People always say that the fight between Obi-Wan and Anakin was too choreographed. People who know know that Anakin and Obi-Wan knew each other's every move. Padawan and Master. Two who fought alongside each other for over 10 years. Two who sparred against each other. So they would know each other move and more.
I love how people fricken loathed the prequals when they came out but now everyone loves them, and the newer trilogy everyone hates. I fully expect in another 15-20 years people will love those too.
The high ground scene is important, not because of a universal tactical advantage, but because his fight with Maul, which he won by the way, lead him to heavily study defense maneuvers of being on the high ground.
And Darth Maul had the high ground over Obi Wan in Phanton Menace so when Anakin tried to pull the same move on Obi Wan he already knew how to counter it
I was 9 when it came out. By far my favorite theater experience ever. Marvel, DC, Harry Potter, etc can’t hold water compared to how awesome this movie was for Star Wars fans despite its flaws.
Yes with castles and lookouts so you can see the enemy coming, not one on one duelling using equally matched swords. It's surely harder to defend someone taking swipes at your ankles from below you. Plus not sure if Obi Wan believes his own theory since it worked pretty for him against Maul
@@thecarrotmonster8827 well it worked against Maul because it was an unexpected move. Anakin had studied that fight for most of his life and used that type of jump several times in his fight with Obi-Wan. Obi-Wan eventually understood what he was doing and needed the high ground to either neutralize Anakin's ability to use that move, or to win the battle.
@@brennanseltzer17 I see where your coming from. Obi Wan would be like, yeah don't think about trying that move, I invented it m8 Just not convinced having the high ground gives that much of an advantage in a Duel. Fortified battlements yes, one one duelling! Not so sure
Having the high ground still does offer an advantage technology has just made it significantly less advantageous. But there is a reason mountainous terrain is still the ideal defensive terrain
@@UnholyWrath3277 what technology? Guns? Mortars? Cannon's? Rocket Launchers? Tanks??? I mean aircraft most definitely give you a tactical advantage from being up high, if the enemy doesn't have their own, or any anti-aircraft weaponry. So yes having the high ground can give a tactical advantage especially before alot of our modern military technology But please tell me how the fuck any of that applies in a one on one real-life sword fight???? And why if it's game over as soon as a Jedi or Sith gets the high ground were they still fighting when they were both climbing up the tower that fell in the Lava! and Obi Wan had the high ground then??? The last guy explained it better, in that it only matters If Anekin tries that force jump over Obi Wan, if he'd kept just running up the hill taking swings at Obi Wans ankles he'd of been fine and probably won the fight in the end. If there was a bit of dialogue to say that Anekin wanted to beat Obi Wan with his own famous move to prove he's just as good or better as Obi Wan, we wouldn't be having this conversation
Thinking back to the early 80' after Empire. My friends and I talked about how Anakin must have been severely burned. I don't know why we thought that but we did. We speculated that the Emperor was the one who injured him so bad he had to go in the suit. We figured the Emperor somehow convinced him to turn. Later years it became obvious that he and Obi-Wan had a duel and Anakin lost. We then thought Vader then became obsessed with Padme and chased her across the galaxy. We figured she ended up dieing in cross fire. We figured since Luke had no memory of her that the twins were split up at birth basically against her wishes.
Wow you guys were still pretty spot on for the most part, Vader was limited to his ability because of the suit palpatine gave him. Was always curious what people thought of Anakin before the prequels, now I know.
Obi-Wan Knew that Anakin would take a fast and aggressive approach to attacking him on the rocky slope. He wasn't going to carefully pick is way across the terrain to continue their fight. Anakin would force leap towards him and in doing so he left himself open briefly to attack whether he landed in front of him or behind. Obi-Wan had experience using this move against Darth Maul and would have realized later that he was fortunate to catch the arrogant assassin off-guard as he would have been killed instead.
Not only that but most people forget that Phantom Menace starred a child and was aimed at children. Those of us who saw A New Hope as children (I was eleven at the time) shouldn't forget that The Force Awakens and Phantom Menace were aimed at children. Also that RoTS and ATT were heavily edited. In fact, so many Padme scenes got cut from Attack of the Toasters it is pretty incoherent.
I have to disagree with the part about releasing the 4hr cut..I think millions of genuine Star Wars fans would buy and watch that over any new Star Wars film,I know I would
Christopher Lee IS SUCH A REAL LIFE BADASS! Read about his life and you'll know what I'm talking about! And coming in and wrapping up the shooting for all of his scenes against a Green Screen in ONLY 2 DAYS is just another example of how awesome he is!
I don't know anyone who makes the claim that the Emperor edit in Empire was bad. It's a pretty straightforward and logical fix that takes away nothing, and is vastly superior to the original. There's no thematic baggage like Hayden ghost or unnecessary cg like the dewbacks and rontos in New Hope, just a fix for what would have otherwise been a weird inconsistency. Especially when you consider it's little more than a cameo, and not an full performance.
@@miyagithedj isnt the entire plot with darth sidious about the fact that he was the apprentice of plagueis - this makes him really powerful, but also gives him the ability to create life, making himself not die of anything but sudden death? Sure, he was "only" 90 or so but if he was able to create life he probably wouldn't age much... but yeah, a few changes would've been nice i suppose
Hayden was also the logical edit, thematically it also made sense, so you are talking out your arse on that one, but yeah on the empire edit you are right, people just like to complain about george, or at least used to until we had to suffer under disney lol
Grand Moff Tarkin WAS in Revenge of the Sith at the end scene where the Emperor and Vader were looking at the construction of the Death Star. He was the officer next to Vader.
This was ABSOLUTELY one of the best of the series, and def. the best of the prequels. We watched bootlegs of this in Europe with our kids over and over just to keep them from being homesick. Just a fantastic film. Great music, great themes. One of the best---it's right up there with episodes IV and V...
I’m glad I’m not the only one who had a bootleg copy back in the day 😂😂 I found a bootleg copy in a gas station that had Japanese subtitles and I watched it at least once daily until it got released officially lol
I was 9 when it came out. By far my favorite theater experience ever. Marvel, DC, Harry Potter, etc can’t hold water compared to how awesome this movie was for Star Wars fans despite its flaws.
In the mithbusters episode Jamie and Adam were standing within reach of each other. Anikan and obi wan were not. The only way Anikan could reach obi wan is to leap, (which he did) and we all saw the result of that. The high ground dose matter in that case.
Yep and if you'll remember Anakin leaped over Obi Wan earlier in their battle so Obi Wan already had that in his mind and knew what to do if Anakin tried again.
About the high ground. 1. As you can see, Anakin and Obi-wan had several meters inbetween them. They couldn't just try to hit eachother with lightsabers. 2. They can use the force, which may affect the battle's ending. Anakin clearly used the force, because no human (not even jedi) could jump that big jump without some help from the force.
So obviously you don’t remember the scene where palpatine, Vader and tarkin are watching the Death Star being built before tarkin strolls off. Tarkin had a cameo. Wayne pygram. His IMDb even states it as the first one on his known for list and is down a governor tarkin.
I personally wouldn’t mind a four hour cut of this movie to be honest. As for Adam and Jamie busting “I have the high ground” they forgot to factor in that there was a RIVER OF MOLTEN MAGMA BETWEEN OBI-WAN AND ANAKIN!!!!! xD
9:59 - But Grand Moff Tarkin does have a Cameo in RotS. It's in the scene where Palpatine and Vader are watching the construction of the first Death Start.
