<p>I'm never going to get over that anger i've built up towards the immature lil brat lol</p>
<p>Haha I collected Star Wars books for like 4 years- although I stopped a couple of years back, I still have quite a few novels. </p>
<p>I have come to the conclusion that many of the authors of these post-Episode VI books are better story tellers than Lucas. Some of them go uber-deep and uber-dark regarding the Force and the Jedi. Everyone talks about how dark Episode III is. Well, I havn't seen it yet, but I doubt it can be as dark as reading 30 Star Wars novels, and then reading the 19-book New Jedi Order series. So many characters die, so much destruction. I'm not gonna reveal anything, but the character death list includes some of Star Wars' most famous peeps (i.e. from the movies). I have to give Lucasbooks credit for creating an atmosphere with NJO where 'the hero always triumphs' isnt a given. But before getting into the New Jedi Order, it is recommended that you read many of the other novels first, because otherwise the impact won't be as great, and you may not understand many of the minor plotlines and backgrounds as well.</p>
<p>It has gotten to the point where I almost like the books better than the movies. However, I'm not really into Star Wars like I used to be, so for the most part I've moved on to other stuff.</p>
<p>for the first time...i've heard this movie was actually better than the book...but I haven't read them...that's just what this SW groupie at the movies said last night</p>
<p>Did anyone dress up as Star Wars characters to the theater? I wore a Darth Vader mask. lol. My friends said that some guy dressed up as Yoda and kept jumping around. =D</p>
<p>I read the book a month ago and felt like strangling Anakin. I calmed down a few days later though...But all this anger came back as soon as I watched Episode III. <em>ROAR!!!</em> Throughout the movie, I kept telling myself 'no...no...it cant be!!! anakin wont turn to the dark side!!! padme will live!!! the sith lord will die and everyone will live happily ever after!'...but then again, who am i kidding...That's one thing about seeing Episode IV before III...we all know that Anakin cant escape his fate...=(</p>
<p>I loved Episode III like crazy but it's also driving me crazy.</p>
<p>thanks for ruining 26.7% of the movie...</p>
<p>Finding out that Anakin goes to the dark side ruins the movie?</p>
<p>That's like being surprised that the children will be named Luke and Leia.</p>
<p>Right, UCLAri. At first I was worried about reading reviews, for fear of spoilers. Then I realized that I know more about the plot than the characters themselves do at Episode III's end.</p>
<p>Just saw this movie. It was awesome.</p>
<p>A lot of people make trival arguments about it - and it's not hard to - but overall, there's nothing bad about it. And I'm not even a Star Wars fan. Only a couple times I didn't connect with the emotions.. most of the time though, it just grabbed me, because a lot of scenes are really ironic. Also, the acting was a bit corny at times, but other than that.. oh my God!.. it was awesome.</p>
<p>Knavish, acting and corny dialogues are the common negative points of all Star Wars movies.</p>
<p>Sorry, I was judging the critisisms of my friends.. I'm too lazy/not big enough of a fan to read professional reviews.</p>
<p>However, even with that, the movie was good.</p>
<p>Do not appologize Knavish. I responded to your post precisely because you clarified that you were very familiar with the Star Wars movie. I was merely pointing out that Star Wars movies in general are not known for:</p>
<p>1) Good acting (with the exception of Ewan McGregor and Alex Guiness as Ben Kenobi, Ian McDiarmid as Palpatine, Harrison Ford as Han Solo and James Earl Jones as the voice of Vador, all of which were excellent) </p>
<p>2) Natural and solid dialogues (although Yoda, the Senator Palpatine/Emperor, Darth Vador and even Obi-Wan Kenobi all have excellent one-liners).</p>
<p>"Bah...so uncivilized." ::Throws away blaster::</p>
<p>A true Jedi, that Obi-wan!</p>
<p>lol ruinin the movie....like i said before...everyone knew what was goin to happen...there's just that little grain of hope that it wont :p</p>
<p>"there's just that little grain of hope that it wont"</p>
<p>exactly...well, maybe more than a little grain of hope...=(</p>
<p>just saw it. i think it's as cheezy as the rest of the prequels. but still kinda entertaining</p>
<p>im a fan of star wars. I thought it was the best star wars movie yet myself. it was intense at times. The theater was crowded, even getting there two hours prior. I thought they made a good transition of the end of the third one to the beginning of the fourth with darth vadar. but there still 20 years apart or so.</p>
<p>Ugh, I keep comparing this movie to a Greek Tragedy, and I'm gonna stick to it.</p>
<p>Tragic Flaw (which is really the only unknown part of the movie, so I won't give it away), well-known, mythological characters, and that one moment where if ONE LITTLE THING WAS DIFFERENT THE WHOLE OUTCOME WOULD BE OKAY!</p>
<p>I loved it. I wasn't angry at Anakin. I could almost understand exactly why he did what he did. Don't get me wrong, I would never condone the slaughter of small children, but Anakin was not pure dagnasty evil, as Obi-Wan said he was in "Star Wars: A Lost Hope." He just wanted to protect those he loved, and he wanted to be happy. And come on, if you had Palpatine whispering in YOUR ear for over a decade, you'd probably want to join the Dark Side too.</p>
<p>But yes, I think the movie was brilliant. Lucas told an excellent, moving, heart-wrenching story, and managed to do it by completing his first objective of "connecting the dots" relatively well. I still have questions about things, but that's one of the themes of Star Wars, wouldn't you say? :)</p>
<p>Actually....Star Wars follows Josef Campbell's "hero cycle," which a number of Greek Myths follow as well....but I do see one thing that makes it different from Greek tragedy....usually, heros in Greek Tragedies are brought to ruin through a mistake...not through a moral flaw...Anakin clearly fell through his moral flaw of impatience and overemphasis on dark passion (anger, hate, lust, etc.)</p>
<p>i dressed up as a jedi for the midnight showing.</p>
<p>SPOILER ALERT
nahrafsfa, I disagree. Anakin's tragic flaw was his love for Padme. He was misguided, and he wanted nothing more than to save her from what he considered certain doom. This can be a flaw, because it is strictly stated in Jedi laws that attachment cannot take place in the life of a Jedi. Anakin disregarded this, and fell in love with and married Padme anyway. Had he not loved her, and had he not been weakened by his love for her, Palpatine would have had no incentive to offer him to switch sides. Anakin was, overall, a good man. Though his "path to the Dark Side" was long, arguably starting early in the second movie, the thing that finally pushed him over the edge was the fear of his wife's death based on his love for her.</p>