May 22, 2005

• Well, the past week has been something busy for me. It was either me
  being sucked into E3 news online, my Dad's birthday, my parent's
  wedding anniversary, watching Star Wars, actually attending E3, and
  going to my relative's wedding.  So yeah, I'm beat and
  tired.  For several of those days, I didn't really get much
  sleep.  I was sooo occupied that my e-mail has just been piling
  up, and my recorded TV shows haven't even been seen yet. Hopefully this
  week will be more relaxed, so I can catch up on all the things I wasn't
  able to do.

  But for now, after three days since I watched it, here's my Star Wars Episode III review.

  

  Star Wars Episode III : Revenge of the Sith, gives us the final send off to this movie franchise that George Lucas
  started in 1977.  I've got two words to sum up the movie, NOT
  BAD.  The previous two prequel installments weren't exactly as
  memorable as we hoped they would be, but this time Lucas did some
  things correctly.  The emphasis on Anakin turning to a full fledge
  villain gives the movie some emotional value that the other two were
  lacking.  There were less technical mythological and political
  scenes in this one (although some is still there), and it only helps
  makes the movie's main core story more effective.

  The one main problem I had with the film though, is the dialogue. 
  Lucas has never really been that great with dialogue in the first
  place, but some scenes comes off really awkward by the poor
  writing.  Another thing lacking in this film is some light
  heartedness.  While Obi-Wan and R2D2 provided some humorous scenes
  in some moderate doses, this film is primarily darker than a normal
  Star Wars film is.  I suppose one thing that the original trilogy
  had going for it is the character of Hans Solo, which really helped add
  that needed sense of whimsy.  Unfortunately for the pre-quels, the
  closest thing to a Hans Solo is Obi-Wan, and it's simply not up to par.
  Although this has Ewan McGregor's best work as Obi-Wan Kenobi.

  The best thing in Revenge of the Sith is Ian McDiarmid's
  work as Supreme Chancellor Palpatine and as Darth Sidious. The way he
  handled the manipulation of everybody and everything that occured is
  simply astounding. The way he influenced Anakin to go into the Dark
  Side of the force also created some great moments in Star Wars
  mythology.  His work here will forever be remembered by the fans
  for years to come.

  So, we got great characters showing their best work in Star Wars. 
  You got great visuals paired with awesome actions sequences (the most
  light saber battles in a Star Wars film).  You got an engrossing
  storyline between Anakin's turn to Darth Vader, the fall out of his
  relationship with Padme, Obi-Wan's inner conflict to fight his friend,
  and the great Darth Sidious. Despite some flaws the movie has, this is
  definitely a good addition to this franchise.  B+

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