About the high ground moment, I always thought it was because Anakin was on a unstable floating platform, if you jump, the platform takes some of your momentum, making Anakin's jump weaker, allowing obi-won to cut his legs off, it was just to far to jump with such unstable footing.
Replacing the 'baboon eyed' freak for Palpatine was the best and only change I felt to be a positive one in Star Wars. I hated most of the other changes he made, but that one was a good change!
For the "I have the high ground" quip, I kinda interpreted it as Obi-Wan trying to find even the flimsiest reason for Anakin to stop, as he didn't want to hurt him if he didn't have to. And that was just what he thought about.
I thought the declaration of 'I have the high ground' was a taunt considering obi wan's success at having a disadvantage in his battles namely with jango fett and darth maul and then using said bravatas to the forefront in A New Hope to guarantee his ability to ascend to force ghost to complete his duty to yoda and mentor Luke through the trial of vader.....my further ideas are in the reply to this comment.
In the newer canon Anakin studied Maul's fighting techniques and honestly believed he had bested the high ground advantage. If Anakin force pushed or force screamed ObiWan first off his feet with the fury he had and then jumped ben kenobi would have died, but George knew he created a character situation where for all purposes Anakin should have bested Obi Wan. If Obi Wan would have fled with Padme and left Anakin to essentially embrace the dark side fully then he would have naturally rotted to the point over twenty years to the armor clad horror that is Darth Vader. Obi and Padme could have raised the twins separate and Padme would have then been on Alderaan in A New Hope when Tarkin destroys it and Darth Vader hears Ben's anguished Scream upon feeling Padme's passing but instead we got what we got...I would have the descent of Anakin to Vader be gradual instead of a pompous feat of miscalculations. The Rise of Sith could have been the missing trilogy about Anakin's exploits across the stars as Vader was born from the ashes of Jedi. This could have been a thing but Lucas decided to tie everything up quickly instead.
@@wearwolf2500 I mean, I am sorry for coming across as argumentative. I really had no way of knowing you were joking, I see a lot of opinions on that line and I was just trying to have a normal discussion about different ways of interpreting art.
Han was from Corellia, the “motor city” of the galaxy. He became a pilot for the empire but deserted when he discovered Wookiees being sold as slaves, one of whom was Chewbacca.
@@morgan_morris1997 yes I know, and Disney's reign was not all the bad, we got the bad batch clone wars season 7 Mando to name a few, but those sequels man.....
@Hideous Sideous while I agree with the Clone Wars season 7 and Bad Batch points, I have to point out that before Disney purchased SW, there were plans for 8 seasons of TCW, with around 20-22 episodes each. They even had all the arcs planned out. It still infuriates me to no end that Disney, upon purchasing SW, promptly chose to cancel TCW, by far the best thing to come out of the franchise since the prequel trilogy, and instead got to work on several vastly inferior animated series of their own, at the expense of an already beloved series. What we did get in “season 7” was really 3 of the last arcs meant for season 8. One of those arcs, Ashoka’s arc, was absolutely butchered by Disney. I also don’t understand why they could spend all the time, money and effort to get Dave Filoni to direct the Bad Batch series with the same crew and animation style as TCW, but couldn’t be bothered to just finish up all the arcs of TCW instead!?!? I mean, the Bad Batch is good and all, but no one really asked for it, meanwhile there are lots of CW arcs that would have been AMAZING but never got made (and would have been made it George never sold SW to Disney…) not everything Disney has done with SW is bad, but I’ll never forgive them for completely screwing over TCW series, and I think the franchise would be so much better if it had kept going the way it was. Imagine if instead of Rebels, we got a show directed by Dave Filoni with the same art style and crew as TCW, with the lead roles being Ahsoka and Vader, minus all the horrible Disney influence? Star Wars could have been absolutely incredible without Disney’s corporate greed and desire to control all popular media. Sorry for the rant tho, not trying to sound rude.
@@WarriorofSunlight Very well said. Personally, I like The Bad Batch. I love how it ties into TCW, and the aftermath of Order 66. Perhaps it can be said that it was originally supposed to be part of TCW as you said, before Disney got it? Though it is after TCW. And Rebels has some good bits here and there, but I think it was more childish. Even TCW itself was childish in some ways, but seasons 5-7 had really good stories. All we can hope for now is Mando S3 and maybe see if Andor sucks or not. But personally I wish they’d make some Old Republic stuff.
We got a 4 hour cut of Justice League and it was awesome. If that monstrosity could be fixed, imagine how good a Revenge of the Sith original cut would be
Padme surviving and going to hide with Leia would actually make more sense as to how Leia remembered her and Luke didn’t, but I still don’t know how I feel about that. So that would’ve meant she would’ve went with Leia and been a mother and been with her but just yeeted Luke and left him to live through what was very similar to Anakin’s childhood on Tattooine after what he turned into? Disrespect.
There was an entire sub-plot that was cut which involved Anakin getting jealous of Obi-wan thinking that he and Padme were falling for each other. I remember watching in the theaters and seeing where they cut the scenes. 1) When Anakin asks Padme about Obi-wan 2) the nightmare scene with Obi-wan telling Padme to hold on. 3) A clear cut in the dialog leading to their fight at the end. Also a great line that was cut from the Dooku fight, right before Palpatine says DO IT, Dooku looks to him and says "You promised me Amnesty"
In the novelization, there was actually a detailed plan that Dooku thought was going to happen... and Dooku really was a political idealist, albeit a Strasserist one
Another couple of points about Anakin's and Obi-Wan's fateful Duel, the all but about two seconds was actually done with agents, purely cuz it was completely and utterly impossible to use Hayden and Ewan for that brief moment (it's a long range panshot as we see the tower head for the lavafalls) and they actually broke, like, dozens of prop lightsabres, their intensity being so that they literally bent the blades on a lot of their weapons! It looks like they went hammer and tongs in the film... cuz they DID! Although, I always remember that in the novelisation, Anakin was bowled over and emotionally drained by Sheev quite literally offering the young Jedi the galaxy, telling him whatever he wanted, the Supreme Chancellor would see it got for him, even collapsing in Mace's arms upon his return to the Jedi Temple! I'm not familiar with Matthew Stover or his work, outside of this novelisation...
I wish the movie had kept the scene from the novelization where Anakin collapses into Windu's arms and begs to speak with Obi-Wan... and for Windu to promise not to kill the Chancellor. It really makes his motivation more clear. (I wish a lot of the novelization scenes had been in the movie, though)
I think the Obi-Ani duel says a lot for how passionate about the movies Ewan and Hayden are about Star Wars, a passion the Obi-Wan miniseries has shown they still have.
The battle between Anakin and Obi-Wan is so much better than the fights in the sequel trilogy combined. I noticed that Anakin and Obi-Wan handle the lightsabers with ease because they are light in weight yet Rey and Kylo act like the lightsabers are heavy for some reason. Rey and Kylo look like they're putting a lot of effort just to swing them around.
So, for GG looking like a spray nozzle, get a nozzle with the tip you twist for spray or stream, point it at your face, then rotate it forward so you're looking "down" at the top of the nozzle, and that's how they got GG. In the making of, the artist designing GG is shown with said bottle, and you can kinda see where it came from.
I don't know. Was Genital Griefless not supposed to be a joke? Obi-Wan stopped his "flashy" attack with one well-timed thrust then cut off each arm one by one. In the movies whether a staff or multiple sabers were useless against a Jedi deep in the force. Grievous wore every "mark of evil" from legends. Including being all talk. I would pay to see the 4 hour version. Though all the pieces cut out are on yt.
