Midnight Hijinx

[PrincessMojo]

So I saw Episode III at exactly 12:02 last night. It was the first time I have ever gone to a midnight showing of any Star Wars movie, so it was quite exciting! Anyway there were many crazies there, and just so you all know if Batman and Spiderman fought with light sabers, batman would win because he would trip Spiderman, and Darth Vader enjoys wearing tuxedos. There were also scary guys there as well that tried to use Jedi mind tricks to get myself and my friends to sit with them "You ladies will sit with us" ::crazy Jedi arm motion:: (PS Boys this is NEVER a turn on! )

On to the movie, the love scenes are ridiculous as always, but the fight sequences are mostly wonderful, and the last hour of the movie is sheer brilliance and totally makes up for Episodes I and II. The very end is absolutely amazing, and is very cool though most people know exactly what is going to happen. All in all it was good! It is defiantly worth seeing. PS if anyone else sees it post about it here I want to know what others think

[mooncroww]

So I went and saw the movie last night with my folks. There weren't to many of the scary fans there, though right before the movie started someone did the Chewbacca noise. Which was cool... I love a man in touch with his inner Wookie.

I loved ever second of the movie. The love scenes were fantastic, but then I'm an awful romantic. That and I'd melt into a puddle if the guy who plays Anikin said that I was beautiful. Whooo. That boy is lovely. And with those dark "I'm soooooo evil eyes" he's even more lovely than normal.

Yoda is my hero. That little guy is awesome. He's hopping around like a little frog and I was cheering.

I can understand Darth's anger in all the other movies. He really was trying to do the right thing there for a while. He was put in a bad position and it's just not a good idea to do that someone already unstable.

Is it me, or are Jedi stupid? I mean honestly. They have all these rules and they seem to change them at will. But of course the only time the seem to enforce them is when it's against poor Anikin. It's like they take all of what makes human interesting and say it's bad. Yeah hate and anger and sadness and fear aren't the bet of emotions, but they helps us be who we are.

And it is interesting how Ani really does balance the force. No one said it was going to be an easy balancing. I was upset by the killing of the kids though. That disturbed me. But I guess it makes sense.

The end made me sad, but we all know what happens.

Well, that was my very long take on the movie.

~Mooncroww

[Lolua]

BB, the 'rents, and I saw the film on Friday night (and BB went back on Saturday with a friend). I thought it was a good movie, better than Episodes I and II, but still not as good as the original trilogy.

Among the highlights:

• Yoda, Yoda, Yoda.While his butt-kicking tendencies weren't as much of a surprise as they were in Episode II, I still enjoyed watching him bounce around. The close-ups of him narrowing his eyes seemed repetitive, but perhaps they were just having Yoda channel Samuel L. Jackson after Mace Windu bit the dust.
  
• The fight scenes. Apart from the odd space battle at the very beginning, they were all wonderful. Great fight choreography in the light-saber duels, and the unique, vivid locales of the aerial battles (the Wookie planet, that hole in the ground where Grievous was hiding, etc.) made them more interesting to watch.

Among the problems:

• The love scenes. Sorry, MoonCroww, but even Anakin's chiseled jaw couldn't save them. As lovely as he is, I found the scenes stiff with cookie-cutter dialogue straight out of an old TV melodrama. And the acting wasn't any better. I suppose I saw that coming, from the "Anakin, you're breaking my heart!" scene in the trailers, which when I first saw it, prompted the response, "There are ways to make that line sound believable, and that is not one of them." As BB put it, "Natalie Portman can act, she just wasn't. Hayden Christensen can't act, but he was trying in this movie." We also decided that George Lucas can neither write nor direct a love scene: the Han/Leia scenes in The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi were both written and directed by others.
  
• Yoda speaks. Argh. So we can all write Yoda's speech pattern: take a normal sentence, pick up the subject and verb as a unit and move them to the end, right? Wrong. That rule works with things like "You must try," Yoda-ized as "Try you must," but sounds incredibly stupid when the sentence is long and/or unconventionally formed. This particularly came to my attention when Yoda tried to out-snark Palpatine. "Not if I have anything to say about it" left Yoda's mouth as "Not if anything to say about it I have." *groan* Snarkiness is all well and good, but if you're going to write Yoda's lines, a) write something he would actually say and b) don't be a slave to overly-generalized grammatical rules. Recall that Yoda's most famous line from the original trilogy, "Do or do not, there is no try" didn't come out as "Do or do not, no try there is."

[mooncroww]

While his jaw line may have done nothing to help him, I still enjoy the love scenes. The way I see it, and I might just be justifying my own stubborness, Jedi's really aren't trained in how to deliver lines like "You are so beautiful." Now if he were to growl something about being angry... well Anikin has that down. And of course living with a Jedi, especially one as mixed up as poor Anikin, you will be doomed to deliver lines that are just as hokey.

If you look at it from the perspective of someone watching a movie and remembering that they are actors and that it's all fake and they have to say those lines... well then half the movie was hokey. I tend to get caught up and forget things aren't real... which is why horror movies scare the daylights out of me.

As for Yoda... lol... yeah his lines were a bit staged. At least he didn't say anything like "Spank you I will." Thank heaven Yoda never had a love scene. "Good lovin Yoda gives."

... Though I will give that I laughed outloud when Darth was all "Nuuuuuuuuuu" when he found out his wife was dead. That one hurt me. I think it would have been better if he'd mumbled and fallen over or something. The enraged yelling should be left to Luke. He pulls it off much better. "Nuuuuuuuu" *shoves face against metal bar and screws mouth up* See how much better that was?

Sigh...

I love Star Wars.