Friday May 27, 2005 Revenge of the Sith
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Just what the world needs. Another review of this movie. And a week late. Spoilers ahead: stop reading now if that bothers you. My wife and I saw the film in DLP at the Century 22 complex in San Jose. We are both big Star Wars fans and have been looking forward to seeing this for quite a while. I'll resound what most others have said. Amazing visuals. Stilted dialogue. Same old awful attempts at humour. We loved it! |
There were a couple places where I was laughing inappropriately. When the words of the plot story were being shown on the screen at the beginning, there is the line "Evil is everywhere". I initially read that as "Elvis is everywhere". This was immediately followed by the big space battle and Obi-Wan's craft is being attacked by all the machines; his whining reminded me of Wallace of Wallace and Grommit fame.
I got a little kick when Anakin says "R2D2, activate elevator 3224" as that's my Sun badge number. It's probably just a coincidence though.
So here's where the audience applauded. There weren't many occasions.
- Obi-Wan kills General Grievous with the machine gun and comments how uncivilized that was.
- A droid gets a shock from R2D2 then kicks it over.
- Darth Vader put on his helmet and does his deep breathing for the first time.
- Yoda nonchantly slams two of the Emperors guards into the wall.
There was also a little ripple of applause at the end.
We both thoughly enjoyed the movie, and when the Golden Master Directors Cut (or whatever its going to be called) of the six films is made available on DVD in a few months or so, we'll probably buy a set.
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Posted by Amjidanutpan Ramanujam on May 27, 2005 at 10:46 PM PDT #
Hi Amjidanutpan. Thanks for pointing that review out. I too found it funny. Don't worry, I don't take the Star Wars universe too seriously. I don't try to equate it with ours. I'm not even looking for consistency or logic. For example, Lucase doesn't show blood but quite happy to show Anakin burning up.
I went for the amazing video images (the details of his planet building is beyond compare), and to see how he would tie up all the loose ends.
A friend told me that Lucas is going back and fixing up his other Star Wars films to match what he had to do in this one. Now to me, that's a little over the top.
Posted by Rich Burridge on May 28, 2005 at 07:06 AM PDT #
Hey Rich,
Just a note. The "how uncivilized" gag was done before and a whole lot better in Gremlins2. (A hilarious movie IMHO. Unlike Gremlins it is played full-out for comedy.)
Posted by Jeff Kesselman on May 29, 2005 at 02:42 PM PDT #