I think the Han sequence was likely cut because when we meet him in ANH, he is very doubting of the force and the jedi, and having worked closely with a jedi master at aged 10 would have gone against that.
True. In fact, just having Chewbacca there created a problem, because Chewie doesn't say shit about the force or jedi when he meets obi wan and Luke in ANH
5:39 I wrote a thesis 'bout shader programs in Unreal Engine 4 - and while writing that, I learned that _Star Wars_ franchise and Lucasfilm - and later Pixar - have actually played quite a significant role in the history of VFX ever since _A New Hope_ came out in 1977. So basically, if it hadn't been for Lucas, who knows what all those superhero movies we have today would look like...
In a one-on-one duel it's much more advantageous to have the low-ground. It's easier to defend your head and upper torso than it is to defend your feet.
Wtf, I was certain it was nominated for best visual effects along with War Of The Worlds, King Kong, Narnia and another movie of which I can't remember. It's been firmly engrained in my memory ever since I first saw the list and I also remember seeing that list again a couple of years ago which also showed ROTS as a part of it. Did they retcon the nominees or something?? Or is it a glitch in the Matrix? If so, I'll be expecting agents to be knocking on my door shortly.
I checked the Academy Award database and the 3 movies nominated for Best Visual Effects were "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe", "King Kong" (winner), and "War of the Worlds". I also remember being surprised that RotS wasn't nominated for special effects at the time (I watch the Oscars every year, whether I've seen a lot of movies or not).
Tarkin actually does make an appearance on the bridge of the Imperial Venator when Palpatine and Vader are overseeing the start of the Death Star’s production. He looks like he’s about to say something but ends up backing away from the Sith lol
I can’t believe how much hate the prequels got back in the day. Absolute masterpieces of cinema, especially Revenge of the Sith. Amazing world building, story, characters, action scenes, everything. Just watching this video is awe inspiring. It really goes to show how incredibly toxic and elitist Star Wars fans were back in the day that such an amazing movie could be bashed and treated like garbage the way this masterpiece was.
The Mythbusters testing of the Higher Ground myth was fundamentally flawed. The high ground advantage applies to projectile weapons (bow/arrow, guns, cannons, etc) and not to melee weapons...
It does apply to melee fighting. Anakin was the aggressor who wouldnt stop as long as he was in range. So when obi-wan took the high ground it left anakin out of range and with no options that didnt leave him exposed, in order to get back into range to continue attcking.
Mythbusters missed the point. It isnt the fact that he had the high ground gave him an overwhelming tactical advantage. Obi wan knew anakin better than anyone. And he knew that anakin was going to attempt the same move on him that he used to defeat darth maul in an act of hubris to prove hes better. Naturally, being above him means a flip over his head would be pretty much impossible.
My favorite of the prequels and only adds to the original. With one exception, the whole thing sets up for what was to become. And originally set forth. With me so far? In the first, and by best, opening performance, we were given little to no bg info on the characters. We didn't need it. We knew who was who. Could have done without a three part bio pic on one character.
@@tag1462 Yes we did. The Star Wars 'Prequals' were not boring but exciting and instructive about the Sith, the Jedi's weakness and the death of democracy aligned with the moral death of Anakin. Lucas was making a point about OUR Democracy dying. He was right. Look at all the wars right now, used as an excuse to censor truth and enforce rule by greed, oligarchy and a CIA backed lying MSM. When was the last time we had a lasting peace?? Trump did not start any wars so the old school Elite needed him gone (I am no fan of Trump the man btw) but the MSM no longer IN form but instead MOLDS public opinion and instead FORMS it (See famous linguist Noam Chomsky's epic 'Manufacturing Consent' on modern propaganda). Note how the old school GOP LOVE the war criminal Cheney's and Pelosi's stupidly timed trip to Taiwan while we stupidly provoked Russia who peacefully gave up it's Empire in exchange for promises we deliberately broke. Dumping Gorbachov the peacemaker to support the drunk Yeltsin who realizing he had been used to help wreck Russia economically was the one who appointed Putin as revenge. So we (US controlled NATO) end up supporting a Nazi coup vs Ukraine's previous democracy. ALL other parties in the Ukraine are now illegal and all media controlled. We are lied to all the time! Covid was NOT natural but an escaped bioweapon from the Wuhan bio lab like SARS and produced by the same Dr Shu who with US help pushed by Dr Fauci had earlier created the SARS outbreak. Lucas meant to do 'something important' after his first Trilogy's success as a more simple, easy going 'entertainment'. Sadly his predictions of 'eternal wars' leading to fascism and illegitimate power proved correct. The rich get richer and more powerful, we lose our rights to privacy and to even use certain words or to admit to even the reality of biology as todays obsessions are to ban 'the wrong ideas'! Please think!
1:54 - Missed opportunity to mention how Spielberg, Lucas, Harrison Ford, John Williams and several other SW vets collaborated to make another of the greatest film series of all time, Indiana Jones.
Speilberg and Lucas have been friends for years. With Speilberg taking a percentage of profits from the first Star Wars film after winning a bet with Lucas. But they have also worked on 4 films together that weren't Star Wars. The first 4 Indiana Jones Films. Speilberg directed them and Lucas wrote and produced them.
There’s more to “high ground”. The duel started when Obi-wan unsheathes his lightsaber and says “I will do what I must”; and then jumping away from Vader says “it’s over… I have the high ground” How is it over? Won’t you do what you must? Has this been enough? I think it was a moral argument which is why he said “Anakin”, he was trying to plead with him “you know the Jedi are the good guys, c’mon” Until the next moment, Obi-wan had hope for Anakin - but the good guys aren’t as impatient, Anakin pounced, like a wild animal at his mentor and best friend… then Obi-wan cried and gave Vader a lecture Obi-wan went to kill Anakin, and now Anakin was dead to him (he didn’t expect the Emperor to find him, let alone care to save him) And maybe he felt something, the same thing he felt when he saw Luke and Leia in the Death Star. He was meant to bring “balance” to the force… killing him won’t bring back the Jedi… maybe see how this plays out, maybe Luke and Leia are the balance
#3 Mythbusters debunking the High Ground is nonsense. Mythbusters did it completely wrong as in not as it was in the movie, and their lack of expertise showed. Most important element: Anakin and Obi-Wan weren't fighting and Obi-Wan wasn't refering to a fight. The advantage Obi-Wan had was that in order to continue the fight, Anakin had to go to Obi-Wan. Taking any position that's higher than yourself, is hard as shown by any military situation (e.g. Vietnam, D-Day). That was the High Ground advantage Kenobi had. Of course, if Anakin had done anything else except jump over Kenobi, then it would've been a different story. He could've landed a few meters away and nothing was wrong. But jumping over your opponent when in a sword fight, is dumb. Especially if that opponent is aimed at defending and had made the same mistake years earlier. ALso, others have shown that in a swordfight it's actually detrimental to be higher than your opponent. This for a simple reason: your main defense is aimed at your torse and not your likes, and also because every attack you do is aimed at your opponents torso. Thus standing higher than your opponent means strikes become harder (you have to swing downward a lot) and every defensive move it likewise harder.
