OppoSiths

Watched Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of The Sith with my parents and niece last Thursday. Read and heard from other people and blogs that it was toss of being bad and good, depending on the person watching it. But as a general trend to say of the 1st 3 episodes compared to episodes 4 to 6, style and substance have definitely overshadowed content or the lack of thereof. It was of note that the 1st 3 episodes are geared for the younger audience, which of course entails a number of things to be simplified ad infinitum and other sensibilities to make it appealing to kids.

Of course, such things makes it a painful session in listening and watching wooden dialogue and acting which has become obvious with my niece who has little tolerance to these proceedings except when she watches it at home on DVD. Even the special effects scene can become a tedious exercise, my niece was getting dizzy from the the flashing lights from the light saber duels that litters the movie proper. I hope its not a bad sign that the movie would bring an incident of epileptics having seizures from those light saber duels.

Technical critique aside, I would agree with what my friend Vinnie that the little touches are fine but it falls behind because of poorly done execution. The little touches are definitely in line with the details the older viewer of the movies would know of that makes sense in build up. Example of such is when the Clone Soldiers would become the infamous Stormtroopers of the Empire as we know in Episodes 4 and upwards. Never thought that there would be helmet optics when we see the helmet being placed on Anakin's face as he was "repaired" by medical droids with cyber replacements. Even the ship of Senator Organa which would subsequently be adopted by Senator Organa's foster daughter and Anakin's actual daughter, Leia. The other nice touch was the explanation how it was possible for Jedi to reappear in holographic spectral forms, this was explained to be the training carried out by Jedi Master Qui-gon Jinn. Talk about never-ending training for Jedi.

So all in all, people either loved the movie or hated the movie. It just a matter of what one is looking at.