Nice review Jay. See you guys actually had the movie start at 12:01 (since your posting at 3:04am). Mine didn't start till freaking 12:35 (after the trailers). No clue what the hold up was, but on a 20 screen theater here in Boca Raton, 16 of the screens showed the movie. There were a few people dressed up, wish I brought my digital camera. This one chick was dressed up in the Leia slave outfit (which you always get) but actually looked amazing in it. I'm assuming the guy (with her) who dressed as Vader was her BF, so if he was he is a very lucky man.

On a scale of 1-10 I'd give The Sith a 7.5 or maybe 8. Menace gets a 4.5; Clones gets 6.5 (best movie experience of my life); Hope gets a 9; Empire gets a 10; and Jedi gets a 8.5 (I was at the perfect age for Jedi and can still dig the ewoks). Anyway onto the movie.

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I think the best thing about ROTS is that it demonstrates there are gray areas in the Force; it's not as simple as light side/dark side. You'll see high-ranking Jedi performing questionable actions in the name of the greater good. You'll hear some characters question the motives of the Jedi, and it makes sense. You'll know that arrogance runs rampant on all sides. The deepest hurt is when two of our most beloved Jedi both admit failure.

That was the coolest part of the movie. You could really see from Anakin's point of view he thought he was doing the right thing. I loved how the Emporer manipulated him and fed off his fears to turn him. Also, after Mace disfigured him and he put on the hood for the 1st time, I was like wow.

I really wish he would have made the film about 20-30 min longer and extended some of the fight scenes. I wish the Mace Windu vs the Chanceslor scene was a tad longer, cause Mace was such a badass. I really wanted to see Yoda get f'd up by the Emporer and that's why he's a bit crazy when we meet him in Empire. Now we know he's a bit crazy just from being in exile for so long. I really liked the Ani vs Obi fight, but wish that were a tad longer also. Loved the move Obi-Wan had on Anikan, that was cool. Even though it was a complete sneak attack, I wish we sould have seen the Jedi fight back a bit and then get destroyed. Maybe I'm used to seeing them kick butt in the Clone Wars cartoon, but I felt a bit cheap seeing them get slottered that easily (especially by the Clones). Those were my major nitpicks with the film, everything felt a tad rushed and could have been drawn out a bit more.

I loved though how everything got rapped up and it felt like the OT. That Lucass did perfect. Overall, I really enjoyed the film and will see it again (when I'm not so tired). Need to take a nap when I get home from work tonight (going on almost 4 hours sleep).