I always saw the "High Ground" claim to be Obi-Wan telling Anakin that he had the moral high ground. It was a pretty stupid thing to say otherwise. Anakin could have waited until his platform was further down the lava river before disembarking.
grievous’ design was literally never going to be a child. there was a bunch of concept art and one of the ideas was a child. but george never considered it
The child Grievous was actually concept art that was one of the possible incarnations along with roughly 30 - 40 others. Mustafar was inspired by Krakatoa because its constantly erupting, not Etna.
It's nice to see that these movies are getting their due justice. People HATED the prequels when they came out and I could never understand why. I thought they were awesome. The end fight scenes with Darth Maul vs. Obi and Jin, Dooku vs. Anakin and Obi, and Yoda vs. Emperor were FKN Stellar! I remember in the theatres people were screaming over them! But the rotten tomatoes and such were giving it such bad ratings. Then I saw the new ones, and they got like a 100 percent on Rotten tomatoes and it was God awful in my opinion. Rogue One was the only good one. Good these Anakin saga movies are getting their justice now. I really hope they make a set of movies on the Old Republic.
Fun fact: Obi-wan beat Darth Vader on mustafar because he had the same but opposite position he did against maul. Knowing this and reviewing over and over in his head and practice. He knew how to counter anakin from the same position maul should have won but lost due to overconfidence.
The high ground has nothing to do with tactical advantage. It was a mind play against someone seeking power. He baited Darth into taking the high ground. Obi defeated Darth cuz he stay cool and calm, while Darth was wild and angry.
"Lucas made substantial changes to Anakin's character, wishing to clarify his motivations and make his turn to the dark side more convincing." That was a good instinct, but he didn't go anywhere near far enough. I always felt Anakin's shift to the dark side was about 70% of the way there and then suddenly he was killing children. We really could have used another good 30 or 40 minutes, interspersed throughout the movie, about Anakin's fall.
Or just taken additional dialogue directly from the novelization, both with Anakin (among other things, how he suddenly lost his father figure when it turned out Palpatine was a Sith, and begged to speak with Obi-Wan immediately after) and without him (Obi-Wan explaining to Yoda and Windu why they shouldn't make Anakin spy on the Chancellor, "I trust him with my life and that is exactly the problem... he is loyal to people, not abstractions"), there's some *really good* dialogue there that makes everything so much more believable and tragic. I thought the movie was really good, though, it feels too fast the first time but the more you think about it, the more clues there were all along
I would pay $40-50 for a 4 hour Blu-ray version of the fully made ROTS in a heartbeat and even preorder that shit if they needed it to guarantee that they make enough cash from it I’m sure enough folks would jump on that in a heartbeat.
Grand moff tarkin actaully did appear in Revenge of the sith, at the end when Vader and Palpatine look over the construction of the death star, Tarkin is their for a short moment and then goes off screen
The opening of Revenge of the Sith was the best visual opening of all Star Wars and it wasn’t even nominated? Crazy
Honestly don’t agree, was completely rushed and just a waste of time! Ur opinion is garbage.
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@@ChipzBitz spamming self promotion is really annoying stop
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Apart from the fact Hayden Christensen was in it lol. The corniest/worst actor ever to appear in a Star Wars lead role.
People always say that the fight between Obi-Wan and Anakin was too choreographed. People who know know that Anakin and Obi-Wan knew each other's every move. Padawan and Master. Two who fought alongside each other for over 10 years. Two who sparred against each other. So they would know each other move and more.
And the fact that both were one of the Best fighter the Order Ever had and both able to use forcespeed.
@@TK-04 its called force dash not speed
Still looks daft though.
The best Lightsaber fight of all star wars
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Love how over 15 years later we still love watching videos on the prequels. Thank u George
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Goooooood!!!
I love how people fricken loathed the prequals when they came out but now everyone loves them, and the newer trilogy everyone hates. I fully expect in another 15-20 years people will love those too.
@@theadventuresofzoomandbettie naw man
There's a level of shitiness people can tolerate
The sequels have passed those
@@theadventuresofzoomandbettie yea the sequels have too many holes. At least the prequels were more consistent.
@@theadventuresofzoomandbettie I’ve always enjoyed the prequels as a kid a more as a 19 year old they r just as good
The high ground scene is important, not because of a universal tactical advantage, but because his fight with Maul, which he won by the way, lead him to heavily study defense maneuvers of being on the high ground.
And Darth Maul had the high ground over Obi Wan in Phanton Menace so when Anakin tried to pull the same move on Obi Wan he already knew how to counter it
I’m 25 and I love revenge of the sith it will always have a special place in my heart
I was 25 when it hit theaters and feel the same.
I was 9 when it came out. By far my favorite theater experience ever. Marvel, DC, Harry Potter, etc can’t hold water compared to how awesome this movie was for Star Wars fans despite its flaws.
@@markgarcia8253 hey I was 9 to
I was 13 when it came out
@@RadiationHamster the perfect age
In ancient and medieval battles, having the high ground offered a huge tactical advantage
Yes with castles and lookouts so you can see the enemy coming, not one on one duelling using equally matched swords. It's surely harder to defend someone taking swipes at your ankles from below you. Plus not sure if Obi Wan believes his own theory since it worked pretty for him against Maul
@@thecarrotmonster8827 well it worked against Maul because it was an unexpected move. Anakin had studied that fight for most of his life and used that type of jump several times in his fight with Obi-Wan. Obi-Wan eventually understood what he was doing and needed the high ground to either neutralize Anakin's ability to use that move, or to win the battle.
@@brennanseltzer17 I see where your coming from. Obi Wan would be like, yeah don't think about trying that move, I invented it m8
Just not convinced having the high ground gives that much of an advantage in a Duel. Fortified battlements yes, one one duelling! Not so sure
Having the high ground still does offer an advantage technology has just made it significantly less advantageous. But there is a reason mountainous terrain is still the ideal defensive terrain
@@UnholyWrath3277 what technology? Guns? Mortars? Cannon's? Rocket Launchers? Tanks???
I mean aircraft most definitely give you a tactical advantage from being up high, if the enemy doesn't have their own, or any anti-aircraft weaponry.
So yes having the high ground can give a tactical advantage especially before alot of our modern military technology
But please tell me how the fuck any of that applies in a one on one real-life sword fight???? And why if it's game over as soon as a Jedi or Sith gets the high ground were they still fighting when they were both climbing up the tower that fell in the Lava! and Obi Wan had the high ground then???
The last guy explained it better, in that it only matters If Anekin tries that force jump over Obi Wan, if he'd kept just running up the hill taking swings at Obi Wans ankles he'd of been fine and probably won the fight in the end. If there was a bit of dialogue to say that Anekin wanted to beat Obi Wan with his own famous move to prove he's just as good or better as Obi Wan, we wouldn't be having this conversation
The whole movie is a cinematic masterpiece and should have won multiple awards.
Thinking back to the early 80' after Empire. My friends and I talked about how Anakin must have been severely burned. I don't know why we thought that but we did. We speculated that the Emperor was the one who injured him so bad he had to go in the suit. We figured the Emperor somehow convinced him to turn. Later years it became obvious that he and Obi-Wan had a duel and Anakin lost. We then thought Vader then became obsessed with Padme and chased her across the galaxy. We figured she ended up dieing in cross fire. We figured since Luke had no memory of her that the twins were split up at birth basically against her wishes.
Wow you guys were still pretty spot on for the most part, Vader was limited to his ability because of the suit palpatine gave him. Was always curious what people thought of Anakin before the prequels, now I know.
The ROTJ book says he fell into a volcano
Luke had no memory of Padme but Leia did. Leia memory of Padme was that she was always sad.
