I believe this is spoiler free. But if you're utterly in the dark, read no more...
At this point, the film is as predictable as excrement from a dog. I laugh at spoiler warnings. It's like the spoiler warnings before the movie Titanic came out. Anakin becomes Vader, Palpatine is revealed as Sidious, Luke and Leia are born. If *ANY* of that comes as a surprise after 5 movies, someone needs a doctor.
Here's a real spoiler for the movie: It's really long and tiring.
IMHO, I agree the dialogue needs improvement, but I think it was better than Ep.II. There were some parts that were utterly forgettable, but the rest worked in its own way, even if it wasn't as quotable as the original trilogy.
Are you kidding me? The entire dialogue was cringingly vomit worthy. The only resonable dialog was the cliched fight dialog.
What's more, Lucas further shoved his foot in his mouth and proved that he really doesn't understand what Democracy _is_.
This film plays out entirely like a bad Aeschylus or Sophocles play... and we can't blame the poor use of language on a bad translation.
Thought the pacing was uneven. The 1st half was pretty much a "why is this significant?" but the second half really picked up and made up for the 1st.
I felt entirely the opposite. What little is watchable in the new film is the "new" stuff... the insignificant battles with Grevious and the Droids. Everything else is just "prophecy" happening and I found myself over and over wondering "why the hell is this scene dragged out so long?".
Furthermore, I decided that I wanted to shoot the editors of the film. The movie suffers from some of _the worst_ film techniques that any good Director is going to trash. Beyond Lucas' long overuse of wipe seques, there is the simple fact that not a single damn action sequence plays out in its entirety without cutting to some interruption. It gave me a headache.
The Vader bit at the end was utterly unconvincing, and really broke the character. They should've used FAR less dialogue in this scene, and shown Vader's reactions indirectly. Would've been far more effective, IMHO.
I think that it ultimately proved the character was broken to begin with! The Mysterious Vader of Episode 4 has now been completely replaced with the Whiny Anakin of Episodes 1, 2, and 3. My Mom died from natives of crappy planet! My wife is going to die in childbirth! The Council won't let me be a "Master"! The other Kindergartners won't share their toys!
If that's "The Dark Side", then no wonder the Jedi try so hard to get kids as young as possible! One bad Elementary school and you have a Darth Lord on your hands.
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