Kevin's Watch

It wasn't the fact of the "Noooo...." that bothered me, as I earlier agreed with Murrin(?) it was more the tone of it. It fitted in perfectly, but I just didn't think he sounded particularly torn and devastated.

--Avatar

Avatar wrote:It wasn't the fact of the "Noooo...." that bothered me, as I earlier agreed with Murrin(?) it was more the tone of it. It fitted in perfectly, but I just didn't think he sounded particularly torn and devastated.

Agreed. I reiterate:

I wrote:Frankenstein's Vader, shambling free of his manacles and crying "No" like he's just dropped a yoghurt

There you go then!

--A

Or the sound of Vader going down a steep rollercoaster, heh.

Well, I'm about an hour from the end, & I don't know if I'll even bother to finish watching it.

1) Palpatine is so FRIKKIN OBVIOUSLY a Sith Lord from the first 2 minutes of the movie. Only a complete moron would be taken in by him...

2) Anakin is a FRIKKIN MORON! He could have been a really tragic figure; instead he's just an insipid idiot with a brain the size of a lentil.

3) Bah.

You must finish it, Edge, you must! Resistance is futile...(oops, wrong franchise)

Well, I saw RotS again for free at the university theater with a friend last Friday,

And it's still just as terrible as it was the first time I saw it, heh.

In fact, it was probably even worse. Heh.

We had a great time making jokes and mocking the movie the whole time though, so it was a blast. MST3Ked everything. It really pissed off the people around us, but I didn't feel too bad since the movie was friggen free.

But deal lord, this movie is bad. Heh.

The best lines in Revenge of the Sith to mock (Besides the "NOOO!!!"):
3) "But you were the chosen one!!!"
2) "My powers have doubled since the last time you saw me, Dooku!!!"
1) "Anakin! You're breaking my heart!!!"

Although pretty much every line that Anakin or Padme says can be easily mocked.

Heh. A great movie to see for free though. It's so much fun to laugh at this movie.

I have concluded after much thought on the issue of the new trilogy that the only part of the new movies that is actually "good" is the lightsaber fights. And the lightsaber fights in the new trilogy are simply amasing. They almost make up for the crappy lines and terrible romance scenes.-jay

Best lines from Runes of the Sith to mock:

"But you were the Chosen!"
"My powers have doubled since the last time you saw me, Groveler!"
"Roger, you're breaking everything!"

Sorry, I'm in a goofy Runes mood right now.

Thanks for your thoughts, Jay...but you should stop beating around the bush and tell us what you really think.

Yes, the prequel lightsaber fights are very well done...in contrast to the undercooked romance and half-baked dialogue, you mean?

At least Jar-Jar was very rare.

Basically, the first trilogy does a fantastic job at showing how good the original trillogy was.

And I actually thought the "NOOOOOOOOO!" from RotS was a tip of the hat to Luke's "NOOOOOOOO!" from Empire.

Jay

I'm still trying to work out why Lucas changed the whole formula. It seems he thinks Star Wars is only about Jedi and light saber battles. But in 4-6 the Jedi aren't really the focus at all.

The Jedi did not exist in 4-6.

dlbpharmd wrote:The Jedi did not exist in 4-6.

Sorry, I should have been more clear. When I say 'jedi' I mean focus on light saber battles, etc. 4-6 were good because they had variety. It seems 1-3 just want to focus only on the Jedi, ignoring the scope that 4-6 had.

Ah, gotcha. Point well taken. The space battles in 4 and 6 were fantastic; we never really saw anything like that in the prequels. (I hate the scene in ROTS where the stupid little droids are eating through Obi-Wan's fighter. Why couldn't GL have shown us 2 Jedi Masters fighting their way through a bazillion droid fighters?) We also had the battle on Hoth, the speeder bike chase scene in ROTJ, etc. Yes indeed, you make a very good point about the lack of variety in the prequels.

People wanted the Jedi I guess. To be honest, I certainly did. The sequels set the stage by harkening back to an age, not all that long ago, when the Jedi were the pre-eminent warrior monks, an elite and mystical order.

They and their fall were what started the whole thing off. They and their defeat were central to the fall of the Old Republic.

What I wanted out of the prequels was more about the Jedi. Many of the books which followed the Lucas universe after the first movies also focused heavily, and sucessfully, on them.

--A

I enjoyed what we saw about the Jedi, and I certainly enjoyed all of the light saber battles. What I want now is more about the Sith.

More Sith, and more of the wonderful Imperials.

Yeah, more Sith, and more Jedi.

--A

I finally saw III this weekend.
I liked it!
Every scene Obi-Wan was in was great.
And R2D2, of course, kicked ass.

Everything got wrapped up nicely for me too.

Two parts I didn't like were the Wookie planet battle.
I didn't get that at all.
Did it have any point other than to show Chewie?
And Anakin getting cut up by Obi-Wan was a little weak too.
But I guess anything else would have looked like the Monty Python Black Knight skit.

I liked the Anakin and Padme story line too.
Come on guys, it was *true love*.
If a heart breaks under true love that's what is going to happen.

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!"

Pretty much sums up the movie.