Star Wars Spoiler Thread

[tricsterpriest]

If you want to say how cool everything was, post in this thread, because here we'll be free to post spoilers. Don't read this if you haven't seen the movie.

 

[RangerWickett]

Whoo! Alright, I'll admit there was no chemistry between Amidala and Anakin at first, but at the end I honestly think it came across as if they cared for each other. Since that was the main thing I was worried about, and it wasn't nearly as bad as I was expecting it to be, I'm incredibly pleased with the movie.

I went with a big group of friends, and we all thought it was incredible. Of course, we're all into Hong Kong Kung Fu action movies, so perhaps we were more dazzled by the combat than by the story, but just the pacing and storytelling in the action sequences was incredible. Hell, the whole audience began shouting, clapping, and cheering just when they saw Yoda's silhouette coming around the corner at the end with Dooku. We knew there was gonna be an ***-kicking coming.

And yay, they didn't kill off any of the main characters and turn them into clones! This movie was great (though not without its faults). It started okay (too bad Jar Jar wasn't on that ship that blew up, eh?), and hit a snag with the whole romance thing, but at the end, (and in all the scenes with Ewan MacGregor), I thought it was great.

Only drawback is that there goes the theory that Ben Kenobi is actually Anakin Skywalker, and Darth Vader is actually Obi-Wan. But that's no loss. I just wonder how well people who don't love action scenes will respond to the movie. There might not have been enough depth, but I thought the action scenes had no serious flaws.

Dare I say it? Aye, I shall:

It rocked.

 

[Geo]

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Yoda is very strong in the pimp. So is Anakin!! heh, no seriously, I loved the fact that Anakin was strong with the physical form of the force, much like he is as vader, and Oh-B-Wan, (how do you spell that) is much into the mental form of the Force, as he is in EPIV. Yoda, wow, how powerful is he, jeez. His force skills are amazing, yes we know he can lift large starfighters, but he can whip dark jedi's butts at Lightsaber combat. So who wants to bet good money that Boba Fett will help in the Jedi Purge? Also, Windu is kick ass, very samarai like. Overall, I feel that my money was spent for the scenes where the Jedi do stuff, Jango does stuff, the kick ass battle at the end, and the scene where Anakin loses it. Very powerful stuff. Also, real quick, did anyone else notice that Anakin really kicked the crap out of the insectoids? Instead of cutting off an arm or something, he cut them completely down the middle. Vicious. Also, I wonder where R2 loses his jet boosters. It really makes a lot of sense for him to have it, they are mechanic droids. Also, how cool was the asteroid fight scene? Kickback to Empire! phew, that's all I got for now.

 

[Corinth]

I'm in the throws of a dorkgasm. I'll rant about it later in depth, I hope, but for now I'll comment only a few things:

• Jar Jar's finally made into a truly tragic character when he takes to heart Padme's charge to him before she leaves Coruscant. This, coupled with his life-long ache for positive attention, makes his play into Palpatine's plans perfectly.
• Dooku's use of the truth as a weapon against the Jedi is both brilliant and truly evil, as he knew that Obi-Wan wouldn't believe him. This sort of villainy was missing in TPM.
• Realizing that Anakin's actions result, later on, in the death of the very people that his mother loved as her own children hit me something fierce.
• The clone army's use of the same rank and command scheme as the droid army of TPM, along with the use of Imperial insignia, shocked the hell out of me as I saw Yoda leading them into the fray.
• This film truly felt like the space operas of old. That is a very, very good thing and the crtics who say otherwise can go to hell.

 

[UD]

Everyone laughed when yoda did the almost matrix like thing with his hands and threw back his coat to reveal a lightsaber. but we were soon silenced and how to admit that yoda, is indeed, very powerful in the force, and size mattters not.

OMG!

Sorry I keep think of the film and all the little things like the empire like troops and vechicles.

The clever way in which Palpatine is throwing both sides on which he has a grasp against each other.

Anakin did bug me slightly, but he did make up for it, he does play anakins fall into the dark side exceptionally well.

 

[Gez]

Now that you've all seen how munchkin Yoda is, you'll be all playing gnomes, right ?

 

[KDLadage]

The critics can kiss my butt...

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I loved this film. This IS the return to the glory days of Star Wars. Some of the things I thought were truly exceptional:

