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May 20, 2005
Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
Last week I accused a couple of my friends being "corporate pricks" because they got free tickets for Episode III from their workplace hahaha. Hmmm I sense someone being jealous - I know ... the force is strong within me :)
Anyway it turned out one of my friend who works for one of the Big 4 offered me a free ticket to last night special screening for her firm, being a total hypocrite, I took the offer with no hesitation :P Her firm booked one of the Hoyts George St. cinema (cinema #8) entirely for their own, it's one of the big one, 600 people all up. After a quick door prize draw (5 prizes in total) the movie started straight away, no ads and no preview, don't you love special screenings :) She hasn't seen Episode I & II and fell asleep during Episode IV, on the queue I did a quick wrap up on the story for her.
And what about the movie? It blew me away :) Even my friend thought it's a good movie. It was soo much better compared to the total crap of Episode I and II. Much better than I expected, or maybe I don't really have that much of expectation. The movie is action packed, full with fight scenes, a tad too much maybe. I remember being bored a bit watching yet another light saber fight. No corny lines from Anakin to Padme, no weird hairdo on Natalie Portman trying distract the movie goers from realising that the movie was crap (Episode I & II) and thank bloody God that there's no (well almost) Jar Jar Binks this time around.
The music is top as usual, John Williams at his best here, and I love the Darth Vader theme slowly coming up when Anakin finally is seduced by the dark side. Very faint in the background, but you can hear it :)
Making a movie where everyone knows how it's going to end is always hard, and in addition to that for Star Wars movie there's a certain expectation to be met. This time George Lucas has done a good job. I would rate this movie probably as good as Episode VI: Return of the Jedi, while The Empire Strikes Back still the best out of all of them. Oh and the ending scene was totally sweet, I think it is the best scene in the movie. If there's a scene that couldn't have possibly been done better, it was the ending scene, fans of the series would know what I'm talking about. I am always wondering how Geroge Lucas would end this movie and avoid reading any spoiler on the Internet, thank god for that or I would be spoiled badly.
This movie paid a lot of homage to the original series. You can start seeing how the space ships starting look like the original series. You can see the base model of the TIE Fighter, the Lambda Class shuttle, the Star Destroyers and other vehicles like the AT-AT for example. Toward the end of the movie there's a scene inside a battle ship who looks like Star Destroyers but inside the bridge it looks exactly like the old Star Destroyer's bridge from the 70s, with the old looking panel, monitor and observation deck. That shot is similar to the first scene in The Empire Strikes Back where the camera sweep the bottom of the bridge looking up toward Darth Vader. Perfect ...
There's a couple of things that bug me though:
* George Lucas still can't shoot a decent space fight scene. The first space fight scene was a bit boring and dragging out a bit
* Hayden Christensen stone face acting.
* Anakin doesn't know about Padme carrying a twin. With all the technology they don't have ultrasound?
* How easy it was to turn the Republic into an Empire, just like that!
* The demolition of the Jedi Order turned out to be a piece of cake, hell they don't need Darth Vader to do that just send the troops and they'll do the job.
And there's a couple of other minor things, but that's nothing compared to the movie in overall. Well done George Lucas, you've returned my faith back to the force ...
Posted by vhadiant at May 20, 2005 07:16 AM
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Comments
Yeah, it was pretty wierd how all of a sudden some random clone or trooper could just kill a jedi.
It's funny to think that the whole second trilogy (ep 4,5,6) could have been avoided if only Amidala had remebered to take her contraceptive pills like a good girl :)
I made a list of what other amazing movies could have been done with the money instead.
Posted by: Fredrik at May 23, 2005 11:03 PM
