Revenge of the Sith was a shit film
 

I've been a long-time hater of the Star Wars prequels and I always manage to convince myself that Revenge of the Sith at least had some decent story elements that redeemed it at least partially for the clunky, mind-numbingly awful dialogue, Hayden Christensen's general incompetence as an actor, and Attack of the Clones' appallingly bad everything.

But I was wrong... Everything about this film is wrong... And I can't help but think that if the guys who directed and produced Empire and Return of the Jedi were still in house telling Lucas he was a ****ing dumbass for wanting to do 90% of what's in these movies, we'dve been much more satisfied as an audience.

But yes, hope everyone is enjoying their night. I just felt the need to remind people about what a colossal disappointment this film was, and what a crap film-maker George Lucas truly is.

Thank you and good evening :D

Wrong forum.

It has a lot of terribly goofy shit.

I like the beginning and ending of the film. Just about everything in between makes me want to hurl. The scene where Palpatine turns on the Jedi and eventually offs Mace, that whole sequence...probably one of my least favorite scenes ever in the entire Trilogy. Horribly scripted, directed and acted. Just about completely ruins the entire film for me. I can look past that ****ing lizard, I can't look past Ian McDiarmid hamming it up like a dumbass.

At least it didn't have any ****ing ewoks in it. Ewoks ruined Jedi.
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I always thought "delayed reaction" is mostly a 'seconds' or at most 'minutes' phenomenon!

The Phantom Menace killed the franchise, Attack of the Clones pissed all over the dead body, and Revenge of the Sith was a Lucas's half-ass attempt at CPR.

Yep. The movie would have been EPIC with wookies.

Oh boy is it... It starts off fairly good; the moment where Palpatine goes 'Are you threatening me, Master Jedi?' is probably the most well-acted and tension filled moment in the entire prequel trilogy... And then it gets fricking ruined by a spiral, three Jedi ALLOWING themselves to be cut down, all so Mace can fight Sidious himself.... And die poorly.

And would it have killed him to mix in a friggen location shot once in a while... bollocks... utter bollocks.

Also, Jedi was kind of ruined from the get go when they decided to just build another Death Star. It is time to blow up the Death Star... again.

on the whole, I liked Sith. HC is a shitty actor, but maybe it was the finishing of the prequals that I liked. I dunno, after Phantom Menace, nothing could be a bad Star Wars movie.

JMO.

I'm re-watching it now to see if it was really as shit as I remember... It is. It's worse than I thought. It's really horrible; I need to watch the theatrical cut of A New Hope after this to get the dirty feeling off me...

Ya know, that bugged me even back then.

I agree. The prequels have not aged well, which increases the suckitude factor since they were not that good to begin with.

It's the overdone CGI; CGI ages worse than strawberries, it's embarrassing. The originals hold up in part because the model work is so amazing that everything looks real. In large part, because it is. Similarly, CGI looks fake because it is. A bit of an oversimplification, but whatever lol

I didn't think it was horrible. book was WAY better (yeah, I'm THAT guy)

If the book is better than the movie, and the movie wasn't a book beforehand, then somebody made a shit film :P

In my opinion, the originals hold up because of the story. The three-part story arc concept was amazing. A big problem with the prequels was the shitty story. Also, the inclusion of characters such as Jango Fett, along with the fact that friggin Darth Vader built C-3PO completely shrank the universe.

I can't recall if it was written before the movie, but it goes into WAAAY more depth and explanations for how and why he really turned. gives background on why mace was who he was, etc. I highly recommend it.

Also, I agree with you on the CGI. It seemed like Lucas was just snorting lines of CGI like it was nothing by the end and everyone around him was too afraid to hold an intervention.

While the special effects are ****ing awesome in all 3 prequels, the acting and dialogue sucked major asshole

The story makes absolutely no sense. I don't know if you've seen the RedLetterMedia review on youtube, but it's so entirely perfect in its summary of everything wrong with the prequels.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxKtZmQgxrI

Repost!

Key note where they ****ed up between the orginial Star Wars and the prequels...

