Star Wars Episode III official thread

[voltz]

Too bad I missed out on nerd night. I remember how bad it was when AOTC opened and I was with all kinds of kids dressed up like it was halloween. I did have a good time though.

[MarsVolta]

OH YEAH!?

WELL I GET TO SEE IT AT 7PM EASTERN!!

11 MORE HOURS TO GO!

I'm EST too lol.

[Jetman]

Too bad I missed out on nerd night. I remember how bad it was when AOTC opened and I was with all kinds of kids dressed up like it was halloween. I did have a good time though.

Yeah, I've only done the 'nerd-night' opening for one movie - Matrix Reloaded. And there were a couple of losers in trenchcoats and sunglasses , but there was one babe in a tight black Trinity suit to make up for that - <3

[Wildkat]

pssst.... there is a leaked workprint out already...

[Fe 26]

>_< 2 HOURS

[Revoltor]

Ok, I'm back.

This movie rocked hard. I think it'll take a few more viewings but I think I'm going to have to say it's better than "New Hope". "New Hope" is cool because it works as a stand-alone movie but "Revenge" is jam-packed with action. Nothing as cool as the Hoth battle but lots of light saber battles that rival the OT (not that hard really).

Anyway, I don't want to gush over the movie so I'll just list a bunch of things that irked me or I found interesting.

-Padme looks like a dog in some scenes. A shame really.
-Jar Jar has zero lines (although I could've sworn he says "excuse me")
-Clone Troopers take their helmets off left and right. Since their bodies are all CGI, the Jango heads look totally fucking awful. They try floating the faces on top of the suits and it just comes off looking unnatural.
-Midichlorians are brought up and it's stupid
-QuiGon comes up, and it's stupid
-Yoda says something that apparently saves the expanded universe books from looking defunct
-Yoda looks really good. In some scenes I almost confused him for the puppet (that's a good thing)
-Dooku fight was awesome
-Grievous is super fucking cool
-The Emperor is totally super fucking cool. The make-up is really impressive.
-Buzz-bots are cool
-Chewbacca is hardly in this film. It's a fucking shame.
-The last scene fucking rocks

Spoilers:

-Thank goodness they killed off all of the annoying as shit "jedi kidz"
-Midichlorians formed into a sperm cell and impregnated Shmi Skywalker?
-Anakin burns up by just lying on the floor. I thought he'd get dunked in the lava.
-Apparently Padme was in love with Anakin for being a whiny bitch. As soon as he grows a pair she tells us "IT'S LIKE I DON'T EVEN KNOW YOU!!"
-Anakin chokes a bitch
-Sam Jackson doesn't look like a bitch (so don't try to fuck him like a bitch)


I'll list more as they come to me but overall just know that the movie rocked ass and was definitely worth the wait. For some nerds there'll be a couple of loose threads but it really shouldn't matter.

3 and 1/2 stars for reals, yo.

pssst.... there is a leaked workprint out already...

Psst...nobody wants to watch some shit with numbers running all over the place. Don't copy that floppy. (that's a really clean print though )

[Jetman]

Wow, Edited because, I'm a drunken fool.

[Revoltor]

My only regret is there not being enough Greivous. He's that damn cool.

[MechDeus]

This movie made me laugh. A lot. At stuff I wasn't supposed to.

War! Evil is everywhere!

HAHAHAHA! Right from the get-go it's so cheesy it makes the Ewoks looks like a professionally designed social commentary on how we should act at the workplace. The main problem is that everyone went from the "We can't deliver our lines," of the first two movies into "We must overact because we're on stage and so must exaggerate so that the people in back can tell what we're doing." The Emperor's voice was hysterical, his "I am the senate!" line was wonderful on the same level that I enjoy RE:Apocalypse and as time went on his pitch changing got funnier and funnier and he started making wierder faces to go with it.

Anakin was a fuckton better than he was in AotC and was handled really well (ignoring a bad love scene and some great overacting late in the movie), it actually surprised me how good he was pulled off in comparision to the first two movies. The designs in particular were incredible, they really pulled off the transition into Episode IV-VI ships perfectly.

Overall I enjoyed the movie. It has a lot of rough spots but I liked it and it was a lot better than the other prequels. There are hardly any painful acting moments which have all been replaced by stage-acting ("Vader will be there soon to... take care of you. AND I DON'T MEAN HE'S GOING TO HELP YOU! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!") with the poorly-timed exception of Anakin's final line (way to botch one of the most crucial moments). Good stuff, I'll see it again.

-Anakin burns up by just lying on the floor. I thought he'd get dunked in the lava.

But then he'd just melt.

[Cowutopia]

I didn't like it much and I expect to be in the vast minority. I'll spoiler everything from here on out.

First off, James Earl Jones hits the lowest point in his career by having to yell "Noooooooooooooooooooooooo!" I laughed. Hard.

