Over the weekend, I — like $42.2 million-worth of people worldwide — caught 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Star Wars: 🦩Episode III - Revenge of th💖e Sith in theaters. I've seen every Star Wars movie released in my lifetime in theaters at least once (a streak that 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:The Mandalorian & Grogu may test), and I fondly remember💙 seeing RotS a෴t my local seven-screen theater 20 long years ago.

The theater in which I caught the 20th anniversary re-rꦇelease took me back to that time. It's a small, local theater, with three screens and zero recliners. It's the kind of theater I went to exclusively growing up, where the cupholders are on the backs of the seats in front of you, and wꦏhere you can count every person in the theater because there's no cushy La-Z-Boy seatbacks hiding their heads. I like being comfy, but when I want to see a movie with a crowd, I crave this kind experience.

Revenge Of The Sith Is Flawed And Beautiful

As fondly as I remember the experience now, even at 11, I knew that ROTS didn't fully work. In high school, I went back to it, hoping that it would, and nope, still bad and great in roughly equal measure. After seeing Revenge of the Sith on the big screen at 31, my feelings haven't changed — though the spec🐲ifics of why I feel the way I do have.

I've always thought that Hayden Christensen was bad in the prequel💞s — especially the romance-heavy Attack of the Clones, but in Revenge of the Sith, too. In my memory, he was the one weak link in a cast that was otherwise 𝕴comprised of great actors. So, I was surprised to find that I found his turn as Anakin pretty compelling this time around, and it was most of the other performers that were operating below their ability. Ian McDiarmid is carving up a Christmas ham as Palpatine, Natalie Portman seems a little lost as Padme, and Samuel L. Jackson is phoning it in as Mace Windu.

Christensen has the biggest challenge, but sells Anakin's transformation from conflicted good guy to committed bad guy in a way that the script just doesn't. He gets to yell and cry while bur💖ning up on Mustafar, but his best moments come when he tries and fails to keep his emot🍷ions below the surface. When his pride is wounded because, despite being made a member of the Jedi Council, he hasn't been granted the rank of master, you get this great moment of him pushing back at Mace Windu before realizing he needs to take it, and sitting down. He gets a lot of those beats of quiet anger, and this time around, I was surprised by how well most of them worked.

George Lucas’ Eye For Detail

But what gives all of George Lucas’ Star Wars movies cultural stickiness is his skill for populating every inch of the screen with interesting, understated details. During this viewing, I fixated on the unnamed and unremarked upon workers who are navigating the lava flows while Anakin and Obi-Wan have their climactic battle on Mustafar. At one point, while the two Jedi are staring each other down, one of these dudes slips between them, just doing his job. It’s great stuff, and a huge contrast to how Disney Star Wars (especially the TV sh🥀ows) has largely suffered from making locations feel too cle𒅌an, empty, and anonymous.

There’s obviously a lot o🐻f stuff that doesn’t work, too. The editing is bizarre, with many scenes beginning a solid five seconds before anyone speaks. The dialogue is often dread🌼ful, especially the romantic conversations. And Anakin’s turn to the dark side doesn’t feel fully earned. His final decision almost feels like a coin flip.

But there’s so much cool stuff that the movie will always be a flawed, but beautiful object. The lightsaber fight on Mustafar, Yoda’s battle against Palpatine in the senate chambers, the long tracking shot during the introductory space battle — all awesome. There are thos⛄e moments of darkness, too, and it feels like Lucas is in complete control of the film’s tone. When Anakin and Padme are waiting separately for t♚he potential end of the Republic (he anticipating word from Mace Windu in the Jedi Council Chambers, she worrying about Anakin from their apartment) and the sun sets as John Williams’ eeriest music plays, it’s surprisingly nightmarish stuff. The movie is like that — a minefield of beautiful and terrible moments.

Twenty years after it first hit theaters, I still have a soft spot in my heart for Revenge of the Sith. I can't get on board with the FIVE STAR MASTERPIECE reclamation p💙roject, but it undou🔴btedly works in moments. And decades later, that’s still enough for me to love it.

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