Revenge of the Sith

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Lot's of controversy over this film.

1- worst

5- best

I thiought that list was by ranking: 1 = best, 5 = worst. Duh. Change my vote around. ROTS and its sequels was a total betrayal of everything I liked the original 3 Star Wars movies for.

ROTS won my "Most Disappointing Film of 2005" "award," because of how many rave reviews it had gotten from the SW fanboys. I liked the trailers, anyway.

Some spoilers follow.

I might've liked the film itself if it hadn't had those five second pauses between every badly-acted, badly written line of cheezoid dialogue. Or if the plot had been at all decent. Or the direction. Or the characters. Or anything except the visuals and action, really.

I don't know how people can say that it's much better than the other prequels--it still has practically all the same flaws, even with practically no Jar Jar this time.

I also don't quite get how people can say that ROTS kicked ass while the Matrix Revolutions totally sucks. I mean...they're the same damn movie. No, really! They are! Let's face it: both have their roots in a futuristic classic of some sort (the original SW trilogy and the first Matrix); they both have some of the best fight scenes ever on film; both have some of the coolest visuals ever on film; in both,everything else totally sucks; both are boring as HELL whenever people aren't fighting each other; in both, the only at-all decent performance is that of the villain (in ROTS, Palpatine; in Revolutions, Agent Smith); both have the girl dying at the end in a scene that should be more powerful than it is (I actually found Trin's death quite touching (certainly moreso than Padme's death), but everyone else hated that scene); both have an actor who's in the "mentor" role who usually is a decent actor but isn't here (Ewan McGreggor can be pretty good sometimes, but in ROTS he totally sucked as Obi Wan, and the same could be said for Lawrence Fishbourne as Morpheus in Revolutions); both are disappointing overall but still overrated by their overly-forgiving fanboys; both have plot holes the size of China's population; etc. etc. etc. The point is, they're basically the same sad, flawed film.

Maddox eloquently voices my opinions on the disappointing nature of Episode III:

http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net ... u=episode3

This poll needs a zero rating. Or negative numbers.

Keep in mind that, while the acting was bad, the dialogue was even worse. It's almost as if George Lucas was pulling cliches out of a hat.

It warrants a two just for "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" and eventually leading to this thing. The sad part is I think the movie would have been much better if the dialogue was really like that.

And the academy award for best screenplay goes to...

...Whoever translated Revenge of the Sith from Chinese back into English.

Unlike Lucas's weak attempts at humor, I actually laughed at "Backstroke of the West"

Revenge of the Sith could have been so much more than it was. The story could have used a lot more editing. And some better acting wouldn't have hurt either.

rate it 3

second only to Return of the Jedi for me.

But Return of the Jedi had Ewoks, instantly rendering it inferior to The Empire Strikes Back.

But Return of the Jedi had more explosions and a better battle, plus Darth Vader's mask came off.

Also, the Ewoks get points for being less annoying than almost every character in Episode's I, II, and III.

Edit: How could I forget about Leia in a bikini?

I gotta go with werbert on this one. RotJ's my favorite of 'em. The rancor was cool, and the Luke Vs. Vader duel (and really that whole segbment) is pretty classic.

I forgot about the rancor. One of the funniest parts of that movie was seeing the rancor's fat caretaker get all broken up over his charge's demise.

I can't remember the last time I saw the movie, but it's been at least 4 or 5 years.

Plus, there are few villains more sinister than Emperor Palpatine.

In Return of the Jedi, Palpatine was sinister. In Revenge of the Sith, he was a cliche-spouting, cardboard cutout villain. He should have been called Darth Snidley Whiplash.