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Revenge of the Sith Thoughts
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So I braved the crowds last night and saw The Revenge of the Sith, and was pleased to discover the crowds actually weren't all that insane. Yay for small town cinemas on school nights!
My quick verdict: It was okay. Like the other two films in this new trilogy, it suffered deeply from the fact that George Lucas, for all his world-building vision and production wizardry, seems completely lost at sea when he's writing for and directing human beings, which is not a good thing when human beings are the stars. However, this time around the humans are marginally better-directed and better-spoken (rumor has it that famed playwright Tom Stoppard did a polish on the dialogue), and the effects and action sequences are among the best yet. So the new trilogy ends as well as it could. But I think the whole new trilogy could have been much better, and when compared to the other recent trilogy -- The Lord of the Rings series -- it looks shiny but so very thin.
Those of you who have seen it: Your thoughts? To get you started, here's some video of fan reactions.
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What you turn it into John, asking for example comments
from people who have actually seen the movie to comment.
You make me John want to title my next entry
THE REVENGE OF THE KIDDIES
Remember the sociology of Philip Wylie's Momism?
We're now in the era of Kiddyisms. The movie is disgusting!
And, John, I have three kids, two of whom are not much older
than your child (childrn?). I let them sometimes watch CN
trash cartoons and movies, but I tell them the truth about them,
and point out all the errors in language and thinking.
Statistically do KIDDIES run AOL Journals?
Barry http://journals.aol.com/bbartle3/Vengeance/ -
Saw it yesterday too. (Yay for theaters with reserved seating.) It's just about good ENOUGH. Reviewed at length here:
http://journals.aol.com/nzforme/Sothisisatreadmill/entries/ 1079 -
please just end it!!! Let it die! SW is soo yuck LOL
~ Julie~ http://journals.aol.com/joolsinwa/randommusingsofmymind -
I think it is very telling that the episode of the Star Wars trilogy that is widely held to be the best of the six by both fans and film critics, is the one Lucas did not direct.
-Paul
http://journals.aol.ca/plittle/AuroraWalkingVacation/
5/21/05 2:56 AM
http://journals.aol.com/mavar
Short version: good, not great.
Karen