My Initial Thoughts On Star Wars: Episode III
Everyone at work has been asking me what I think of the new Star Wars. So here’s my thoughts for anyone who cares. I’ll try to keep any spoilers to a minimum (if you don’t know that Anakin becomes Darth Vader that’s your problem).
The Good:
This is easily the best of the prequel trilogy – maybe the 3rd best in the entire series after Empire and A New Hope (original Star Wars for the non-nerds). The action is amazing. The opening space battle kicks total ass – it’ the largest, coolest, most chaotic space battle of any of the films with thousand of ships dog fighting and massive cruisers blasting the shit out of each other like pirate ships strafing each other with cannon fire.
Haden Christenson is far better in Sith than he was in Episode II, and while there are still a few poorly delivered lines he at least nails most of the key scenes in which he makes his turn to the dark side. There’s no doubt about it: mangry conflicted Anakin is much better than whiny, love-struck Anakin. Also, the scenes between him and Padme are kept to a minimum and only 50% of them suck (more on that in “The Bad” section).
The lightsaber fights are long and often epic, though none of them recaptures the emotion of the Empire stand off between Luke and Vader or the sheer coolness of the Darth Maul fight in Episode I.
Jar-Jar is in about two scenes and never says a word. Awesome.
The Bad:
Natalie Portman sucks in this movie. She wasn’t great in the other two, but she downright sucks in this one. Disappointing, because she is good in almost every other film she’s been in.
Some of the references to and introduction of characters from the original trilogy seem forced and unnecessary.
Ian McDirmid, as the Emperor, is downright weird in some scenes. His maniacal cackle from Return of the Jedi seems to have transformed into a lot of unnecessary, strange vocalization in this film.
C3PO still sucks. He was annoying in the original trilogy, but it was still funny. Now he’s just annoying.
In the first 20 minutes of the movie there is entirely too much talking from the Trade Federation battle droids. They walk around having conversations like people … stupid people. Why do they even need to talk at all? Shut up and get cut in half by a lightsaber.
Perhaps worst of all, Darth Vader does a spot-on Frankenstein impersonation. Watch for it ... then try to pretend the coolest villian in the history of film ever did anything so lame.
The Good:
This is easily the best of the prequel trilogy – maybe the 3rd best in the entire series after Empire and A New Hope (original Star Wars for the non-nerds). The action is amazing. The opening space battle kicks total ass – it’ the largest, coolest, most chaotic space battle of any of the films with thousand of ships dog fighting and massive cruisers blasting the shit out of each other like pirate ships strafing each other with cannon fire.
Haden Christenson is far better in Sith than he was in Episode II, and while there are still a few poorly delivered lines he at least nails most of the key scenes in which he makes his turn to the dark side. There’s no doubt about it: mangry conflicted Anakin is much better than whiny, love-struck Anakin. Also, the scenes between him and Padme are kept to a minimum and only 50% of them suck (more on that in “The Bad” section).
The lightsaber fights are long and often epic, though none of them recaptures the emotion of the Empire stand off between Luke and Vader or the sheer coolness of the Darth Maul fight in Episode I.
Jar-Jar is in about two scenes and never says a word. Awesome.
The Bad:
Natalie Portman sucks in this movie. She wasn’t great in the other two, but she downright sucks in this one. Disappointing, because she is good in almost every other film she’s been in.
Some of the references to and introduction of characters from the original trilogy seem forced and unnecessary.
Ian McDirmid, as the Emperor, is downright weird in some scenes. His maniacal cackle from Return of the Jedi seems to have transformed into a lot of unnecessary, strange vocalization in this film.
C3PO still sucks. He was annoying in the original trilogy, but it was still funny. Now he’s just annoying.
In the first 20 minutes of the movie there is entirely too much talking from the Trade Federation battle droids. They walk around having conversations like people … stupid people. Why do they even need to talk at all? Shut up and get cut in half by a lightsaber.
Perhaps worst of all, Darth Vader does a spot-on Frankenstein impersonation. Watch for it ... then try to pretend the coolest villian in the history of film ever did anything so lame.
posted by Paco
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