Learn to know the dark side of the force and you will achieve a power greater then any Jedi

OMG! Revenge of the Sith might actually be good! What's up with that? Sure, I laughed with friends as we all called it Star Wars: The Last Hope, but I never really believed it. I never allowed that hope to creep into my heart, that this last segment could overcome the ridiculousness of the last two. That George could actually write some dialog, maybe get some perfomances out of the excellent acting talent he's hired (admittedly, from what I've heard the dialog is still crap, but there might be some acting in this one.)

No, I'm not sure I can actually get excited about this. I don't know if I can actually feel like it could be good. But I watched Ebert and Roeper this weekend, and they gave it two thumbs up. And the consensus over at Rotten Tomatoes is that at least it doesn't suck. Who knows, maybe the old man pulled it together for the finale.

I remember people asking me what I thought of Episode I when I first saw it six years ago. Sure, I was disappointed, but I was at peace if I thought about it as the first two hours of a three hour movie. Then Episode II rolled around and blew that all out of the water. Episode II had its moments, but it didn't take the exposition from the first movie and actually move along the characters. Now we have Episode III, which I guess could be all good times as the final two hours of a six hour movie. Action and adventure all the time as we move into the third act.

I saw the first two at midnight on openning night at midnight. [1] This time around I can see it for free on Thursday morning with my work team, but the showing is pretty early and in Woodinville. I'm not too excited about driving out to Woodinville for an 8:30 am movie, so instead I'm thinking about going to a midnight show somewhere and just rolling into work closer to noon. It's not free, but you know what they're saying, this one might actually be worth buying a ticket. If nothing else it will be pretty. Say what you will about Lucas' filmmaking style, but you can't argue with the onscreen images.


Notes:
1. There's a fun story behind this one. Episode I released while I was in school and it was a *huge* deal since none of us knew that it was going to suck - we all assumed it would be the best thing since sliced bread. My very good friend Kai was planning on moving down to SLO that Summer and wanted to check out the town. I told him to come that week and we'd go to Star Wars.

While we were waiting in line all day for the show that night (no kidding, we were there for close to 24 hours - it was great fun) I commented that when Episode II came out he'd still be in town and I would likely be gone. I said it would be cool if I came back to visit for that opening and we did the reverse. Sure enough in 2002 I went back to visit SLO for a week and we caught the midnight showing of Episode II at the same theater. This time we were less suprised by it's suckiness, and knew it probably wasn't worthy of a midnight showing, but did it for old times sake.

Now I'm tempted to go see Episode III at midnight just out of habbit. If I could be in SLO for it that'd be even better since I haven't seen Kai in a while. But alas, not this time.

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