Deus ex machina
Anything that happens, happens.
Anything that, in happening, causes something else to happen, causes something else to happen.
Anything that, in happening, causes itself to happen again, happens again.
It doesn't necessarily do it in chronological order, though.
Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless
After a couple of days of posts to friends journals biased by my being tired of the media hype, I saw Revenge of the Sith Saturday night, and have to say that the plot held up well as far as addressing the lose ends and meshing them together, and some scenes that haven't had as much press were enthralling. I was pleased to see that the movie was worth seeing after all. On the other hand, the dialogue was stymied, and at least one critic agrees with me that it got old to have two characters mulling over mediocre dialogue while there was a city with traffic going on in the background.
My biggest peeve was that with high technology allowing the ability to use hyperspace for interplanetary travel and generate clones armies, why are they using mechanical prosthesis turning people into cyborgs and where was the OB/GYN care for Padme until her delivery - if people today can tell the number and sex of their children before birth, what happened to the power of technology and the perceptive ability of the Force utilizing Jedi?
Others have commented about Anakin and Padme’s love being a strong driver for his decision making, but after watching a brief part of Attack of the Clones this evening, some of those themes about the loss of his mother and Padme taking pity on him/filling the void of his separation anxiety seemed more redolent, leaving Palpatine in the position of predator able to seduce and use a vulnerable person to bend him to his will. There seem to be so many more subtlety dark themes that Lucas left underdeveloped. Was talking with a friend about how the subjects and themes expressed in westerns such as The Searchers with regards to Anakin’s experiences on Tatooine and Spartacus with regards to clandestine love providing better cinematic depictions. Had Tarantino been consulted with Lucas back when these three movies started, we would have gotten less Grade C serial writing and more representing classic cinematic parables to a modern audience.
Overall, I thought it was entertaining despite the clunkiness of certain elements, and will probably see it again just to get settled in and absorb all of the details, such as when the Millennium Falcon is visible during one of the spaceport arrival scenes, but it goes by too quickly to alert anyone you are with to catch it.
PS Have yet to here any vulcanologists pipe up about the guy standing in a creeping lava flow in Volcano, Sam and Frodo sitting on the rock in the middle of a flow in The Return of the King, and skimming an erupting lake of lava only to feel it's effects at the end of the scene in The Revenge of the Sith, considering how significant erupting volcanoes and lava flows are to all of these movies.
Anything that, in happening, causes something else to happen, causes something else to happen.
Anything that, in happening, causes itself to happen again, happens again.
It doesn't necessarily do it in chronological order, though.
Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless
After a couple of days of posts to friends journals biased by my being tired of the media hype, I saw Revenge of the Sith Saturday night, and have to say that the plot held up well as far as addressing the lose ends and meshing them together, and some scenes that haven't had as much press were enthralling. I was pleased to see that the movie was worth seeing after all. On the other hand, the dialogue was stymied, and at least one critic agrees with me that it got old to have two characters mulling over mediocre dialogue while there was a city with traffic going on in the background.
My biggest peeve was that with high technology allowing the ability to use hyperspace for interplanetary travel and generate clones armies, why are they using mechanical prosthesis turning people into cyborgs and where was the OB/GYN care for Padme until her delivery - if people today can tell the number and sex of their children before birth, what happened to the power of technology and the perceptive ability of the Force utilizing Jedi?
Others have commented about Anakin and Padme’s love being a strong driver for his decision making, but after watching a brief part of Attack of the Clones this evening, some of those themes about the loss of his mother and Padme taking pity on him/filling the void of his separation anxiety seemed more redolent, leaving Palpatine in the position of predator able to seduce and use a vulnerable person to bend him to his will. There seem to be so many more subtlety dark themes that Lucas left underdeveloped. Was talking with a friend about how the subjects and themes expressed in westerns such as The Searchers with regards to Anakin’s experiences on Tatooine and Spartacus with regards to clandestine love providing better cinematic depictions. Had Tarantino been consulted with Lucas back when these three movies started, we would have gotten less Grade C serial writing and more representing classic cinematic parables to a modern audience.
Overall, I thought it was entertaining despite the clunkiness of certain elements, and will probably see it again just to get settled in and absorb all of the details, such as when the Millennium Falcon is visible during one of the spaceport arrival scenes, but it goes by too quickly to alert anyone you are with to catch it.
PS Have yet to here any vulcanologists pipe up about the guy standing in a creeping lava flow in Volcano, Sam and Frodo sitting on the rock in the middle of a flow in The Return of the King, and skimming an erupting lake of lava only to feel it's effects at the end of the scene in The Revenge of the Sith, considering how significant erupting volcanoes and lava flows are to all of these movies.