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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Warrior Poet" data-source="post: 2294607" data-attributes="member: 1057">7I was gonna vote 6, but decided that the fun nostalgia factor was enough for 6.5 and I rounded up, even though D&D doesn't, thus shaking mathematics to its foundations.  Well, maybe not.Overall, not too bad a film, definitely better than I and II, and a fine way to end the whole series, as far as I'm concerned.One of the things I liked overall was the nods to the earlier (that is to say, later, <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f615.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":confused:" title="Confused    :confused:"  data-smilie="5"data-shortname=":confused:" /> ?) films.  I liked seeing how the ships were going to evolve, I liked the corridor of the corvette/blockade runner that was Organa's ship.  I liked seeing a young Tarkin, I liked seeing the gantry that became so famous later.  I liked the red imperial guard armor (actually, my favorite part of the movie is Yoda walking into Palpatine's chamber.  I always thought the imperial guard looked so cool, even though I never saw them do anything, and I loved that it takes 1 second to show how much more significant Yoda is.  Nice job, George!  THAT'S what we mean when we say, "Show, don't tell").  Nice to see Chewbacca (who did, basically, nothing as far as I can tell.  Did I miss something?  Sure, there was some Kashyyk battle shown, but I didn't recognize Chewy until the specific Yoda comment.  I understand the wookies got cut for length of film, but why are the wookies always gettin' dumped on?  Here's an 8 ft. sentient kodiak with opposable thumbs, intricate mechanical knowledge, and precision shooting ability, and Han orders him around like a step'n'fetchit, chiding him for pulling this apart now when they're trying to get out of here?  Blood stripes?  You wanna see blood stripes, little man?  And stuck putting 3PO back together, who later shouts at him to finish when there are clearly more important things to do?  Why does Chewy get all the abuse?  The more I think about it, why haven't the wookies taken over the galaxy?)But I digress.I liked the lightsaber fights for the most part (including the Grievous lightsaber pinwheel, and how cool about it Obi-Wan was, when all I could think was, "Now, how the hell is he gonna get around that?").  I liked Palpatine throwing balcony box seats at Yoda -- very evil, and I liked Yoda handling it, very calm, and sad.I thought the hardest part was Yoda, actually, and it made me sad to see him sad, like everything he knew and thought and was wise about was crumbling around him despite his wisdom.  It was especially poignant when he could sense the other jedi dying.  A nice touch, and made me love the little green guy even more.  Can't be easy to live 900 years.  See a lot of good, but a lot of pain, too.There was some bad acting, but then there always is.  However, my biggest peeve is Vader's cry.  There was so much great stuff leading up to that, like the lowering of the mask, and Anakin's terrified expression, and the oh-so-brief glimpse of how Vader sees through that mask, and then that first iconic breath.  I really thought the telekinetic rage was awesome, and I wished it had finished with that.  Just silence, crushed steel, and the dark figure standing still in his hate.  I liked that he stumbled, getting used to his new body, but the yell seemed undignified for a Sith lord (I know, he wasn't a Sith lord yet).My all time favorite Vader moment in all the movies isn't his revelation to Luke, or his lightsaber fights, or his breathing, or the remote-controlled asphyxiation.  It's a tiny, miniscule moment in Empire.  The empire has captured Echo Base, and are invading.  The door to the control room blows open, and in rush two stormtroopers, followed immediately by the Dark Lord of the Sith ahead of all the other troops.  At the front lines, Vader is RIGHT THERE.  The generals aren't, and I didn't even see any other officers.  The reason Vader isn't first through the door is he isn't running like the stormtroopers, and that's because Darth Vader doesn't run for anybody.  That moment solidified, for me, Darth Vader as the baddest bad man in the galaxy.  I know he hadn't evolved to that point in Ep. III yet, but the cry of "NOOOOO!" just felt silly to me.Wow.  How did this turn into a rant?  Uh, so, uh, anyway, a 7.Warrior Poet</blockquote>

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