Revenge Of The Sith:

[johnfoss]

Originally posted by jagur
are you serious, how could they remove that part? why? thats a major climactic moment in the movie.....!?

That scene was silly, and downplays the anguish the Neary character is going through as he struggles to understand what's wrong with him. He's lost his job and has three kids, yet he can't get this image out of his head. So he's going a little crazy.

The re-do of the movie replaced that "funny" scene with the shower scene from the night before. This is where his wife wakes up at like 4:00 to hear sobbing coming from the bathroom. She finds him in the shower, fully clothed, and crying uncontrollably. Then the older son (the two younger kids were actually Richard Dryfus' kids) sees them and starts screaming and yelling because he's upset too. So that's a much more emotionally powerful scene, highlighting the effect the alien encounter has had on Roy Neary.

In my DVD version, both scenes are there, which I think is great.

[Ben Plotkin-Swing]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by johnfoss

{I liked where the little "sabotage droid" got zapped and then appeard to get blown off the back of Obi-wan's (Anakin's?) ship. I guess if your ship is going to fly like it's in air, the same effect should apply to anything stuck to it!}
[QUOTE]

I thought that part was hilarious. Although after I thought about it, it occured to me that if the ship was accelerating it would make sense for the droid to slide off backwards once it lost it's grip.

The space battles were fantastic in general. I liked how the big ships basically acted like battleships on an ocean, firing broadsides at each other with what amounted to cannons. And how the ship Anakin and Obie wan were on started to "sink" when it got damaged. Totally unrealistic but a lot of fun nonetheless. I think space battles using real physics would probably be a lot less fun to watch.

[johnfoss]

Originally posted by Ben Plotkin-Swing
it occured to me that if the ship was accelerating it would make sense for the droid to slide off backwards once it lost it's grip.

I thought about that too. But if that was the case, should it not have been accompanied by the "sound" of the ship revving up? {and yes I'm aware of the irony of sound in the vacuum of space as well, but remember, we're still banking our turns.}

Totally unrealistic but a lot of fun nonetheless. I think space battles using real physics would probably be a lot less fun to watch.

I agree. The space battle scene was a masterpiece of CGI, and I look forward to watching it again! A "real" space battle, using even technology we have today for air, would happen from thousands of miles away, with smart weapons, and the combatants wouldn't even be able to see each other with the naked eye. It's amazing how science fiction on TV and in the movies insists on putting ships so close to each other they're in constant danger of fender-benders! Think Starship Troopers for a great example of that. Oh, we're being shot at from thousands (maybe only hundreds) of miles away! Maybe we shouldn't be packed in like sardines. Uh oh, too late! More great special effects!

Disclaimer: the Starship Troopers movie had almost nothing at all in common with the (much better) book of the same name. It used the same names for some of the characters, the aliens were called "bugs," and that was about it. Director Paul Verhoven (Robocop and Total Recall) is quote the gore-meister!

[zod]

Saw it, ranked it #2 right behind Empire Strikes Back

[yoopers]

George Lucas is at it again. The next sequel in the Star Wars line will feature the newest villain duo that is sure to set the screen on fire. Not since Batman and Robin has such a pair made their opponents quake in their jet-propelled boots. There will be no turning back for the heros this time when they come face to face with the next generation Darth and his ferocious sidekick...
Darth Tater and Darth Tater Tot

[Brian MacKenzie]

Originally posted by yoopers

Darth Tater and Darth Tater Tot

you'll have to find a new name!

[yoopers]

Originally posted by Brian MacKenzie
you'll have to find a new name!

Hrmmph. I can take him. I'll poke him in the eye.

[jagur]

taken down by Madagascar and the lamest yard

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[unicycle6869]

I saw it over the weekend and for the most part I enjoyed it. Now I can't wait till all 6 are on DVD so I can watch them all in order so I can make sense of everything. I understand most of the story line but it's been awhile since I've wathed the original three. How long do you think it'll be before this comes to DVD? A year? Any guesses?

The one problem I had with the movie was in the final fight scene when vader is fighing obi one in the lava scene, where the hell did those ropes come from that they used to swing onto dry land? They just magically appeared from nowhere or is there a logical explanation for it?

My girlfriend did not know throughout the entire movie that Anikan grows to be Darth Vader. She also didn't know that this and the other newer episodes happened before the 3 orginals. So she was thinking, now there's a new Darth Vader or two of them! So I filled her in after the movie. Wouldn't it be a different movie if you knew nothing about any of the others? Think about that for a second. How many people have seen the new ones but not the old ones?

[Denali]

Think about that for a second. How many people have seen the new ones but not the old ones?

Ummm......Guilty...Revenge of the Sith was my first Star Wars movie....But I did make the connection about Anakin becoming Vader...But I was not completely insulated from whole series coz you have everyone discussing it with you...but yeah, when he became vader, I went "aaah" and the whole thing clicked...

[Edit] Before that scene I was wondering when the hell Vader was going to make an appearance.After the first hour I guessed that maybe he was killed off in some previous episode...ooops

[GILD]

i wanted to do this when 'Jedi' came out
i wanted to do this when the third 'back to the future' came out
i wanted to do this with The Matrix
i finally did it
went to the video store yesterday
rented Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones
and watched them back-to-back
then went to the movie house to see Revenge of the Sith
i'm getting much better at voluntarily suspending my critical judgement facility and just having fun

'twas great