Revenge of the Sith
May. 22nd, 2005 10:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shipperxSaw the show this afternoon. My thoughts:
-- Effects were... impressive. But, like the last two prequels, the compositions were cluttered. In some ways it's like Ancient Egyptian art... art before they learned perspective. Not everything should be rendered in perfect detail as then it's difficult to know the focus. Still have to admire the skill and the patience to render so much in such hugely complicated (chaotic?) compositions.
-- Yoda rocks and is a beloved little man. Love Yoda. Most animated thing in the movie (and that includes the actors.)
-- Padme really was a wuss. I mean... puhlease. Die 'just cause?' It would have held more power if either a) She had been allowed an equally strong confrontation with Anakin. Why couldn't SHE kick a little ass? Plenty of female characters do these days and she wasn't shown as just fluff in the previous stories. Sure, she was pregnant... but pregnant Aeryn kicked ass. And it wouldn't have had to be physical. If she had just been allowed to be more passionately outraged. b) The emperor had been right and Anakin really HAD killed her by accident through his use of power. Having her just will herself to die? Eh. Die for an actual reason or because he killed her, not just of a broken heart.
-- Hayden really CANNOT act. He's wooden and his line reading sucks. Now, his brooding brow works as well as any, so go silent and brooding, okay. But I do think it could have been better with a better actor (who was allowed to act because Ewan McGregor CAN act and it really wasn't used all that much). But purely on ability, Hayden isn't a good actor. In fact, he's a bad actor.
-- Palpatine, however, is a good actor.
-- The ending was great (ignoring the melodramatic 'Nooooo!!!!'.) Made me all nostalgic. Loved the sequeces giving the twins away. Loved Anakin becoming Vadar.
-- Anakin's fall into Vadar was well motivated and worked. It was multilayered. It was neither one thing or another. Part of it was greed for power. Part of it was his need to control his fate (probably
fueled by his having been a slave). Part of it was desperately trying to save Padme. Part of it was recognizing the flaws (dare I say even a little hypocrisy?) in some of the Jedi (Mace, I'm looking at you). Part of it was simply being manipulated by Palpatine. So it's not easily defined--which is a compliment.)
All in all, flawed but far, far, FAR better than the previous two sequels. Definitely works to tie the series all together in a way that is highly enjoyable to those who have grown up with Star Wars.
-- Effects were... impressive. But, like the last two prequels, the compositions were cluttered. In some ways it's like Ancient Egyptian art... art before they learned perspective. Not everything should be rendered in perfect detail as then it's difficult to know the focus. Still have to admire the skill and the patience to render so much in such hugely complicated (chaotic?) compositions.
-- Yoda rocks and is a beloved little man. Love Yoda. Most animated thing in the movie (and that includes the actors.)
-- Padme really was a wuss. I mean... puhlease. Die 'just cause?' It would have held more power if either a) She had been allowed an equally strong confrontation with Anakin. Why couldn't SHE kick a little ass? Plenty of female characters do these days and she wasn't shown as just fluff in the previous stories. Sure, she was pregnant... but pregnant Aeryn kicked ass. And it wouldn't have had to be physical. If she had just been allowed to be more passionately outraged. b) The emperor had been right and Anakin really HAD killed her by accident through his use of power. Having her just will herself to die? Eh. Die for an actual reason or because he killed her, not just of a broken heart.
-- Hayden really CANNOT act. He's wooden and his line reading sucks. Now, his brooding brow works as well as any, so go silent and brooding, okay. But I do think it could have been better with a better actor (who was allowed to act because Ewan McGregor CAN act and it really wasn't used all that much). But purely on ability, Hayden isn't a good actor. In fact, he's a bad actor.
-- Palpatine, however, is a good actor.
-- The ending was great (ignoring the melodramatic 'Nooooo!!!!'.) Made me all nostalgic. Loved the sequeces giving the twins away. Loved Anakin becoming Vadar.
-- Anakin's fall into Vadar was well motivated and worked. It was multilayered. It was neither one thing or another. Part of it was greed for power. Part of it was his need to control his fate (probably
fueled by his having been a slave). Part of it was desperately trying to save Padme. Part of it was recognizing the flaws (dare I say even a little hypocrisy?) in some of the Jedi (Mace, I'm looking at you). Part of it was simply being manipulated by Palpatine. So it's not easily defined--which is a compliment.)
All in all, flawed but far, far, FAR better than the previous two sequels. Definitely works to tie the series all together in a way that is highly enjoyable to those who have grown up with Star Wars.
