"No, that was the Star Wars Trek."

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That Sith games a little interesting too. It's boasting it is better than the KOTOR and Jedi Knight series combined, which is a pretty big boast.

Oh, and for those who can't afford GC and have a copy of BF1942 go download the Galactic Conquest. It's fun, and no Jedi are in it all. Just Imperial verses Rebel action.

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I'm prob'ly going to see it on Thursday, just so I can be the first person to post a review of here.

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Originally posted by M0le:
I'm prob'ly going to see it on Thursday, just so I can be the first person to post a review of here.

I might be able to see it Wednesday night. 

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Got my ticket for the Thursday 12:02am premire...

Seeing as there are no New Zealander's or Phillipino's here, I might just be the first to see it...

I'm warming up my critical mind as we speak. 

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As of 59 minutes ago: 4 days left.

Meaning This time Wednesday, I will be watching Ep. III

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Saturday for me with some old chums.

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Friday 5:45pm. Local cinema doesn't have a 12:01 Thursday session.

I watched Episode 1 and 2 tonight, though. And played the Star Wars CCG. Aww yeah.

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3 days 9 hours 23 minutes left!!

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Did anyone see that Star Wars: Clone Wars marathon saturday? Man, over 2 1/2 of some of the best animated action. If they had edited it together as one movie and released it on the big screen..that would kick so much ass.

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Yes, I did watch the marathon. It was excellent. I liked how they stopped it at the beginning of the third episode rather than going into it.

I might be going to see the movie Saturday night. No, wait, not "might". I must go see the movie Saturday Night.

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You want to see Episode III.   You WILL go see Episode III.

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Chyort, I don't even know where my local cinema is anymore 
Probably overran with Chavs anyway.
Oh well, if I can't simulate a real lightsaber (real as in one that slices people's limbs off and burns holes in just about anything) to hack scare them off, then I could always try and simulate a vibroblade 

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Over the past week or so my brother and I have watched the original trilogy (as good as always) and Episode I (somehow worse than I remember), and we plan on watching Episode II on Wednesday and Clone Wars on Thursday, leading to a Friday Ep III viewing (he has the day off of school).  I think this is the first time I've been excited about new Star Wars since before TPM.  I plan on being disappointed.

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It's sounds like the film is going to be long, 2-3 hours long? Anyone know?

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My ticket says 12:02-2:24. So, 2 hours and 20 minutes.

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Must be a busy film then.

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Originally posted by SlackJawedMoron:
My ticket says 12:02-2:24. So, 2 hours and 20 minutes.

Counting ads, trailers, and end credits, if I know anything about movies.

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I read an article about the film where George boasts that in this film there will be more Planets, Lightsaber duels, space & Land battles than in any of the other films.

He didn't say anything about the acting though, hehe.

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23 hours, 37 minutes and counting.

(I meant to post at 12:01, but something distracted me.)

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If this film rocks, I will so get the single DVD when released.

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Woo got my midnight ticket! 7.5hrs to go!

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Seeing it at 1:00pm on Friday in Ballarat's best cinema. Wall-rumbling speaker action. I've got a $20 bet with my cousin that we'll hear at least three people ragging on the movie on our way out, reguardless of how good it is, what a sucker.

From all the previews i've seen; which, admittantly isn't many, it seems like it's going to be pretty action packed. And i mean, nearly every single Jedi has to die; that has to account for some mindless brutality, right?

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Action packed? You ain't kidding, Kashykk being invaded, battle of Coruscant, 6 Jedi Lightsaber Duels and the Birth of the Empire & Vader.

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1 and a half hours to go. I'll be leaving soon, and the cues will still be murder. I'll see if I'm awake enough to give a proper report when I get back, kay?

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I request heavy spoiler tags please, I'm seeing it on the Weekend.

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Heheh...I'm American and I know Slacy misspelled "queues" (didn't say I could spell it myself...)

