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Post #312106

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C3PX
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Anyone else here have a love/hate relation with Revenge of the sith ?
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2-Mar-2008, 3:47 PM
I can honestly say that there is nothing I love about ROTS. If I never saw it again I would not mind a bit. For me there are things about the film that I don't mind, and then there are things I hate. I liked the opening battle. It was pretty cool how they panned down from the scroll right into battle. But that scene was really knocked down by silly things like buzz droids, Oddball, and poorly rendered CG clones fighter pilots. I was ready to look past those things, but just a short bit later we were indroduced to General Grevious, got to witness the first bits of McDiarmid's painful over acting, saw who was the best Star Wars villian of the whole PT die in the first few minutes of the film, and we see Obi-Wan sustain an injury that would have likely torn him open and recover from it with not so much as a limp or the loss of a drop of blood (non-violent, I am fine with that, but considering what we see later in the movie...). This is just in the first of the film, as the film progresses more and more little annoyances like this continuously add up, then we reach Anakin's turn and all hell breaks loose, we have the Emporer's face melt to make him look something like he did in ROTJ, we have him murdering children, attempting to choke his wife to death, an over the top fight complete with rope swinging and hovering over a lava river on the backs of droids, not to mention Yoda going nuts with his light saber again, and Padme dying of a broken heart, Anakin having a nice leather suit slapped on him before his burns even have a chance to heal, and to top it all off after all these centuries of Jedi roaming the galaxy Qui-Gon, one of the very last Jedi, turns out to be the one who discovers how to become a force ghost and comes back to teach Yoda and Obi-Wan how to do it too.

I see ROTS as a frame work of crappy moments and plot lines covered with a million little bits of crappiness, in the end producing one overwhelming crap fest. That said, I see nothing wrong with people enjoying the movie and do not look down on them for liking it. I really wish I could enjoy it as much as they do, but no matter how hard I try and how much of a chance I give it, I simply cannot. I really wanted to enjoy it, honest.