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Abdullah makes a prophecy!

judging by how you people tear at every little thing on a movie. i am imagining people saying....

"This sucked"
"this was terrible"
"gosh, George fell short"
"gosh, George fell short of MY anticipation"
"that was retarded"
"that was ok, could of been better"
"A downer"

and not one of you people are gonna say, it was good, or great.

I prophecize this, now we wait and see the my prophecy come true.

WRONG


Holy SHIT did that rock!

12:01 showings all the way!

Just got black from the 12:35 showing...

AND IT WAS GREAT!

I got back from the 3:00AM showing.

Special effects were great. I think a middle schooler wrote the dialouge.

Whoopdefucking do, the dialogue wasn't great. The movie, and saga, as a whole are groundbreaking master pieces. I will always have more respect for this series than I do for LOTR, simply because this is Lucas' life work.

The movie was amazing. I cannot use words to explain it.

Just cos someone spends ages on something doesn't make it great...

But when you produce 2 of the most epic trilogies to ever exist, AND they're your entire life's work, then it IS great.

We need a darth vader smilie.

That was not what I was trying to say. Lucas has brought this saga together perfectly. 30 all tied together and finished off brilliantly.

I really don't see why people need to complain about the dialouge, as all of his movies have had the same problem, even though I do not consider it a problem.

I went to the 12:01 showing. We sat a little too close to the screen, but it wasn't too bad. And the previews didn't really start until about 12:05. Narnia and Fantastic Four. Neat. Anyways, I loved the movie. Much better than the other prequels, and comparable to the original three, IMO.

SPOILERS BELOW!









Well, pretty much on par with what people have said.

Actually, there were a lot of pretty funny scenes, and scenes that were funny but shouldn't have been. R2 was a great comic foil, with all the crazy stuff he does (but doesn't do later... I guess he was past his prime).

But geez... talk about horrible dialogue. It wasn't just the romantic scenes (where the only part that didn't look like it was Lucas pulling the strings was when Padme goes "stop being like this" in annoyance at Anakin's secretiveness). The opening dialogue was so wooden.

I know Ewan McGregor and Natalie Portman are way better actors than this. Samuel L Jackon too, really. And I've heard Hayden Christianson is a lot better. Heck... he was best when he was evil and slaughtering people. In fact only Ian McDiarmid (sp?) really acted. He was just plain awesome.

Overall, though, undeniably the best movie of the prequels, but I'm not totally sure about the original. Stands no chance next to Ep. V, but the other two... debatable.

Totally awesome nostalgic parts of the movie: the end, with Vader and Palpatine on the Star Destroyer deck with the crew in uniform (altho where'd the people come from?) with a guy who looked like Moff Tarkin nearby. And in the middle, with Bail Organa walking down the deck of hte original starship at the start of Ep IV... the same one the movie opens into and Darth Vader steps into.

Also, correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think Vader ever actually runs into Threepio and Artoo in the original trilogy. So that could explain that.

There were parts that didn't seem to tie together well enough. Like Anakin's decision, and how when he goes over, he does it completely without any sort of qualm. Didn't seem realistic to me. And yeah, the reason for Padme's death was just totally stupid. Especially after it became "she lost the will to live." Even the wussy choke would have been better.

Also... one extended force lightning deforms Palpatine's face but the rest do nothing at all? Okay....

Poor Christopher Lee.... not a good villain recently. Saruman gets an early ax in RotK, and Dooku gets an early ax in RotS.

The ending was pretty sweet tho. I would have liked to see Yoda settle into Dagobah (like he does in the book), and I think the perfect touch would have been for Obi Wan to come to the farm on a speeder, give the babies, and instead of fading out on Owen and Beru looking at the sun, you have Obi Wan speeding off into the distance, with Owen and Beru looking on, and the twin suns setting in a shimmering red.

But I can't complain. All in all, I'd say something like a 4/5.



Now I really want to go watch the original three again. Because if this movie did do one thing, it's put the original trilogy in a totally new light for me. I won't look at it the same way again, and I don't think I'll look at Alec Guiness as Obi Wan the same way either.

You people are freaks.

You people are freaks.

You berate people for their likes/hobbies.
I thought that the ending was great. He could not of ended it better.

That shot of the sun and the sand dune, wow. Everything was there.

You people are freaks.

Time to take a chill pill.

staying up all hours of the night and dressing like a homeless bum (oops I mean Jedi) to watch a movie that will be in theaters for another three months isn't a hobby. it's more of an unhealthy obsession.

WOOOOO!!!!


THAT SHIT ROCKED!!!!


FUCK YEAH!!!!

You berate people for their likes/hobbies.
I thought that the ending was great.  He could not of ended it better.

That shot of the sun and the sand dune, wow.  Everything was there.

If it had been exactly as the novelization (which had basically everything except Yoda landing in Dagobah and Obi-Wan actually speeding into the sunset), that would have been 10/10 perfect.

So as it was, the end was like 9.8.

staying up all hours of the night and dressing like a homeless bum (oops I mean Jedi) to watch a movie that will be in theaters for another three months isn't a hobby.  it's more of an unhealthy obsession.

I didn't really dress up, but thanks for letting me know you were there...
Once in a life time thing man, once in a life time.

Obviously there will be spoilers...

A damn fine movie... but it's still a prequel, which means it's required to have a certain number of scenes that make you want to punch Lucas in the face for not hiring a real writer. But, there are scenes of true bliss too that more than even it out.

The positives...
- Ewan McGregor, Yoda
- Everything that happened on Mustafar
- The view between Anakin and Padme across Coruscant
- Order 66 montage
- JW's beautiful score

The negatives
- The first 30 minutes is as flat and uninteresting as anything in the first two films.
- The space battle is a blurry disappointment. There's so much going on in the background and almost nothing happening in the foreground.
- NOOOOO! (maybe the dumbest, most awkward scene in all of Star Wars history... I'm not sure there is any way to defend it)
- Hayden Christensen before turning to the dark side
- General Grievous, Count Dooku (incredibly useless villains)
- Birthing sequence was very forced.
- The entire ending seemed in a rush to explain every little plot inconsistency between the PT and the OT.

Neither an up nor a down, Ian McDarmid teetered between deliciously evil and way over the top the entire time.

Like the first two, I could probably go on and on about this or that and the numerous thing that irked me (although this was a big step up from the first two)... but these things have always been more than the sum of their parts. When it's good it's incredible, when it's bad, it's almost unbearable. Thankfully it was much more good than bad.

A very high ***/****... maybe higher on a second viewing. The second best film I've seen in a weak year so far (still haven't gotten around to seeing Crash yet).

Hello.


Crash > Episode III


Raven-SDI
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I'm bad at math, does that mean Crash is better?
If so, haha.

I'm bad at math, does that mean Crash is better?
If so, haha.

Yeah.