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Thursday, May 19, 2005  
Episode III in Bullet Points

My brother caught the midnight showing of the new Star Wars movie; what follows is his (rather entertaining) summary.

  • Bring some ear plugs or be prepared to crack a lot of jokes.
  • The dialogue sucks. Completely and utterly sucks.
  • [Lucas] can't direct either. Considering he has one of the great directors [Spielberg] that has begged him to let him direct a movie.... Multiple times....
  • Don't even try nitpicking Ep III. You'll go nuts.
  • My biggest peeve was the instant travel flying in a ship and getting across the galaxy in a few hours. You could figure the entire movie happening in a week.
  • I do like how they killed the Jedi--the only sensible way to get rid of the order en masse.
  • Just beware of all dialogue. [ Dawn's Note: Yes, this came up in the conversation multiple times.] Especially of the lovers. During one of their "serious" "I love you" scenes, I couldn't help but start cracking up. I wasn't the only one either. It's super cheesy... beyond anything you could imagine.
  • "STELLA!!!!!!!!!!!!" [Vader] has one of those scenes--it was comical. Darth Vader... like that. I laughed. The whole mystique of Darth Vader... gone with that scene. It wasn't bad or anything... just felt so out of character for DARTH VADER.
  • The action scenes don't look as fake. Which is a major plus.
  • I liked the use of secondary characters, but I don't like the name-dropping.
  • The one thing I learned from Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith: Girls are evil... it's all their fault. (Go see it... it's a decent watch if you ignore all the dialogue.)

I have yet to see the movie, though now I'm far more interested than I was two hours ago--I used to be one of the most diehard Star Wars fans you could find, but my faith in the enterprise was shattered by the abominations called Episodes I and II. Perhaps III will restore at least some of the wonder.


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