20th May 2005, 12:43 AM
Well, I saw it, and here's what I have to say.
It was a fun movie. If the script was written with the intention of basically celebrating old movies of the past, he wins. Unfortunatly, my own opinion is that TRYING to perfectly emulate poor writing of the past isn't a good thing.
The very last part was very well done. You could actually FEEL Anakin's failure as he's lying around sans 3 limbs and on fire as hell. He chose the darkness over everything in the end.
Still though, his fall to the dark side was too quick. Palpatine seemed pretty smart right up until he went and spilled the beans WAY too soon. In a cult they don't go THAT fast. They don't go from "you are still a Jedi but check this out, the dark side is AWESOME".
Oh well, at any rate it's exactly what I expected, except I thought Grevious would be cooler considering how cool he was in the animated series. I guess having your lungs collapsed by Mace can do that to you... But, in the movie he seemed like a total wuss.
Oh and, is it just me or do light saber battles look less like talented skill and more like just randomly trying to bash the other guy to death?
And wow, he sorta broke off that operating table like Frankenstein's monster didn't he? Why was he even shackled down anyway? Then he screams like Calculon.
Lucas: No you have to EMOTE!
It was a fun movie. If the script was written with the intention of basically celebrating old movies of the past, he wins. Unfortunatly, my own opinion is that TRYING to perfectly emulate poor writing of the past isn't a good thing.
The very last part was very well done. You could actually FEEL Anakin's failure as he's lying around sans 3 limbs and on fire as hell. He chose the darkness over everything in the end.
Still though, his fall to the dark side was too quick. Palpatine seemed pretty smart right up until he went and spilled the beans WAY too soon. In a cult they don't go THAT fast. They don't go from "you are still a Jedi but check this out, the dark side is AWESOME".
Oh well, at any rate it's exactly what I expected, except I thought Grevious would be cooler considering how cool he was in the animated series. I guess having your lungs collapsed by Mace can do that to you... But, in the movie he seemed like a total wuss.
Oh and, is it just me or do light saber battles look less like talented skill and more like just randomly trying to bash the other guy to death?
And wow, he sorta broke off that operating table like Frankenstein's monster didn't he? Why was he even shackled down anyway? Then he screams like Calculon.
Lucas: No you have to EMOTE!
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)