cornerofmadness

I'm watching Momma House Wren trying to teach her babies how to fly. Right now that means fat chicks hopping cluelessly on my back porch.

I finally got to see <I> Revenge of the Sith</I>, the last person on the planet to finally do so (literally. It was the last day for the movie at our theatre). We waited because like I’ve said before my parents took me for my tenth birthday to see A New Hope and now they wanted to take me for my birthday to the last one. (okay we’re about 3 weeks late but I wasn’t here for my birthday).

Unlike the first two in this trilogy, I really enjoyed this one and it had everything to do with the fight scenes. Personally I could sit there and watch those for hours without needing a plot (probably a by-product of this strange Saturday afternoon TV show in the TV’s that showed nothing but plot less Kung Fu movies). It’s hard to pick which is my favorite fight scene probably the Obi-Wan vs. Anakin smack down. The action scenes sold this movie and I loved the way they tied it into the older movies (barring the blip of Obi-Wan not knowing about Leia), at the end with giving Threepio and R2 to Captain Antilles.

However there are some major caveats to my enjoyment. Because this movie was not without some massive problems.

A)    The acting. Good lord, was this entire movie shot in one take? I know these actors. I know what they’re capable of and it sounded like they were reading from cue cards, especially Padame, Anakin and Windoo. This was some of the most wooden acting ever
B)      Obi-Wan letting Anakin roast like a pig. That was merciless. I would have preferred Obi-Wan to have done his slice and dice on the platform and have it give out dumping Anakin to his “death” on the lava.
C)    Padame dies in childbirth? Um, these guys can rebuild a body from next to nothing but they can’t save a woman in childbirth? To me it would have made it far far more believable if Anakin dreamt of Padame dying with Obi-Wan over her just like he did see and have Palpatine spin it so that the ‘evil’ Jedi were out to kill her because of Anakin. That would have sealed Anakin to him more believable.
D)    George, get someone to write your romance scenes next time. Blech.

That said, Mom was panting over Ewan McGregor and I’d go to the Dark Side for Anakin any day.