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pearwaldorfSo I finally saw Episode III. It was punctuated by the excitement of having the projector fuck up and we had to go into another theater to finish watching. It was better than Eps I and II, but that's like, as the New Yorker critic said, dying from natural causes instead of crucifixion. I can definitely tell you that George Lucas has now cured me of my childhood ambition of being a Jedi.
- The nitpickies that everybody has brought up, like the Jedi hanging off ledges all the fucking time (it seems that they only remember their mad Force skillz when it is convenient for the plot), were valid. And the relationship dialogue is fucking EXECRABLE. All I have to do to torture Cody now is whimper "Anakin, you're breaking my heart!" and he cringes in pain.
- I was unimpressed by Anakin's conversion to the dark side. I know he does it under bad judgement and duress and shit, but this is something I've been waiting for my entire Star Wars fangirl life. Couldn't it have been a little less anticlimactic? And the padawans? He wasn't that evil yet. But of course, then we wouldn't have the "OMG Anakin, you killed children! You are teh evol! Oh noes!" dialogue.
- The lightsaber fighting. Did their choreographer just say "Fuck this Yuen Wo Ping shit, everybody will see it anyways, so I don't have to work at it"? Lameass. The big fight was cool though.
- Why the fuck did they pick Jimmy Smits to play Bail Organa? He looks nothing like he does in my head.
- What is this "communing with Qui-Gon" shit? Are you trying to tell us something about their relationship, George?
+ The part where Vader is still talking like Anakin just kills me. "Where's Padme? Is she all right?" That's fuckin' tragic. And then Lucas had to ruin it all with the hammiest, cheesiest "NOOOOOOOOO!" in the history of cinema.
+ Oh my god! Lucas came close to moral nuance! He acknowledges that the Jedi council might have problems! He casts Windu's decision to kill Palpatine in a somewhat ambiguous light! And then he ruins it by saying that the Sith deal in absolutes. *THWAP!*
+ "So this is how democracy dies." I bet Lucas didn't write that.
+ Everybody bitches about the scenes at the end as total fan sop, but it completes things. I liked it.
- The nitpickies that everybody has brought up, like the Jedi hanging off ledges all the fucking time (it seems that they only remember their mad Force skillz when it is convenient for the plot), were valid. And the relationship dialogue is fucking EXECRABLE. All I have to do to torture Cody now is whimper "Anakin, you're breaking my heart!" and he cringes in pain.
- I was unimpressed by Anakin's conversion to the dark side. I know he does it under bad judgement and duress and shit, but this is something I've been waiting for my entire Star Wars fangirl life. Couldn't it have been a little less anticlimactic? And the padawans? He wasn't that evil yet. But of course, then we wouldn't have the "OMG Anakin, you killed children! You are teh evol! Oh noes!" dialogue.
- The lightsaber fighting. Did their choreographer just say "Fuck this Yuen Wo Ping shit, everybody will see it anyways, so I don't have to work at it"? Lameass. The big fight was cool though.
- Why the fuck did they pick Jimmy Smits to play Bail Organa? He looks nothing like he does in my head.
- What is this "communing with Qui-Gon" shit? Are you trying to tell us something about their relationship, George?
+ The part where Vader is still talking like Anakin just kills me. "Where's Padme? Is she all right?" That's fuckin' tragic. And then Lucas had to ruin it all with the hammiest, cheesiest "NOOOOOOOOO!" in the history of cinema.
+ Oh my god! Lucas came close to moral nuance! He acknowledges that the Jedi council might have problems! He casts Windu's decision to kill Palpatine in a somewhat ambiguous light! And then he ruins it by saying that the Sith deal in absolutes. *THWAP!*
+ "So this is how democracy dies." I bet Lucas didn't write that.
+ Everybody bitches about the scenes at the end as total fan sop, but it completes things. I liked it.
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Date: 2005-05-23 02:50 am (UTC)But I did like the movie a great deal more than Episodes 1 and 2. Plus, evidence that Qui-Gon + Obi-Wan = trueforeverlove.
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Date: 2005-05-23 02:52 am (UTC)evidence that Qui-Gon + Obi-Wan = trueforeverlove.
Agreed. Still maintain there was something... more than brotherly going on between Obi-Wan and Anakin though.
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Date: 2005-05-23 07:15 pm (UTC)"NOOOOOOOO!!!"
We just saw it yesterday ourselves...Leland threw a fit when afterwards I was all "'Ooh, we must form an EMPIRE for the sake of our safety and security! If you're not with me, you're my enemy! Gosh, I wonder whom we're supposed to be channeling here!' How subtle!"
"No! See, this is why I wish I'd been ten years old when I saw that! Star Wars is not political!"
There was a lot less completely godawful dialogue in this one than the other two, but still, practically everything that came out of Padme's mouth was wince-inducing. Actually, almost everything about Padme was wince-inducing - I mean, of course everyone knows that once a woman gets pregnant, she is incapable of doing anything other than lounging around in overly-elaborate, uncomfortable-looking harem-girl outfits while crying and/or brushing her hair. Gaaaaaah. And the explanation that she died because she had "lost the will to live" - oh, give me a break. If it were that easy, there'd be WAY more dead emo kids.
I thought Anakin's transition was too abrupt, also; one minute he's feeling remorse for letting Palpatine kill Mace Windu, the next he's cheerfully killing a whole horde of little Jedi kids? And the bit where he tells Padme that he's becoming more powerful than any Jedi - had Sidious even had a chance to give him any Sith training yet at that point?