{"id":134,"date":"2005-05-19T16:06:09","date_gmt":"2005-05-19T21:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=134"},"modified":"2005-05-19T16:08:49","modified_gmt":"2005-05-19T21:08:49","slug":"revenge-of-the-sith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=134","title":{"rendered":"Revenge of the Sith"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Initial thoughts:<\/p>\n

I’m still in a bit of post-movie euphoria, but…overall, ep III was surprisingly good…even great–the best installment since “Empire.”<\/p>\n

What it had that ep I and ep II completely lacked was real conflict…not “conflict” in the sense of people fighting one another–the previous two films had that–but “conflict” in the sense of human conflict, characters who were put into situations in which they had to make decisions that had weighty consequences. This is basic Screenwriting 101, but having the players revealing true character through decisionmaking under a situation of conflict is a must-have for interesting narrative. In ep III you’ve got that in droves: Anakin, Obi Wan and Amidala all are put into rapidly degenerating situations in which they have to make these kind of decisions throughout the film. SW and Empire had a lot of this–PM and ATOC had very little.<\/p>\n

And of course ep III features plenty of good ol’ fashioned space fighting and light sabre battles—thankfully, space battle-wise, this go round we’re free of the annoying “primative culture vs. technological culture” battle that plagued ROTJ and PM.<\/p>\n

That’s not to say that there weren’t plenty of things not<\/em> to like. The special effects, while often beautiful, are often over the top, as if the SFX crew were insructed to be sure to jam every square inch of the screen with something<\/em> computer generated, mechanical and moving. Yoda still looks kinda silly bouncing around in the fight scenes; he has a bit of resemblence to those “black cat” fireworks that, when lit, spin around spastically spewing green flames. The patented Lucas goofy dialog is still there, although toned down a bit supposedly due to an actual writer who was hired to punch up the dialog a bit. There’s certainly nothing of the caliber of AOTC’s infamous “I hate sand” speech from Anakin (although I have to admit, I kinda enjoy watching the “sand” scene in a sort of Mystery Science Theater way).<\/p>\n

More later…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Initial thoughts: I’m still in a bit of post-movie euphoria, but…overall, ep III was surprisingly good…even great–the best installment since “Empire.” What it had that ep I and ep II completely lacked was real conflict…not “conflict” in the sense of people fighting one another–the previous two films had that–but “conflict” in the sense of human … <\/p>\n

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