250 million Star Wars fans can't be wrong...
Geek Earth hung on the balance with the opening of Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith two weeks ago: would their Lord Lucas be able to deliver the final film into that promised land of sci-fi greatness? But if it were to be as lame as The Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones, would Lord Lucas' legacy forever be muddled as Jar Jar Bink's Idiot-Savant Caribbean talky-talky?
The answer, Geek Earth, is that Lord Lucas LIVES!!! If you want to read further, be forewarned that I speak of the movie in some detail...
On a Snout scale of one to five, I'm going to give Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith 4 Snouts. It had pure adventure, over the top villiany and star-crossed lovers. Sure, the dialogue was stilted and the plot predictable, but I still felt the agony as the Jedi knights were betrayed, one by one, killed far away from their home by anonymous clone troopers. Quite ignoble, don't you think, which made the tragedy even greater. And the younglings, poor little British kids consumed by the tormented, evil American Lord Vader. In a way, Lucas was saying that we still want to give it to those English... I think.
I found the final encounter between Vader and Obi-Wan silly, actually, as they surfed on lava. Shouldn't their feet have melted away from all the splashing and waves of lava juice? Still, I felt for Vader when the final stroke from Obi-Wan took away all of his living limbs, a terrible fate to befall even him, I thought. But then, like the ending to The Return of the King, his suffering had not quite ended. No! He had to burst into flames!!! But wait. Once entombed in a cyborg suit, he would learn the death of Padme and, so he thought, his child. Aargh! Then the Emperor had to ham it up with a cackle. So Vader's conversion to the Dark Side is complete...
My favorite character was Palpatine/Supreme Chancellor/Dark Lord of the Sith. He was the perfect combination of politician, manipulator, spy, and dictator. So swarmy. So seductive. Let's be honest. Given a choice, we all would have wanted a taste of that chocolatey Dark Side. Too bad Lucas had to permanently disfigure the Sith Lord. I think evil is best embodied on a face that looks charming and trusting...
To my sad displeasure, there were no strong female characters. Padme was reduced to a lost, pregnant child, unsure and weak, so unlike her earlier incarnations in Episodes I and II. That was Lucas' only failure, I thought. Padme should have at least taken a swing at Vader on volcano planet. Instead, she whimpers and dies...
Still, go see the movie. Lucas won't need the money, but you'll have a good time.
The answer, Geek Earth, is that Lord Lucas LIVES!!! If you want to read further, be forewarned that I speak of the movie in some detail...
On a Snout scale of one to five, I'm going to give Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith 4 Snouts. It had pure adventure, over the top villiany and star-crossed lovers. Sure, the dialogue was stilted and the plot predictable, but I still felt the agony as the Jedi knights were betrayed, one by one, killed far away from their home by anonymous clone troopers. Quite ignoble, don't you think, which made the tragedy even greater. And the younglings, poor little British kids consumed by the tormented, evil American Lord Vader. In a way, Lucas was saying that we still want to give it to those English... I think.
I found the final encounter between Vader and Obi-Wan silly, actually, as they surfed on lava. Shouldn't their feet have melted away from all the splashing and waves of lava juice? Still, I felt for Vader when the final stroke from Obi-Wan took away all of his living limbs, a terrible fate to befall even him, I thought. But then, like the ending to The Return of the King, his suffering had not quite ended. No! He had to burst into flames!!! But wait. Once entombed in a cyborg suit, he would learn the death of Padme and, so he thought, his child. Aargh! Then the Emperor had to ham it up with a cackle. So Vader's conversion to the Dark Side is complete...
My favorite character was Palpatine/Supreme Chancellor/Dark Lord of the Sith. He was the perfect combination of politician, manipulator, spy, and dictator. So swarmy. So seductive. Let's be honest. Given a choice, we all would have wanted a taste of that chocolatey Dark Side. Too bad Lucas had to permanently disfigure the Sith Lord. I think evil is best embodied on a face that looks charming and trusting...
To my sad displeasure, there were no strong female characters. Padme was reduced to a lost, pregnant child, unsure and weak, so unlike her earlier incarnations in Episodes I and II. That was Lucas' only failure, I thought. Padme should have at least taken a swing at Vader on volcano planet. Instead, she whimpers and dies...
Still, go see the movie. Lucas won't need the money, but you'll have a good time.
posted by Alan at 10:03 AM
4 Comments:
Methinks that Lucas is using some sort of Jedi mind trick on you.
Personally I think if you go see this movie with low expectations you will be happily surprised. That's how I explain most of the glowing criticism that this film is recieving.
Personally the last time I heard dialogue this bad in the movies was when I saw Van Helsing.
As for the end lightsaber duels, Yoda loses because he gets knocked out of the ring. Obi-Wan defeats Anakin because he reaches the sweet spot of higher ground first.
How utterly anticlimatic.
Actually, Yoda lost because he failed to control the high ground. See, Lucas established parallel fight scenes to teach us younglings in battle tactics. But I fail to understand what you mean by anticlimatic.
I just thought that the two lightsaber duels ended rather disappointingly.
This is supposed to be the big finish of the movie and it ends with Yoda giving up and Anakin making a stupid mistake after being warned about it.
I would have preferred (in my opinion) a more dramatic finish to each fight.
I think the duels ended fine. Yoda realized he could not win and retreated. Vader, in a similar situation, let pride get in the way and paid the price. You can see that Lucas paired the duel to demonstrate that though the Light side of the force had lost the battle, hope still lived b/c Yoda and Obi-Wan survived. Vader survives as well, but he is permanently scarred and maimed. Besides, how would you have ended the movie? In The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, the duels end with limbs getting cut off but no one dying.
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