Star Wars Episode III Spoiler Alert! Read at your own risk

[lumy12]

As I was driving home from the mountains yesterday, feeling refreshed from my relaxing weekend but slightly depressed that it was coming to an end, I comforted myself with the thought of going to see Star Wars the next day. But that wouldn't be 'til after a loooooong day at work. Could I wait that long? Why the heck don't we just go see it tonight? And my bro was willing - so we went to the 9pm showing. Normally I would fall asleep in a movie starting so late, but I had slept in late the past 2 days and we had plenty of sugar and caffeine to consume during the film.

I doubt I would have fallen asleep without that stuff - the movie was excellent, and I tossed and turned all night, thinking about it. Even if I had slept soundly I would have only gotten 4 hours of sleep due to having to wake up early this morning. But it was worth it!

This one was by far the best of Episodes I - III. My brother says it's the best of all 6, but I don't know if I'd go that far (He's biased because the old ones don't have Natalie Portman in them). The first trilogy has the newness or originality going for it, as well as wonderful childhood memories as an edge.

**If you're still reading and you haven't seen the movie yet, don't read any further! I don't want to spoil it for anyone! Go see it and come back to this entry**

Hayden, Natalie, and Ewan all gave terrific performances. Watching Anakin transform was horrifying. The fact that it wasn't a surprise (to anyone who's seen ANY Star Wars flick) didn't lessen how horrifying it was to me. I just wanted to shake some sense into him. But... in a way it DID make sense for him to turn to the dark side. I empathized with him the whole time. He started out believing he was doing it to save his wife. And it escalated. We'd already seen how his anger could get the better of him (Ep.II), and add to his anger the feeling that everyone is against him, including the woman he loves - sure he'll embrace his anger and hatred. The fact that he inadvertently kills her (not by his actions towards her but his actions in general), only adds to his anguish.

And that scene where he gets burned and disfigured... and Obi-Wan with that one line where he conveys all his hurt and betrayal and confusion... "But you were the chosen one.... it was said you would destroy the sith, not join them!" - what an emotional moment.

The love story got to me too. I read the review in the paper where they scoff at it and say "at one point it appears they (Anakin & Padme) are following The Guiding Light rather than the Force" - but it didn't come off as soap-opera-y at all to me. There wasn't enough of those sweet scenes for my taste. The more tenderness between them, the more painful it is to watch Anakin turn. Okay, so there is cheesy dialogue throughout - come on, though, it's Star Wars! That's part of it!

Oh I can't wait to see it again.... but I will, 'til this weekend. I'll need to catch up on my sleep before then :)

Comments

[gizzi1213.livejournal.com]

Oh, a date with the bro.

And a SW review without a MENTION of Palpy...interesting.

[lumy12.livejournal.com]

I like how I didn't even know how to LJ-cut this. Hehehe.

Nope, no Palpy. And this was BEFORE I managed to make Brian utterly SICK of Star Wars altogether! (he won't watch it anymore. lol)

[gizzi1213.livejournal.com]

You drove Brian out of the fandom???? Shame on you!

[lumy12.livejournal.com]

Alas, *I* wasn't even in fandom at this point! So no, I didn't.

He can WRITE too. He should totally write SW slash. Hmmmm. *ponders how to make this happen* *...though not today since he's in a shitty mood*

[gizzi1213.livejournal.com]

Oh, he'd write handmaiden slash anyway!!!!

[lumy12.livejournal.com]

Actually, I doubt it. He only likes het. Strange boy. But if he wrote Anakin/Padme he'd butcher it, because he doesn't think "Hayden" is nearly good enough for his precious "Nat"!

[gizzi1213.livejournal.com]

Gah, that's confusing real person with fictional! You have to keep those separate.

[lumy12.livejournal.com]

When we play Battlefront, I'm Hayden and he's Natalie. Which of course, he likes, because Nat kicks ass and Hayden sucks. LOL!

But speaking fictionally I think he could go for Obidala, unfortunately. He can't forgive Anakin for hurting Padme!

[gizzi1213.livejournal.com]

I don't know anything about Battlefront so I can't comment on that.

Obidala???? I think I've just lost all respect for Brian!!!

[lumy12.livejournal.com]

I can't say for sure, but since Obi-Wan treated Padme better (ultimately) I could see him getting behind that. Plus he likes het, so he wouldn't go for any Padme/handmaiden action. (strange boy, eh?)

[gizzi1213.livejournal.com]

You SURE he's related to you????

[lumy12.livejournal.com]

We used to joke that we WEREN'T related, based on some eye color thing we learned in science, while studying genetics. Something about how for two brown-eyed parents to have a kid with blue eyes, both parents have to pass along the recessive blue gene... well, both our parents have brown eyes. But I have blue eyes and my brother has hazel! Shouldn't it mean that we either both have hazel, both have blue, or one of us have brown and the other either blue or hazel? So one of us has to be adopted, right? LOL I asked my science teacher about it and he was like "Uh... well, it's actually a bit more complicated than they explain it here" but he couldn't explain HOW. Or perhaps just didn't want to get into it. (probably didn't know beyond what the textbook said!)

Anyway, we look too much alike. At least, we did when we were kids.

[gizzi1213.livejournal.com]

Genetics is a funny thing. My sister was VERY blond when she was little. My niece is the same way now. My father, oddly enough, was too. Rather unusual for a mid to southern Italian, but that is what he claims and what my uncle has backed him up on. I was never blond, I've always been a boring brunette. My sister's hair has gotten much darker over the years (as my dad's did and my niece's is doing, and my nephew to a bit), but my sister is still BLOND in many other ways!!!!

[lumy12.livejournal.com]

My brother used to be blond when he was wee! And he has the darker coloring too. Kinda strange. I too have never had blonde hair. We can make blonde jokes up the wazoo!

[gizzi1213.livejournal.com]

I don't know any redhead jokes, unless it doubles back into a blonde joke, so I guess we are free to do blonde jokes.