Cheers to the zillion times Max...unfortunately, THIS time around I don't get to experience it as an 8 year old with my HUGE Millennium Falcon crashing repeatedly into the floral pattern couch, crappy Star Wars Action figures spread about(they SUCKED compared to my GI Joe's), interspersed with ALL the Dukes of Hazzard Hotwheels, watching a bad 1980 model color Zenith (and being only inches away) with oak paneling while my Mom is on the mustard yellow kitchen wall phone with the 50 foot cord, smoking a cigarette and gossiping with her friend while the sounds of Billy Idol come thumping out of my older brother's room....AHHhhhh...the eighties!
overall i liked the movie.... favorite scene... [145 INT. CORUSCANT-JEDI TEMPLE-BATTLE-NIGHT ] ANAKIN enters a room full of YOUNGLINGS huddled in a corner. YOUNGLINGS: Master Skywalker, there are too many of them. What are we going to do? ANAKIN looks back at them with a stern expression on his face and ignites his lightsaber.
sometimes the power of film is what's NOT shown. hitchcock was a master at that. i think this scene was far more menacing the way it was done.
Excellent movie! I just saw it last night! It was pretty fast paced with lots of action...I'll have to see it several more times to really enjoy it. While the dialouge and acting were not quite up to par with Empire...the story itself was superb. Ian McDirmand and Ewan McGregor stole the show...by far the best Obi-Wan has been in the prequels. This movie really shows you that all 6 Star Wars movies aren't about the Republic, the Empire, the Rebels...its not about Luke, Han, Leia, Chewbacca, or Yoda...its all about Annakin. The entire story arc is his story...his childhood, training, good, fall, evil, and redemption. Neato!
Yeah you're right, it was better for the movie. I was half joking anyway. I really got a kick out of that scene. I think I was the only one in the theater that busted out laughing when Vader ignited his saber to the younglings.
I agree. After the midnight showing last week, at about 3 or 4 A.M, I replied in this thread saying that ROTS is the best Star Wars movie that I have ever seen. I stand by that comment. I watched ROTS again, and I watched the original trilogy four times over in the last week, I am just mesmerized by the beautiful tragedy that is ROTS. It was like watching an opera with lightsabers.
I consider the order to still be: Empire Revenge of the Sith A New Hope ROTJ AOTC PM Though Revenge had the best battle scenes/fight scenes of any of them, Empire was just the bleakest because no one knew that Vader was Luke's father until that point. At the end of the movie, Han is frozen in Carbonite, Luke's hand is lost and he's in disarray. Thats the darkest ending ever and you walk out of that movie like "DAMN!" We all knew what was going to happen in Revenge, so ultimately it could have the suspense or surprise that makes Empire so great. "Luke...I am your father" Still one of the greatest lines ever!
ROTS had some Kick A$$ fight scenes though! Best Fight Scenes in all Six Films: 1. Obi-Wan & Qui-Gon vs. Darth Maul - this was just a brilliant fight scene. I honestly think it was the best Star Wars fight scene ever because of Maul, the setup, the double edged blade and the fact that Obi-Wan proves his power and Qui-Gon gets rocked. I didn't care for how exactly Maul is killed, but as a whole its still the best. 2. Annakin vs. Obi-Wan ROTS - This was a brilliant fight w/ a grusome ending. Anakin/Vader was so on the offensive and it was physical as well. 3. Yoda vs. Dooku AOTC - To see that green saber come out was enough to make the crowd erupt. Especially when Yoda says "Much to learn you have ...my old Padawan" 4. Anakin vs. Dooku ROTS - and off with his hands and head! 5. Anakin/Obi-Wan vs. Dooku AOTC - It was a shock to see them both taken out by Dooku with Anakin's hand coming off. And it set up #3
The Darth Maul Duel is also what I consider to be far and away the best fight in the 6 films. The Obi-Wan v Anakin duel was good, but was the lava surfing needed? That hokey swinging ropes clash? All it does is distract. and about Empire - what I consider to be underrated is how half the movie is coming from the bad guy's point of view. Evan
Very good choices, but one of my favorites is Obi Wan vs. Jango Fett in AOTC. Even though Fett isn't a Jedi.
Hmmm let's see. In ROTS, Anakin loses ALL his limbs (save for the one that was already gone) and is set on fire. Padme dies during childbirth, leaving her twins basically parentless in the world. The Republic is destroyed laying the foundation for the Galactice Empire ruled soley by the corrupt, evil, Sith Lord, Emperor Palpatine/Darth Sidious. All the Jedi (or most) including younglings are killed save for Yoda and Obi Wan, who are both forced to go into exile. I think ROTS may be just a wee bit bleaker than Empire, but that's just me. But, Empire did have that suprise/shock value w/ Vader revealing to Luke he is his father...and Han getting encased in carbonite. But still, how can that possibly compete to all the events in ROTS.
And that was my arguement--spot on. Empire will ALWAYS hold a special place in my childhood memories along with Indiana Jones and The Raiders of The Lost Ark--a special, special movie that made me want to see MORE and was greater than the sum of it's parts. That said, the betrayal in ROTS was absolutely gut-wrenching even though I KNEW what was going to happen. I mean...I was SICK when Anakin lopped off Mace's hand--I wanted to scream at him--I was dumbfounded. Honestly, I still thought in the back of my head that the crisis would be averted, against all logic, somehow the inevitable wouldn't happen...am I the only one who caught themselves thinking this??
Sith was bleaker, sure. It's about as dark an ending as you can get. But it's tough to compare this ending with Empire's, because after Empire came out you were in absolute shock at the surprise ending, and then had to wait a few years to find out what happens. At the end of the prequel trilogy, you know that things are bleak, but the rebels are going to get back at the Empire in the next movie, blow up the Death Star, get a new jedi hero in Luke, and force Vader into escape.
Don't worry you were alone. Even though I knew this movie could only end badly, I was still praying for the hope or chance that there would be some good out of all this. What an idiot I am!
Two things: I think what made the events in ROTS even more heartwrenching is knowing that is was going to happen and knowing what will happen in Eps IV-VI. And yeah, during the sequence just before Anakin shows up at the Mace/Palpatine fight...when he and Padme are both on the balconies looking out on Coruscant...when it felt like they were both gazing out across the planet to each other, I kept thinking....don't you do it Anakin. DON"T GO. See I was too young to see it in the theater the first time..fact I don't believe I was born yet....and I'm too young to remember watching it my first time, so by the time I was old enough to actually understand the significance of what was happening, Vader's revelation to Luke wasn't really a shock anymore. So Empire, and really the OT as a whole does't have as special significance to me as it would others. As much as I love the OT, and I did grow up on it...I never saw any of them in the theater the first go-around. But the NT I did... so I think for me, after watching ROTS especially, the NT holds that special place in my heart that OT would for those lucky (or should I say old ) enough to see it in the theater back in the day. Not to say that I think 1 through 3 are better than 4 through 6...cause for me it'd probably go like 5, 3, 6, 2, 4 and 1, I think. Just that being able to see the NT in the theaters upon their release makes them significant for me just as the OT was significant for that generation.
duude..the part where he gets the kids in the room and the one kid goes what's going on skywalker or something and then Anakin pulls out his saber i was like ****!!
Why does everyone have such a hard-on for Darth Maul? Sure, he looked cool with his corns, tattooed face, and double light saber, but what else did he ever show?
Well, unlike dooku, he didn't show a poot-belly. I don't mind Maul being killed off at all, but he certainly looked like more of a badass than the count.