Anyway, I agree with Nurdy.  At least until 6:00am GMT Thursday. (1:00am PEELtime)

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WOW!
Best of the prequels
Natallie Portman learnt how to act finally
Fits seemlessly with episode 4, the sets have even begun to look like them (in a good way, not a 1970s way)

Best of the prequels, dont wait for the video 

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Revenge of the Sith

Okay, let me set this out for you people:-

It works.

There's some clunky dialogue, there's an over-reliance of CG during fight scenes, Darth Vader's "NOOoooooooo!" scream is just a little too silly, and it feels a little rushed towards the end.

Yet it works.

The Obi-Wan/Anakin fight is absolutely insane. It's faster than Ep1, it's more chaotic then... well... anything, and it JUST. KEEPS. GOING. Totally awesome.

Yoda takes no shit from anything. Kick ass.

Anakin gets totally fucked up. It's quite graphic.

It's never hilarious, but there's more than a few smirks.

I loved the opening. Those drums were cool.

Palpatine is actually a little silly sounding sometimes.

Poor Mace.

I'll think I'll be splaying my fingers out at people and screaming 'UNLIMITED POWEEEEEEER!' for days.

Dooku's appearnce was brief, but cool enough.

Grevious was just bizarre.

All in all, cool. You'll probably enjoy it. It still bears some of the criticism's of the rest of the series (wooden acting, clunky dialogue during romance scenes), but you can forgive them. Well, I did.

...

UNLIMTED POWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEER!

A-

@Nerd: Yeah, well.. you mispelled my name! So we're even. Unless you were being ironic. In which case you double win. Damn.

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Just saw the midnight screening, its now 3:18am. I loved it. Night all.

EDIT: you'll never guess who becomes Darth Vader...

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Well, I've seen all the Clone Wars episodes, up until the kidnapping of Palpatine and the invasion of Coruscant...
Only one thing remains, this film, I must see, no power in the Galaxy will stop me. *John Williams musical sting*

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Goddamit, the movie watching has been been moved up to the week after next.

[Reply #231 on:]

2 hours! 2 hours!

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Dammit, I have to wait til tomorrow...

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Just got back from the midnightie-thingy, and what do I do? I check into PEEL... What a dork I am...
The movie? Kick. Ass. Muchly. There was uttering of the m-word, but only once, and though it stung like hell, I was able to keep my wrath concealed. The rest was non-stop greatness (except from the "No, I love you more...yadda-yadda"-bit). Anakin gets pretty fucked, and the leaked shots of his mangled body proved to be the real deal.

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My one word review: Squee.

For a more in-depth review, go see the Review Thread.

I'll also repost my Specific Thoughts here:

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Is it just me, or did Grievous go down kinda easy?  Obi Wan more or less tore him a new one.  Several times.  Also, what happened to all his lightsabers?

I'm wondering if they decided to go with the Timothy Zahn idea of the clones being "wrong" somehow with the Force.  The Jedi seemed toreact sluggishly to being betrayed.

Yoda is definitely The Little Green Pinball of Destruction.

I ::heart:: Chewie.

Definitely not for young impressionable children, in between the massive on-screen body count, near-death of Anakin, and the Younglings getting nuked.

Obi-wan did to Anakin what Darth Maul should have done to him.

That yound Padawan kicked ass, until he got shot.

Good to see Bail Organa take more of an active role, finally.

A little heavy-handed on the whole "Democracy is teh sheezy!" thing.

I'm pretty sure that was Mon Motha at Padme's funeral.

I liked digital Tarkin.

Jar Jar didn't have a single line!

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Well, as it turns out we got to see it last night (Well, this morning, technically) at one past midnight at the local cinema here.

Now, let just get this off my chest. Our cinema fucking sucks. During the entire movie, the picture was blurry, and one of the speakers had blown, so it was giving off a crackly sound during the whole thing. Thank fuck we're still seeing it in Ballarat tomorrow, or i'd be really pissed.

Now, onto the movie itself;

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Stunning. Absolutly stunning.
Before i draw any official conclusions and do a nice ranking of the bi-trilogy i'll see it again at a decent place; but i think this would be equal-top spot with Empire.

