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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chain Lightning" data-source="post: 2272889" data-attributes="member: 6791">Sorry folks, I didn't read all of the posts on all of the pages.I gave the movie a 5.I like the ideas behind the broader plot points. I like most of the visuals. However, Lucas' writing and directing (and even editing) is still very amateurish. I'll start listing some negative points about the movie, but I don't think I can list them all. It would take a very very large post.The action was badly written and most times badly filmed/choreograhed. Obi Wan and Anakin enter Grievous' flagship and everytime they encounter some battle droids, none of them shoot the Jedis when they have the drop on them. They all seem to want to "capture" them instead. I hate story devices like the ray shield. Just a convenient containment shield that happens to be there when the writer needs it.  Man, how annoying and expensive would it be to build this ship? You gotta put a ray shield emitter every 10' just in case! Okay, let's say this ship is special and it does have ray shields available everywhere.....why is it then that they aren't used on the Jedi right away?I actually like the fight choreography of most of the fights. Its just too bad that most of the time (like in final duel between Obi Wan and Anakin) that its too dark or too close to see it properly. And the final ending to the Obi Wan/Anakin duel was badly written. Anakin jumps at enemies several times through the film and never has been cut out of the sky on the way in. And yet......Obi Wan says, "I have the highground" .... and now he can't do it without getting cut down anymore? How does being a few feet higher matter at all to someone as skilled as Anakin? One, he can jump even higher jedi style to compensate, or ...two, not jump at all and simply step down off hover droid and onto beach edge two feet away...and then resume fight. Poor ending there...very poor.The Obi Wan vs. Grievous fight.....think we all have said this already, but Cartoon Network did Grievous better. Or, if Lucas wanted Grievous to be close to the movie version, he should've told the CN guys not too make Greivous so scary and skilled.Also don't like it when someone needs to go look at security camera footage and they seem to get a look at what they need to see so easily. Not everything was tied up neatly. If an element requires a fanboy to make up his/her own excuse/theory, then Lucas didn't do a good job. Talking about Vader and the droids, Leia and her memories of her mother, etc, etc.The movie also didn't convey the passage of time properly either. Padme goes from being newly pregnant to ...near end of her term in what seems to be only about a week or so of time. The way it is written and edited, you can't tell how much time passes between each whipe. Lucas didn't write any dialogue or other elements to help the viewer get a firm sense of this. Not to go back to the Clone Wars animated show too often, but they did it fairly well there. even though they only had 12 minutes to work with, the episode where Anakin and Obi wan are away on campaign is a well done example of how to convey passage of time. Obi Wan is in a trench shelter and a clone trooper reports that they'll have the enemy shields down in a few more months. Then Obi Wan says something like, "But we've been here for 2 months"..and trooper responds with, "Yes, sir...we're right on schedule". That scene made me aware that "x" amount of time has passed since Anakin and Obi Wan have been at the warfront. No scenes like that were in Episode III.Anyways, there's much more I can bring up , but I'll cut it off here for now. I enjoyed the eye candy when i was able to take it in, but for the most part, its still a sloppy movie like Episode I and II.Side note: Wasn't Mon Mothma supposed to be in this movie? I saw the Millenium Falcon, but I didn't see Mon Mothma anywhere.</blockquote>

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