaring applauds.

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.

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

Saw it an liked it. It's definitely the best of the prequels, though I think it falls short of the originals -- ESB at the least.

Things that bugged me:

- Padme falling apart so easily, after all the strength she portrayed in the first two movies.
- Stilted dialog between Anakin and Padme
- The rushed transition of Anakin to the Dark Side. Though we see the temptation building, his transition from "No, don't kill Palpatine" to committing mass murder -- in a matter of minutes -- was a bit rushed.
- Continuity issues:

-- Obiwan's age
-- Fighting styles (nothing to be done about that, in retrospect, but why was the original Vader/Kenobi fight so stilted? Obiwan wouldn't be old enough, per the timeline)
-- Padme's death is a disconnect with the later series. When Luke and Leia are having the discussion about their mother(s), Luke says "I have no memory of my mother", while Leia remembers her as dying when she was small; she was "stong, but sad". I expected Padme to live on for a bit with Leia before dying of grief. Or are they supposed to be talking about Mrs. Organa
-- Flying, fighting R2D2. As much as he kicks ass in this movie, they don't explain where it all went to.
-- Anakin tallks about the Republic, then the Empire two sentences later (though he wasn't around for the ammouncement of the Galactic Empire).

I did like all the foreshadowing of the future movies ... from the stormtrooper development, to the starship evolution, to Obiwan picking up Anakin's lightsaber, and the ending with Owen & Beru looking out at the setting Tatooine suns.

 

[EricNoah]

Great stuff --- much better than anticipated. My stomach's still in knots nearly an hour later. Worth repeat viewings. Acting was much improved all around, dialogue was a little more natural, and action was spectacular. Misses the overall perfection of ESB, but what could really match that? Give it a 9.

 

[Trickstergod]

Right. The dead characters really are dead. I'm sure people can come up with improbable explanations as to why Aayla might be alive, but if that's the case, all deaths can be explained away, from Mace (we never saw the body) to Padme herself (the "dying of a broken heart" was an obvious sham, and she faked her own death and burial to hide from Vader and the Emperor...).

I think it's best to let dead characters stay dead, like the story intended, until an official source clearly says otherwise.

And sadly, that tends to be exactly what the Expanded Universe stuff does. Boba Fett? Not dead. The Emperor? Didn't die during Return of the Jedi.

Suffice to say, I don't much like some of the Expanded Universe stuff. Rubbish, I say.

However, while I am aware of Shaak-Ti's cut death scene, I do have some minor, fan-boy hope that its cut is partially because it was decided for the character to live and wind up in the TV series.

Go, go, fan-boy geekery. Heh.

 

[RedShirtNo5]

As it was I was reduced to a bunch of muttered, "no way" and "holy &%$#" comments.

Funny, this may be a reason that I gave it relatively low rating (6), same as AotC. I saw it this morning, and the guy next too me was muttering and commenting non-stop. Really spoiled it, making it difficult to get into and just watch and experience. If I can see it again with better theater and fewer distractions, it might go to a 7 or 8. Or it might not.

-RedShirt