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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dark Jezter" data-source="post: 2261806" data-attributes="member: 1015">Like John Crichton, I gave this movie a 10.  Not only is this the best of the prequels, but it could very possibly be my favorite Star Wars movie yet.[SPOILERS BELOW]Things I loved: <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Artoo kicking much ass.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Chewbacca making a cameo, and seeing the wookies going to war.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Watching Palpatine manipulate Anakin into believing that the Jedi Council is using him and that the Dark Side of the force could solve his problems.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The Sith naming ceremony after Anakin assists Darth Sideous in killing Mace Windu.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The execution of Order 66: when the clone troopers suddenly stop and turn their fire upon the Jedi knights whom had been fighting with them side-by-side.  And the scene where Anakin finds the children hiding in the Jedi temple was absolutely chilling.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Obi-Wan and Yoda sending off the signal warning the Jedi to stay away from Coruscant; meaning that it's possible that they aren't the only Jedi who survived the purges.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The Corellian Corvette making an appearance, and Bail Organa being an overall awesome character.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Yoda casually walking in and taking out the Emperor's red-cloaked guards with merely a wave of his hand.  Hilarious. <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/laugh.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":lol:" title="Laughing    :lol:" data-shortname=":lol:" /></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The duel between Anakin and Obi-Wan interspliced with the battle between Yoda and the Emperor.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The sad, defeated look on Yoda's face when he admits that he's failed to stop Palpatine and he must go into exile.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Darth Vader being placed into his suit, and his anguished howl when he learned that killing the Jedi and embracing the dark side of the force failed to save Padme (and ultimately caused her death, as it's implied that she died from a broken heart caused by Anakin's fall to evil).</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The final conversation between Obi-Wan and Yoda.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Grand Moff Tarkin having a tiny cameo at the end.  It never says his name, but the resemblance is so strong that it couldn't have been anyone else. <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=":)" /></li> </ul>All in all, I loved it.  There were a few things I would have liked to have seen that weren't included, though: <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">I would have liked to see the formation of the Rebel Alliance, or at the very least a scene with Padme, Bail Organa, Mon Mothama, and other individuals who aren't happy with Palpatine's formation of the Galactic Empire agreeing that he must be stopped.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">I also would have liked to see some mention of Han Solo.  Virtually every other major character from the original trilogy has been mentioned in one way or another in the prequels, so why not Han?  (Hopefully the Episode III DVD will have a deleted scene that mentions Han, just as Episode I DVD had a deleted scene that featured a young Greedo)</li> </ul></blockquote>

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