The end... of the beginning!
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plutherusYep, I finally saw Revenge of the Sith.
Oh, yeah. I loved it!
Spoilers ahead if you haven't seen episodes IV, V, and VI!
I was expecting it to be sad, but not nearly as powerful as it was. There were certain scenes, of course, which had to be in there to bring it up to the first (i.e., the fourth) movie. And bring it up to there they did, from the moment we first saw Baal Organa's ship (where, at the end, he dropped off a certain couple of droids with a certain "Captain Antilles" - one of the first names we hear in Star Wars, and inserts a quick line to tell us why C-3PO doesn't remember Tatooine or being built by Darth Vader when he was a kid.)
And, of course, there's the birth of The Twins. Though I actually didn't expect Padme to die in childbirth. Leia mentions a couple of decades later that she remembers her mother being very sad - I guess she must have been talking about Baal's wife, since she never really spent much time with Amidala.
The contrast between the first and last lightsaber fights was amazing. I mean, you know what's going to happen, of course, but seeing Anakin and Obi-Wan fighting the droids at the beginning, and you never really get the feeling they're in any danger, it looks like they're just having fun. That scene really pays off at the end, with their first duel, and it's the best lightsaber fight ever filmed: action-intense, emotionally-intense, and while you know (if you've ever seen, or really even ever heard about any of the other Star Wars movies!) that they're both going to survive it, there are moments when I had serious doubts about that.
And, of course, neither of them really do. Anakin and Obi-Wan were both killed in the fight, and only Vader and Ben went on from there.
And, man, I almost cried when Vader put on the mask. The scene was brilliantly done: that suit isn't his life-support so much as it is his prison for the next 20 years.
Anyway, I liked it. Though I think I'll wait at least another week before I go see it again.
Oh, yeah. I loved it!
Spoilers ahead if you haven't seen episodes IV, V, and VI!
I was expecting it to be sad, but not nearly as powerful as it was. There were certain scenes, of course, which had to be in there to bring it up to the first (i.e., the fourth) movie. And bring it up to there they did, from the moment we first saw Baal Organa's ship (where, at the end, he dropped off a certain couple of droids with a certain "Captain Antilles" - one of the first names we hear in Star Wars, and inserts a quick line to tell us why C-3PO doesn't remember Tatooine or being built by Darth Vader when he was a kid.)
And, of course, there's the birth of The Twins. Though I actually didn't expect Padme to die in childbirth. Leia mentions a couple of decades later that she remembers her mother being very sad - I guess she must have been talking about Baal's wife, since she never really spent much time with Amidala.
The contrast between the first and last lightsaber fights was amazing. I mean, you know what's going to happen, of course, but seeing Anakin and Obi-Wan fighting the droids at the beginning, and you never really get the feeling they're in any danger, it looks like they're just having fun. That scene really pays off at the end, with their first duel, and it's the best lightsaber fight ever filmed: action-intense, emotionally-intense, and while you know (if you've ever seen, or really even ever heard about any of the other Star Wars movies!) that they're both going to survive it, there are moments when I had serious doubts about that.
And, of course, neither of them really do. Anakin and Obi-Wan were both killed in the fight, and only Vader and Ben went on from there.
And, man, I almost cried when Vader put on the mask. The scene was brilliantly done: that suit isn't his life-support so much as it is his prison for the next 20 years.
Anyway, I liked it. Though I think I'll wait at least another week before I go see it again.
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Spoilers?
Date: 2005-05-27 03:59 am (UTC)Re: Spoilers?
Date: 2005-05-27 04:11 am (UTC)And he is Luke's father, too.
And, it's rather implied that the emperor's master was Luke's grandfather. Sort of.
And Rosebud's the sled.
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Date: 2005-05-27 05:54 am (UTC)You Bastard! I thought that was an allegory representing a pubescent young man's virility!
I suppose I better rethink Han Solo's pet name "Chewy."
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Date: 2005-05-27 08:56 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-05-27 03:54 pm (UTC)Me, too. I felt sad for him -- trapped in there, and then learning of Padme's death -- and Palpatine's almost gleeful reaction to his anguish. The mentor he depended upon to help him save Padme only intends to use the power of his anger.. he's locked in for good.
That scene alone made me want to watch episodes 4-6 again. I never felt much sympathy for the Vader character in those and I think I'd watch them differently now.