When most people think Star Wars I would say they think maybe a little nerdy depending upon which generation you come from. Some will think the original movies that were a little cheesy and well to be honest I just don’t know what to think of them since the first three episodes were made. Its all most like they went backwards in time instead of getting more advanced and what not the ships are the same or look old and dysfunctional, although I guess you have to take into consideration the fact that they’ve been in a war for some time now. Enough of that though. With a great many of my generation and an ever growing group that is they think action, battles, sleek space-cruisers (not ships that’s to old school), lightsabers, stormtroopers, revenge, love, and loss. That’s a lot to be going on in one single blast, but I would say that for such an old story Star Wars Episode III well deserves the $380270577 that it has taken in.
Episode III is really devoted to the development of Anakin as a person and his transfer over to the darkside that all those involved saw as inevitable due to his attachment to those that he loves. He goes against all the rules and falls in love with Padme and worse yet he actually goes as far as to marry her and get her pregnant. Big problem and not the easiest thing to hide from those around you your especially friends for that matter. In the long run the deciding factor for Anakin really is his relationship and his love for Padme he gives up everything for her so that he can save her because he sees her dying and because of that he causes it.
There are a lot of complicated scenarios in this episode that I think the others were really missing. For the others it is really more of a battle prone movie set-up where they are fighting for their lives through most of it, there is the underlying power struggle and the fight between good and evil but nothing like this one. With Revenge of the Sith they take more of a storyline and add the battles to the storyline. The main story is the change in Anakin and the break down of everything; power, the republic (or more precisely the change to the federation), the jedi, friendships, family ties, the list just goes on and on.
As is with all Star Wars movies the primary weapon of choice to the jedi’s and sith alike is the lightsaber so for those science fiction buffs that we have there are the battles of the elite that have mastered this weapon. Then there are the respective allies that come with both sides. So we take the singular battle and blow it up so those that like action, and gore in a peculiar way, have a satisfactory all out war waging between the two sides. If that doesn’t make it interesting enough we have betrayal to throw into the mix. There are the drones that fight with the sith or darkside and the stormtroopers that fight with the jedi, at first that is. Little do the jedi know the stromtroopers have been honed into the slaves of the sith and will betray them. In a single fell swoop they manage to kill just about every last jedi that there is left. The only ones that escape and survive are Yoda and Obi-Wan and Anakin but at this point he is really Darthvader and a sith so I wouldn’t count him.
Talk about an agenda…and so the plot thickens. This is what makes the movie so great is the balance between what is really almost intellectual because of how elaborately it is planned out and the pure muscle of the battles and warfare. It makes it so that no matter what kind of action you like the movie really does have a god fit. However the movie isn’t all action as I said before. There is love and relationships, and friendship that all tie into the action.
Padme is the key to it all just because the decision of good and evil really lies with Anakin. They are the ones that you want to have together for things to work out and everything be all right, but they are also, for lack of a better statement, the star crossed lovers like Romeo and Juliet. It is really their story that defines and decides the fate of the universe and the path that life will take when they make that decision. Then there is Obi-Wan and Anakin they think of each other as brothers but when push comes to shove they are separated by beliefs of right and wrong, and are forced to fight for their lives…against each other L. Then there is family Padme is brought to safety before she dies but in their words ‘she has lost the will to live’ so she has the babies names them and dies. However that leaves what is to be done with the babies up in the air. They figure they need to hide them from Anakin so old family from Tatooine is called upon to take the young Luke and Senator Bail Organa and his wife offer to take Leia.
There is emotion, action, plot, and theme all rolled into one and it makes for quite a wonderful movie that appeals to a lot of different people. This episode out of all of them I would have to say was the least appropriate for little kids but it was great all the same. IMDB gives it a 7.8/10 and I give it an 8/10. Great job and even though it has been a while I hope they make the rest of the movie. It would be super cool!
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