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Old 05-19-2005, 02:11 AM  
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All right fellow Star Wars nerds, lets hear your reviews!
I just finished watching the movie, here's a few impressions.

First for those with ADD and want the basic information, yes the movie ticket is worth the price of admission. If you hate crowds feel free to wait, but you eventually should see it in the theater, UNLESS you are one of those very rare people who always hated Star Wars, including all the original movies. I personally liked it better than even Empire, but I'm still on the afterglow you get when you watch a movie you like. After a few weeks I'll probably rate it 2nd or 3rd best out of the 6.

- My God the theater was crowded. I went to the midnight showing at the Pittsburg, KS theators. We arent a one gas station town or anything, but youd think little old Pittsburg wouldnt be that crowded. They sold out three screens for the midnight showing, full of people willing to stay up to 2:30 am, it was freakin packed. If you hate crowds in the movie... its gonna take a while. I can only imagine what its like in KC.

- Prepare for a very long movie, at least 2.5 hours. Its like Lucas thought to himself "You know, I am making the most anticipated movie in the history of the world. Its the last movie of freakin Star Wars, I'm gonna do whatever the hell I want and cut nothing. What are the distributors gonna do, refuse to show the movie?!? Hah!" Then again, the movie did cover a hell of a lot of stuff. Some of it could have been abbreviated, but I'm glad it wasnt.

- Kids... I thought it was overhyped personally, the way people were talking, youd think it shoulda been rated R or something. It aint PG, but PG-13 is probably fine. I think some younger kids can handle the movie, but not too young, and worried parents should probably screen it first. There are only two scenes I think would be questionable for young viewers, if you look around the internet youll find out what they are, I wont spoil anything here.

- Dont expect Shakespear. The story was very good, the acting was ok, the lines were.... well Lucas always sucked at writing lines. The man's working with what talent he was born with and I think he did the best he could.

- The best actor, by far, not even close, was the emperor. All the other roles (except Vader, and he did a passable job) are secondary and wont sink the movie, but this is one role that easily could have been cheesey and ruined the film. Thankfully, the most talented actor in the cast pulled it off well, and at times it seemed the sinister emperor was carrying the film during slow parts. (Jackson really didnt get much of a chance to shine and use his talents to the fullest)

- This film has by far the most action of all 6 films. It sometimes gets to the point where your on overload and wish the movie would slow down to take a breath. For some people the action overload will be a good thing, for others it wont, you be the judge.

- They tied up a lot of loose ends, as many as humanly possible, including ends that I didnt realize needed to be tied up untill they pointed it out, then its like "oh ok, so thats why this is the situation in episode 4!"

- Obi-Wan was pretty impressive. (I'm talking about the character now, not the actor) You always get the impression that he has less power in the "force" than most jedi, but he uses his intelligence to make the most of what hes got, especially in the pivotal fight with Vader when it seemed he was overmatched.

- General Grievous was pretty cool

Again, in summary the acting was kind of cheesey at times (Lucas cant write a good romance scene to save his life, it was like high school or something), passable at times (Anakin did a pretty good job at Vader, but not perfect, you sometimes get the impression that the character isnt believable, but it wasnt horrible) and excellent (no man alive on our planet could have possibly played the emperor any better)

The lines... were somewhere between ok and bad. In spite of the questionable script writing, the story was excellent, and together with good performances from some of the cast, took the movie on their shoulders to make it a very good experience in spite of the lines. It could have been better, but after episodes I and II, I'll take whatever we can get that resembles a good movie and be satisfied. The movie is definitely worth the price of admission, just dont expect to be happy if your a film geek/snob fresh from college who overanalyzes crap all the time.
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Old 05-21-2005, 07:58 AM   #151
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Will it be any good to a person who has only seen a couple of the movies, or do you need to go watch the others first?
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Old 05-21-2005, 08:11 AM   #152
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And then in the original trilogy you see it happening again. Vader tries to seduce Luke so they can overthrow the Emperor. And Palps is trying to replace Vader with Luke.
I thought it was interesting how the Emperor said Vader would be more powerful than any of them. Were I think Emperor, I'd have killed him and found another minion.
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Old 05-21-2005, 08:15 AM   #153
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I thought it was interesting how the Emperor said Vader would be more powerful than any of them. Were I think Emperor, I'd have killed him and found another minion.
At that point, Palps had gone through an awful lot to get Vader. And where else is he going to find another Jedi that will turn to the darkside?

