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Originally posted by: jimbo
George probably figures now that Revenge of the Sith will reveal this long before there is no longer any surprise so there is no reason no to be more detailed. Also it is meant for all six movies to be watched in order.
- And what do we have then? I big, long and silly saga full of nothing but predictable storytelling for kids with the audience told everything at least twice. No surprises, no revelations, nothing! Just a big bore with "state of the art" special effects. Come on peepz, the Vader revelation was one of THE most shocking in cinema history, and now he´s messing that up. Let me tell you something. As a young boy and later a teenager drinking up everything that was Star Wars I always thought the legendary and mysterios backstory to those movies was so cool and ofcourse thought it would be great if Lucas went back and finished those. But as time went I saw that Lucas had lost his touch and that script he wrote is dull and has no plot twists at all (all around him he has "yes people" who seem to like "everything" he says and does - no one will disagree with him). Ther are no new likeable characters and some incredibly wooden and unrealistic dialogue (he should definitely have let others direct Episodes II & III like before). In the original trilogy we had some great chemistry between the rogue smuggler Han and the cute but feisty Leia, the young and exiting Luke Skywalker, the wise old and noble Obi Wan, the smooth (and shaky) Lando Calrissian, the mighty Chewbacca, those lovable droids of course and THE man himself Darth Vader! What we have now is some winy spoilt little brat of an Anakin trying so hard to show us his "evil" side, an Obi Wan in McGregor that is so desperatly trying to imitate old Alec Guinness (failing badly might I add), Natalie Portman hugely boring and drab as Padme and on hell of a predictible storyline. I tell you, Lucas has made a real mess of things here... let´s hope he redeems himself and the Star Wars legacy by producing a brilliant Episode III (the one episode that REALLY NEEDS to connect well to the old trilogy!). At least some saving grace...
peace,
Rebelscum