     

That yound Padawan kicked ass, until he got shot.

That was cool. I'd be the biggest braggart for at least 4 years if i got to play that role when i was 10. Looked awesome.     

Is it just me, or did Grievous go down kinda easy? Obi Wan more or less tore him a new one.

He's a non-force user, he can swing those things around all day and look as cool as he wants as he grinds up the floor, but Obi-wan is always going to know when and how to strike.
But yes, i would have liked that to go on a bit longer, if nothing else.
That's just what i think from my weak grasp of the subject, i'm probably wrong.

Good:

• More lightsaber fights than you think could be legally crammed into 2 hours.
• Whenever there isn't a lightsaber fight going on, ships are either blasting each other to smithereens, or there's some really nice back-story to Anakin going on.
• The aforementioned back-story of Anakin deserves it's own point, so this is it.
• Anakin was less whiney, more kill-y.
• Yoda; too cool.
• Brilliant ship fighting, best i've seen in a long time.
• Greivous, four lightsabers... Fucking weird, but fucking cool.
• Mostly good acting all-round.

• Poor Mace.

Bad: Mainly just nitpicks really, but:

• Padme didn't do anything, sure it reflected her eventual cause of death, but she could have some something, anything.
• Maybe a little over-done on the CGI in the last lightsaber duel, seemed to be concentrating more on the scenery than the two lightsaber weilders trying to hack each other apart.
• Lots of those annoying quick cuts during the fights, where you can't tell what the smeg is happening for 7/24th of a second. I dunno, maybe i've just been watching FFVII:AC trailers too much recently.
• Vader's "Noooo!"
• EDIT: Oh and "What have i done?!". I fucking hate that line. There are other ways to decribe a realisation of something bad, you damn lazy movie writers.

Overall:
Exceeds expectations, and i can't wait to see it at a real cinema. It was worth staying up until 3:00am on a work night to watch.

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Nix, I concur, but you forgot to add the bolding and the sidescrolling.  Observe:

Squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

Anyway, a definitive classic.  No real faults, tied with Empire.  If it weren't for nostalgia and Harrison Ford, it would be unquestioned top dog.

Full review coming when I'm not drunk with exhaustion and euphoria.

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Dooku trained Grievous in his lightsaber skills, and he did more scary stuff to the Jedi in the Clone Wars, he was able to dodge any Force malarky the Jedi threw at him.

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I saw the midnight showing last night. I guess my little review might have to be in spoiler-vision:

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I thought that the parts of the script with Anakin and Padme were really badly written, really cliche. In that scene where they were reminiscing about their time at the lake on Naboo, everyone in the theatre started laughing and yelling at them. Yoda and R2D2 were awesome, it made me happier than I've been in months to see Yoda flip slice off those two bad guys' heads with his lightsaber. And when R2D2 sprayed oil on the robots and lit them on fire, everyone in the theater started cheering and clapping.

So that's my little review, I normally wouldn't be that excited about it, but it's one of the few movies I've seen in a long time that made really feel happy.

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I saw it last night as well:

I didn't think it was corny and it definitely wasn't written for kids, like the obnoxious first episdoe, and HENCE the PG 13 rating, instead of PG like all the other films.

Episode Three might have just become my new favorite Star Wars movie...

Spoiler-time

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The part where Anakin went ape-shit on the younglings, and they came out of hiding because they thought it was safe, me and all the adult men around me were like "NO NO NO!!!"

I can't believe he did that, I'm still in awe. George Lucas certainly grew balls to end the series the proper way.

Oh and Nixorbo:

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They could have gone to the Wookiee planet and not seen Chewbacca.  And the Droids didn't even have to be in teh first three movies.  I think it would have been better if they just used generic fillers, instead of introducing ALL of the characters.  These are supposed to be seperate films, right?

I mean, when did Chewie and Yoda ever meet again anyway?! *cough*
Never.