Star Wars III: Revenge of the Sith: Breadbox Edition

[evadne_noel]

This is the last Star Wars BBE I will be doing for a while. Ever since I saw it a week and a half ago, I've been eating, sleeping and breathing Star Wars. It started after we saw it. The next day, my friend was all, "Let's get drunk and watch 'Star Wars,'" and I stupidly thought she meant "A New Hope." Nope. She meant all six of them. It took

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[agentmaly]

GENERAL GRIEVOUS
Seriously, what is this accent? Am I Russian? Czech? Bulgarian?

Well, I'm half-Czech.. and that wasn't a Czech accent. So at least we've got one ruled out. ^^;; But thanks for the mention. *laughs*

YODA
Rejoice you should when someone rejoins the Force.
Buy a cake, invite some friends, do the limbo, yes.

*shakes head* I see I'll never escape the cake.

ANAKIN kills CHILDREN. There is no possible way to make this FUNNY.

Yay! Good taste!

ANAKIN becomes PRESIDENT of the SEVERED LIMBS OF STAR WARS CLUB. Then, he catches on FIRE, and it is worse than ¾ of the things seen in SIN CITY.

AUDIENCE
Holy God. What is this movie rated?

OBI-WAN
I’ll just be going now.

AUDIENCE
CUT HIS HEAD OFF, ASSHOLE!

OBI-WAN
I said I didn’t want to kill him.

OBI-WAN actually leaves. Takes PADME and leaves.

I did not get that. I mean, alright, Obi-wan was conflicted and blah and probably angry, too, even though he's a Jedi. But really.. I think it's hard to go from loving someone as a brother to not caring that they're

[evadne_noel]

I think Grievous's voice actor was told to just come up with the most random accent possible and go with it. That's the only explanation.

Resisting the cake is futile. Cake is watching you.

Obi-Wan seemed so heartless when he left Anakin. Like he'd given up. Which is worse, because he should have just killed him anyway. Isn't it basic Jedi nature to not want to watch someone suffer?

The said thing is that I think The Stupid quote is true. It really killed her. It infected her soul and killed her. So sad.

I'm glad you enjoyed it! Thanks.

[agentmaly]

Quite possibly. I think that's done far too much in movies, too. Are the directors just that lazy?

Ahh! *runs away from the cake*

Something like that, I think, probably, yes. I mean, if Obi-Wan was truly convinced that Evil!Anakin was no longer Anakin at all, then killing him would be just fine, and a favour to the galaxy. And if he felt like Evil!Anakin wasn't so very far removed from Normal!Anakin, then one would rather expect him to have the mercy to just kill him already. So I don't know what he was thinking. o.O

I certainly hope The Stupid isn't contagious.. we can't catch it just by reading about it, can we? *looks around warily*

[evadne_noel]

Well, my personal opinion is that reading (though not necessarily this) is an antidote to The Stupid.

*applause*

[mysterymeg]

Ah, brilliant! You've done great on this. I'd say it's even better than the Editing Room abridgement.

And thank God I'm not the only one who was thinking of the Lady of Shallot during Padme's funeral. That quote was so perfect.

Glad I'm not the only one who noticed that most of the Jedi were ridiculously easy to exterminate. I mean, honestly now. It was, however, gratifying to see Yoda kicking ass. I love him to bits.

Anyway, go you! This was terrific.

--Meg

Re: *applause*

[evadne_noel]

Nope, the Lady of Shallot was fully on my mind the moment I saw her with the flowers in her hair in the barge. I have no idea if that's what Lucas was going for, but my love of the Pre-Raphaelites just reared its not-so-ugly head.

The Jedi barely put up a fight. That is not right.

Thanks!

Re: *applause*

[mysterymeg]

Yeah, the Pre-Raphaelites kick so much ass. :) I loved the homage, even if it was unintentional.

But damn...what I couldn't believe was Obi-Wan just leaving Anakin to burn alive. WTF? So much for brotherly love, huh? *eyeroll* And yeah, it was incredibly gross. I can't believe they got away with showing that.

--Meg

Re: *applause*

[evadne_noel]

My Dante Gabriel Rossetti icon agrees with your whole-heartedly.

Yeah, brotherly (er, sisterly) love would make me leave someone burnt alive on the volcanic rock to suffer. Isn't that what you would do?

A Death Star explanation?

[ma_vie_en_paris]

AUDIENCE
You are not trying to tell me it took them 20 years to
build the first Death Star, are you?

Hmm, maybe the first one fell into the swamp, then the second one caught fire, then fell into the swamp ...

Thanks so much! I think my favourite part was Anakin's internal monologue:
ANAKIN
*thinking*
Hey, I can see my house from here.

I had to stop reading because I was laughing so hard!

Re: A Death Star explanation?

[evadne_noel]

Hmm, maybe the first one fell into the swamp, then the second one caught fire, then fell into the swamp ...

You win.

That internal dialogue line was the only one I said out loud to my friend in the theater. She started laughing when nobody else was, and then hit me. Therefore, it is my favorite line.

Re: A Death Star explanation?

[notalwaysweak]

Excellent BBE (again, I don't intend to see any of the Star Wars movies, but you made me laugh). And I liked ma_vie_en_paris's swamp line, too.

Re: A Death Star explanation?

[evadne_noel]

Thank you! It's a great explanation, isn't it. Probably true.

Re: I can see my house from here

[evadne_noel]

After seeing these movies, I wish I had gone into screenwriting. I could sell scripts to people with visual skills and together we would rule the world.

More fighting would have been good, but there was still plenty of it. I think the misery of the canoodling detracted from it, though, which is why we are left wanting more.

Re: I can see my house from here

[evadne_noel]

I would have liked to seen more of that as well. It was over too quickly in my opinion, especially as they were the elite defenders of justice and all. That could be a movie in itself, which is probably why it was abridged.

I would be very bad at ruling the world.

[roguebelle]

OMG I wasn't the only one who noticed dead!Padme doing her best Lady of Shallot impersonation! *joys!*

You get, like, eighty thousand bonus points for this entire thing. I swear, most of the audience lines were things I was thinking while watching the movie. You just put it so wonderfully.

:)

[evadne_noel]

I think Lucas had been looking at some Waterhouses right before he filmed that scene. That must be why everyone was thinking it. (And of course, I had to do a literary comparison of Padme and Shallot in my head: "I am half sick of shadows".)

Yay, I'm glad I did my psychic-author impersonation again!

[roguebelle]

I'm officially adding "Did you intend Padme to look like the Lady of Shallot?" to my (very long) list of things to ask Lucas if I ever get him cornered alone in a room for a few days.

[evadne_noel]

You have that list too? Mine is mightly long, how about yours?