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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WayneLigon" data-source="post: 2260528" data-attributes="member: 3649">Just got back from seeing it at a midnight showing. I give it a 6. It tries, but... doesn't quite pull things together. Things are good up until Palpatine force-lightnings Mace Windu, then... things kind of slowly fall apart. The entire end of the film feels somewhat disjoined and anticlimatic. We're not left with a sense that everything everyone has worked for has gone terribly wrong and is going to stay wrong for a very long time. No, it ends with swelling upbeat hopefull-for-the-future music and golden sunsets and you know things are going to turn out OK.There are good patches but like the other prequels at the end of the day they're just patches. The opening battle, which takes place minutes after the animated microseries ends, is nice. The ruin of Dooku, the banter between Anakin and Obi-Wan, all of it was pretty darn cool. The maneuverings of the Council and the Chancellor are cool, as you see the gradual slide towards ruin building and building.  Where things started to lose focus for me was where the Chancellor reveals himself to Anakin as a Sith Lord. I.. don't quite beleive the whole period there. To me, there should have been more manipulation, more of a sense that Palpatine has everything under control and has taken every possible action into account as he maneuvers Anakin to take that one last step into the abyss. The whole bit with Padme just seems hamfisted. We see far too little of the Wookies. The end of the Jedi, I didn't find any fault with that. Unprepared, caught by surprise, and few of them are the equal of ours heroes to begin with... yeah, I have no problems with that.  The last fight is good.  We see far too little of Vader after the armor comes on. I don't find the bit with Palpatines little revelation at all convincing.  There are little touches here and there. We see Alderan but far too briefly. We find out how Obi-Wan and Yoda cheat death and do the disappearing thing, but it comes totally the hell out of left feild at the last minute. We find out kinda sorta how the Emperor comes to look the way he does, but that I don't understand at all unless it's Mace Windu's blocking the lightning that causes what we see. I might could buy that. We see the Death Star already (it looks) about half-way done. There could be many, many reasons why it takes them 19 years to complete the other half. I think all in all it's much like the other prequels, with the same amount of like and dislike. Maybe I'll feel better or worse about the film tomorrow, but that's how I feel now at 3:30 in the morning <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=":)" /></blockquote>

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