I finally got to see George Lucas's final Star Wars film, Revenge of the Sith last night. I may be the last person in the blogosphere to finally see it, but I did and I can now comment.
After seeing it and reading a few posts by others I must agreed that it was much better then the previous two. That isn't saying much though because I thought they were rather poor. I wasn't as enthralled as others though. It was fine, but I don't need to ever see it again.
The action made it more interesting to watch and made up for the poor script we've all come to expect. It was just so anti-climatic knowing how everything should end. I was just there for the details and a sense of completion. Well – I had hoped to be pleasantly surprised, but I wasn't.
Driving home from the theatre I commented to my wife that if George wanted to tell the fall of Anakin Skywalker so much he should have taken a cue from his friend Francis Ford Coppola and created movies with the characters we all know and love while flashing back to the past like in Godfather 2. That would have been tremendous.
Yes people are going in droves to see the movies and yes George is making a ton on promotional marketing of nearly everything you can. However I have to wonder what the these movies would have been like had Lucas not be been such a megalomaniac and instead acknowledged the fans as having made him what he is and made the films for them.
Looking forward to the summer movie I really wanted to see – Batman Begins.
<p>I finally got to see George Lucas's final Star Wars film, Revenge of the Sith last night. I may be the last person in the blogosphere to finally see it, but I did and I can now comment.</p>
<p>After seeing it and reading a few <a href="http://www.kottke.org/05/05/star-wars-the-revenge-of-the-sith">posts by others</a> I must agreed that it was much better then the previous two. That isn't saying much though because I thought they were rather poor. I wasn't as enthralled as others though. It was fine, but I don't need to ever see it again.</p>
<p>The action made it more interesting to watch and made up for the poor script we've all come to expect. It was just so anti-climatic knowing how everything should end. I was just there for the details and a sense of completion. Well – I had hoped to be pleasantly surprised, but I wasn't.</p>
<p>Driving home from the theatre I commented to my wife that if George wanted to tell the fall of Anakin Skywalker so much he should have taken a cue from his friend Francis Ford Coppola and created movies with the characters we all know and love while flashing back to the past like in Godfather 2. That would have been tremendous.</p>
<p>Yes people are going in droves to see the movies and yes George is making a ton on promotional marketing of nearly everything you can. However I have to wonder what the these movies would have been like had Lucas not be been such a megalomaniac and instead acknowledged the fans as having made him what he is and made the films for them.</p>
<p>Looking forward to the summer movie I really wanted to see – Batman Begins.</p>