Obi-Wan Knew that Anakin would take a fast and aggressive approach to attacking him on the rocky slope. He wasn't going to carefully pick is way across the terrain to continue their fight. Anakin would force leap towards him and in doing so he left himself open briefly to attack whether he landed in front of him or behind. Obi-Wan had experience using this move against Darth Maul and would have realized later that he was fortunate to catch the arrogant assassin off-guard as he would have been killed instead.
I'm a fan of Episodes I-Vi abd I agree, Revenge Of The Sith is the best on so many levels.
Tarkin is in the film. However, it is make up/prosthetics, not CGI.
It’s such a wasted opportunity that he wasn’t in the movies themselves.
@@ericanderson969 sadly he died in 1994, couldn't take place in any of the movies anyway
Revenge of the Sith to me is the Greatest Star Wars movie along with the Empire Strikes back👍👍
Not only that but most people forget that Phantom Menace starred a child and was aimed at children. Those of us who saw A New Hope as children (I was eleven at the time) shouldn't forget that The Force Awakens and Phantom Menace were aimed at children. Also that RoTS and ATT were heavily edited. In fact, so many Padme scenes got cut from Attack of the Toasters it is pretty incoherent.
@@rjonboy7608 IKR! I've seen all the deleted Padmè scenes, and they would have added so much to the movie
Yeah! Screw plinkett’s opinion.
This one is my favorite Star Wars movie!!
The top 2 are The Empire Strikes Back and Attack of the Clones.
Revenge of the Sith isn´t far behind, though.
How the hell did this not win a VFX oscar? The opening scene blew many minds! Perhaps they thought it wasn't VFX but rather filmed in space.
I have to disagree with the part about releasing the 4hr cut..I think millions of genuine Star Wars fans would buy and watch that over any new Star Wars film,I know I would
Christopher Lee IS SUCH A REAL LIFE BADASS! Read about his life and you'll know what I'm talking about!
And coming in and wrapping up the shooting for all of his scenes against a Green Screen in ONLY 2 DAYS is just another example of how awesome he is!
Yeh chrstiophe4 was acthully a ww2 veteran
Cristopher Lee was one of the few people to see the last public execution in France 1939.
I don't know anyone who makes the claim that the Emperor edit in Empire was bad. It's a pretty straightforward and logical fix that takes away nothing, and is vastly superior to the original. There's no thematic baggage like Hayden ghost or unnecessary cg like the dewbacks and rontos in New Hope, just a fix for what would have otherwise been a weird inconsistency. Especially when you consider it's little more than a cameo, and not an full performance.
Totally.
I agree but they could have "aged" Palpatine a little more for the ESB scene. He looked too much like he did in ROTS and not like he did in ROTJ.
I feel like one day they are going to insert Hayden as an old Vader in RotJ and perhaps also change his force ghost to an old Anakin.
@@miyagithedj isnt the entire plot with darth sidious about the fact that he was the apprentice of plagueis - this makes him really powerful, but also gives him the ability to create life, making himself not die of anything but sudden death? Sure, he was "only" 90 or so but if he was able to create life he probably wouldn't age much... but yeah, a few changes would've been nice i suppose
Hayden was also the logical edit, thematically it also made sense, so you are talking out your arse on that one, but yeah on the empire edit you are right, people just like to complain about george, or at least used to until we had to suffer under disney lol
Grand Moff Tarkin WAS in Revenge of the Sith at the end scene where the Emperor and Vader were looking at the construction of the Death Star. He was the officer next to Vader.
But he wasnt CGI Tarkin
@@JonKonik11 the face was, the body wasn't.
The face wasnt either. He was wearing a prosthetic on his face. @@Hando316
Well I learnt most of them back in 05/06 by simply watching the DVD extras and reading the making of book
This was ABSOLUTELY one of the best of the series, and def. the best of the prequels. We watched bootlegs of this in Europe with our kids over and over just to keep them from being homesick. Just a fantastic film. Great music, great themes. One of the best---it's right up there with episodes IV and V...
Yes one of my top 3 SW movies
Revenge of the Sith is my favorite Star Wars movie of all time!!
Why did you have to watch bootleg copies in Europe?
@@johnthwaites5976 it was before it was released on DVD, and only right after the movie came out in the theater that year (either 2003 or 2005)
I’m glad I’m not the only one who had a bootleg copy back in the day 😂😂 I found a bootleg copy in a gas station that had Japanese subtitles and I watched it at least once daily until it got released officially lol
I was 9 when it came out. By far my favorite theater experience ever. Marvel, DC, Harry Potter, etc can’t hold water compared to how awesome this movie was for Star Wars fans despite its flaws.
Lucas should come back and redo the sequel trilogy completely... that's one redo I could get behind.
He wouldn’t have Carrie fisher or Harrison ford mark hamil might do it
@@saintfreezy6914 Take it in an actual "new" direction.
*20 Things I Did Know but watched this anyway so i could see a bunch of EP3 bits again.*
Me trying to keep track of how many times I've watched Revenge of the Sith:
*image of Rey making bad tally marks*
In the mithbusters episode Jamie and Adam were standing within reach of each other. Anikan and obi wan were not. The only way Anikan could reach obi wan is to leap, (which he did) and we all saw the result of that. The high ground dose matter in that case.
Yep and if you'll remember Anakin leaped over Obi Wan earlier in their battle so Obi Wan already had that in his mind and knew what to do if Anakin tried again.
Or Anakin could have hopped off of his transport on the ground and walk up the hill to fight Obi-Wan.
@@Phatooine - he wanted to show his power. "Don't underestimate my power" he says. The arrogance of the Sith
@@brianstrutter1501 I'm replying to H.A.Z.M.A.T.'S comment:
"The only way Anikan could reach obi wan is to leap"
That is NOT true!!!
@@Phatooine it kind of is though. just falling on the lower ground set the guy on fire do ypu really think he could just walk on the lava bank????
About the high ground.
1. As you can see, Anakin and Obi-wan had several meters inbetween them. They couldn't just try to hit eachother with lightsabers.
2. They can use the force, which may affect the battle's ending. Anakin clearly used the force, because no human (not even jedi) could jump that big jump without some help from the force.
But he got cocky, trying to use Kenobi's move against him and it put him completely at his master's mercy.
So obviously you don’t remember the scene where palpatine, Vader and tarkin are watching the Death Star being built before tarkin strolls off. Tarkin had a cameo. Wayne pygram. His IMDb even states it as the first one on his known for list and is down a governor tarkin.
Narrator: "General Grievous was originally a child"
Me: "Wait, weren't we all originally children!?"
I personally wouldn’t mind a four hour cut of this movie to be honest. As for Adam and Jamie busting “I have the high ground” they forgot to factor in that there was a RIVER OF MOLTEN MAGMA BETWEEN OBI-WAN AND ANAKIN!!!!! xD
And that they could leap 10 feet into the air like it’s nothing
@@jmurray1110 THIS AS WELL xD
9:59 - But Grand Moff Tarkin does have a Cameo in RotS. It's in the scene where Palpatine and Vader are watching the construction of the first Death Start.
About the high ground moment, I always thought it was because Anakin was on a unstable floating platform, if you jump, the platform takes some of your momentum, making Anakin's jump weaker, allowing obi-won to cut his legs off, it was just to far to jump with such unstable footing.
Replacing the 'baboon eyed' freak for Palpatine was the best and only change I felt to be a positive one in Star Wars. I hated most of the other changes he made, but that one was a good change!