The opening scene was kind of cool...I guess. The all-digital shit is too blurry and confused a lot of the time. The things that stay still more look better, like cannons getting destroyed.

Once they get into the ship things start to feel rushed. Within the first 10 minutes of the movie we have the first "Anakin hanging off a ledge." Just about every major character will hang off a ledge and for some reason be helpless because of it over the next 2 hours. Some even hang more than once.

After fighting a lot of droids, they reach palpatine's chambers undisturbed. No guards, anything. Of course it's a trap. Dooku comes in and gets whacked almost immediately. The scene feels shorter than it is because he repeatedly cuts at awful moments to R2D2, who has an entertaining scene taking out 2 battle droids...that would have been better if it was shown in longer segments before cutting back to obi and ani. Too too choppy.

Right here is also where I got the feeling that stuck with me throughout the whole movie.

The entire movie feels like George Lucas is fanservicing himself by trying to replay his own lost greatness. Tons of lines are recycled, and by recycled I mean lifted directly out of the old trilogy and purposefully delivered in the same way. Too many to even count.

Instead of adding weight to scenes in the later episodes (which it sort of does, I won't be able to watch episode VI the same way again, unfortunately) it also falls flat and just seems like Lucas having a joygasm over his old material.

C-3PO is completely unfunny and pathetic. And he flies a ship.

Anakin....<sigh> When he's wavering between his options they cut back and forth between his and portman's completely inexpressive faces. I felt bad for John Williams because he tried to write dramatic music when there was no drama onscreen to accompany. The music seems strangely out of place...often. Anakin also apparently only cries out of his left eye, doesn't blink when he does so, and the lone tear follows the same path down his face every time.

I like this one...He slices off Mace's hand, then falls to his knees. "What have I done!" he proclaims in a woeful revelation. The next words out of his mouth are him swearing himself in as a Sith. No transition or recapitulation like...happens. It really jarred me, and when Palpatine, looking retarded as he was "FINALLY EXPOSED FOR THE MONSTER HE WAS" in more ways than one dubs him Vader, I felt sick. It was just so flat...and dead.

I can't tell if the audience was totally silent in awe of the coolness or in awe of how aburpt and unceremonius it was.

And they FUCKING CUT AWAY TO PADME GIVING BIRTH while they fucking put the armor on him. They couldn't fucking play one scene at a goddamn time, or let one run a little longer or some shit? UGH. UGH. And then he gets up and staggers like Frankenstein before unleashing his NOOOOOOOO.

Oh yeah, Obi Wan shoots Grievous. In the heart. While dangling (again) from a ledge, apparently unable to jump up.
If Jedi have a weakness, it's ledges.
"So uncivilized," he quips to no one (or rather to the audience, and Lucas, who has his dick out at this moment and is rubbing hard.) Instead of sounding natural, it sounds like fanservice. Ugh. I'd have rather he said nothing at all.

All the best parts of the movie are...the action scenes I guess. And they're alright. Nothing new or interesting really, especially after the opening sequence. There's no real drama like in Ep. V or anything, no hacking away at a hand, no emotional moments. Oh man... and then.
"It's over, Anakin. I have the high ground." What? .... What? There's like 34526456 other things Anakin could have done in that situation. Apparently in their training together Obi-Wan and Anakin decided that when they are standing in that precise way the one on bottom has to flip up and get his arm chopped off, but anakin thought he was powerful enough to *not* get his arm chopped off. Lame.

So was the giant lizard thing that had a great sound effect that annoyed the piss out of me. Only Obi-Wan had one. And I wouldn't take that loud as fuck thing to spy on anyone's conference.

Droids are apparently programmed only to shoot jedi when they don't have the drop on them. If they do get the drop on one, they have to wait until the jedi starts slicing them up to do anything about it. I don't have as much a problem with this as the other things though.

There are many more awesome moments in this movie than the other two though. Here's the thing, I don't think I ever need to see it again. I always think I'd like to watch the last ones because of the cool lightsaber fights but after I turn them on I immediately get bored.

I'm willing to bet this one will do the same, since the other half of the movie is staring at Padme's stupid face or listening to them argue like middle schoolers in their first relationship who only know how to speak in cliches.

So if we lived in a world where New Hope was a 10/10, I'd give this movie maybe a 5, or a 6. Maybe a 4 if I'm in a bad mood, like I am now.

But I'm sure all you fans that need servicing will be adequately serviced.

When I got there I was the best-looking Vader and I dueled with another guy up in front of the whole theater, re-enacting the end of Episode VI, to applause. I gave freaking photo-ops for tremendous nerds.

When the movie ended I wanted to put my Vader gear away in shame, just get away.

You can boil it down to this really; I really like the story, and it does make sense. I just hate HATE hate the execution.

Think I'm gonna go watch episode V.