Rate Revenge of the Sith *SPOILERS*

[Flexor the Mighty!]

Going to see it again tonight. Can't wait! GL must have more of my money! HE MUST!

As for the high ground, I think it was more a matter of Anakin having no where else to go but straight at Obi-Wan which give Obi the decisive advantage since he was in prime position to do what he did and it would be tough for Anakin to avoid. But Anakin's arrogance was too much and he lept to his doom. I didn't have any problems with that scene myself.

 

[Gentlegamer]

Going to see it again tonight. Can't wait! GL must have more of my money! HE MUST!

As for the high ground, I think it was more a matter of Anakin having no where else to go but straight at Obi-Wan which give Obi the decisive advantage since he was in prime position to do what he did and it would be tough for Anakin to avoid. But Anakin's arrogance was too much and he lept to his doom. I didn't have any problems with that scene myself.

Didn't Darth Maul have the high ground over Obi-Wan in TPM?

 

[mojo1701]

Didn't Darth Maul have the high ground over Obi-Wan in TPM?

Yeah, but Maul didn't see it coming.

 

[Flexor the Mighty!]

Didn't Darth Maul have the high ground over Obi-Wan in TPM?

Yep. But unlike Obi-Wan, Maul pretty relaxed and said to himself, "I win, now I'll torment this jerk and wallow in my victory over the hated Jedi". Where as I think Obi-Wan, who was on the giving end of that chopping, knew to keep his guard up and be prepared for Anakin lest he suffer Maul's fate. Obi-Wan learned his lession on Naboo, don't assume the fight is over.

 

[mmu1]

I'm just grateful it's finally over. No more hoping for the best even though I should know better.

It wasn't a horrible movie - all things considered (given that it's an action movie) I'd even rate it as a bit above average... However, I'm not about to give it a free pass just because it's Star Wars - and Episode III, like the prequels, actually detract from Star Wars as a whole.

I never wanted to know that the Clone Wars were a tedious political squabble, that the embodiment of evil that was the Emperor used to be a politician who got the senate to vote him in as a dictator, that Darth Vader used to be an annoying kid, or that Yoda inexplicably quit in the middle of the most important fight of his life and fled into exile.

All these things used to have mystique - now they've been rendered boring and mundane.

The Clone Wars are a joke - CGI robots and stormtroopers shooting at each other in scenes that look like something straight out of a bad RTS game - because Starcraft units, for example, used to have more personality. Not to mention the absurd idea that the Republic, with the blessing of the Jedi Order, apparently had no problems with sending a slave army of expendable clones into battle. Or that a single planet - so marginal that hardly anyone even heard it existed - was capable of producing an army large enough to fight a war on behalf of a republic that spanned thousands of worlds. Or... Well it's easy to get off on a tangent here.

Bottom line is, I learned virtually nothing about these characters and events that I wanted to, and a whole lot that I didn't, and I'd have been much happier if these prequels had never been made.

 

[mmu1]

Didn't Darth Maul have the high ground over Obi-Wan in TPM?

Yes, but Maul stepped into a plothole and twisted his ankle.

 

[Flexor the Mighty!]

I never wanted to know that the Clone Wars were a tedious political squabble, that the embodiment of evil that was the Emperor used to be a politician who got the senate to vote him in as a dictator, that Darth Vader used to be an annoying kid, or that Yoda inexplicably quit in the middle of the most important fight of his life and fled into exile.

I loved that part of the prequals. The story of how a Republic embraces tyranny out of fear of a threat fabricated to accomplish just that. I thought it was an excellent plot by GL in that regard.

 

[mmu1]

I loved that part of the prequals. The story of how a Republic embraces tyranny out of fear of a threat fabricated to accomplish just that. I thought it was an excellent plot by GL in that regard.

It'd have been an ok plot in and of itself, but it was horribly executed (George needs to tell us in the opening scroll in Episode III that there' are "heroes on both sides" - his ability to show it is nonexistent) and a completely unfitting beginning to what is basically a fantasy epic of Good vs. Evil...

Not really surprising, given that the man actually has one of his Jedi characters say something like "Only the Sith deal in absolutes" at a climactic moment (I guess Yoda is just a crusty old conservative with all that "Do or do not, there is no try!" stuff...), but it's jarring and out of place.

 

[Brother Shatterstone]

Not really surprising, given that the man has one of his Jedi characters say "Only the Sith deal in absolutes" at a climactic moment (I guess Yoda is just a crusty old conservative with all that "Do or do not, there is no try!" stuff...), but it's jarring and out of place.

I didn't see it out of place. I thought it fit the mood and the story. Love the story of the Republic falling, I thought it could use more screen time but since you have to make a movie to the lowest common denominator that its something you see in the book more than on screen.

 

[Klaus]

On the "heroes on both sides" thing:

How can there be heroes if the separatists' army is made up by driods?