• The relationship between Anakin and Padme. Yes, some have stated that the dialog was stilted. To me, it sounded like two children that were forced to grow up too soon trying to capture thier feelings in words that were beyond thier years. It was cliche? Yes. It was stiffly delivered? Yes. It was appropriate? Hell yes.
• Jango Fett and the storyling that leads to the creation of 'Bounty Hunter' Boba Fett -- this was rather odd for me. In fact, it is this whole story line that now makes the relationship between Darth Vader and Boba Fett make so much since in the later films. I always thought it odd that Boba was the only guy that could talk back to Vader and live through it... now I know why.
• Padme... like mother like daughter. Let's face it kids, the Princess of the original trilogy is a carbon copy of her mother. And this my friends, is a wonderful thing to see. It is also obvious they have the same taste in men -- they like the dark and dangerous types...
• Jar Jar... man, what can I say, but it is Jar Jar that seals the fate of the Republic, ushering in the new era of Empire. This makes his bafoonery in Ep-I all the more acceptable. And needed. You need to see how he is a kind-hearted but very foolish sort. He is. And it is exactly what Palpatine needed. He plays Jar Jar like a flute, and Jar Jar is all too willing to be played. Of course, he has no idea it's happening...
• Yoda... HOLY COW DUDE, this guy is one tough cookie. You have never seen anyone fight with the ferocity that he has. Nobody. They Master has more than earned that title.
• Mace Windu (Sam Jackson) is perfectly cast, perfectly written and perfectly played. He is the exact sort of Jedi Master I wuold aspire to be, if I were a character in the Star Wars movies.
• And the most amazing thing (IMHO): the admission that the Jedi Order are loosing thier ability to control the powers of the Force. This was something I did not see coming. It plays rather well into the whole "re-balance the force" story line. I am beginning to believe that Yoda not only wanted Anakin to fall, he was counting on it. Anakin is the Yin to the Galaxy-wide Jedi Order's Yang (I may have that backwards). I have to wonder if Yoda thought he could balance the force witht he creation of teh ultimate Dark Jedi and then dispose of him, after the Force was balanced -- and then lost control of his little plan... don't know, but we will see in a few years when Ep-III is released... and let me tell you, I simply cannot wait to see it already.

BTW: I saw the Midnight show... I will be seeing it again tonight (or tomorrow), and at least once more this weekend -- I have a lot of friends with conflicting schedules. And this one, I have no problems wanting to see it multiple times.

Like I said, this was a return to the glory days of Star Wars.

 

[Lady Starhawk]

I just got home from seeing it today.

The first hour? or so was fairly dull IMHO. About the point where Anakin and Padme get to Tatooine it finally started to gain more of my interest, but I didn't get truly entrapped in the story until they went to rescue Obi-Wan.

I liked the detective work Obi-Wan was doing and finding stuff out about Jango and the clones, but the "Dawson's Creek" episode intermixed in there I could have done without. I just didn't 'feel' it. The dialogue was akward and it was sometimes painful to watch. However I understand that their budding romance was important to show and for it to happen, but it didn't feel right.

I did like Hayden's "evil" look. I truly believed he was slipping to the dark side, and when he and Padme were talking about how the senate should be run it gave me shivers to hear him say that it should be a dictatorship. Even if now he has good intentions for all peoples, but it's creepy to think what he will become.

I loved Yoda. I also got kinda creeped out to see him ride in with the Stormtroopers. It kinda messes with your head to see the stormtroopers, and the star destroyers at the end as part of the Republic, knowing that they will be used for the empire. But when Yoda came around the corner after Obi and Anakin were down I sat up and took notice. The lightsaber battle was kinda odd, and I found myself wondering if I was watching Kermit the Frog, or Yoda. But the non-lightsaber stuff showed jsut how powerful Yoda was, and the fact that everyone was deferring to him during the whole movie.

It feels all too fitting that Jar-Jar was the one to give the Emperor his power over the senate. An innocent bumbling character with nothing but good intentions paved the way for the Empire to take control. So there was a reason for him to have been such a bumbling moron in the last movie, he had to be portrayed in such a way that it he wouldn't be able to be blamed for moving the Emperor into power.

The fact that the Death Star has already been planed was kinda creepy for me too.

3PO and R2 are soooo cool. IMHO it was the relationship that felt the most real in the whole movie. I wonder what happens to have R2 loose those rockets, it seems like they would have been handy in the other movies. 3PO's little jokes and comments were priceless and I found myself laughing my butt off, just at a point that the action was getting kinda intense. IT was great in that respect. There was some humor, and inside jokes if you're enough of a star wars geek to notice them (and I am).

So I would say it was better than Phantom Menace, but not nearly as good as the "original" triology. BUT I am reserving my final judgement until I have seen all 6 movies and have the whole picture.

Laters,
Lady Starhawk

 

[Ashrem Bayle]

First of all, I LOVED IT!

That said:

What I didn't like:

1. C3P0. He seemd dangerously close to becoming another Jar Jar to me. I didn't care for his one liners at all.
2. Anakin riding the animals. It just struck me as goofy the way he rode those things in the love scene.
3. Didn't show Anakin killing all those Tuskans. I was really excited to see him kick some butt, and then they cut away.
4. Some of the new species I didn't care for.

What I liked:

1. The "car" chase at the beginning.
2. Anakin fighting the insectoids.
3. Anakin using two lightsabers.
4. Most of the love scenes.
5. How they handled Shmi's death and her family.

What I loved:

1. YODA!
2. Anakin losing his arm. That was great.
3. The Stormtroopers.
4. YODA!
5. Jango & Boba Fet. I bet Lucas is kicking himself for having Boba die in such a lack-luster way in RotJ.
6. Mace Windu rocked.
7. YODA!
8. Seeing all the stardestroyers and the plans for the Deathstar.
9. Obi Won's line: "I swear your going to be the death of me."
10. Several other things I'm too excited to remember now.

And yes, seeing Yoda lead the Stormtroopers was kinda creepy.

I suddenly feel compelled to play a halfing psion in my next game.

 

[Ashrem Bayle]

-self censored-

I have no idea what Wolfspider wrote, but if my post set him off, then I feel it doesn't have a place here.

My apologies.