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Offline BlackDove

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Re: Revenge of the Sith DVD
You mean you have? :wtf:

DEATH.

Ehh, **** you Sandwich for your premature posting :p

 

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No, not with Natalie Portland. Frankly I'd be doing far more interesting things during my time with her (;7)

[q]DEATH.[/q]

Just for that? Or because you thought it was with NP?
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Just for that. Principles :p

 

Offline Grey Wolf

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No, actually I'm pretty sure that all the jedi wear those robes because it "symbolizes that they are equals with all citizens" or something like that. But yea, ROTS was ****e.
And dressing differently from everyone around them, more specifically like they were from Tantooine, accomplishes this how?
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It's because of the religious overtone Lucas was trying to copy off monks.

Oh wait, that's not the in-story reason.

 

Offline Polpolion

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The movie was 'meh'. 3/5. Better than most movies, but other than that, PPLLLBBBTTTT (spiting noise)!


#1: Not enough space battles. Sure the first one was big, but after that, that was pretty much it! Needs LOTS more space scenes.

#2: Moves I, II, and III were sorta poopy. numbers IV, V, and VI were MUCH better.

#3: How come in 1, 2, and 3 the people were smarter than in the rest? Why didn't they put a whole bunch of those little booger droids on the two death stars? They got dumber?

#4: droids are too life-like.

 
Re: Revenge of the Sith DVD
Actually, Portman can act quite well... it's just that nobody in the new trilogy was allowed to act. Heck, for that matter, Hayden may be a good actor... :nervous:

Natalie can act very well! But there were loads of good actors in the prequels! But somehow Lucas directed them all so badly we cant see it. Empire directors guy should have directed the prequals. That was a much better film wize. Lucas is better as a producer, remember he also produced the Indiana Jones trilogy.

 

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Not really. Spielberg was there to hold his hand every step of the way, and we all know the colossal difference between the two.

 
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Not really. Spielberg was there to hold his hand every step of the way, and we all know the colossal difference between the two.

What i mean was that he had a massive part to play.  :)  And look at Empure strikes back. Much better acting,m much better movie.
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Re: Revenge of the Sith DVD
Lots of good criticisms of the movie here, at The Editing Room.
Quote
                      EWAN MCGREGOR
            So, what's with the coughing,
            do droids get colds or
            something?

                      GENERAL GREVIOUS
                 (wheezing)
            Oh no, see, I'm a cyborg, not a
            droid. Check it out, I have an
            actual beating heart.

EWAN shoots it and GREVIOUS'S HEAD explodes in a ball of
fire.

                       EWAN MCGREGOR
            That made sense.

A couple more things:
The Empire Strikes back is universally considered to be the best of all the movies, and--significantly--it was the only one neither written nor directed by Lucas.

It's horrible how the opening sequence LOOKS like a video game. I mean, come on... "Shoot the center eye"? He's been doing this kind of stuff throughout the prequel trilogy and it's jarring compared to the rest of the movie.

Vader's rehabilitation scene, where he dons the mask and takes his first breath, was virtually guaranteed to be the single most dramatic moment in the prequels, from the moment they were announced. It was considered to be so full of darkness and significance that it would be impossible to screw it up... but he did. As if his first words as the legendary Darth Vader weren't cringe-worthy enough, "NNNOOOOOOOOoooooo!" is utterly, completely, totally inexcuseable.

Although he DID resolve the issues he brought up in Episode I about Qui-Gon not vanishing and C-3PO's memory, he did it in the most spectacularly manipulative, hackish and unconvincing way possible in the last dialogue of the movie. I felt cheated.

He shouldn't have killed Padme. Why would he do that if Leia specifically has memories of her? (I bet they're gonna remove that line in the next revision of the Trilogy.) For that matter, why did Padme have 'nothing to live for'? Doesn't she have two brand new kids?

There's a whole host of other issues, with continuity, storytelling and general cinematography. Why did it take 20 years to build the first Death Star while the second took only three? Why does Anakin's irredeemable reversal take all of thirty seconds? And why, oh why did he cut from two minutes of the exterior of black space to the blinding white of the inside of the Tantive IV? That physically hurt my eyes!

It was better than the first two, but it still sucked.
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Re: Revenge of the Sith DVD
Not really. Spielberg was there to hold his hand every step of the way, and we all know the colossal difference between the two.
After War Of The Worlds, I'm not too sure I do.
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Re: Revenge of the Sith DVD
And the Padme death scene was stupid.

It'd've made far more sense to have had Annakin get more pissed at Obi Wan after he used Padme to track him down, then Obi Wan gives a big speech about how evil Annakin's become, kicks his ass (but doesn't maul him) and leaves with Padme - literally dragging Padme away as she tries to help Annakin. Then Obi Wan and Padme fly off to Tatooine to hook up with Organa and get Padme safely to Alderaan (with her giving birth on the way there). But by the time they arrive, Annakin's already put a bounty out for Obi Wan's head and Padme's safe return. He gets a tip-off from Greedo that they're headed to Tatooine, intercepts them in high orbit, boards the ship and starts fighting Obi Wan. Then as they come in on approach to Mos Eisley the Hutts shoot down her ship to try and collect the bounty - killing Padme and leaving Annakin crippled, burned and generally maimed (and also in close proximity to Padme when she dies). Organa reaches the crash site and finds Obi Wan and the kids. Obi Wan senses the Force swirling about Luke and decides it'd be best to leave him on Tatooine where he could keep an eye on him, with Organa taking Leia as originally planned. Then you've got R2D2 tagging along with Oragana, dragging the battered remains of C3PO who is subsequently reformatted and put into service on Organa's ship.

