Apparently, my good friend and fellow Heathen didn't like the movie:
http://miscellaneousheathen.com/geek/050519sith-review.writeback
Then again, I don't really think he tried.
I liked this one. It was fun, it was simple, it was direct, it was blissfully spare of Lucas-love-dialogue. I will grant that Natalie Portman and Samuel Jackson offer performances that make Keanu Reeves look positively effervescent; I will further grant that, "Faster! More intense!" is not necessarily the best form of direction to offer an actor.
Go in to this movie expecting Flash Gordon. Go in to this one expecting Buck Rogers. Go in to this one expecting an amusement park full of visuals. A word of caution to send you on your way: know your Expanded Universe, or at least have a Fanboy handy to explain what happened in the Cartoon Network's "Clone Wars" series.
You don't always enjoy everything at the amusement park, but if you concentrate on the Cranky Biscuits and Grumblecakes, you won't enjoy anything.
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> Then again, I don't really think he tried.
The thing is, though, that it's not my responsibility to try to like a movie. It's the filmmakers' responsibility to make a movie people will enjoy.
I like Star Wars. I'm not a raging fanboy like some, but I enjoyed the place the first movies held in my childhood. I hoped that, 20-odd years later, Lucas would have grown as a filmmaker, but the unmitigated disaster of the first two prequels pretty much made it clear he had not -- and when you're a billionaire with more or less anything you want at your disposal, a failure to develop or improve can be blamed on no one but yourself. It's shocking that Lucas' best directorial work as at the beginning of his career, and that nearly all subsequent efforts have been worse than the one prior.
Sith is better than Menace or Clones. But, as Anthony Lane pointed out (in a hilarous but fundamentally anti-Star Wars review in the New Yorker last week), that's like saying death by natural causes is preferable to crucifixion.
I say again: the only reason I didn't walk out of Menace was because it was Star Wars. The only reason I event WENT to this one was because someone else paid for the ticket. It pisses me off that Lucas has essentially squandered the Star Wars myth with three half-ass movies full of eye candy. In retrospect, though, maybe we should have seen all this crap coming when he populated the last half of Jedi with fucking Ewoks.
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