The Official "My Opinion Of Star Wars III" Thread - NO SPOILERS

I JUST WATCHED IT!!! Yoda rocks! The saga is complete...

Im going see it tommorow with my uncle and one of his friends from work. May the force be with me, lol.

The trailers alone have made me cry... lol, I can't wait!

indeed yoda does rock :D

there's a lot going on and i think i'll need to see it again...!?

definitely worth going to see - the space battles, and the light saber fights were absolutely awesome, and the 'birth' of darth....!

the cinema was packed - it was a multiplex type that had three screenings within 3 minutes of each other, so there must have been at least a thousand people there!! and not one mobile phone went off throughout :D

i thoroughly enjoyed it :)

LOL! there were quite a few of those tonight, as well as a few princess leia's, with funny hairdo :D

Originally posted by iJerry
a review in the times gave it 1 star and said it was awful. i'll still see it though

and there are dozen other movie critics who are raving Episode III as the best Star Wars since Empire Strikes Back, perhaps even better than A New Hope. The opinion is very divided on this one, with many of negative reviews coming from Star Wars haters.

Antoher 34 hours. Meh. It's already opened here :(

I'm glad the "saga" is finally over... Now maybe you nerds will shut the hell up...

Haha... That was a joke... :D

My 17-year-old and several of his friends saw the midnight show early this morning. Of course he's predisposed to like anything with lots of action and zoomy special effects, but even so he thought it was something special and enjoyed it more than its two most immediate predecessors. I expect to see it at some convenient time in the near future when standing in line will not be part of the experience, though I think that contributed to my son's enjoyment. I remember standing in line with my friends for both the original Star Wars movie and the sequel, and my memories of the camaraderie we shared while waiting in line are far richer than my memories of the films themselves--perhaps because that was real, whereas the movies were only lights & shadows flickering on a reflective screen.

Well so far all I've watched is a re-run of Triumph the Comic Insult Dog at the line-up for the previous movie. Somehow its still so fitting:

http://www.ifilm.com/filmdetail?ifilmid=2456970&htv=12

I'll give it a couple of weeks to let the crowds die down, then see it . Sounds like this one is the best of the prequels, but that's not much competition!

I saw it last night. AWESOME, It's sad to see it's all over though.

Originally posted by azdude_40GB
JIt's a damn shame they're not doing the final 3 films, though... :(

Actually, Speilberg (sp?) said he would not be doing the last three. He did not rule out the possibility he may let someone else do them though...

Lol. With a little money to acquire the rights, anything can happen...

UNBELIEVEABLE!!!! BEST OF THE PREQUELS. on par with the originals. effects are brilliant , performances are brilliant ( i wasnt expecting anything from hayden christensen, but he was excellent.hope he doesnt fizzle away into typecast obscurity like mark hamil). funny, quirky, emotional, breath taking. have to see it a few more times in the cinema. cant wait. seen it two days ago. i need a light saber! it sets the prequels up perfectly. only one tiny flaw is it doesnt explain some charachters like General Grevious, who is just thrown into the mix. i had to look his background up on the web, but thats just a small thing, and he is probililly explained in the clone wars cartoon, as i havnt seen many of them yet. i kinda hope thats the end of it now, and George Lucas doesnt try to milk more out of the saga by having a 7,8,9 episodes. its perfect now. sad to see it end, but soon il have it all on dvd!! dont pass any heed to those who say its rubbish. one guy said that he'd rather see a yoda & r2d2 buddy movie!! that critic really knows what hes talking about(sarcasam). so good. and it makes watching a new hope so much better, when you see the look on obi wans face when he says " i never recall owning a droid", yet thers a small smirk on his face. its just great. couldnt have worked out much better

Originally posted by schmintan
only one tiny flaw is it doesnt explain some charachters like General Grevious, who is just thrown into the mix. i had to look his background up on the web, but thats just a small thing, and he is probililly explained in the clone wars cartoon, as i havnt seen many of them yet.