It was a chimp
Also I think the explosion rings and oola’s extended scenes worked well
For the "I have the high ground" quip, I kinda interpreted it as Obi-Wan trying to find even the flimsiest reason for Anakin to stop, as he didn't want to hurt him if he didn't have to. And that was just what he thought about.
Same, you can hear it in his voice, he just wants Anakin to surrender because he's desperate to somehow not have to kill him. Same with "don't try it"
I thought the declaration of 'I have the high ground' was a taunt considering obi wan's success at having a disadvantage in his battles namely with jango fett and darth maul and then using said bravatas to the forefront in A New Hope to guarantee his ability to ascend to force ghost to complete his duty to yoda and mentor Luke through the trial of vader.....my further ideas are in the reply to this comment.
In the newer canon Anakin studied Maul's fighting techniques and honestly believed he had bested the high ground advantage. If Anakin force pushed or force screamed ObiWan first off his feet with the fury he had and then jumped ben kenobi would have died, but George knew he created a character situation where for all purposes Anakin should have bested Obi Wan. If Obi Wan would have fled with Padme and left Anakin to essentially embrace the dark side fully then he would have naturally rotted to the point over twenty years to the armor clad horror that is Darth Vader. Obi and Padme could have raised the twins separate and Padme would have then been on Alderaan in A New Hope when Tarkin destroys it and Darth Vader hears Ben's anguished Scream upon feeling Padme's passing but instead we got what we got...I would have the descent of Anakin to Vader be gradual instead of a pompous feat of miscalculations. The Rise of Sith could have been the missing trilogy about Anakin's exploits across the stars as Vader was born from the ashes of Jedi. This could have been a thing but Lucas decided to tie everything up quickly instead.
I love this film & I was entirely sure there was nothing you could tell me that I wouldn’t already know but you proved me wrong! Wonderfully done. :)
Remember though, the myth busters don’t have the ability to force jump.
Everyone knows that Obi-Wan's "high-ground" quip was to get Anakin to jump at him because Obi-Wan actually excels at having the low-ground.
No, it was a desperate attempt to get Anakin to surrender. There was only love amd pain in his voice
@@martalaatsch8358 a) this is a year old comment and b) a joke. What are you doing?
@@wearwolf2500 oh, sorry, I didn't know it was a joke. What I'm doing is... watching older RUclips and scrolling the comments
@@martalaatsch8358 fair enough. Apology accepted. Try not to be so quick to argue with people next time
@@wearwolf2500 I mean, I am sorry for coming across as argumentative. I really had no way of knowing you were joking, I see a lot of opinions on that line and I was just trying to have a normal discussion about different ways of interpreting art.
Han was from Corellia, the “motor city” of the galaxy. He became a pilot for the empire but deserted when he discovered Wookiees being sold as slaves, one of whom was Chewbacca.
You just said half the plot of Solo. Cool
@@HideousSideous This was all part of the Expanded Universe decades before the dark times… before Disney.
@@morgan_morris1997 yes I know, and Disney's reign was not all the bad, we got the bad batch clone wars season 7 Mando to name a few, but those sequels man.....
@Hideous Sideous while I agree with the Clone Wars season 7 and Bad Batch points, I have to point out that before Disney purchased SW, there were plans for 8 seasons of TCW, with around 20-22 episodes each. They even had all the arcs planned out. It still infuriates me to no end that Disney, upon purchasing SW, promptly chose to cancel TCW, by far the best thing to come out of the franchise since the prequel trilogy, and instead got to work on several vastly inferior animated series of their own, at the expense of an already beloved series. What we did get in “season 7” was really 3 of the last arcs meant for season 8. One of those arcs, Ashoka’s arc, was absolutely butchered by Disney. I also don’t understand why they could spend all the time, money and effort to get Dave Filoni to direct the Bad Batch series with the same crew and animation style as TCW, but couldn’t be bothered to just finish up all the arcs of TCW instead!?!? I mean, the Bad Batch is good and all, but no one really asked for it, meanwhile there are lots of CW arcs that would have been AMAZING but never got made (and would have been made it George never sold SW to Disney…) not everything Disney has done with SW is bad, but I’ll never forgive them for completely screwing over TCW series, and I think the franchise would be so much better if it had kept going the way it was. Imagine if instead of Rebels, we got a show directed by Dave Filoni with the same art style and crew as TCW, with the lead roles being Ahsoka and Vader, minus all the horrible Disney influence? Star Wars could have been absolutely incredible without Disney’s corporate greed and desire to control all popular media. Sorry for the rant tho, not trying to sound rude.
@@WarriorofSunlight Very well said. Personally, I like The Bad Batch. I love how it ties into TCW, and the aftermath of Order 66. Perhaps it can be said that it was originally supposed to be part of TCW as you said, before Disney got it? Though it is after TCW. And Rebels has some good bits here and there, but I think it was more childish. Even TCW itself was childish in some ways, but seasons 5-7 had really good stories. All we can hope for now is Mando S3 and maybe see if Andor sucks or not. But personally I wish they’d make some Old Republic stuff.
Imagine if the four hour version had obi-wan Rex Ashoka and Anakin in the beginning
We got a 4 hour cut of Justice League and it was awesome. If that monstrosity could be fixed, imagine how good a Revenge of the Sith original cut would be
I knew a lot of these things about my all time favorite movie.
I think Padmé should have survived then Lea's recollection of her mother in Ep VI would make perfect sense.
No, Obi-Wan says on dagobah in episode 6 that leia and Luke where seperated at birth and hidden
Yeh, now it seems messed up.
@@xeofalconm.shields5197 no, read my comment
Through the Obi-Wan series, it is now retconned.
Padme surviving and going to hide with Leia would actually make more sense as to how Leia remembered her and Luke didn’t, but I still don’t know how I feel about that. So that would’ve meant she would’ve went with Leia and been a mother and been with her but just yeeted Luke and left him to live through what was very similar to Anakin’s childhood on Tattooine after what he turned into? Disrespect.
the emperor's change is one of the few additions I liked visually ,never understood the added dialogue though
I 100% would watch the 4 hour movie
There was an entire sub-plot that was cut which involved Anakin getting jealous of Obi-wan thinking that he and Padme were falling for each other. I remember watching in the theaters and seeing where they cut the scenes. 1) When Anakin asks Padme about Obi-wan 2) the nightmare scene with Obi-wan telling Padme to hold on. 3) A clear cut in the dialog leading to their fight at the end. Also a great line that was cut from the Dooku fight, right before Palpatine says DO IT, Dooku looks to him and says "You promised me Amnesty"
Omg I always knew it, the look of betrayal on his face before snakin beheads him says it all.
In the novelization, there was actually a detailed plan that Dooku thought was going to happen... and Dooku really was a political idealist, albeit a Strasserist one
CGI Grand Moff Tarkin definitely had an appearance in ROTS!!!!
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@@ChipzBitz STOP SPAMMING ARSE HOLE! REPORTED!
Nope, it was an actor in prosthetics.
The new Obi-Wan that expect fight between Obi-Wan & Vader again was epic
0:51 I would really love to see the 4 hour cut version.
Yeah for star wars i'd watch it
I knew about the alternative idea for General Grievous and the fact that it was the first PG-13 rated Star Wars.