Obviously there are in short demand...he wanted Luke bad when the time came.
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Old 05-21-2005, 08:15 AM   #154
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Will it be any good to a person who has only seen a couple of the movies, or do you need to go watch the others first?
You should at LEAST see all 3 originals first.
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Old 05-21-2005, 08:20 AM   #155
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At that point, Palps had gone through an awful lot to get Vader. And where else is he going to find another Jedi that will turn to the darkside?
I got the impression that the emperor was insinuating that he created anakin when he told his sith immortality parable. They left an awful lot about Palpatine open, which I thought was a good thing.
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Old 05-21-2005, 10:07 AM   #156
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You should at LEAST see all 3 originals first.
I have seen the first two, and the one where they find the village full of little teddy bear looking things. I may check it out...got a extra light saber you can loan me? I hear you need one to get in.
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Old 05-21-2005, 10:28 AM   #157
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I have seen the first two, and the one where they find the village full of little teddy bear looking things. I may check it out...got a extra light saber you can loan me? I hear you need one to get in.
If you've seen the original trilogy you should be fine. There are many references to Episode III in Episode IV alone.

Just make sure you read the opening scroll.
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Old 05-21-2005, 11:16 AM   #158
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I have seen the first two, and the one where they find the village full of little teddy bear looking things. I may check it out...got a extra light saber you can loan me? I hear you need one to get in.
Yeah, RNR, you've come to the right place to get your nerd training.
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The only thing I didn't like was when he broke out of his harnesses his first step made him look like frankenstein to me and that seemed a bit weird to me.
I thought that was good. Lucas has commeted before that it would be a bit like Frankenstein when the conversion took place. Plus, it was the first time he had ever used those robotic legs in te full Vader suit, so that would have been about right. The only thing i didnt like was the pull back shot and him yelling Nooooooooooooo! when he found out about Padme. To me it looked like a Simpsons parody shot.
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Will it be any good to a person who has only seen a couple of the movies, or do you need to go watch the others first?
Actually, it makes watching movies IV -VI necessary again from the standpoint of character development.

Originally, the audience was led along the same lines as Luke with the understimation of Yoda.

Now, after seing his exploits in the first 3 movies, a whole new definition is poured into his character and actions.

Originally, Darth was "the evil bad guy". Now, after watching him so naively and sefishly turn to the Dark, and murder a bunch of kids, it pours a whole new level of "bad guy" into him as he struts arround the galaxy looking for Luke.
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I thought it was interesting how the Emperor said Vader would be more powerful than any of them. Were I think Emperor, I'd have killed him and found another minion.
Newly Dark Anakin attempted to turn Padme to his side, but she wasn't a Jedi, so I guess that doesn't piss off Palpatine. Teh point is, Anakin was already thinking ascension.
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At that point, Palps had gone through an awful lot to get Vader. And where else is he going to find another Jedi that will turn to the darkside?

Obviously there are in short demand...he wanted Luke bad when the time came.
I suspect that Sideous was "laying down" a little when Windu was about to "kill" him. Once he had Anakin as an audience, he needed to sell his lie that the Jedi were turning on him, so he hammed it up to the point that his face got gnarled.

I suspect, that he could have zapped the chit out of Windu at will but was making it look good for sonny boy.
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You should at LEAST see all 3 originals first.
I disagree, why force him to evolve the same way you did?
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I got the impression that the emperor was insinuating that he created anakin when he told his sith immortality parable. They left an awful lot about Palpatine open, which I thought was a good thing.
My opinion is that the whole immortality was a fuggin lie, he knew that that was what Anakin wanted to hear, so he told him.

Exceedingly vain Anakin is.
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I disagree, why force him to evolve the same way you did?
Um...well I think it's clear he doesn't really want to watch Episode I and II. And he doesn't need to. As long as he's seen the original trilogy, he should understand Episode III.
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