Tada! I bettered the official plot with 10 minutes of random musings. That's how bad it was.
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Re: Revenge of the Sith DVD
Meh. Spielberg's WotW is the best 1950s monster movie ever made, it's just 50 years late. I'd rather watch Independance Day for an alien attack movie, or Mars Attacks! for a '50s homage, or E.T. for Spielberg's aliens, or if I'm desperate Signs for Children In Peril (TM).
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Offline Grey Wolf

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And the Padme death scene was stupid.

It'd've made far more sense to have had Annakin get more pissed at Obi Wan after he used Padme to track him down, then Obi Wan gives a big speech about how evil Annakin's become, kicks his ass (but doesn't maul him) and leaves with Padme - literally dragging Padme away as she tries to help Annakin. Then Obi Wan and Padme fly off to Tatooine to hook up with Organa and get Padme safely to Alderaan (with her giving birth on the way there). But by the time they arrive, Annakin's already put a bounty out for Obi Wan's head and Padme's safe return. He gets a tip-off from Greedo that they're headed to Tatooine, intercepts them in high orbit, boards the ship and starts fighting Obi Wan. Then as they come in on approach to Mos Eisley the Hutts shoot down her ship to try and collect the bounty - killing Padme and leaving Annakin crippled, burned and generally maimed (and also in close proximity to Padme when she dies). Organa reaches the crash site and finds Obi Wan and the kids. Obi Wan senses the Force swirling about Luke and decides it'd be best to leave him on Tatooine where he could keep an eye on him, with Organa taking Leia as originally planned. Then you've got R2D2 tagging along with Oragana, dragging the battered remains of C3PO who is subsequently reformatted and put into service on Organa's ship.

Tada! I bettered the official plot with 10 minutes of random musings. That's how bad it was.
It was already established that his burns were caused by falling into lava, though by how they butchered the other preestablished cannon that could have been ignored easily.
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Hell something on the order of: Anakin's hand gets chopped off by Obi-Wan, he gets truly pissed(tm) and chokes Obi while they've been dueling over a convenient rock bridge over the lava.

Padme's ship dramatically flies in from under the bridge and she sees what's happening to Obi-Wan. Quick flash to her memories of Anakin and the Emporer together, how they've been torn apart and he's blindly serving him instead of the ideas behind the Republic, her eyes watering as she fires the ship's guns into the bridge behind Anakin.

Bridge collapses, Anakin grabs onto the stone with his good robotic-hand, clawing to keep his grip but quickly slips. Obi-Wan falls down and composes himself grabbing his saber as well as Anakin's and hops onto the ship's ramp.

The ship begins to take off, Kenobi walks into the bridge and sees Padme crying on the controls. She killed Anakin.

Anakin falls into the sea of cinders and bursts into flame, we see the ship fly off in the distance as his charred body looks towards it. There are some tears in his eyes but it's mainly tears of anger.

During the birth scene there's a small line about her losing a lot of blood, but they can keep her stable until they reach Alderaan. Padme asks Obi-Wan if when she dies she'll rejoin Anakin when she becomes one with the Force, and whether or not he will forgive her. Obi-Wan nods saying that he knows that what you did was the will of the Force, but also says that she has many long years before that, and he is certain that she will be crucial in defeating Palpatine to make the galaxy better for her newly born children. She then looks at Obi-Wan and says that she knows that Luke and Leia will be safe with him, smiles, and says that she can almost see him already. Obi-Wan definately looks concerned, holds her hand and tells her that her time is not yet but she lets go.

Yoda then walks in with a grim expression, insert comment about attachments causing suffering and sensing a terrible disturbance in the Force.

Cut to the Emperor finding Anakin's body, clearly dead or almost dead and he concentrates and he starts breathing. (Sith coaxing life out of the Force, minus the whole nematoad thing) "She betrayed the Republic... she betrayed me..." line that he says while clearly in pain. "Lord Vader, it pains me to inform you that Padme has died. Died at the hands of the last of the Jedi."

Vader is silent, clearly angry. "Let your anger give focus, but be mindful of what must be done. Our new Empire will keep others from being harmed by those such as the Jedi. Come my friend, you have suffered long enough."

Cut to Vader suit scene, his charred and burnt lower legs (bones peeping through and all) get cut off and replaced with robo-legs(tm) and the only dialog here is the "Yes Master." Also the chair bit would be redesigned a little to be less "Frakenvader" and also no lightening. Just rain.

Overall, a little more plausible here and there :p
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It was already established that his burns were caused by falling into lava, though by how they butchered the other preestablished cannon that could have been ignored easily.
Books are not canon.
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Good thing Woolie Wool dissapeared into the depths.  He'd argue that Star Wars fanboy crap with you on that.
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It was already established that his burns were caused by falling into lava, though by how they butchered the other preestablished cannon that could have been ignored easily.
Books are not canon.
I'm fairly sure that Lucas officially stated it somewhere, but I'm not willing to try to dig it up.
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Books are treated as canon except where the movies contradict them.

Although Lucas doesn't seem to give a damn about the books, although he at least likes the comics.
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Books are treated as canon except where the movies contradict them.

Although Lucas doesn't seem to give a damn about the books, although he at least likes the comics.

....that didn't prevent him from taking Timothy Zahn's Coruscant as is into his movies.

Then again, Zahn copied it from Asimov's Trantor.
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