Another couple of points about Anakin's and Obi-Wan's fateful Duel, the all but about two seconds was actually done with agents, purely cuz it was completely and utterly impossible to use Hayden and Ewan for that brief moment (it's a long range panshot as we see the tower head for the lavafalls) and they actually broke, like, dozens of prop lightsabres, their intensity being so that they literally bent the blades on a lot of their weapons! It looks like they went hammer and tongs in the film... cuz they DID!
Although, I always remember that in the novelisation, Anakin was bowled over and emotionally drained by Sheev quite literally offering the young Jedi the galaxy, telling him whatever he wanted, the Supreme Chancellor would see it got for him, even collapsing in Mace's arms upon his return to the Jedi Temple! I'm not familiar with Matthew Stover or his work, outside of this novelisation...
I wish the movie had kept the scene from the novelization where Anakin collapses into Windu's arms and begs to speak with Obi-Wan... and for Windu to promise not to kill the Chancellor. It really makes his motivation more clear. (I wish a lot of the novelization scenes had been in the movie, though)
I think the Obi-Ani duel says a lot for how passionate about the movies Ewan and Hayden are about Star Wars, a passion the Obi-Wan miniseries has shown they still have.
Referring to #1 you forgot to mention that the episode 3 version of Anakin was inserted into the end of return of the Jedi
i would glady pay for the 4+ hour cuts of any star wars movie
The battle between Anakin and Obi-Wan is so much better than the fights in the sequel trilogy combined.
I noticed that Anakin and Obi-Wan handle the lightsabers with ease because they are light in weight yet Rey and Kylo act like the lightsabers are heavy for some reason. Rey and Kylo look like they're putting a lot of effort just to swing them around.
It's mention in The Clone Wars that lightsabers are quite heavy if I recall.
@@Atomicunderware but in literally the first scene a lighsabers ina movie Luke waves it around with 1 hand like it’s nothing. cause it is
In the sequels the lightsaber pops were heavier, but battl of the heroes is better then all ot and sequels fights combined
So, for GG looking like a spray nozzle, get a nozzle with the tip you twist for spray or stream, point it at your face, then rotate it forward so you're looking "down" at the top of the nozzle, and that's how they got GG. In the making of, the artist designing GG is shown with said bottle, and you can kinda see where it came from.
I don't know. Was Genital Griefless not supposed to be a joke? Obi-Wan stopped his "flashy" attack with one well-timed thrust then cut off each arm one by one. In the movies whether a staff or multiple sabers were useless against a Jedi deep in the force. Grievous wore every "mark of evil" from legends. Including being all talk.
I would pay to see the 4 hour version. Though all the pieces cut out are on yt.
0:02 you’re damn right it is. No debate, sorry old heads
I've been waiting for this edition!!!
I think the Han sequence was likely cut because when we meet him in ANH, he is very doubting of the force and the jedi, and having worked closely with a jedi master at aged 10 would have gone against that.
True. In fact, just having Chewbacca there created a problem, because Chewie doesn't say shit about the force or jedi when he meets obi wan and Luke in ANH
@@timbrown1834 Chewie respects Han enough to allow him to have his own beliefs.
An actor in a prosthetic mask played Tarkin in the final scene of Vader and the Emperor viewing the construction of the Death Star.
It´s my number 3 behind The Empire Strikes Back and Attack of the Clones.
Return of the jedi better be 4
5:39 I wrote a thesis 'bout shader programs in Unreal Engine 4 - and while writing that, I learned that _Star Wars_ franchise and Lucasfilm - and later Pixar - have actually played quite a significant role in the history of VFX ever since _A New Hope_ came out in 1977. So basically, if it hadn't been for Lucas, who knows what all those superhero movies we have today would look like...
In a one-on-one duel it's much more advantageous to have the low-ground. It's easier to defend your head and upper torso than it is to defend your feet.
10:27 did you know that at the end of the movie, grand moff tarkin WAS the one talking to palpatine while seeing the death star in its infancy
Wtf, I was certain it was nominated for best visual effects along with War Of The Worlds, King Kong, Narnia and another movie of which I can't remember. It's been firmly engrained in my memory ever since I first saw the list and I also remember seeing that list again a couple of years ago which also showed ROTS as a part of it.
Did they retcon the nominees or something?? Or is it a glitch in the Matrix? If so, I'll be expecting agents to be knocking on my door shortly.
I checked the Academy Award database and the 3 movies nominated for Best Visual Effects were "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe", "King Kong" (winner), and "War of the Worlds". I also remember being surprised that RotS wasn't nominated for special effects at the time (I watch the Oscars every year, whether I've seen a lot of movies or not).
I knew many of these as ROTS is my favorite prequel
Tarkin actually does make an appearance on the bridge of the Imperial Venator when Palpatine and Vader are overseeing the start of the Death Star’s production. He looks like he’s about to say something but ends up backing away from the Sith lol
I can’t believe how much hate the prequels got back in the day. Absolute masterpieces of cinema, especially Revenge of the Sith. Amazing world building, story, characters, action scenes, everything. Just watching this video is awe inspiring. It really goes to show how incredibly toxic and elitist Star Wars fans were back in the day that such an amazing movie could be bashed and treated like garbage the way this masterpiece was.
The Mythbusters testing of the Higher Ground myth was fundamentally flawed. The high ground advantage applies to projectile weapons (bow/arrow, guns, cannons, etc) and not to melee weapons...
It does apply to melee fighting. Anakin was the aggressor who wouldnt stop as long as he was in range. So when obi-wan took the high ground it left anakin out of range and with no options that didnt leave him exposed, in order to get back into range to continue attcking.
I think Obi-Wan says the "it's over Anakin" etc. line just to use his arrogance
Mythbusters missed the point. It isnt the fact that he had the high ground gave him an overwhelming tactical advantage. Obi wan knew anakin better than anyone. And he knew that anakin was going to attempt the same move on him that he used to defeat darth maul in an act of hubris to prove hes better. Naturally, being above him means a flip over his head would be pretty much impossible.
Yeah but Tarkin was in the movie, he’s the officer at the end when they are look at the Death Star.
I did not expect to hear DnD shorts doing this VO. A pleasant surprise
I would like to see the original version of Obi-Wan handing Luke to Owen and Beru.
Christofer Lee playing Saruman and Doku at the same time is such a Christofer Lee thing to do
Harrison Ford did it with Han Solo and Indiana Jones.
My favorite of the prequels and only adds to the original. With one exception, the whole thing sets up for what was to become. And originally set forth. With me so far? In the first, and by best, opening performance, we were given little to no bg info on the characters. We didn't need it. We knew who was who. Could have done without a three part bio pic on one character.
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Rots is crap
The prequels arent just about how Darth Vader came to be, its more about the politics and the disintegration of the Republic bit by bit
agreed. We just didn't need it
@@tag1462 Yes we did. The Star Wars 'Prequals' were not boring but exciting and instructive about the Sith, the Jedi's weakness and the death of democracy aligned with the moral death of Anakin. Lucas was making a point about OUR Democracy dying. He was right. Look at all the wars right now, used as an excuse to censor truth and enforce rule by greed, oligarchy and a CIA backed lying MSM. When was the last time we had a lasting peace?? Trump did not start any wars so the old school Elite needed him gone (I am no fan of Trump the man btw) but the MSM no longer IN form but instead MOLDS public opinion and instead FORMS it (See famous linguist Noam Chomsky's epic 'Manufacturing Consent' on modern propaganda).
