May 26th, 2005

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Ships Take Off, Ships Land

Having waited a week, I went to see Revenge of the Sith today. I’ll spare you the full review, because I’d be repeating what others have said: better than the first two, but still not a very good movie.

The film seems to fail on such basic points–casting, performances, editing, story-telling and, worst of all, dialogue. Like episodes 1 and 2, the script for this film is appalling–it’s worse than most B-movies, and is an irony-free zone. I was pleased to see Hayden Christensen in agony, though. It reflected my own suffering in watching his performance.

One minor quibble that I haven’t read elsewhere: I felt like a frickin’ plane spotter. How many times must we see ships land, take off or otherwise dock? It’s like Lucas thought up every possible way for a ship to come to rest or enter into motion, and depicted it on-screen.

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Jeff
May 26th, 2005
4:45 pm

What bothered me about the movie was this obsession in the last 10 minutes – of setting everything up to lead into a movie that is supposed to be another 20 years in the future. For example, the droids on Captain Antilles ship (and wow – not a lot of career growth for that Antilles guy) to the FiveO’clock shadow that Luke’s ‘Uncle Owen’ is wearing at the end. I mean – it was like NOTHING would change until the next star wars movie.

Also interesting how the Death Star construction was already underway.

A definite renter.

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Lovewine
May 26th, 2005
10:15 pm

I also waited until after opening nite to see this really expensive, poorly made movie. I’m just going to agree with you Darren and with Jeff and not go into a great rant about the atrocious diologue, acting and overall lack of consistency.
Shite!

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Anonymous
May 27th, 2005
12:05 pm

Favorite line:

“Anything to do with it not if I have!”

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