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^ well MM..for a kid Star Wars at the time was the ultimate fantasy escape..nowadays with all the CGI you see this stuff everywhere..but Star Wars was without a doubt a cultural pheonmenon..the closest thing to it for adults was Matrix but that went out with a whimper..LOTR on the other hand was an epic in the true sense..a grown up version of Star Wars..
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Which Star Wars character best describes you
Triumph the Insult Dog at the Star Wars premier
I hate crowds and long wait and sitting at the back of the theatre. Im gonna give it a few days before going to the theatre.
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ahhhh I just can’t wait to see this movie…I really enjoyed the part II and looking forward to this one even more…Its so sad that this would be end of it. I wish Lucas would make part 7, 8 and 9 as origially planned 
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Lucas’ storytelling fails Anakin’s embrace of the Dark Side
By Owen Gleiberman
Entertainment Weekly
Wednesday, May 18, 2005 Posted: 5:24 PM EDT (2124 GMT)
**(Entertainment Weekly) -- Having spent two scattershot blockbusters whetting our appetite for the fall of Anakin Skywalker (Hayden Christensen), George Lucas makes it easy to experience "Star Wars: Episode III -- Revenge of the Sith" as a rush of deliverance -- even if the movie itself doesn't fully deliver. **
From the opening space-combat sequence, in which Anakin and his mentor, Obi-Wan Kenobi (Ewan McGregor), dodge an onslaught of fireballs and enemy craft so dense that the two might be threading their fighters through needles, you can feel Lucas’ boyish engagement in the galactic universe he’s created.
The Jedi Knights are on a mission to rescue Supreme Chancellor Palpatine (Ian McDiarmid), who has been kidnapped, and already there are hints of the conflict to come. As the two are attacked by spidery buzz droids, Anakin tries to shoot them off of Obi-Wan’s ship, an act of headstrong aggression that makes you think, ‘‘With friends like this …’’
Unlike “The Phantom Menace” or “Attack of the Clones,” “Revenge of the Sith” unfolds with a fury of consequence. There are rousing lightsaber duels, like the one in which the skull-faced General Grievous wields four sabers at once.
Yoda, with his twinkly scowl of purpose, has become such a crowd-pleasing action figure that when he coughs up solemn syntactical howlers like ‘‘A prophecy that misread could have been’’ – well, forgive him almost you can.
The madly detailed cityscapes raise eye candy to a dimension of comic-book awe, though I confess I miss the nearly tactile thrills generated by the original “Star Wars” films. Lucas’ digital imagery allows for whizzy, swirling layers of technological hyperactivity, yet its lacquered gleam is just artificial enough that when a panoramic window gets smashed during a battle in the Jedi chamber, my reaction was to think, ‘‘Gee, how will they find replacement glass that big?’’
Petulant and morose, with a slightly slurry delivery, Christensen plays Anakin as if locked in a private adolescent snit fit. As political infighting rages between the forces of the Empire and the Jedi (who are portrayed – in a pointed parallel with our own wartime climate – as under-siege liberals fighting ostracism), Anakin is torn between two father figures: the honorable Obi-Wan and the ambiguous Palpatine, played by McDiarmid with the jaunty menace of a corporate seducer.
Of course, this is really the story of how Anakin outgrows his need for masters altogether, becoming a ‘‘dark father’’ himself. Darth Vader, with his fascist armor and his morbid cosmic boom of a voice, was always an image of malevolent manhood, even if he is the emperor’s lackey. Since Christensen has never come close to that level of gravitas, we’re eager to see how Anakin the testy apprentice, the surly, conflicted boy, will emerge, corrupted, from the shell of his innocence.
He does and he doesn’t. Anakin’s journey to the Dark Side is sparked by half a dozen different motivations, none of them entirely convincing. He has a nightmare that his pregnant bride, Padmé (Natalie Portman), is going to die in childbirth, and Palpatine exploits this premonition by promising Anakin that the Dark Side will give him power over life and death. But since the ‘‘Hold me like you did by the lake on Naboo!’’ love scenes are embarrassments of cheesy acting and cheesier dialogue, they have the unfortunate effect of hinging Anakin’s descent on the worst moments in the entire series.
Anakin’s instincts may be noble, but when he’s chosen to be a member of the Jedi Council and yet denied the title of Master, the omission inflames his rage, a development that rings jarringly false. Anakin’s appointment is an unexpected honor for a young Jedi: Why would he suddenly be up in arms about not receiving the ultimate rank as well? In case that conflict doesn’t do it for you, he’s also been asked to spy on Palpatine, which softens him up to believe the lie that the Jedi are hatching a conspiracy.
