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In Reply to: "Star Wars Episode III Revenge of the Sith" posted by rico on May 19, 2005 at 13:06:51:

Rico,
Took my family to see this on Thursday - and enjoyed it.
Yes, some of the dialogue was stilted. Lucas has givem some good actors really poor lines to deliver.
But, these are films that are aimed at a young demagraphic.
What I like about the film, as with A New Hope, is the fact that Anakin/Darth Vader is not doing things because he is 'evil'.
Pure evil doing nasty things is pretty boring. People doing things out of good intentions, but that are evil, is interesting to me.
For me this made Anakin's slaughter of the 'younglings', don't you just HATE that term, a mistake. I don't know who Mr & Mrs Youngling are but I hope they are being prosecuted!
I agree that the ILM special effects come across as cartoon, rather than reality - as the Weta work frequently does, but it was not generally so bad as to pull me out of the moment.
I would certainly recommend seeing this on the big screen.
Martin

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Finally, an adult assessment . - jusbe 07:54:31 05/23/05 (0)
For too long it has been fashionable to trash the SW series. Admittedly Lucas had too weak a grip on the dialogue of his films and could have used some serious help. That much is certain and has always been so. But these are essentially his attempt at a parable/legend/myth creation for the modern age; stories born of archetypes where, lets face it, the subtleties of art-house cinema do not belong. And don't matter.
In essence, the story/series might even have worked better as a silent movie (with Williams' excellent score intact) if its intent is to fashion myth - allowing the maximum amount of psychological space for the viewer to insert their own external dialogue, their own internal narration.
I agree that the capitulation of Anakin seemed too facile - more reference to his origin and his peculiar fatherless state (and the ramifications of this - a critical omission) could have added more richness to Skywalker/Vader's 'archetype'. This added richeness might have created more points of contact with the audience or even widened that contact. And yes, the slaughter of the younglings/halflings/little people seemed a false step in the 'Fall of Skywalker'. But in the end I don't know that it matters in the grander scheme of things, a level of 'broad brushstroking' where Lucas is most at home and definitely skilled.
And I find Lucas's extensive use of/reliance upon CGI somewhat ironic, a kind of silver screen karaoke where anyone can suit up and play/inhabit the principle roles. Any takers?

Big J.

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