***CONTAINS SPOILERS***
Being the non-movie-goer type I only just saw Revenge of the Sith today on DVD. My god!! What utter and awful tripe it was. I suffered more than Anakin watching it all the way through. I realize there are hundreds of such posts, but I feel I must vent this or I will burst and thus fall to the dark side.
George Lucas is not famous for his believable dialogue, but the words spoken in RotS could have come from the Bells (Bold and the Beautiful, anyone?). We are talking soap dialogue of the worst variety here, folks. It was painful to listen to. To make matters worse, it seems that George and his team do not fully understand what was created in the original Star Wars. Watching and listening objectively you cannot attach these personas to the ones we know (or will know) in the following episodes.
In talking about the dialogue and characters, mention Yoda I must. What the hell? We know he speaks funny, but don't over do it. He is supposed to be the introspecitve monk type, not one to blurt out 100 inverted sentences per minute. Someone stick a sock in that muppet before I cry.
The birth of Darth Vader was the most horrible thing I have ever seen. It was ok, and almost leaning towards good, when he was made half the man he used to be. For a moment there I thought I could forget the incredible focus on CGI in the background and witness the birth of my childhood fear...but no. He was assembled in some pathetic way with cape already on (come on!!) and then let out some horrible "nooo!!!" (I responded in kind "no yuo!!!"). My goodness, I thought I was going to upchuck.
In their warpspeed attempt to knit everything to together they even have the Death Star work order being processed. In this majestic fleet of ships and endless clones and droids, are we to believe that it will take them 20 years to assemble that? Not that it is not a possible scenario, but it was completely unnecessary as it tied too much into the following Episode 4 when we know it is far off in the future (Luke and Leia are just babies).
After it was over, and to be honest, most of the way through it, I kept wondering:
How can so much effort and time be put into such complete garbage?
Why didn't someone make sure the story worked and worked well before creating all these absolutely amazing and mindblowing effects and models? I am going to cry...
There were so many opportunities lost. *sniff*
Oh, and one more little observation that annoyed me while it is still my rant. Did anyone else notice and dislike how rigid everything is even though the designs of many things are organic? For example, in the intro battle sequence Anakin and Ben fly in perfect tandem. The whole beauty of Star Wars was that it was basically a "Battle of Midway" in space. It is not supposed to be all computer controlled looking and feeling. It is supposed to give you that feeling that even though technology changes, the people the pilot them are the same and that gives it life. It is messy and a bit dirty.
Unfortunately, according to the saga of Star Wars, as it now stands (with it having been ruined by 3 prequels), we are to believe that everything was very advanced before the Empire came along. Everything was pretty and clean and shiny. This is wrong, wrong, I tell you. It was organic before the Empire and the Empire is what made it clean but sterile. It is supposed to reflect the overbearing focus on technology, instead of life, that gives the Empire power, but makes it powerless at the same time. That was the idea.
No yuo&!^&^!!!
Yoda was one little badass, but I was too depressed to even find that amusing. Perhaps the idea of a coughing droid had already alerted my brain to two hours of deceit and treachery. Gawd...and now I remember that pathetic tie-in to Chewbacca. At least these desperate attempts to tie it together shows that they knew they were missing something. Maybe they should have thought of this before beginning production...
Oh, and there's even more now that I think about it. Darth Sidious' killing of the Jedi. This "magnificent jump" and suddenly they all cannot event attempt to defend themselves? Some of the lightsaber fighting looked like the geriatric olympics for crying out loud. Pathetic...
I could go on and on and on...but I am so disgusted, forget I saw this I must.
Being the non-movie-goer type I only just saw Revenge of the Sith today on DVD. My god!! What utter and awful tripe it was. I suffered more than Anakin watching it all the way through. I realize there are hundreds of such posts, but I feel I must vent this or I will burst and thus fall to the dark side.
George Lucas is not famous for his believable dialogue, but the words spoken in RotS could have come from the Bells (Bold and the Beautiful, anyone?). We are talking soap dialogue of the worst variety here, folks. It was painful to listen to. To make matters worse, it seems that George and his team do not fully understand what was created in the original Star Wars. Watching and listening objectively you cannot attach these personas to the ones we know (or will know) in the following episodes.
In talking about the dialogue and characters, mention Yoda I must. What the hell? We know he speaks funny, but don't over do it. He is supposed to be the introspecitve monk type, not one to blurt out 100 inverted sentences per minute. Someone stick a sock in that muppet before I cry.
The birth of Darth Vader was the most horrible thing I have ever seen. It was ok, and almost leaning towards good, when he was made half the man he used to be. For a moment there I thought I could forget the incredible focus on CGI in the background and witness the birth of my childhood fear...but no. He was assembled in some pathetic way with cape already on (come on!!) and then let out some horrible "nooo!!!" (I responded in kind "no yuo!!!"). My goodness, I thought I was going to upchuck.
In their warpspeed attempt to knit everything to together they even have the Death Star work order being processed. In this majestic fleet of ships and endless clones and droids, are we to believe that it will take them 20 years to assemble that? Not that it is not a possible scenario, but it was completely unnecessary as it tied too much into the following Episode 4 when we know it is far off in the future (Luke and Leia are just babies).
After it was over, and to be honest, most of the way through it, I kept wondering:
How can so much effort and time be put into such complete garbage?
Why didn't someone make sure the story worked and worked well before creating all these absolutely amazing and mindblowing effects and models? I am going to cry...
There were so many opportunities lost. *sniff*
Oh, and one more little observation that annoyed me while it is still my rant. Did anyone else notice and dislike how rigid everything is even though the designs of many things are organic? For example, in the intro battle sequence Anakin and Ben fly in perfect tandem. The whole beauty of Star Wars was that it was basically a "Battle of Midway" in space. It is not supposed to be all computer controlled looking and feeling. It is supposed to give you that feeling that even though technology changes, the people the pilot them are the same and that gives it life. It is messy and a bit dirty.
Unfortunately, according to the saga of Star Wars, as it now stands (with it having been ruined by 3 prequels), we are to believe that everything was very advanced before the Empire came along. Everything was pretty and clean and shiny. This is wrong, wrong, I tell you. It was organic before the Empire and the Empire is what made it clean but sterile. It is supposed to reflect the overbearing focus on technology, instead of life, that gives the Empire power, but makes it powerless at the same time. That was the idea.
No yuo&!^&^!!!
Yoda was one little badass, but I was too depressed to even find that amusing. Perhaps the idea of a coughing droid had already alerted my brain to two hours of deceit and treachery. Gawd...and now I remember that pathetic tie-in to Chewbacca. At least these desperate attempts to tie it together shows that they knew they were missing something. Maybe they should have thought of this before beginning production...
Oh, and there's even more now that I think about it. Darth Sidious' killing of the Jedi. This "magnificent jump" and suddenly they all cannot event attempt to defend themselves? Some of the lightsaber fighting looked like the geriatric olympics for crying out loud. Pathetic...
I could go on and on and on...but I am so disgusted, forget I saw this I must.
