Star Wars Episode III

[Chojin]

Just saw it and thought it was easily the best of the first three. Had a few elements over the originals as well, though these movies tend to make the Jedi seem godlike compared to 4-6. Well, at least until clones start shooting at them.

But I had some questions:

Why does a robot cough?

Mace Windu can kill the Emperor, but Yoda apparently can't?

Anakin accepting the dark side was handled about as well as they do it on Monday night RAW. Consequentially, he should have appeared before the senate with a microphone and given a speech that opened with "You know, everywhere I go, people ask me the same thing: Why, Anakin, why?"

Yoda doesn't succeed in killing the Emperor, so he throws in the towel or something? When they get the gang back together, they don't decide to give it another college try? I mean, for fuck's sake, they injected two jedi into the middle of an interstellar war on the lead enemy's ship to save the senate majority leader, but they won't take three people to their own planet to go murder an old man?

There was really no point in the wookie battle scenes aside from showing Chewbacca. That isn't really a question, but it was queerish.

Jin was right about every scene lasting 5 seconds. Everyone is more or less obligated to see this film, so there's no reason not to make these LOTR length.

That dude that hangs out with Palpatine at the end is with the Republic, right? He doesn't care that this guy is a Sith Lord at all?

I thought the bit about 'oh, by the way, erase the protocol droid's memory' was hilarious for how short and obvious a tie of a loose end it was. It would have been more tactful to suddenly pan out and show that the entire series was just Mario's dream.

Other than that, I really liked it. I thought the end was handled very well.