All of this is so talky and abstract, however, that Anakin’s gathering storm seems hokey from the start, a function of the fact that it’s simply time for him to begin getting mad. The trouble with “Revenge of the Sith” is that we’re never really shown what we’re told about endlessly: Anakin succumbing to the temptations of power.
He sulks a lot, with a bead of resentment in his eye, but his actions never take that crucial turn toward the destructive narcissism of Darth Vader. The audience has to work to make sense of his journey, but what we’re really doing is putting together the script that George Lucas didn’t, quite.
Beneath Anakin’s slipshod motives, one senses a failure of will on Lucas’ part. The “Star Wars” series divided the world into Good and Evil in a way that Hollywood, by the 1970s, had forgotten. But Lucas, in his by-now reflexive populism, wants to turn Anakin into Darth Vader without risking any loss of sympathy for him.
The one figure in “Revenge of the Sith” who taps the true spirit of “Star Wars” is Ewan McGregor: With his beautiful, light, clipped delivery, he plays Alec Guinness’ playfulness, making Obi-Wan a marvel of benevolent moxie.
It’s certainly fun to see Darth Vader’s black armor snap into place (though couldn’t they have waited until Anakin’s burned skin stopped smoking?), but by the end of “Revenge of the Sith,” it would be a mistake to confuse Lucas’ tidy game of connect-the-episodes with the elemental pleasure of the series at its best: pop storytelling done effortlessly, ushering the audience into the darkness and the light.
EW Grade: B-
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Lucas play a cameo in film…
Star Wars creator George Lucas makes a cameo appearance in the sci-fi series’ final installment Episode III - Revenge Of The Sith - but only eagle- eyed fans will spot him. The 61-year-old originally only intended to include his daughters in a busy crowd scene, but they insisted he join them in full galactic gear. Lucas is recognizable because of his trademark bushy beard. He says, “There is a scene, a large crowd scene, which my daughters are in and they sort of insisted that I be in it, and so I did it.”
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My opinion...a vindication of the other 2..while I agree the whole Anakin to Vader thing isn't done perfectly..this is an excellent movie...the best so far this year and probably rating a notch above Return of the Jedi not on par with Empire and New Hope)
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Awesome, excellent finish, but only for those who have seen star wars from the begining....Me and the kids, we all enjoyed Jedi masters and other star war characters. Sadly, this will be the last.....
As if we didn't know already, Hayden Christensen may be the worst actor of all-time. I really wish Leo would have taken the role of Anakin.
Ewan McGregor is an awesome actor, and one of the best of our time. He showed it in this.
I love Natalie Portman.
This movie had an unbelievable amount of unintentional comedy. Bill Simmons should be all over this.
There were many forced/overly cheesy lines.
The battle scenes were superb.
Overall, worth seeing if only because it is the ending/middle/beginning of a saga. I won't come up with a number grade right now, but it would probably be somewhere in the C+ or B- .
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Give away the ending, I don’t mind spoilers. I read the last chapter of the book first. 
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Episode III couldn't have been better.... loved it all the way. Just as Luke brings balance to the force, Episode III brings balance to the Star Wars Saga...
Wonderful!
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okay, a question.
Can someone who has never seen a single star wars movie and who doesn't know shyte about star wars enjoy this movie?
Thanks,
Chand.
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Nicely rounded off! Obi Wan turned out to be the star of the three movies!
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u can go to starwars.com
and then go to the data base and read the topic Darth Vader…it has the complete story for the entire 6 episodes …if u like the imagination , u can start with episode 1
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If you go into Episode 3, without ANY knowledge about Jedi, The Force, Republic and the politics involved, you may just enjoy the special effects, but pretty much will be clueless about the rest.
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A minor screwup in the storyline, but did anyone notice that at the end of the movie, Obi Wan knows that Padme had twins, whereas back in Star Wars II 'The Empire Strikes back', Obi Wan (played by Alec Guiness) at that time says 'That boy is our only hope', to which Yoda replies 'No there is another', referring to Leia.
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May be Obi Wan is just plain sexist.
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This movie got terrible reviews. I don't know how you people can like such trash. Some of you were also singing praises of Kingdom Of Heaven too! What's wrong with you people!!!
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Who cares what the critics say, look at imdb.com the average user gave it a 8.5! it made it into the top 250 of all times!
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One thing I have learnt is that most of these critics are the biggest morons ever. They keep raving about totally inane movies... like that crapfest "Lost in Translation", which once you see, you end up wondering ... what the hell was that and why did I waste 90 minutes of my life watching that movie. Critics are never that reliable.