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"I've seen Episode 3"

*Post contains no spoilers* (even though we all knew what was going to happen anyway)

Went to an early morning showing which started at 1am this morning (which made me feel exceptionally geeky not to mention tired this morning) and speaking in the style of master Yoda, "like it you will".

George Lucas has nearly, very nearly, redeemed himself for the monumental balls-up that is EP1. The battle scenes (of which there are probably too many if you want to be overly critical, but I guess it is set during a war) are just stunning, the lightsaber fights are fantastic, and the Star Wars atmosphere is overall a bit more like the original series of films. The way the film ties all the ends together to set it up for A New Hope is also done brilliantly, and it left me with quite a satsified feeling to finally see the kind of closure we all knew was coming.

I'll leave the long-winded reviews which break down every aspect of the film in microscopic detail to others, and simply say it was a darn enjoyable film, not quite sure if you'd ever say it was better than EPs 4, 5 or 6, but it certainly dumps over EPs 1 & 2 from a very great height.

Bejam wrote:
> George Lucas has nearly, very nearly, redeemed himself for the
> monumental balls-up that is EP1.

...Apart from it wasn't.

Though I'm sure Episode 3 will be great as well, looking forward to it.

Ant wrote:
> ...Apart from it wasn't.

I think you're in a majority of one on these forums to be honest.

I still haven't really watched the second one.
I've seen all of it in bits I think.

Pandaemonium wrote:
> I think you're in a majority of one on these forums to be honest.

Dringo wrote:
> Personally I liked the first 2 so I'm really looking forward to this.

Mav wrote:
> I personally thought Episodes I & II were mildly enjoyable

Ant wrote:
> Pandaemonium wrote:
> I think you're in a majority of one on these forums to be honest.
>
> Dringo wrote:
> Personally I liked the first 2 so I'm really looking forward to
> this.
>
> Mav wrote:
> I personally thought Episodes I & II were mildly enjoyable

Heh, that's me told. Liking it doesn't make it any less of a balls up though. IMHO.

You can like watching Japanese scat-porn, doesn't make it a worthy thing.

Ahah!

You paid to see it!

You can't really trust film reviews. They all rate films on how other reviewers rate them, and then you get the ones who try to be all cool and alternative and "real" by going agianst the grain. In reality you can't trust another person's judgement of a film - you have to do it for yourself, especially when it's such a subjective process and they're all overly critical of everything anyways.

I never go by someone elses opinion as it's bound to differ about things from mine, i'll take a friends advice about seeing a film if they say it's really good but it would have to be from someone thats in to the same sorts of films as me.

People that make judgements without seeing or trying things just annouy me.

Typically film critics are wrong.

They say that good films are bad and bad films are good all the time.

Though more often than not they say that bad films are good (Donnie Darko? WTF?)