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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lazybones" data-source="post: 2282090" data-attributes="member: 143">It looks like the consensus was that the movie was good to great. I gave it a 7, but after reading the posts here (and I think takyris makes great points), I think that my rating is conditional on the following assumptions: <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">If I hadn't recently seen Ep.1 and Ep.2 again, it probably would have been 6; and </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">If it hadn't been "Star Wars", and set in the context of Eps.4-6, it probably would have been a 5.</li> </ul>I guess I should explain my comment a bit. I agreed with takyris on almost all of his points; the dialogue, the fights, the illogical plot developments. My group's comments afterwards were mocks of the dialogue between Anakin and Padme, comments like, "So Anakin fell because he couldn't get a good OB-GYN," and so on. I thought it unconvincing that Anakin went from brooding youth (basically an okay guy, if full of himself) to slaughtering children in the course of an hour.  I also felt that there were too many "silly" bits in the serious action-drama scenes (pretty much anything featuring R2-D2 was like this), but I know that this is a Lucas hallmark so I let it slide. Some things were illogical enough to be distracting; the little droids that crawl over your ship cutting it up (why not just put a little bomb in them?), the "ray shields", the "high ground", the "lost the will to live".  I think I'll stop my list now before I talk myself down to takyris's 4.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />  I did appreciate the cool elements that made reference to events later in Ep.4, and I think they resolved everything well enough so that it all fit together in the context of the four movies. The special effects were great, the action pretty good.  But while I gave it a "C" mark, I can't call it a good movie. I won't be getting the DVD but I may watch it again on its broadcast premiere.</blockquote>

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