I consider myself somewhat of a Star Wars fan. Sure, I haven't worn a Star Wars costume since I was in kindergarten and my mother dressed my sister and me up as C-3PO and R2D2 for Halloween, but I liked the original three movies. They helped shape my childhood. I even liked The Phantom Menace. Episode II was pretty good, but after seeing Episode III, I take it all back. I want to pretend that I didn't see any of them. In fact, I refuse to believe that George Lucas had anything to do with the first three (Episodes IV-VI). I think he had close adviser feeding him all his ideas. Whoever it was should have come back. If you haven't seen Episode III, Don't!
They'll be plenty of people claiming that Lucas finally got it right. They'll say Darth Vader's turn to the dark side was perfect. They might even make decent arguments, but they're wrong. Episode III is bad, real bad. If you never see it, you'll be better off because of it.
Dialogue
The dialog is stilted and like the rest of the movie just plain bad. From the first words to the unending references of young jedi's as "younglings", I kept flinching, trying to dodge the verbal assault being thrown at me, and like everyone else hoping it wouldn't ruin the movie. Sure, if you can get past the dialogue — Wait, no, the dialog is a fundamental part of any movie. If you have to convince yourself to get past it, it's either not in your language or bad. This movie had bad dialogue.
Acting & Casting
George Lucas took otherwise good actors and turned them into abominations. Ewan McGregor and even Yoda seemed fake. The beautiful Natalie Portman became unattractive and not due to the pregnancy but because of Lucas's poor vision. Granted casting problems like Hayden Christensen began in other movies; it came to full light here. George Lucas has made poor decision after poor decision, and the fruition of those bad choices took full effect in Revenge of the Sith. It wasn't pretty.
Article comments
1 - Dew
I have to disagree, it all made sense to me. It wasn't just the night mare, it was history repeating itself. Top that with Annikan's need to have control he would have done anything to save his one true ally Padme.
Seaking of padme, why did she die? A broken heart. Although that could have been more pronounced it was still shown.
I rather enjoyed the movie, actually I loved it! It tied up lose ends and gave me closure to the series. It had its faults like all movies but in the end it was mind-numbing good fun.
2 - Nicholas
"It wasn't just the night mare, it was history repeating itself. Top that with Annikan's need to have control he would have done anything to save his one true ally Padme."
Too bad the movie failed to effectively show that. Let's face it, there was very weak motivation for the characters.
"Seaking of padme, why did she die? A broken heart. Although that could have been more pronounced it was still shown."
Yea, too bad that doesn't really fit well with the strong, brave character she was supposed to be. What about the mother Leia remembered? Oh, wait, I guess she must have been mistaken.
3 - rp
"Too bad the movie failed to effectively show that. Let's face it, there was very weak motivation for the characters."
How should the movie have shown it? I think it made sense in the context of the trilogy. In Episode 2, Anakin saw visions of his mother dying and wanted to save her, but he was too late. Now, he sees visions of Padme dying and is so desperate not to let the same thing happen that he turns to the Sith for the power to save her. He even says on Mustafar: "I won't lose you the way I lost my mother." If that's not explanation enough, I don't know what would be, save for a flashback, or a "Wonder Years"-style monologue from James Earl Jones.
"And the death of the legions of Jedi's were worse than tragic; they were boring."
How so? They were all caught offguard and shot to death by their own troops. Anything more exciting would've involved whirling blurs of neon light.
4 - Tom French
I haven't seen it and I won't. After the horrible Ewoks, Jar Jar Binks, and ohh i love you anakin marriage in the past three movies, i won;t pay ten bucks to see this crap. The first two movies (4&5) were so dark and the characters so cool, the past four have sucked. Proof that limitless money is bad for art
5 - nwing
Haven't seen it and overseas, it will be a long time before I do. Tend to hate movie theatres'a anyways, will just buy the black market copy for a few bucks to give an initial view in a month or so.
Overall, I liked the Attack of the Clones, EXCPET that it was too much a love story. Made the movie drag, and drag, and drag. Can't imagine the "Sith" will be any worse than that. Actually didn't like the original movies that much. The first one was ok, but Empire was slightly better, ROTJ....well would have been good except the damn ewoks (about the stupidest thing in the SW universe except Jar Jar...close tie acually). Looking forward to the Sith, for no other reason than the fight scenes, have never liked the story that much to begin with.
6 - FilteringCraig
I am not sure that this movie could have been good enough for a lot of people. Expectations were understandably high.
I agree that the first two in this series didn't live up to expectations, but I just saw the new one tonight and I thought it was very good. Dark, disturbing and overall a very good way to tie things up.
The death of the younglings and the realization by Obi Wan that Anakin had turned was just awesomely brutal.
7 - Nicholas
"How should the movie have shown it?" I guess I was looking for some action to make him feel she was in danger. Maybe the pregnancy could not be going well. Maybe they had to flee and she took a turn for the worse, etc, etc, etc. Som sort of escalation would have been nice.
As it was you got a couple of badly delivered lines like "I won't lose you the way I lost my mother." That's suppsoed to make his motivation real? Besides, it seems more likely that would have just mae him want to stay by her side; not, go galavamping aruond the galaxy. That could have been motivation. The Jedi forcing him to leave her when he feels he needs to be with her the most.
Also, it was grand how Padme went from telling Anakin she was pregnant to being a full 9 months. the whole conversation about someone finding out is way out of place. If they hadn't found out after nine months, why now?
8 - simran
I LOVERD THE STAR WARS EPISODE 3 IT WAS PERFECT SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO AWESOME