the clone wars cartoons are excellent, and do an excellent job of explaining what happens between ep II and III, including grevious, and his bad cough :)

I watched in in a Lucasfilm-licensed theater with a Barco DLP system; one of only 8 in the U.S. The picture quality was absolutely flawless! :D

o god no, dont remake the originals. they are why the saga is here. there is no replacing them.its like saying a led zepplin tribute band is as good as the real thing , it never is. it should be left now. they were remastered to bring them up to date, lets leave it at that

are you serious dragfree?? your statment couldnt be any less true that i think your just tryin to get a rise out of people. boring?? ive been browsing a lot of discussion groups and a majority of people think ROTRS is as good as any of the original trilogy.it tidies everything up perfectly, its real dark. what a movie... you dont know what you are talking about.

Doug Gilmour Edit: Spoilers have been removed.

BEST. ONE. EVER.

I guarantee you there will be one part where you get chills...
::COOH::::KEHHH::::COOH::::KEHHH::
spine tingling

Originally posted by schmintan
are you serious dragfree?? your statment couldnt be any less true that i think your just tryin to get a rise out of people. boring?? ive been browsing a lot of discussion groups and a majority of people think ROTRS is as good as any of the original trilogy.it tidies everything up perfectly, its real dark. what a movie... you dont know what you are talking about.
Boring? Yes, boring. I'm not trying to get a rise out of people so much as to jolt them into thinking for themselves instead of mindlessly chanting the hyperbole of Fox's marketing juggernaut. How much pomposity, wooden acting, vapid dialogue, and self-parodying clich can one possibly tolerate before drooping eyelids & slowing pulse bring about the blessed relief of sleep? How many interminable light-saber battles can one witness before nodding out, having seen it all so often before that such scenes now induce sleep more effectively than counting sheep? Even Hallmark Card commercials better sustain dramatic tension!

The original Star Wars was a labor of love. It played with the conventions of old movie serial "space operas" while simultaneously paying homage to them. It had wit, charm, strongly delineated characters, and engrossing dramatic conflict with the fates of several lovable protagonists at stake. And it enjoyed sufficiently big-budget production values that for once special effects actually served the story instead of sabotaging it, as had usually been the case with sci-fi movies. But instead of soaring with the playful inventiveness of the original, this movie staggers under the weight of its own self-importance. Even more than the other two "prequels," it seems dramatically inert; its characters are vapid, their internal conflicts clumsily clichd, their external struggles numbingly predictable. It's a triumph of CGI special effects and hackneyed action sequences over narrative, cinematographic, and dramatic arts. I suspect that when the furor over this much-hyped movie "event" subsides, most mature moviegoers will be disappointed to find nothing of substance, but only the same old smoke and mirrors, now grown a bit tiresome after one too many attempts to dazzle us with them.

Originally posted by Doug Gilmour
Wooden Acting - Ewan McGregor looking at a hologram and claiming "I cannot watch anymore" made me cringe in disgust.
I know just how he must have felt! I have thoroughly enjoyed Ewan McGregor's performances ever since Shallow Grave and Danny Boyle's much-acclaimed follow-up, Trainspotting. (Too bad he didn't use McGregor in The Beach--it might have been a winner, too.) McGregor even managed to pull off a difficult highwire act in Baz Luhrmann's eye-poppingly kitschy Moulin Rouge. But talented as he is, not even he, nor Samuel L. Jackson, nor even Natalie Portman, could overcome the screenplay's banal characterization and painfully insipid dialogue. Only Yoda really rose to the occasion--perhaps because of his natural affinity for productions in which narrative serves computer-generated imagery instead of the reverse. I'll bet he's terrific as Willy Loman in Salesman a Death of Be!

It was their hey-dey, sure, but every scene seemed to involve sabers! Sure they're cool to see and hear, but after a while it becomes tiresome. I remember one light-saber being something of value and prestige. Now we've got four sabers on one guy! Then come the seemingly similarly powered electrical staffs. I think Lucas went overboard with them in these modern ones and in doing so (starting with Darth Maul's double-edged variation in The Phantom Menace), has caused the weapon to lose its mystique.

