Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith

[obiwan]

what did you guys think of it? i thought it was OK just not nearly as good as the OT. but its the best of the prequels. your thoughts?

 

[Ziggyman]

I liked it...I actually thought it was a tad bit better than Return Of The Jedi...For me, it's third among the best

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[obiwan]

free us...or die. ahahaha just had to say that. yeah ROTJ had its weak moments. for me, the jabba scenes, while not terrible, i was never nuts about the jabba palace stuff.

 

[Prison Mike]

those stupid ewoks dancing at the end made the ending of ROTJ lame.

 

[Ziggyman]

Ye...I heard originally instead of going to Endor, the plan was to use Kashyyk and use more Wookies...Anyone else hear that...

...Glad we got more Wookies in Revenge Of The Sith...And No damn Ewoks!

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

ROTS was good i thought, but IMO it handled Anakin turning to the Dark Side poorly.

 

[Victarion]

Ye...I heard originally instead of going to Endor, the plan was to use Kashyyk and use more Wookies...Anyone else hear that...

...Glad we got more Wookies in Revenge Of The Sith...And No damn Ewoks!

I have heard the rumors of Kashyyk. Also, on theforce.net it was said that originally the Emperor resided in a fortress on a lava planet named Had-Abaddon, where Luke would confront him. There were also concept artworks of a couple of half-finished Death Stars surrounding a random planet. Overall it seems like there were so many ideas that were so much better than what we got.The ewoks would've been better if they were more like badgers: cute and cuddly one minute, vicious and snarling the next and braining storm troopers with rocks and other crude implement.

 

[Warhammer]

I loved the film when I saw it in the theater. Then when I got it on DVD, I slowly started to dislike it. It was the best of the prequel trilogy, but many things about it were bad. First off was the acting/dialogue. The dialogue was horrible. It was almost like George Lucas did not require second takes. Hayden Christensen was as wooden as ever. The second problem was Anakin Skywalker and his turn to the Dark Side. We had really seen nothing about him being the best pilot in the Galaxy in any of the prequels as well as this film. I was also under the impression that he was supposed to be this great Jedi hero that was seduced by the Dark Side. Well, that didn't happen at all. He turned to the Dark Side out of desperation of Padme's death, which not only contradicts A New Hope, but also was a total letdown, in general.

One great thing I will say was Ian McDiarmid's performance. He stole the show as Palpatine/Darth Sidious.

 

[Batspider77]

It´s my second favorite SW Movie after Empire strikes back

 

[Symbiote666]

Strangely, I thought Attack of the Clones was the best from the prequels. Although saying that, I do skip over any Anakin/Padme stuff in all 3 prequels.

HC's acting was bad, but it was alright because the character was young, as was HC, so it could be forgiven as lack of experience, rather than his simply sucking.

I loved the Jango vs Obi Wan fight. Yoda vs DT was brilliant (as was Christopher Lee). I felt the CGI Yoda was a smart move. The Jedi vs Droids battle was awesome. The whole thing was just a lot better for me.

From all 3 prequels, Ewan really holds it all together, when he says the line "This weapon is your life" in AotC, it was perfect. Shame they cut his hair in RotS.

Agreed about the character of Anakin, they totally ruined him from what was said about him before. He was selfish, arrogant and greedy. Sure, he was still great in terms of power, but he was no big loss as a friend.

 

[obiwan]

ROTS was waay better then AOTC and TPM. i only own ROTS, the other 2 can rot. ROTS at least had some awsome action parts, better special effects a nd slightly better story then the other 2. i love the begining with the star destoyer, or wait, the "republic cruiser". i thought it was a cool space battle. and of course the mustafar lava fight.

 

[Kevin Roegele]

I love RotS. No, it's not a great movie, but it is a very entertaining one.

With the prequels, I don't see them as 'what really happened' before the original trilogy anyway. The prequel trilogy is clearly not what Lucas had in mind as the back story when he made the original trilogy (see the online book 'The Secret History of Star Wars').

 

[Drizzle]

ROTS was good i thought, but IMO it handled Anakin turning to the Dark Side poorly.

Yeah. If I remember correctly, it went something like this...

Anakin: Oh noes! My wife's gonna die in childbirth!

Palpatine: It's k, I know a way to save her from dying, lol.

Samuel L. Jackson: I'm going to kill this mother****er!

Palpatine: Anakin, if he kills me we won't be able to save Padme.

Anakin: Okay, I saved you. Now what do I have to do to save Padme's life?

Palpatine: Become my apprentice.

Anakin: Okay. Now can you help me save her?

Palpatine: Uh, I don't actually know how to do it, lol. Only one guy was able to cheat death in the past. But if we work together, I'll bet we can find out how to do it.

Anakin: .....

Palpatine: Hey, in the meantime, do you want to go betray the people that took you in, trained you and cared for you all these years?

Anakin: Gee, I don't know.

Palpatine: Come on, it'll be fun! You'll get to kill kids!

Anakin: Done and done!

 

[Asteroid-Man]

ROTS was good i thought, but IMO it handled Anakin turning to the Dark Side poorly.

Mostly cause of his ****ty acting.