Note how the old school GOP LOVE the war criminal Cheney's and Pelosi's stupidly timed trip to Taiwan while we stupidly provoked Russia who peacefully gave up it's Empire in exchange for promises we deliberately broke. Dumping Gorbachov the peacemaker to support the drunk Yeltsin who realizing he had been used to help wreck Russia economically was the one who appointed Putin as revenge. So we (US controlled NATO) end up supporting a Nazi coup vs Ukraine's previous democracy. ALL other parties in the Ukraine are now illegal and all media controlled.
We are lied to all the time! Covid was NOT natural but an escaped bioweapon from the Wuhan bio lab like SARS and produced by the same Dr Shu who with US help pushed by Dr Fauci had earlier created the SARS outbreak. Lucas meant to do 'something important' after his first Trilogy's success as a more simple, easy going 'entertainment'. Sadly his predictions of 'eternal wars' leading to fascism and illegitimate power proved correct. The rich get richer and more powerful, we lose our rights to privacy and to even use certain words or to admit to even the reality of biology as todays obsessions are to ban 'the wrong ideas'! Please think!
1:54 - Missed opportunity to mention how Spielberg, Lucas, Harrison Ford, John Williams and several other SW vets collaborated to make another of the greatest film series of all time, Indiana Jones.
No on cares about Indiana Jones, Timothy.
Indiana Jones is so boring
@@HistoryandReviews yeah it is
Maybe because that's not something people don't know about ROTS.
My husband still has his original "Revenge of the Jedi" t-shirt. It's kind of a cherished item.
Speilberg and Lucas have been friends for years. With Speilberg taking a percentage of profits from the first Star Wars film after winning a bet with Lucas. But they have also worked on 4 films together that weren't Star Wars. The first 4 Indiana Jones Films. Speilberg directed them and Lucas wrote and produced them.
Would’ve made more sense for padme to have lived when leia has the line about remembering her mother
Leia could have had Force-visions of Padme that she interpreted as memories
Tarken is in Revenge Of The Sith. He is standing on the bridge next to the Emperor Overseeing the beginning of the construction of the Death Star.
There’s more to “high ground”. The duel started when Obi-wan unsheathes his lightsaber and says “I will do what I must”; and then jumping away from Vader says “it’s over… I have the high ground”
How is it over? Won’t you do what you must? Has this been enough?
I think it was a moral argument which is why he said “Anakin”, he was trying to plead with him “you know the Jedi are the good guys, c’mon”
Until the next moment, Obi-wan had hope for Anakin - but the good guys aren’t as impatient, Anakin pounced, like a wild animal at his mentor and best friend… then Obi-wan cried and gave Vader a lecture
Obi-wan went to kill Anakin, and now Anakin was dead to him (he didn’t expect the Emperor to find him, let alone care to save him)
And maybe he felt something, the same thing he felt when he saw Luke and Leia in the Death Star. He was meant to bring “balance” to the force… killing him won’t bring back the Jedi… maybe see how this plays out, maybe Luke and Leia are the balance
#3 Mythbusters debunking the High Ground is nonsense. Mythbusters did it completely wrong as in not as it was in the movie, and their lack of expertise showed.
Most important element: Anakin and Obi-Wan weren't fighting and Obi-Wan wasn't refering to a fight. The advantage Obi-Wan had was that in order to continue the fight, Anakin had to go to Obi-Wan. Taking any position that's higher than yourself, is hard as shown by any military situation (e.g. Vietnam, D-Day). That was the High Ground advantage Kenobi had.
Of course, if Anakin had done anything else except jump over Kenobi, then it would've been a different story. He could've landed a few meters away and nothing was wrong. But jumping over your opponent when in a sword fight, is dumb. Especially if that opponent is aimed at defending and had made the same mistake years earlier.
ALso, others have shown that in a swordfight it's actually detrimental to be higher than your opponent. This for a simple reason: your main defense is aimed at your torse and not your likes, and also because every attack you do is aimed at your opponents torso. Thus standing higher than your opponent means strikes become harder (you have to swing downward a lot) and every defensive move it likewise harder.
I always wonder revenge of the sith was full of secrets and surprised 😁☺️🙂
My friend still has his Revenge of the Jedi poster he got when he was a kid. Lucky!!
I always saw the "High Ground" claim to be Obi-Wan telling Anakin that he had the moral high ground. It was a pretty stupid thing to say otherwise. Anakin could have waited until his platform was further down the lava river before disembarking.
grievous’ design was literally never going to be a child. there was a bunch of concept art and one of the ideas was a child. but george never considered it
The child Grievous was actually concept art that was one of the possible incarnations along with roughly 30 - 40 others.
Mustafar was inspired by Krakatoa because its constantly erupting, not Etna.
It was would great to see 4 hour version
It's nice to see that these movies are getting their due justice. People HATED the prequels when they came out and I could never understand why. I thought they were awesome. The end fight scenes with Darth Maul vs. Obi and Jin, Dooku vs. Anakin and Obi, and Yoda vs. Emperor were FKN Stellar! I remember in the theatres people were screaming over them! But the rotten tomatoes and such were giving it such bad ratings. Then I saw the new ones, and they got like a 100 percent on Rotten tomatoes and it was God awful in my opinion. Rogue One was the only good one. Good these Anakin saga movies are getting their justice now. I really hope they make a set of movies on the Old Republic.
I could've sworn that Tarkin made an appearance. He was in the star destroyer at the end.
Fun fact: Obi-wan beat Darth Vader on mustafar because he had the same but opposite position he did against maul. Knowing this and reviewing over and over in his head and practice. He knew how to counter anakin from the same position maul should have won but lost due to overconfidence.
I constantly watch 1,3,4,5,6
Less often I'll watch 2 and Rogue one
The high ground has nothing to do with tactical advantage. It was a mind play against someone seeking power. He baited Darth into taking the high ground. Obi defeated Darth cuz he stay cool and calm, while Darth was wild and angry.
I would do almost anything to have that 4 hour cut. Hear me Disney?
Anything.
Swallow the gravy, cradle the eggs.
"Lucas made substantial changes to Anakin's character, wishing to clarify his motivations and make his turn to the dark side more convincing." That was a good instinct, but he didn't go anywhere near far enough. I always felt Anakin's shift to the dark side was about 70% of the way there and then suddenly he was killing children. We really could have used another good 30 or 40 minutes, interspersed throughout the movie, about Anakin's fall.
We probably could have used 2 movies instead of one. I always felt his turning seemed rushed still.
Or just taken additional dialogue directly from the novelization, both with Anakin (among other things, how he suddenly lost his father figure when it turned out Palpatine was a Sith, and begged to speak with Obi-Wan immediately after) and without him (Obi-Wan explaining to Yoda and Windu why they shouldn't make Anakin spy on the Chancellor, "I trust him with my life and that is exactly the problem... he is loyal to people, not abstractions"), there's some *really good* dialogue there that makes everything so much more believable and tragic. I thought the movie was really good, though, it feels too fast the first time but the more you think about it, the more clues there were all along
I would pay $40-50 for a 4 hour Blu-ray version of the fully made ROTS in a heartbeat and even preorder that shit if they needed it to guarantee that they make enough cash from it I’m sure enough folks would jump on that in a heartbeat.
I would buy the four hour cut. I could pause it when I need to.
9:53 he rly is a genius and can make an idea out of everything wow
It's my favourite prequel. The Empire Strikes Back of the prequel trilogy.
Grand moff tarkin actaully did appear in Revenge of the sith, at the end when Vader and Palpatine look over the construction of the death star, Tarkin is their for a short moment and then goes off screen