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Other than enjoying the last third of the movie and Sidious machinations and liking the scene in the opera house, you won’t find me defending Revenge of the Sith. Each of the prequels has its moments which are difficult to positively describe without knocking them down for bad dialogue in the scripts, and I mean it’s some of the worst writing I’ve ever read in a screenplay. The films seem to be chock a block full of special effects, and characters seem to take a back seat to them.
With further development of the screenplays and a good dialogue writer, perhaps the films could have been better. But they would always be compared to the OT and to be found wanting, because their style is different, they aren’t that swashbuckling fun adventure movie Star Wars 1977 is. In media res. No they are too bogged down in space politics. Like in Phantom Menace Space taxes.
There’s only like a couple scenes that talk about these things and most of them are them barely doing that in TPM. The longest where it’s the most talked about is in the Senate later on in the movie and even that’s only a few minutes I think. And I think that scene mostly works writing wise, with some criticisms.
Even the politics are barely done for the majority of the PT. There’s many scenes, yes I think, but those scenes aren’t that long I think.
The high style dialogue and wooden politicking seem to be a deliberate choice. The Jedi sitting around in their councils, Palpatine sitting in his Chancellors office. It is rather boring.
for Space Opera serial there is very little Jedi action in the trilogy beyond the 3 lightsaber duels. Way too much dialogue standing around and talking. I didn’t write it. I would have had them visit lots of different cultures and planets getting into adventures, or the films would have been about the Clone Wars and Anakin and Obi’s relationship. And there would have been some Coruscant but way less of it. Plus I don’t see the Jedi as politicians or afraid of attachments. I completely reject the prequel version of the Jedi.
In TPM Obi and Qui fight droids more than once, Qui has a quick duel with Maul before escaping. There’s two space fights, more or less.
In AOTC, there’s a chase, Obi and Jango fight, Obi and Jango space chase battle, there’s the huge arena fight with a lot of Jedi and droids and right after that the battle between the separatist droids and the clones. Anakin and Obi fight Dooku, Yoda fights Dooku.
In ROTS, there’s the whole opening, which includes space battle, Obi and Anakin fighting droids, Obi and Anakin fighting Dooku, them fighting more droids, the crash. Then there’s the wookie droid battle, Obi fights Grevious, Mace fights Palpatine, Anakin and Obi fight and Palpatine and Yoda fight.
I would have had more ground battles and space battles as well.
How many more did you want?
