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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Testament" data-source="post: 2263276" data-attributes="member: 21833">George Lucas is a great storyteller.  Too bad he's such a bad film maker.Lets face it, Ian McDiarmid grabbed this film, and ran off with it in its entirety.  His wonderfully Mephistopheles-like performance as Palpatine was the best thing about this film, save the final confrontation between Obi-Wan and Anakin.My main beef is the same one with ALL 6 Star Wars films.  As Harrison Ford said "you can write this, but you can't say it!".  The dialogue is as stilted as ever, and while he might have improved by leaps and bounds with what he gave to Ewan McGregor and Hayden Christensen, poor Samuel L Jackson and Natalie Portman had NOTHING to work with whatsoever.  Once again, the character of Padme went to waste entirely, save to be the sacrificial lamb and mother of the twins.Like many others, I felt that the fatal moment, when Anakin sides with Palpatine against the Jedi, was quite weak.  The ceremony afterwards, and the interplay between the manipulative senator and the hopelessly misguided young Anakin were fantastic, but that moment needed to be convincing.  It wasn't.My other big beef is that the pacing and structure is terrible, not as bad as AotC, but still an annoyance.  In the middle of an exciting section, they cut to scheming or Anakin/Padme, and completely ruin the moment, rather than letting anything run its course.  It is way too short for the amount Lucas is trying to cover, and could easily do with an extra hour.And am I the only one who found the scene where Vader undergoes his cybernetic metamorphosis into Darth Vader to be PURE Frankenstein?</blockquote>

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