Please continue the discussion here until a mod merges this with it:
http://forums.superherohype.com/showthread.php?t=279333

 

[Commodore Schmidlapp]

Yeah. If I remember correctly, it went something like this...

Anakin: Oh noes! My wife's gonna die in childbirth!

Palpatine: It's k, I know a way to save her from dying, lol.

Samuel L. Jackson: I'm going to kill this mother****er!

Palpatine: Anakin, if he kills me we won't be able to save Padme.

Anakin: Okay, I saved you. Now what do I have to do to save Padme's life?

Palpatine: Become my apprentice.

Anakin: Okay. Now can you help me save her?

Palpatine: Uh, I don't actually know how to do it, lol. Only one guy was able to cheat death in the past. But if we work together, I'll bet we can find out how to do it.

Anakin: .....

Palpatine: Hey, in the meantime, do you want to go betray the people that took you in, trained you and cared for you all these years?

Anakin: Gee, I don't know.

Palpatine: Come on, it'll be fun! You'll get to kill kids!

Anakin: Done and done!

I do believe this is the entire original script, Lucas ftw

 

[bullets]

the whole thing was really about anakins turn to the dark side but the scene where does it is almost laughable .



the movie was an improvement on the prequels though and i loved the opening.

 

[BLACKVULCAN]

That movie blew. i was mad i spent money on it. Oh Anakin you're breaking my heart!!! Sheesh.Come on.

 

[Matt]

I thought it was horrible. You didn't really care about any of the characters so any of the emotion just felt dry (not to mention the lack of chemistry between the actors didn't help much). The plot was ridiculous and incredibly contrived. It just wasn't that good.

 

[Venom75]

I loved it when I first saw it and I still do now,just not as much. Probably my favorite after "Empire." I do see it's flaws and it has gone down a notch down for me. The acting and dialogue are horrible throughout most of the Star Wars films,so I guess that's to be expected. I do agree with everyone here about Anakin's turn to the dark side. I wanted to see him slwoly turn and realize how much he loved the power of it all,but instead he turns because of Padme?
I did love Ian as the Emperor,however. He was AWESOME!

 

[FaT_tONle]

Well they got the Sith right... he exceeded expectations and was probably more badass in that film than Vader ever was... but the shoddy writing and acting once again did it in.

 

[Ziggyman]

What kind of ruined the movie for me...Although I could stand it for the most part...Was Hayden Christensen being as wooden as ever as Anakin...Geez...

 

[amazingfantasy15]

I thought Revenge of the Sith was horrible. The whole movie really was about one thing, the transformation of Anakin Skywalker to Darth Vader and as everyone has said, it sucked. That scene needed to work, the motivation needed to work, it needed to be powerful, it failed on every level. Everyone talks about the Obiwan-Anakin lightsaber battle, I thought that was also horrible, it was a video game, there was no emotion to it and please that "I have the high ground" crap. Thought this was behind even The Phantom Menace in terms of Star Wars movie and just a little better than Attack of the Clones.

 

[DorkyFresh]

my opinion.....RotS was definitely the best of the prequels, but aside from the visuals and sounds, everything else (acting, writing, etc.) didn't live up to the standards of 2004/2005.

 

[Kevin Roegele]

If you edited all three prequels into one two and a half/three hour movie, that would be a great movie.

Anyway, I don't watch the prequels these days, I watch...

 

[thejon93]

I liked this film, but I honestly don't think that's saying very much for this trilogy(Ep. I-III). I liked the first film('The Phantom Menace'), I hated the second film('Attack of the Clones') but 'Revenge of the Sith' was my favourite of the trilogy(by a centimetre, however, Darth Maul made me enjoy 'The Phantom Menace' as well). 'Revenge of the Sith' I felt was good on one side of me, but on the other, I just kept asking myself: "Where the hell's the fun? Where's the two droids bickering at each other constantly? Where's the great characters? Where's the fun?" However, this film had some great little things in it: I felt that Ewan McGreggor was terrific as Obi-Wan, the final two fight-sequences were awesome(it was weird seeing Yoda without the coat on though), although I disagree with having too much VFX, some of them actually work out quite well(I felt the opening sequence made me have a little more faith in the VFX), witnessing the deaths of the Jedi was a real emotional sequence even though you didn't really ever get to know them as characters, but the betrayal the Clones showcased was devistating, although I ain't a fan of Hayden's acting skills, I felt he did fine in the role of Anakin(better than in 'Attack of the Clones'), he made me believe that this character truly became Darth Vader, Palpatine's old Sith-Legend story he told Anakin helped further explain his origins in a rather unique way which worked out better told than it would've been showcased. There are some other things I liked but that's pretty much all I have to like about the film on my part, other things I liked were: the costumes, the sets/props, the make-up effects, the sound-effects, pretty much every effect apart from the CGI overkill. With all of that, it all brought the film to my liking. So, I mind as well give my reviews for the whole saga while I'm at it so:
'Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace' - 6/10
'Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones' - 3.5/10
'Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith' - 6.5/10
'Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope' - 9.5/10
'Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back' - 10/10
'Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi' - 7.5/10

Trilogy #1 Overall Rating('Episodes I-III): 5.3/10
Trilogy #2 Overall Rating('Episodes IV-VI): 9/10