McGregor wasn't too bad. I was just using that scene was a microcosm for the poorness of dialogue and screenplay. Seemed that all these battles were an attempt at covering how poor the acting and dialogue. Christenson got tiring quickly, and was not very convincing at all to me. Interestingly enough he lives/d in a small suburb very near me. I would be proud, too bad he's a poor actor though.. ;)

-Dan

Well by the time they decide to do EPs VII, VII & IX they will not need real actors and will use CG ones ala Final Fantasy.
So claims of wooden acting will have to be replaced with something appropriate ;)

Originally posted by Doug Gilmour
It seems everyone has a saber now, or a similar staff.

Yep, everyone has a light sabre now...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/beds/bucks/herts/4575291.stm

This film split me in half, a lung in each carcas. On one side I was satisified about knowing what happens, a sense of accomplishment. Darth Vader happened this way, people get born. You can draw a lot of lines from the Return of the Sith to the original trilogy. My gripe was that sometimes these lines were a little too obvious. A certain wookie should have been absent, his time will come.

The other side of me was let down as it didn't live up to the spirit of the originals. Maybe I was hoping for too much, but isn't that what we wanted all along? For me, the love story became a little too involving. It had far too much prominance in a tale that should have been anything but lovey-dovey. I agree with the others in saying that there was too much action, perhaps Lucas felt he had to deliver in this department?

I'm a little disappointed, but in the end, it is Star Wars.

Well there you have it Chees, you must see the full movie in order to fully appreciate it. If you think episode III was horrible, dont bother watching I or II. I myself thoroughly enjoyed episode III. I think they did a great job fitting in the last piece and tying together the stories of both new and old trilogies.

The movie was great in my opinion. It isn't supposed to have perfect acting, that would ruin the entire Starwars mood. It isn't to be taken too seriously, unlike Star Trek.

Man, when that robot kicked over R2D2 after he got zapped the movie had me rolling.

The acting wasn't all that bad, was it? It didn't bother me while I was watching the movie. It was also good to see Samuel L. Jackson in a different role than his typical "Die mother######, rot in hell"-type of characters. He played his part well. The guy who played Anakin (whatever the actor's name is) was also convincing to me, he played the transition from good to bad very well.

I'm not even a starwars or sci-fi fan and I give it an 8.

Alright, I didn't think about spoilers while I typed it, d'oh.

I thought the poorest character in the movie was Obi Wan Kenobi.

I thought that Hayden Christenanson (sp) was easily the worst actor in the movie, while the other characters, for the most part, played their parts well. On the topic of the movie, the lightsabre fights were epic and the plot alluded so many times to IV-VI that it was amazing to see how well Lucas intertwined the series. Well worth my 7 bucks...

Also, Yoda and R2-D2 were off the chain...;)

Originally posted by bdb
I thought the bit about how Anakin Skywalker turned to the dark side was really weak. I mean, we all knew it was going to happen...I just expected it to be something significant that would send him over the edge (it wasn't).
The "Dark Side" is the embodiment of evil. The essence of evil is selfishness, self-centeredness. When we're introduced to Anakin as a little boy, he's a snotty self-absorbed little brat. In the next episode he's even worse--full of himself, like most adolescents, but even more foolishly arrogant due to his powerful gifts. (Too bad Cliff Robertson wasn't there to tell him "With great power comes great responsibility." <g>)

The obvious plot development bending him to the dark side would involve his self-centeredness overwhelming his better nature, in a scene where he has to choose between, say, acting for the good of another (Padme?) and power to advance his own selfish ambition. As is, the whole thing about romantic love between him and Padme rings jarringly false. Anakin is portrayed as a pathetically self-absorbed little ##### too in love with himself to really love anyone or anything else, and Padme is portrayed as someone with way too much sense to see Anakin as anything but a schmuck.

A botch job, through and through.