Dialouge throughout the movie could have been better. some parts were fine, others were terrible. Obi wan seemed to lack emotion in some parts. The action was great, except the battle with grievous was lacking. The jedi should have put up more of a fight when they were all killed.
Revenge of the Nerds/Sith
Yeah, the Jedi needed to fight back more. Yoda was the only one who really defended himself...
True... but with that surprise attack, they were pretty confused and taken with their guard down...
...but still, they're frickin' Jedi's. (Go Yoda.)
Ki-Adi Mundi fought back. However, Jedi are not invincible. A dozen clones against a heretofore unsuspecting Jedi is not a good matchup.
Good point. The Jedi were taken rather off-guard. It was so sad to see everyone die...
No it wasn't. It was glorious seeing the Sith gain total control.
Now what was sad was seeing both Death Stars explode. I almost can't watch them sometimes.
I thought it was good, but the ending was a little unsatisfying I thought. For instnace, when Yoda tells Obi-Wan that he'll be albe to talk to Qui-Gon again... I dunno what the point of that was. Was it to serve as that final sting of irony that Anakin could have learned the same skill to talk to Padme if she died, or was it just a cool thing to know. I dunno.
I feel they tried to cover too large a time period with only three movies. But still, this was the best of the prequels. The acting wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be. I loved it in spite of its shortcomings.
The whole Qui-Gon thing was supposed to explain why Obi-Wan and Yoda return as ghosts in the original trilogy. Originally in Ep. III there was supposed to be a scene where Yoda would talk to Qui-Gon's ghost and learn the secret to "eternal life in the Force" or something weird like that.
AlexMax wrote:Plus the amount of exposure Episode 3 has been getting in the media is just sickening. I do not need to fucking hear about it every tenth commercial, every special on TV, it was even on NPR this morning. Good grief, just let the festering corpse rot in peace already.
Tell me about it! I'm sick of seeing Episode III commercials too. I cannot wait till it dies down.
I saw the movie on monday and commented on it in this thread: http://www.armageddongames.net/showpost.php?p=1011672&postcount=34 - in short, the movie was pretty disappointing, and Hayden Christensen is one of the worst actors I've ever seen.
I started watching episode IV-VI on DVD the other night, and the magnitude of GOOD actors is much welcome after seeing Episode III.
I saw it on Thusrday and I loved it.
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I like how in the beginning all the ships are early models of what are in the original trilogy. Also I liked the ironic ending. Where Anakin joins that dark side to save Padme but that's what takes her will to live. Absolutely ingenious. It's also strange how Anakin does end up fulfilling to prophecy and brings balence to the force. The way all the movies affect each other is just, wow!
Well, I've seen it twice now and I loved it both times. The second time I saw it, I picked up on little things I missed the first time I saw it. I think it's truely the best Star Wars Episode made because it finally answers (to me anyway) HOW and WHY Anakin turned to the Dark Side. Firstly, for LOVE and secondly, for POWER/GREED!
I think they could have made Anakin appear more powerful! Afterall, he was apparently conceived BY THE FORCE and had the highest "Midichlorian" count EVER SEEN (even more than Master Yoda). Based on that, he should have been able to kick Obi-One's butt, even though Obi-One was more experienced. Hadn't he saved Obi-One's butt 9-10 times or so???
Anyway, movies will always be subjective. I loved it! Well done George Lucas!
The part where the emperor owns Sam Jackson was BAD ASS.
I've seen it three times now. It refuses to get any less cool. It's just the best!
I have finally gotten around to seeing it. I will post my very nitpicky impressions, and there could possibly be a few SPOILERS, so I caution you not to read if you haven't seen it yet.
The movie had it's ups and downs. The good parts were pretty good, but the bad parts were really bad. Here is what I liked:
The points that moved the plot along, like the Jedi massacre, Mace getting his ass whopped, and the very end where Vader gets mutilated I thought were the best of this movie. They really worked well, and actually felt somewhat epic and deserving of the original trilogy.
There were a few funny moments in the movie that maybe weren't supposed to be. Certainly not when the movie tried to be. Seeing Yoda send Palpatine head over heals into his chair was worth the price of admission alone. That got a good chuckle out of me.
And here is what I didn't like:
The acting. My God. I don't know who said there was only a little bad acting, but they must not know bad acting when they see it. There are so many scenes that ruined any momentum that the movie had going. Hayden and Natalie especially. I thought Hayden would be the worse of the two, but Natalie actually suprised me in how bad she was. Sometimes it's the fault of the actors. Sometimes it's the fault of the writing. Sometimes its both. But I'd say the movie is about half and half with the acting.
The first third of the movie bored me to tears with it's political crap. Sure, it might be needed to advance the story. But not much of an effort was made to make it entertaining. The original trilogy didn't have that much of this.
R2D2 was made out to be a little too superhero-ish, and it bothered me. There was stuff that he did that he never did in any of the other movies, and it just didn't fit.
Grievous just... sucked. I don't know what people thought was so cool about him. So he wields 4 lightsabers. Yay for him. He just came off as ridiculous and goofy. The movie might have been better without him.
The appearance of the wookies also seemed pointless. Sure, seeing Chewie was cool, but the whole wookie thing didn't serve that much purpose in the plot. It could have been done another way without giving some half-assed role to the wookies.
That annoying thing that Obi-wan rode. It was so obnoxious. My g/f and I cheered when it was killed.
And last but not least, the two fanboys sitting behind us. One of the little fanboys keps whispering to the other little fanboy what was going to happen next, and I heard every word of it. Plus, they had to comment on EVERYTHING. I never wanted to pulverize fanboys so much in my entire life.
Anyway, overall, the food parts of the movie set it at the best of the new trilogy. But the best movie in the entire saga? Not even close...