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LukeLucas wrote:

second, when palpatine/sidious was talking about the sith lord (who i assume was his master) being able to create life out of midichlorians... was this a clue about how anakin actually came to be?... remembering in the first film, the whole discussion about him just appearing in his mother's womb... anyone with a deeper knowledge or insight on this?...

you know how vader can choke someone from across the room? it's like that.... using the force you could theoretically impregnate an unknowing person.

Sorry but I have to do this.

For the biggest spoiler.
Anikan becomes Darth Vader.

What I posted in my LJ:

Alright, I saw the movie - I'd give it a 8 out of 10, but further viewings may move this up or down.

The following are a list of (mostly) criticisms:

Minor Spoilers (you'd get more info from a TV ad):

- Wasn't dark enough (for how much it was billed as such).
- Stupid, Pointless battles in the middle.
- Minor inconstancies with previous movies.

Major Spoilers (Don't read these if you haven't seen the movie):

- The first fifteen minutes of the movie had me thinking it was a fake movie, and they were going to re-roll the opening and start over - it was that bad.
- Amadala's killing was a cop-out, "Can't find anything wrong with her"... blech
- The lack of seeing the obvious ... why it took Obi-wan and everyone else that long to realize the kids were Anakin's was just ridiculous.
- The battle @ Kayssahk was really pointless... waste of time.
- The final lightsaber battle between obi and vader sucked once they fell in the lava river - and the way in which the latter was burned was pretty stupid too.
- The opening space battle was SWEET - a rare find in the star wars universe. It even managed to overshadow the smurfy ground battles.
- General Greevus was a major let down - Obi was able to kill him without breaking out a sweat.
- The part where R4 got ripped to pieces was really sad
- The rap up at the end was kinda lame and drawn out... sorta like Return of the King
- The CGI on Yoda was really good this time around. I was much impressed.
- I still don't see how Anakin managed to land that half of a ship (without any engines!) onto a landing strip of all places - mighty convenient. Not to mention they should have died from an impact that bad. The whole ship tilting down and gravity shifting inside the ship made no sense either.
- Did I mention it wasn't dark enough?

Conner is right though, Liea said she remembered mommie; unless she remembers being pushed out between her mom's legs, then thats messed up

Marc wrote:

also Yoda's lightsaber reflexed light onto his face, but I never saw that happen with any of the real life characters

Well the force is strong wit that one...

i liked the movie. it's not Empire, or even ANH, but i think it's as good as Jedi. it blew Menace and Clones away.

things i liked:

1. it made Vader's turn from the Dark Side in Jedi much more believeable. even as a kid, Luke's ease of turning him was a bit, well, off. with his motivations for turning to the Dark Side explained (love of family, essentially), his return from it was fully justified. with the release of Sith, the title Return of the Jedi makes a hell of a lot more sense: it's not the Jedi Order the title refers to, but a specific Jedi - Anakin Skywalker.

2. all the little nods to the "classic" vehicles and stories - i know a lot of this was in Clones also, but i loved the proto-X-wings and proto-Ties in the space battles. the inclusion of Captain Antilles and Grand Moff Tarkin. the scout trooper armor the clones were wearing on Kashyyk. the fact that the helmets of the clone pilots echoed the helmets of the Tie pilots in shape.

3. the tenderness of Palpatine comforting the burned Vader on the magma planet... showed even Sith have feelings. he may be evil down to his very core, but that doesn't mean he doesn't care...

things i didn't like:

1. everybody getting their hands chopped off.

2. Chewbacca. don't get me wrong, i like Chewbacca. but the whole wookie sequence was almost a throwaway. it didn't have to be wookies, it could have been anybody. as long as Yoda went somewhere to help somebody and move the plot along.

3. how long does it take to build a Death Star anyway? in other words, why would it take like eighteen years (or more) to build the first one and six (or less) to build the second?

4. Jar-Jar lived.

5. are you telling me every clone just blindly obeyed the order to kill the Jedi? it takes free will and creativity to make the best soldiers - there wasn't one clone that said, "uh-uh. i've fought beside Master <whoever> for <x> years, and i'm not going to shoot him/her in the back 'cause some politician says so." it seems the Jedi order would be the best type of commanders and would earn the love and respect of their troops, clones or no.

but yeah, i give it a

Just got back from seeing it...

how long does it take to build a Death Star anyway? in other words, why would it take like eighteen years (or more) to build the first one and six (or less) to build the second?

Was thinking the same thing after leaving the movie...I guess Palpatine hired the lowest bidder since the Empire was probably strapped for cash after the war. 

Doesn't make much sense that they were able to rebuild the death star in about 5 years during the original trilogy.

This is really corny, but did anyone else get a flashback to the 'dark knight' scene in 'Monty Python and the Holy Grail' when Vader got chopped up?  "Just a flesh wound..."   

I can't believe you guys waited in line for so long!

wellfleation wrote:

I can't believe you guys waited in line for so long!

I didnt wait in line, I walked in and got my ticket for a 12:45pm show not long before it started

Marc wrote:

suncrusher totally owns the Death Star. It would be awesome to see movies made of various post ep 6 stories, or even Shadows of the Empire that was a kick ass story.

The sun crusher never makes any sense though - not as bad as Coran Horn though.

The Defiant could still take it though.

And we go from geeky to just plain dweeby...