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Message: <blockquote data-quote="John Crichton" data-source="post: 2260533" data-attributes="member: 4779">Spoilers Abound!SPOILERS, PEOPLE!!!I'm going to have to give it a 10.Does this mean that it is better than or equal to the quality of A New Hope or Empire Strikes Back? No, it certainly doesn't. It is good for it's own reasons. The only problems that I could have had with it fall in the dialogue area but there are exposititory scenes in ALL the Star Wars movies that I could do without so I cannot hold those moments against this film.It should also be noted that I am biased. Very biased, in fact because there are some hard core geek-out moments that are so good that they make the film all that much more enjoyable. Will these moments stand the test of time like Eps 4/5, I dunno. But things like seeing Captain Antilles onscreen, Anakin and Obi-wan saying goodbye for the last time, the Sith naming cerimony and things like that are just too cool. If I was a girl, I would have been squealing. As it was I was reduced to a bunch of muttered, "no way" and "holy &%$#" comments.Palpatine's machinations were brilliant. Every time he was onscreen, especially with Anakin, there was the perfect sense of dread and deception that there needs to be in order for the character and plot to work. I really felt that Anakin was trying to do the right thing for most of the first 1/3 of the movie. But his emotions blinded him, just like they should.All the backplot that we know about from the original trilogy was played out very nicely. When I saw the Corellian Corvette for the first time I freaked. Then the interior shot. Too cool. Of course, the first real good OT vibe was the "lock S-foils into attack position" line in the first few minutes. Really helped make it feel like Star Wars.I'd go into more drool moments like the duels, the Jedi Purge (OMG!!!), Yoda in general and other action scenes but it would just be that. I must make mention of the final moment of Obi-wan and Anakin's duel. The fight was over and Anakin, cocky and full of power thinks he can out-power his former master. He leaps and gets his friggin legs hacked off, defeating himself. It's funny, but Obi-wan never really beat him in that fight. He beat himself. I thought that was great and right on-pitch with the characters. Well done.Okay, enough gushing and on to the parts that didn't sit right with me.Padme dying. I'm actually ok with it but Leia's line in Jedi about remembering her mother resonates differently now. She is remembering a foster mom at that point and not their shared mother. I guess her death has more dramatic weight but it did irk me a bit. Not enough to ruin or lessen the movie, but it still felt odd.The senate all clapping upon annoucement that the Rupblic was dead and now an Empire. At the time it made no sense, but upon further reflection it is safe to assume that Palpatine has manipulated enough allies into place to make the senate completely loyal to him. It didn't feel right while watching it but after a conversation afterwards I'm okay with it.And those were really the only points of the movie that didn't work for me. More may pop up on future viewings and the film may not hold up like the greats of the series but right now I am pumped. Episode 3 was dark, depressing, filled with meaningful action and overall a perfect bow to knot the movies together.And Lucas was right: The first trilogy was certainly more interesting. Actual war is much more entertaining than a political war. If he started the story with Episode I, the rest of the films wouldn't have happened.</blockquote>

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