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I don’t want to say too much about this movie as it’s only been out a short while. If you’re going to see it, I don’t want to spoil anything for you, although you have probably seen A New Hope, in which case you know that you have to get from a young Anakin Skywalker to Darth Vader with the classic black helmet somehow.

There weren’t too many surprises for me in the movie. The action scenes were decent, but I thought that too many of the light-sabre battles were far less than they have been in other films, especially the light sabre battles involving Palpatine.

There weren’t nearly as many “stupid Lucas tricks” in this movie as there were in the other two films (need I even mention the most egregious?), and the acting was certainly much better though it still needed a lot of work. Anakin’s whole staring-at-you-through-his-eyebrows thing doesn’t make him look menacing half as much as it makes you wonder if he slept funny the night before and has got a stiff neck today.

There were a few too many “Oh, let’s show how this happened now!” moments in the movie. They were cobbled together near the end, almost as an editorial afterthought.

Also, CG-Yoda just doesn’t do it for me. Granted, Yoda in the earlier movies (in the chronologically-produced sense) was anywhere from 15-25 years older than in the more recent ones, but that doesn’t mean he was a pinball puppet back then. If Yoda were to use the true power of the Force, that would have been far more impressive to me than a 2’7″ green blob swinging a tiny light sabre around.

Overall, however, I would say that this is one of the few movies that is worth the price of a ticket. You could wait for the DVD, but you’re better off waiting for the crowds to subside and settling down in a comfy theatre.

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Comment by vigilant20

2005-05-22 08:20:03

Ohhh that's good to hear. I'm supposed to go see it to day with my boy :)

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Comment by spiritgod

2005-05-23 10:28:01

Movie day, huh? :-P lol

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