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I saw Revenge of the Sith last night.

1. What kind of "good" Jedi Knight leaves someone who was as close to him as a brother lying armless, legless, horribly burned, and moaning in pain without either getting him help or killing him off? That Obi-Wan has a dark side of his own.
2. Did you notice that the droids turning Anakin into a cyborg managed to attach his cape underneath him so that it would be on him the first time he stood up on his new legs?
3. Speaking of capes, how many of you thought "No capes! They'll get sucked into the airplane engine."?
4. If Anakin was about 20 or 22 in this movie, and Luke was about 17 in A New Hope, that would make Darth Vader in his late thirties in A New Hope. Which means I'm older than Darth Vader. (And probably so are you.) When I saw the first movie at 14, I would have thought anyone over 40 was ancient, but now I don't.
5. I loved the planet with the giant flowers and mushrooms. I want to see a movie set on that planet.
6. Yoda rocks. He was also the least wooden of the actors in this movie.
7. R2-D2 was the second least wooden of all the actors.
8. I think that if they didn't show the droids burned in the oil or General Grievous's ugly death, then Anakin's mutilation and burning at the end would have been even more powerful, and maybe they could have avoided the PG-13 rating.
9. I still don't see what Padme saw in Anakin. I also think "Anny" as a nickname for a guy is really dumb.
10. I wonder how many people are going to start talking about Darth Bush.

Oh, yeah, and I really liked this movie. The acting was wooden and the dialogue terrible, but he's still trying to go for the old serial feel, which he got with this one.

Date: 2005-05-25 10:00 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mizkit.livejournal.com
What kind of "good" Jedi Knight leaves someone who was as close to him as a brother lying armless, legless, horribly burned, and moaning in pain without either getting him help or killing him off? That Obi-Wan has a dark side of his own.

That was hands down my biggest problem with the movie. I was *so* disappointed with Obi-Wan. Heroes do not behave like that, dammit. (I had the same problem with the end of the second Mummy movie, for that matter.) *fnrt*

'course, I'm gonna go see it again anyway. :)

Date: 2005-05-25 10:44 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] acanthusleaf.livejournal.com
I had heard rumors that the script was edited by some outside people, possibly with a political bent, so I saw several scenes leap out at me as being commentary on the current state of the world. Padme's statement about how liberty dies being the most obvious. The actions of the Jedi when under a severe threat strike me this way too. They are supposed to stand for the right and the good, but they ask Anakin do do something dishonorable, Windu tries to kill Palpatine before he can stand trial, and Obi-wan leaves Anakin to die horribly. Maybe I'm stating the obvious in that these are meant to parallel the US govt. taking away the liberties we supposedly stand for in the name of security from terror.

On the other hand, something awful had to happen to turn a 'good guy' to the dark side. With all this betrayal of waht was right and true, why did they have to put in the subplot of Anakin trying to save Padme from her predicted death? Unnecessary junk cluttering up the story.

R2-D2 did get to kick serious butt, though, and that made me happy. The first half of the final Obi-wan/Anakin lightsaber fight was very well done.
Count Dooku needed to die just for having such a stupid name. Senator Organa was rather good-looking. And I'm in complete agreement with points 6 through 9.

Political parallels

Date: 2005-05-31 01:33 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] metageek.livejournal.com
Remember, though, that the Empire was originally modeled on the Third Reich. Given that, you'd expect Palpatine's rise to power to be modeled Hitler's--remember that Hitler was the elected Chancellor of the Weimar Republic.

Granted, it's got strong parallels to our current situation; but that's inevitable, given that Rove has the Nazi example to learn from.

Episode I came out while Clinton was still president, after all, and the Hitler parallels were already obvious.

Date: 2005-05-26 10:01 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] galeni.livejournal.com
In my own version (done shortly after Ep 2 came out), Anakin doesn't even see Padme when she's pregnant, and he doesn't know about the kid(s) at all. The whole turning to the Dark Side was over how the Jedi left Shimi to die horribly on Tatooine, instead. Which would have worked better, I think.

But yes, leaving the dying Anakin was soooo out of character. And like you, over all I enjoyed the Flash Gordon serialness of the full series. Which we just watched (again) on DVD.

Now I want to go see it again. And I won't mention the soundtrack I bought today, or the poster with the opening scene fighting ships (along with our two heroes) on it. I'm getting re-attached to this series. ARGHHHHHHHHH.

Padme, Anakin

Date: 2005-05-26 09:49 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cokepoet.livejournal.com
You may have already said so, but my belief was definitely un-suspended when Padme married Anakin practically minutes (in the 2nd movie) after he had killed off the women and children of an opposition group. Um, get a clue, sister.

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