Revenge of the Sith -- Finale (for now)
Ugh. Snow shoveling! I'm sick of it! ... Too bad that this isn't the end of it. :| There'll be more where this came from.
Anyway. Finished watching Revenge of the Sith today. Overall impression: Definitely better than Attack of the Clones. Still didn't like it as much as Phantom Menace, but for the most part, it wasn't bad.
A few minor things - some parts (especially near the beginning) continued to do that annoying thing Clones had going on with its script, AKA "trying to be cool and funny and just falling flat". Score, again, didn't impress me as much as the original trilogy (seems to be a running theme with the prequel trilogy. But then again, it's hard to top the original trilogy's score). And basically all of the Anakin + Padme scenes continued to be cringe-worthy. I have no idea what was going on there, but everything just felt so awkward to me.
Not gonna lie, Yoda was my favourite thing about this film. Again. Seeing that little guy bounce around with his lightsaber was amazingly cool. And Obi-Wan certainly had his awesome moments too.
Previously, I'd had some trouble connecting "Anakin Skywalker" with "Darth Vader". I knew that's how he ended up, but I had a lot of problems visualizing that cute kid I remembered from Phantom Menace as the guy we later see in the original trilogy. And in Clones, Anakin was annoying as hell, and I kind of felt he needed a good smack upside the head, but he still seemed able to go either way. WELL... this movie is one big downward spiral into a worse and worse situation, and... yeahhh. Everything clicks together. Voila.
Though I still think a smack upside the head would have done Anakin good. Or at least it would make me feel better. I still find him obnoxious, but now I understand better what was going on with him.
Even though I have issues with the prequel trilogy that I didn't have with the original trilogy, overall, I'm glad that they exist. What we get in Anakin's story (even with all that awkward romance) makes what we get at the end of the original trilogy richer, I think.
So, this concludes my Star Wars watching, I think. At least, until The Force Awakens comes out. I just looked it up, and it's supposed to be set a few decades after Return of the Jedi. Must admit, I'm curious as to what they're going to do with that, but I don't think I'll poke around any more than that - I'll wait until it's in cinema to find out what it's actually about.
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Anyway. Finished watching Revenge of the Sith today. Overall impression: Definitely better than Attack of the Clones. Still didn't like it as much as Phantom Menace, but for the most part, it wasn't bad.
A few minor things - some parts (especially near the beginning) continued to do that annoying thing Clones had going on with its script, AKA "trying to be cool and funny and just falling flat". Score, again, didn't impress me as much as the original trilogy (seems to be a running theme with the prequel trilogy. But then again, it's hard to top the original trilogy's score). And basically all of the Anakin + Padme scenes continued to be cringe-worthy. I have no idea what was going on there, but everything just felt so awkward to me.
Not gonna lie, Yoda was my favourite thing about this film. Again. Seeing that little guy bounce around with his lightsaber was amazingly cool. And Obi-Wan certainly had his awesome moments too.
Previously, I'd had some trouble connecting "Anakin Skywalker" with "Darth Vader". I knew that's how he ended up, but I had a lot of problems visualizing that cute kid I remembered from Phantom Menace as the guy we later see in the original trilogy. And in Clones, Anakin was annoying as hell, and I kind of felt he needed a good smack upside the head, but he still seemed able to go either way. WELL... this movie is one big downward spiral into a worse and worse situation, and... yeahhh. Everything clicks together. Voila.
Though I still think a smack upside the head would have done Anakin good. Or at least it would make me feel better. I still find him obnoxious, but now I understand better what was going on with him.
Even though I have issues with the prequel trilogy that I didn't have with the original trilogy, overall, I'm glad that they exist. What we get in Anakin's story (even with all that awkward romance) makes what we get at the end of the original trilogy richer, I think.
So, this concludes my Star Wars watching, I think. At least, until The Force Awakens comes out. I just looked it up, and it's supposed to be set a few decades after Return of the Jedi. Must admit, I'm curious as to what they're going to do with that, but I don't think I'll poke around any more than that - I'll wait until it's in cinema to find out what it's actually about.
This entry was originally posted at http://yuuago.dreamwidth.org/3371723.html. You can comment here or at the original entry.