Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith

OK. I went to see the movie tonight.

Compared to the last two films, this was was a supreme improvement (because the last two reeked). This film was much more about the action... sort of back to the roots of what made "Empire Strikes Back" the best of the earlier three.

Up to this point, though, George Lucas has not been known for his dialogue....... he's still not. The vocal interaction between characters either when they're fighting or emoting is weak at best, laughable at times. But, Lucas isn't exactly thinking of any acting or screenwriting Oscars, I'm sure.

I think the weirdest part of this film was that they spent so much time animating Yoda... so much in fact that at times it looked like this was some other-worldly "Bay Watch," with Yoda pushing back his hair in slow motion. Granted, the quality of animation this time around was significantly better -- seriously.

So, what's good about this film? Well, despite the fact that Lucas claims that he never actually wrote these scripts/stories before (he only had character bio sketches), he's done an admirable job in connecting the dots between this trilogy and its Sithy conclusion and the more famously known beginning of the original Star Wars storyline. I mean, in this film, Lucas had to:

* turn Anakin to the dark side
* turn Palpatine into the croaking Emperor / Darth Sidious
* get with birthin' some babies (to be Luke and Leah)
* kill off almost all of the Jedi (not a loss in Samuel Jackson's case)
* make the Empire look like Nazis
* start building the Death Star

and several other more minor plot points... minor to some, an entire life to others (mostly those who saw the film at midnight last Thursday, bless their hearts!).

Anyway, even if you're not totally into these films, but only know them from your earlier memories of the original films, you still have to see these newer three, if for no other reason than to see how Lucas managed to build the world that we all remember...

CB