Star Wars: Ben Kenobi has no ****ing idea who C-3PO and R2-D2 are. Nevermind they are fighting side by side with him in Star Wars I,II and III.

Big time gap in that storyline there.

As far as the story line goes in the prequels, I thought it was fine. It was just the acting that ****ed it all up.

Rep for mentioning RedLetterMedia. I still have to get around watching his Attack of the Clones review.

I rewatched all three prequels about a month ago and they are indeed worse than I remember. Especially the second one. It's comically bad. No drama, you want to care about the characters but you really just don't give a fack. You're just plodding along out of some strange duty to your past and the way you remember the first three. Star Wars, Empire and Return of the Jedi were fun and interesting. The prequels were like sitting through a boring lecture.

The dialogue was crap. If you ever watch it again think about the lines they're saying. Some of them are so corny the greatest actors alive couldn't do anything with them.

star wars suck, it's all about star trek.

Never watched more than 5 minutes of any Star Wars. I don't think I'm missing much.

Star Trek is ok, but their weapons are kind of gay.

I think they are all great movies, and not that it's to brag about, but I know more about Star Wars than anyone on this forum. :p

enterprise would blow everything into oblivion in star wars.

:D

Not with Picard at the helm. He'd be busy vexing over the Prime Directive while Vader unloaded on him.

Not even close. Don't get me wrong. Star Trek is awesome, but they'd get killed in the Star Wars Universe.

Watch Empire Strikes Back. It's really a fantastic movie in its own right.

You nailed it. Right on the head.

I loved the first three movies, especially the two that didn't have the Ewoks. The fourth left me nostalgic for the first three, and the fifth one was so appallingly bad that I never even watched the sixth one. If a fortuneteller had told me in 1980 that I would not even bother to watch a Star Wars movie, I would've killed her with crystal ball shards.

Wow, that's right... the prequals just fail on many levels. It's like Lucas couldn't figure out how to put everything together... hey George, here's an idea, hire a good writer and bring in some outside help for the story line. It's not like you can't pay top dollar for the best writers to help you out or anything...

"i i i cant hold on any longer, i im too weak"

lol theres also a face he makes while fighting windu by the big windows that kill the entire movie.

When he also gives the speech to anakin about how the force is strong in him when he turns is extremely funny. I was cracking up in the theatres.

yeah, there was a LOT of unintentional humor in those.

The book was incredible. After reading the book, I got a true appreciation for how bad the movie was directed. Whatever you think about the movie, the book absolutely rescues it thanks to tremendous writing by Matthew Stover.

repost. however, you are absolutely correct.

You're right, but the book is still worthy.

Who really cares about where C3-PO and R2-D2 come from... why does it matter? Their characters stand on their own without the prequal, no?

Now I have just one more reason not to like the prequals...

yeah, that part was disconcerting. it was way too ****ing pat, like whoever wrote the ****ing scripts (I know lucas did some of the writing) went way out of their way to say "wow, yeah, we should put this here hahahahahaha, like a big ****ing puzzle."

**** them anyway. sometimes things don't have to all fit together, not everything has to be inner-connected. another of the things that pissed me off?

after order 66, when yoda survived: he's about to leave the planet, and says goodbye to two wookies. one of which just HAPPENS to be chewbacca. ****ING SERIOUSLY? HE JUST HAPPENS TO KNOW CHEWBACCA BACK THEN AND SAYS GOODBYE TO HIM ON SCREEN? **** YOU GEORGE LUCAS.

Yeah, my kids still like to watch the prequels and every time I take the time to watch I wonder to myself why I purchased the DVDs at all.

You know what else is a puzzle? That I can only reach orgasm if my partner is dressed as an 18 year old member of a Japanese girl band. Maybe it's the plaid skirt & the socks...


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**** George Lucas for insisting on directing the prequels at all, much less writing them and then trying to tell us he wrote them all back in the 70's. BFS!!!!

ROFL

she's gotta be wearing pigtails too, with long socks (preferably with saddle shoes).

with the face of betty white. **** yeah, mang. I just got wood.

You sir, are a fine American.

****ing spoiler.....this whole thread is a spoiler! How about a damn warning in the thread title.

Those girls need to be careful with all that gear in the rain. Somebody's going to get hurt.

