Hmmm... it might sound better wiuthout the words ;)

Anyway, I just got back from seeing it... and its good. :D

Huh?? I didn't know it would debut, yet! I guess they let it out sooner in that time zone... (Jealous).

Ahhh, I'm a fan of Star Wars, but with all the hype everywhere, I haven't seen it yet and I already hate the damn thing! [img]tongue.gif[/img]

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Redirecting this one now.</font>

I just got back.

As a life-long Star Wars fan, I really wasn't too impressed with this film. It was much better than Episodes I and II, but that's not saying much.

It doesn't hold a candle to any of the original trilogy. Except maybe RotJ, but that's just because it was a bunch of Teddy Bears.

I almost puked with all the anti-Bush crap in the flick.

I saw this film, (Just got back) and I thought it was fabulous. It blew I and II away. Anakin finally redeemed his acting ability. My only caution would be this (and I won't give away any spoilers) I do NOT feel like this movie is appropriate for young children. This comes from a mother who has let her young children watch all of the other Star Wars movies and all three Lord of the Rings movies. It's a great movie, but very dark and one scene in particular I found very disturbing.

That's my two cents for now. When we're discussing the movie with spoilers, I'll give some more input. :0)

~Salinye

I loved it. Maybe my expectations were low from episodes 1 and 2, but like Salinye, I was blown away. The effects were fantastic, Anakin was really good, and I liked the way his turn to the dark side was portrayed.

Its a good movie, I liked it alot myself, and didn't find the anti-Bush stuff to be so bad. Hayden Christensson really redeemed himself IMO, and I found that Anakin's frusteration was well portrayed. Who here was bizzarely looking forward to Anakin getting messed up in the lava fight? For some sick and twisted reason I was. Man, that ain't right.

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I forgot to mention, I never thought they would come up with a bad guy cooler than Darth Maul, but DANG General Grevious ROCKED! What a great character!

~Salinye

I love all this anti Bush talk about a story line that was set in place before the man was ever in office. [img]graemlins/heee.gif[/img] The influence on George Lucas when he conceived it was the Vietnam War. He doesn't deny there are parallels between that war and Iraq, but the theme of the loss of freedom was already in place before EP I came out.

It is a common them to discuss in times of war -- giving up liberty for safety. It's been a common theme since -- well, since liberty, government, and war were invented. It's not Lucas's fault that a war started just in time to make his story line relevant. As for lines like Padme's "and this is how democracy falls" -- that is the theme, not a slam on Bush. It's not Lucas's fault that if given the choice between leaving a theme unsaid and cramming it in the poorly-written dialogue, he will ALWAYS choose the later.