{"id":1670,"date":"2005-08-25T16:03:48","date_gmt":"2005-08-25T23:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/8stars.org\/aa\/2005\/08\/25\/revenge-of-the-sith\/"},"modified":"2005-08-25T16:03:48","modified_gmt":"2005-08-25T23:03:48","slug":"revenge-of-the-sith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/8stars.org\/a\/2005\/08\/25\/revenge-of-the-sith\/","title":{"rendered":"Revenge of the Sith"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yes, I finally saw Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith.<\/a> I wasn’t in a hurry, because I knew A) it would be around for a long time in theaters, and B) it would be bad.<\/p>\n

It was bad. Good points: A) Lots of excellent eye-candy–enough to justify sitting through the movie many times over just to catch it, if you’re into that sort of thing; B) No speaking role for Jar-jar Binks.<\/p>\n

But the dialogue was so awful that I was rewriting it in my head as the movie went. Darth Vader is made out to be nothing more than a punk-ass whiny kid who gets all Columbine on the galaxy. The whiny schtick actually worked for Hayden Christensen in the only other movie I’ve seen him in, Shattered Glass.<\/a> Here, no.<\/p>\n

It would have been easy to add nuance to the story, to make Anakin Skywalker less annoying, and to make the movie as a whole less disappointing. In fact, it seems as if it would have taken a positive effort to make it as bad as it is. I see that George Lucas has the writing credits. He’s fine with the scissors. Not so good with the pen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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