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Originally posted by MarchHare@May 22 2005, 04:55 PM
Saw it last night.
Overall I liked it very much; it's easily the best of the prequels, and it's certainly worthy to sit alongside the original trilogy.
Of course, there were copious amounts of utter lameness.
The "Nooooooo!" dialogue had me literally laughing out loud at how terrible it was. By far the worst part of the film.
Only slightly less bad was, "But the Sith are evil!" "From my point of view it's the Jedi who are evil!"
Lucas still can't write romantic dialogue. There was nothing as bad as the "sand' scene from AotC, but I groaned several times at some of the lines between Anakin and Padmé.
And I agree that Anakin's fall to the dark side was awfully quick. First he's all conflicted and says, "What have I done?" and then within 10 seconds he's pledging his allegiance to Palpatine.
One of the best parts of the film though, which was sorely lacking in Episode II, was that we do really get the sense that Anakin was a good man. In AotC he was nothing more than an arrogant, petulant jerk, but here he is much more dignified, humble, and noble.
So thumbs up from me, but there was some wasted potential.
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I went last night as well, and I enjoyed it a great deal.
there were some moments of weakness.
The Noooooooo scene was a little bit overstated, and when Palpatine became the Emperor there was too much of a monster movie and not the sly politician that I've come to know and loved through the prequels. to be honest, my preferance was that he never picked up the light saber, and had managed to get rid of Mace and Yoda through some cool non fighting way.
HC I thought did a good job with the dialogue that he had, and you felt the conflict between his old self and Darth Vader, but you could see the dark side destroying his humanity.
Did I feel that his fall was to quick, sure, but I think that there were at least two really key scenes that were edited out.
1) When Obi-wan visited Padme before he left to kill Grievous was important in effect because it made Anakin fear that he was losing his wife who was his only anchor.
2) The meeting between the loyalists which included Pademe and Palpatine and Anakin which Palapatine later spun really well into a plot between the Jedi and a traitorous element in the senate.
If those go back into the movie on DVD release it will be easier to see the turn.
It was good that they did show that Anikan was a good and conflicted but naive man who wanted to do the best thing for his family and got his loyaties torn between a man who he thought of as a father, a friend who he thought was part of a plot against his father figure, and a wife that he didn't want to lose like he lost his mother.
It was also important to note that Yoda started the long fall with his whole speach about getting rid of your attachments.
In the book, when he was fighting Sideous, he realized that the Jedi had lost thier way, while they were training to fight the Sith war from a thousand years ago. the Sith had evolved and understood the Jedi and thier weaknesses, and had become better rounded to destroy the Jedi.
Thats why Leia and Luke weren't trained from infancy like the Jedi had been doing.