I already did. Ligament damage.

That was the best waste of 2+ hours ever...better than watching the actual movies. I never understood why they bothered me so much until now...

Now, are we talking about tv-series Picard or movie Picard? The difference is night and day.

TV-series Picard would try to negotiate with Vader. Movie Picard would just shoot first and ask questions later.

It never occurred to me, until I watched RedLetterMedia's Star Trek reviews.

I wrote better Star Wars stories when I was 11 years old, playing with action figures.


And do you know what else really sucked? That abomination of a movie that was the last Indiana Jones installment.

It appears that the Force is NOT with us!

Yeah, I wonder if he has a review of that, or if it's just too painful to say it...

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At long last, we finally get the RLM review of this abortion of a film. Almost 100 minutes of WIN.

Good news

http://www.avclub.com/articles/buy-t...ptember,49748/

The book was awesome. Very well worth the read for any Starwars fan. It's seriously a great book.

ROFL ROFL ROFL

I have seen the movies several times (once when they came out, wanting to rip out my eyeballs after I left) and then again when my kids had them on in the background, but I always manage to forget this most absurd of absurdities.

It's so far beyond reeruned.

But nothing passes Attack of the Clones. OMFG.

"So, you're strong in the force?"

"Really? How strong?"

"Well, I dunno, let me take out this little dohickey and measure you....white blood cell count ......yeah, yeah....oh wow, you've got like a Force Rating of like 947. That's like eighteen points higher than Yoda himself. Man, you are the FORCE of the Force guys."

"Is my Force bigger than yours?"

Hangs head. *sniff* "Your Force is so amazing that Natalie Portman will boink you even though you have the personality of a complete turd and are obviously emotionally unstable and on some kind of insane power-trip when she does."

"Cool, my Force rocks!"

Dear God. What happened to "in the rock, the tree, it surrounds us, penetrates us, and binds us."

Now it's in a blood count. JFC.

I remember the scene when they're in some factory, ducking and jumping around molten lava, and all I could think was "they needed a scene to include in the video game relating ot the movie".

If there was another purpose for that scene -- I think it was in the 2nd movie but I'm not sure -- then I have never known what it was. It was stupid, unrelated to what needed to happen, a time-waster, lacked dramatic tension -- just a complete failure on all levels except adding it to a video game...

I've always found it funny when adults who were kids when IV, V and VI came out got all upset when I, II and III were introduced.

"WTF!! These are kids' movies!!!"

LMAO

Yes, they are, and so were the first three.

Gotta disagree. They didn't go full on kids movies until he brought in the gerbils in Return of the Jedi. Darth Lucas should have stayed with the battle of Endor taking place on the Wookie home planet. Empire was definitely NOT a kids movie.

The "prequels" though..... yes.

Cool, I got the right bait.

:facepalm:

LMAO

ROFL

Wasn't sure who I was picturing as I read that, but it was ONE of the three guys.

http://images.starpulse.com/Photos/P...swalt-cc03.jpg

revenge of the shit: the all-anal finale.

Who is the chick Patton is butt sexing in the pic?

Not sure, but if I had to wager a guess, it'd be Maria Bamford.

this link suggests I'm right.

http://larryfire.wordpress.com/2008/...dy-final-show/

Therein lies a very major problem with the Star Wars franchise: the best stuff has come from people besides Lucas. I'm thinking mainly of KOTOR here.

Yes, because kids movies feature boring political dialogue, rape, prison camps, slavery, decapitation, genocide, forced amputation, mass murder from the lead character, the murder of children and un-armed non-combatants, assassination attempts etc

All of those things point to it being a 'kid's movie'.

Star Wars was always an adventure series that appealed to all ages. Now, only a reeruned 7-year old on ADD meds could like this pieces of shit.

Rape?

Anakin's mom is raped by the sand people. At least it's very much implied that's what happened, and why she's still alive a month after being captured.

That never even occurred to me. Do you know if the Sand People even have penises?

They don't call 'em Tusken Raiders for nothin'

Ever see a female "sandperson"??
Think about it :hump: