I was 11 years old when I watched Revenge of the Sith in theaters. At the time, I thought it was an epic movie with epic scenes all around. I've rewatched it from time to time over the course of nearly two decades, and every time I do, it just hits harder. The dialogue and delivery is stilted at times, but the themes are as timeless as they come.
I was 22 when this came out and it is my favorite SW movie. I still remember when the scene hit with Anakin and Padme looking at eachother across the city, you just knew this is where everything goes down. Amazing film!!!
With all due respect, what you perceive as "stilted dialogue" I would rather look at it as dialogue with some "musicality" to each spoken word. I think all 6 films have this. Remember that Lucas always saw the dialogue as part of the soundtrack. So, I think it's a mistake to analyze these bits of dialogue as any other Scorsese/Tarantino/etc film out there. Hell, even Tarantino's dialogue has a bit of a flare that's a bit unusual and it's not very "human-like" in places.
I agree. I'm old and I love cinema but I also love popcorn theater when done right. The first trilogy was great even with roj kinda sucking it ended the story in the best possible way and in a way I couldn't foresee happening. When the prequels came out I wasn't disappointed but expected it to not be as good after 20 years since roj. So I didn't hate them like soo many of my generation because they wanted cinema but got movies instead. But holy cow Revenge of The Sith is amazing!!!!!!!! Such a great film. It's popcorn theater at it's best and in my opinion is the second best popcorn theater film behind The Mummy. As the years have gone by I have found myself watching the prequels more than the original and I probably watch revenge of the sith no less than like 6 times a year.
Revenge of the sith is my favorite Star Wars prequal movie, but my favorite movie from the OT is return of the Jedi (still empire strikes back is a masterpiece of a film)
The prequels are absolutely fantastic! The themes, story, and characters are so deep and reflect certain real world elements that the originals trilogy didn’t quite show as explicitly. I hope George Lucas knows just how much of us love the prequels. Disney can certainly make the effort to fix the damage that the sequels caused but the pre-Disney era will always be true Star Wars to me.
The story and characters in the prequels are generally regarded to be very bad. The story is very poorly and lazily written and ridden with plot holes and the characters are all incredibly one-dimensional
The sad thing is, they're not even making the effort to fix the damage of the sequels. They're doubling down on everything. Case in point: the Rey movie.
"You have allowed this dark lord to twist your mind, until...until you have become the very thing you swore to destroy." Ewan was perfect for Obi-Wan. George knows how to cast actors.
While I do love bits of Ewan's performance, I can't stop feeling like he is a bit emotionally stunted at times. Take the ”I have failed you Anakin, I have failed you.” moment: he kind of, smiles? And his reaction to seeing his brother-in-arms LITERALLY SLAUGHTERING INNOCENT KIDS doesn't go further than a ”Oh no…”. I do, however, realise that this may be more of a directing issue than an acting one.
People who unironically dump on the prequels have been stupid since this movie was released. It’s amazing how it’s taken literally 15+ years for people to be able to interpret some of the fantastic nuances of the characters in the prequels.
I don’t know if your being sarcastic or something but there is no subtlety or nuance of the characters in the prequels. The only character who remotely comes close to having any sort of resemblance to depth is Anakin and even he and his goals are pretty one-dimensional.
@@jacobclark6002 What are you talking about? That the jedi order didn't know palpatine was a sith lord? How could they know, they can conceal themselves and especially someone as powerful as Darth Sidious. The only character that actually was dumb and ignorant was Obi Wan. Who ignored Anakins emotions(Jedi can sense peoples emotions, even those of other jedi.) Anakin always seemed so angry and hateful and Obi wan never saw the possibility.
@extrage3061 they say like 20 times through episodes 2 and 3 that they know a sith lord is working in the senate. "But Palpatine can diminish their force powers" boo hoo if only they could do ANY actual detective work like idk maybe testing the medichlorian count of everyone in the senate? Nah if those fucking idiots did that they still would see Palpatine has a count of 10,000 and just ignore it.
A few clunky lines aside ive never not enjoyed watching revenge of the sith. Had the best fights, the best soundtrack in history and by far the most emotional and intense star wars film and really showed the darkside of star wars in a way no other film quite did it was a masterpiece
What emotion? Any emotion they could have had is completely ruined by the poor acting, script and awful pacing and character arcs. How can you even get emotional about Anakin and Obi Wans relationship when they've pretty much had NO relationship the entire trilogy beside riding elevators and talking about fun, dangerous tales they had that happened off-screen?
@@marzipanmonkey Bro you're yapping. First of all just because most of the friendship between anakin and Obi wan is not shown doesn't mean it doesn't exist, a master jedi and his apprenctice aren't really supposed to be "friends" they're supposed to be teacher and student also it is clear they are friends if you would have any real friends you would know that. The jokes, even in serious situations. I mean how much more would you like them to show? Should we also see them bonding on the fucking toilet lmao. And the guy who played anakin was a legend in his role. I have no idea who else but anakin you would be talking about when talking about "bad acting" but he played anakin just the way he was descrived by george lucas and the fact that Anakin is young and not very emotionally stable since 1. he can't talk to his jedi master of the bad things he did/thinks about doing because he might snitch to the jedi council and get him expelled. Man you're hating just because you can, gtfo the prequels are amazing, just because anakin doesn't really sound that intimidating after becoming Darth Vader (when he kills mace windu) and not like a fucking beast doesn't mean the acting is bad, the bad guys aren't always intimidating.
@@extrage3061 "The guy who played Anakin.." wow you really know your stuff! The prequels are only regarded as amazing by people who grew up with them when they were easily impressionable and easily entertained kids. You look back on them now with nostalgia goggles because they remind you of a fun and happy time! The simple fact is they are poorly acted, overly cgi-heavy, full of plot holes and also contrived moments. With a godawful script and poorly paced storyline. ROTS only gets plaudits because it simply wasn't as god awful as TPP and AOTC. Just deal with it. ;)
@@marzipanmonkey Yeah, you're just wrong. I'm nearly 39, and the first Star Wars movies I saw and loved were the original trilogy when I was around 8 years old; however, the Prequels, especially RotS, are my absolute favorite by a longshot. So no, the only ones who love the prequels are not people who were kids at the time of their release. Now deal with it.
@@hypercubemaster2729 Yeah, yeah, you’re just yapping and pretending. Nobody ranks the prequels that high unless they were giddy and easily impressionable kids at the time. They’re god awful movies.
Definitely my favorite Star Wars film, great performances, themes, visuals and music. And hot take, but Attack of the Clones is my second favorite Star wars film
@@jaceyking5015 There's a lot of fun to be had in the prequels, and the internet exagerates so much nowadays, I remember everyone loving it in theaters way back when, talking about these films whenever a new one dropped. I'm not a big fan of Phantom or Attack, but they're so much better than what most people would have you think online... (And Revenge is top 3 in the SW series, easily)
Them denying him the rank of master and then immediately forcing him to spy on the chancellor was definitely what made him make up his mind. I mean, seriously dude, whos guiding him into the dark side really at that point? Anybody would feel betrayed in his position. He literally did more for the war than many of them, if he had gotten that title and then maybe given some speech about his contributions, that would have made it much more fitting of a time to ask him to spy on Palpatine. You ask a favour of somebody when theyre indebted to you, not the other way around
@@gumdeo That's kind of my point tbh, he was always treated poorly but this removed all doubt. They asked an unrealistic amount of him against even their own code but asked him to follow a biased version of humility beyond even their teachings and actions
I think in all the prequels, George was trying to show that the Jedi had become dogmatic and corrupt. They were one-sided about their traditions, and so set in their ways they couldn't think rationally about anything else. This is probably most evident in the crooked advice Yoda gives to Anakin: "Rejoice for those around you who transform into the Force. Mourn them do not, miss them do not. Attachment leads to jealousy; the shadow of greed, that is." Even the supposed wisest Jedi Master in 900 years had become blinded by then, and it just sent Anakin even further over the edge.
Aside from the weak script, poor acting, style over substance lightsaber fights, cringeworthy moments ("Noooooooooooooo" and "From my point of view the Jedi are evillllll" to name a few), poorly paced and mapped out character Arc for Anakin turning to the dark side, overreliance on CGI that in places looks very dated now... it's the best Star Wars movie by far.
@@luckigoon It was. But still more cohesive, well paced, clearly set out than ROTS which was a mess of a film. The only reason ROTS is so popular now is because you have a generation who have grown up and look at it through nostalgia goggles and remember watching it all the time as an easily entertained kid and all the happy memories that came with it - not because it's actually a good quality film.
I'm in complete agreement, ROTS virtually brought it all together, to segway the story of Anakin's journey into Darth Vader. It's well though out and all the special effects are unparalleled. The pinnacle is the light saber duel on Mustafar. Positively, the best in all the movies combined. Everyone was spectacular, George Lucas, take a bow, and thank you. A special shout out to Hayden Christensen, for mastering both roles. He was phenomenal!
I remember when this movie first came out, Lucas once described it as "Star Wars goes to hell". When questioned about some of the violence and intensity, he said, "I could have dialed some of it back, but I didn't really want to." As a result, it was the first film in the series to be rated PG-13.
Every single person that praises this movie has 3 main praises in common. 1. drooling over flashy but narratively pathetic lightsaber fights, like Mustafar and Grievous. 2. It being "darker than the others" or some other dumb way of pointing out it's PG13, as if that actually makes it good. 3. "I saw when I was 6." Yeah we all did. Nostalgia isn't indicative of quality even slightly.
@@jacobclark6002 So much truth in this! Isn't it strange how the general consensus about the Star Wars prequels was that they were disappointing, incredibly flawed and not great movies for a good 15+ years.. then suddenly... "Best trilogy ever!! ROTS is the greatest movie ever made!!". It's almost as if all those giddy and easily impressionable kids have now grown up and see it through nostalgia goggles.
"The pinnacle is the light saber duel on Mustafar." That fight is godawful. All style over emotion and substance. The choreography is so fake and awkward, the dialogue cringeworthy. The set pieces ridiculous and make you feel like you're watching a cartoon.
Revenge of the Sith is my favorite Star Wars movie. Nice to see it getting appreciation. I've always enjoyed Attack of the Clones and this but it seems it took Disney churning out dreadful sequels to show people how good the prequels actually are.
I love that as a kid, I was able to watch and enjoy the prequels for the flashy fun action and characters. But as an adult I’ve gone back and understood the themes and drama better and am totally invested in everything that happens. I don’t get that with the original trilogy as they are, by design, more adventure films with limited thematic value. I do still enjoy them of course but it’s definitely not the same as the prequels for me.
Its not the movie made it but your own development. That's why you only noticed flashing effect as a kid and discovered meaning when grew up. My experience with real world is that intensity of which we perceive reality around us is determined, driven by our own depth mind. You are right, I could not find the original trilogy so meaningful it was more an action movie.
5:01 - Visions of wife and children dying are the story of Dune Messiah. Luckly, we will have Villeneuve Dune 3 soon and the pop culture will know were George took this idea
Yeah, for all the accusations people made against Lucas about him supposedly being more concerned with toys, I think Disney is more to blame in that regard.
@@Moviefan2k4I remember somewhere saying that Star Wars was intended for a generation that didn’t grow up with fairy tales, and in a way the Star Wars saga fills that. I don’t mean Disney fairy tales, I mean the old ones that often could get quite dark and violent, as they were tales told and retold from generation to generation.
0:46 I Lena the Originals still had dark moments like the Death Star, Han Solo and Luke being tortured and Han turning into carbonate, and also when Jabba being choked to death
Mustafar is a long, dramatic, wet dog fart of a fight lol. They only fight because both are complete dumbasses in separate ways. The fight compensates for this narrative impotence by being "EPIC!!!!" and lasting half an hour for no reason. Also, dialogue is part of the fight, and every single line is cringe inducing.
Just finished watching the prequels for the first time since they came out and I really enjoyed them, don't get all the hate. Revenge of the Sith was really, really good, definitely the best of the 3 which is rare for the 3rd movie in a trilogy.
Revenge if the sith is the greatest movie of all time. There will never be another movie like it. It was my first star wars movie. Tell me if yellow agree that it's the only movie u can watch 4 times a day for every day of the year
There’s a deep black irony to the way the Jedi Order act with Palpatine here. They’re not doing the right thing, but the ends that they reach are actually right. They are right to suspect Palpatine, but putting the chancellor under surveillance is not the “right” thing to do. It feeds into the distrust that Anakin feels and the muddying of the waters quite nicely.
It plays directly into what Palpatine wants too, because it gives credence to him when he says the Jedi are corrupt and taking over. The Jedi surveilling the legitimately-elected chancellor and then showing up to his office with weapons drawn? Perfect story to tell the senate and jot down in the history annals, with just the right details. Sure, it is still a lie by omission, but the most believable of lies start with truth.
@marzipanmonkey I guess our eyes are in a disagreement of what a good duel actually is... I'm curious what other Star Wars lightsaber battle is better in your opinion.
@@Infinite.Worldz My issue with it is it's just completely style over substance. At one point they're literally balancing on droids over lava or swinging like Tarzan towards each other like cartoon characters. It's just completely over the top for the sake of it. That's before you throw in the forced and awkward choreography, hammy acting and awful script/line delivery "From my point of view the Jedi are evil!!" < who says stuff like that? For me personally Qui-Gon Jinn/Obi-Wan Kenobi vs Darth Maul, Luke vs Vader in both Empire and RotJ are easily better in terms of the drama, emotion and the choreography.
Blame the crazy Kathleen Kennedy for that. She's obsessed with political correctness, which is something Lucas didn't care one iota about. He wasn't concerned with whose feathers he ruffled - he just wanted to tell his story, and let the chips fall as they may.
In the words of Camille Paglia: "Nothing in the last *_30 years_** in **_any_** of the Arts* has been produced as emotionally compelling and significant as the finale of Revenge of the Sith."
The Prequals are a set of films I have always liked. They don't work that well on their own, but as a single, huge three-film arc, I have always enjoyed them, flaws and all, because they are for me the definition of the term "Space Opera". And one of my absolute favourite aspects is one that is front-and-centre in Revenge of the Sith; the idea as the order of the universe is being shaken to its core, characters like Obi Wan and Padme, by remaining still and true to their principles, subtly change sides and become the enemy of the institutions they are part of, mostly without even realising, that those institutions have abandoned those founding principles ("This how liberty dies; to thunderous applause") and how Anakin has his owns principles subtly manipulated to serve causes he would never knowingly serve. And by the time anyone actually realises what's happening, it's all way too late. The Mustafa and Senate battles are the last chance the Jedi have to stop the Sith and the sense of devastating defeat after really emphasises how complete Palpatine's victory has been. People joke about how Lucas couldn't write romance to save his life, but he absolutely knows how to world-build and craft a story, and to be honest, I think the Prequals validate the OT films because the universe has sunk so far away from 'good', it gives weight and depth to how evil the Emperor is.
True enough, plus the Jedi were too dogmatic, rigid, arrogant, and too detached from others. The Jedi order suffered from a lack of independent thinkers such as Qui Gon, Dooku, Ahsoka, and Anakin, the order slipped into stagnation. In the ROTS novel Yoda realizes that he had failed the Jedi order because he didn’t allow it to change, to undergo a reformation. Whereas the Sith had changed, they had evolved and remade themselves, they weren’t the same Sith that the Jedi fought against a millennia ago. Yoda finally understood that the Jedi lost this battle a long time ago well before the clone war.
I dont think really any of the Star Wars films work that well on their own anymore. I used to think 4 and 5 worked great on thier own but not so much anymore. The only one that works as a stand alone narrative is episode 4 and even that one is problematic because of how bare bones it is compared to the others. EMPIRE has no beginning or end, it gets pretty slow in the middle, and its big action set piece is at the beginning yet pales in comparison to The Battle of Yavin. JEDI feels like two separate movies non organically fused together.
Return of the Jedi was pretty dark for its time, with the Emperor using Force lightning on Luke and Vader contemplating who he would side with. But overall, I do agree - Lucas definitely ramped up the intensity for the prequels.
I watched Revenge of the Sith twice when it was released in theaters, one of the rare cases of me going to see one movie twice in my entire life, I can count these on the fingers of one palm. And to be honest, I should have gone the third time too, which would've been the first and the last time ever in my life. And I consider the first 30 minutes of ROTS as the BEST EVER movie sequence of all time, it is so well put and intense that it's a movie inside a movie eventually, and after you experienced it, you feel like "That was some good movie, dang! I can turn the screen off now" only to realise there are 2 more hours ahead. I can watch it forever!
I wasn't familiar with most of the cast, apart from Liam Neeson and Ian McDiarmid. But Lucas definitely got some very good performers to tell his story, that's for sure.
The original 3 were very fun space adventures, but they had little substance until the very end. That's why I always preferred the prequels, the story and characters were all so nuanced and intertwined with each other and the world, and the enormous, overarching plot was a lot more compelling imo. Sure, they have some cringe lines, but people seem to forget that the originals did too (power converters, anyone?). I don't hate jar Jar, he's mildly irritating at the worst, I don't hate Anakin, he's an emotionally stunted child soldier with severe mental trauma, he's bound to be a little off. The jedi are wrong in hindsight, but their mistakes are completely believable. Overall, the prequels are masterpieces of storytelling and cinematography, and they did more to flesh out the Star Wars universe than any movies before or after.
When the sequels came out and the outrage started I asked myself: Is this history repeating? Does my generation now pass on the trauma that the original triology fans had caused, when they made George Lucas quit Star Wars over the prequel backlash. But no. This is not our fault and this is not even Disneys fault. Star Wars died when George Lucas quit. They just make bad movies for an equally bad and unforgiving fanbase. I hope the boomer generation is happy about what they left for their grandchildren.
I think Lucas gave up, in part, because he was worn down by so-called fans who kept screaming that he raped their childhood. He even got death threats over the prequels, and at a certain point he just decided it wasn't worth the hassle anymore. I do think he made a mistake in trusting Kathleen Kennedy with his creations; she's about as loony as they come.
My favorite prequel is Attack of the Clones, but Revenge of the Sith is also very special. Hayden proved he was perfect for Anakin in both films, and he had great chemistry with both Ewan McGregor and Natalie Portman.
The first 3 was so good I loved the 4th one as well the first 6 was so good but the 7 to 9 wasn't really good but they could've done it good but they failed it but I agree 3rd one was the best but they just changed it too much that it wasn't good When they brought back Palpatine it was so avenues that they didn't had any plan cause they didn't even gave us any glimpse
No matter what the problems with the prequels I have are (and there are many) I will always respect that these films were made out of respect of the OT, unlike the sequels which were just pure money grab. Only Disney star wars product made that is remotely good is Rogue one. And now Andor as a tv show is also decent. Other than that, there is no heart and soul to star wars anymore. Just a bunch of "Der 🤪 remember lightsabers." Completely just disrespecting the world as a whole for merchandising sales. Lucasfilm died after revenge of the sith
I gotta tell you, almost everything you said here applies to George Lucas' prequels. He spent far too much time worrying about merchandising sales, and not nearly enough on making decent movies. There is a reason Anakin has 6 ships in three movies, and they are all yellow. I would also be willing to bet that lightsabers are used far less in the sequels than the prequels. Hell, that god awful, soulless, Battle of Geonosis probably accounts for more than half of on screen lightsabers in the entire saga. Also, I would argue that TFA & TLJ are better than any of the prequels, and even though I consider TROS, AOTC, and TPM equally bad, of the three I would rather watch TROS, because at least it isn't boring, and the other two are boring AF.
@@broncojuan “boring” is not a critique. It is an opinion. Merchandising was of course a factor, but the most famous example of this was in the OT, clearly not here. The Battle of Geonosis was an insane technical achievement and something the entire cast and crew were proud of making. Aside from being “boring”, whatever that’s supposed to mean, you present no reasoning for TFA or TLJ being better films than the prequels
@@officialmonarchmusic I wasn't offering a critique, I was stating why I would watch one bad movie over two equally bad movies. I'll grant you the Ewoks were all about selling toys (and the biggest reason Jedi is considered the weakest of the OT), but so was Maul and his double bladed saber, Jar Jar and the Gungans, Pod Racing, Droid Armies, Grievous, Jango... There were far more instances merchandising opportunities impacting decisions in the prequels. The Battle of Geonosis can be "an insane technical achievement," and still not work as a believable movie scene. In fact, that scene is a microcosm for why the prequels didn't work. Nobody is giving a believable performance. Everybody looks as if they are interacting with a wall. There is no sense that the heroes are in danger, or even that they believe they are in danger. Even throwing in some Jedi deaths couldn't increase the stakes because they were all nameless and faceless. Their deaths carried no more weight than the destruction of thousands of battle droids. This all falls to George's newly acquired (at the time) "fix it in post" philosophy of movie making. It is also why Peter Jackson completely ate George's lunch with the LOTR trilogy. He knew to get the performances first, and enhance them with special effects, where George assumed it could all be fixed later.
Star Wars geek always......the Prequels are my favorites. I just wished Revenge of the Sith had shown Darth Vader in the suit destroying the Jedi. I would have had Anakin losevto Obi-Won earlier in the movie and the Jedi believe Anakin is dead. Then the war is turned by this mysterious Warrior in a black suit that the Jedi cant defeat.
While it's not my favorite in the series, I will admit to the fact that this movie does signify one thing about religion and people in general... There is always going to be people who will manipulate and control and as long as they can create two sides and make them fight each other, they will always win, no matter what happens. You can see this in the real world today, making this movie even more relevant today. This revelation comes from the scene where Mace Windu and Palpatiene are at the stand off and Anakin has a choice...
When Lucas originally came up with the idea of the Force, he based it in part on different religions, trying to distill them to what they had in common. In my opinion, this was a mistake, because there's so many differences between religions you can't reconcile them all. But anyhow, George was also very much into the writings of Joseph Campbell, who cited Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung among his own influences.
Absolute masterpiece. Is it perfect? No, but we are so lucky to have seen Lucas's universe realized on the screen. Gotta give props to his whole crew though. Without them we would have never seen the best saga of all time.
even though i agree that revenge of the sith is pretty good i wouldn’t go as far to say it was a masterpiece. overall the film was good but had a lot of things that just didn’t work well one example being anakins fall which felt a little to rushed. I think a lot of this movies recent success along with the rest of the prequels is due to nostalgia. in my personal opinion i don’t think the prequels were all that great but atleast rots was pretty good.
Back when it was released i remember it was hated to the ground but in retrospective it is a masterpiece. And compared to the now released parts after episode 6. this is a masterpiece ever.
In hindsight, it was actually good planning for episodes 4-6 to be released before 1-3, because it’s a good way to show the origins before the classics and how those universes were created.
At the time, Lucas didn't have much of a choice but to do the Rebellion stories first. The technology for movies didn't exist in the '70s, to depict the kinds of worlds and characters that George had in his mind. So many of the visual effects in "A New Hope" were improvised on the spot, and the total budget was estimated at around 11 million dollars. By comparison, "Revenge of the Sith" had a budget of 113 million.
The fact that Anakin (almost now entirely Darth Vader) in his final act is trying to kill Padme with his hand, which is who he wanted to save that started all of the tragedy in the final third of the movie is mind boggling. Before all of the action, he is still just a troubled, albiet extremely stressed but disciplined and decently morale young jedi boy. He is born of a poor mother with no husband. He dreams of his mother dying then sees his mother die in his hands. Then he dreams of Padme dying in childbirth, which is absurdedly frustrating given their relationship is already a miracle, given his story as a jedi and hers as a politician. I thought that he was over associating and his brain created a problem out of nothing. Now I see that it was none of his doing and totally a concoction of the sith to concludd his story as a jedi and finalize their galactic plans. The war was going to end one way or another. Palpatine was going to make a run for total power, one way or another. Even darker times were indeed ahead of the jedi, take Anakin out of it. Padme and Anakin's relationship, with the baby, was inevitably going to be Even more strsined than ever before. Why? Half because of the siths plans. Other half, because of the Jedi's strictness/obtuseness. This drew Skywalker to consider the dark side and reject the light. What he feared for and cared for most was on the line. If he had felt secure in being open with Yoda about his fatherhood, then he could have advised him to not only remove his fear of death, but to possibly figure out s better way to deal with fatherhood. Now we understand his pure hopeless rage, even towards his innocent wife in the finality of which feels like total loss to him. He could have convinced Padme to do anything. They could have run away together after using Sidius to supposedly save her life, all the while the galaxy is falling apart? Instead, the same moment she protests, it is revealed that Obi wan is confronting Anakin. His 20 something year old mind doesnt catch a single break. Its WILD that the jedi we know would so suddenly slaughter every innocent at the temple. However, which any real man cares about the most is on the line and Anakin, born and raised in slavery, taught and refined in fighting corruption and evil, is still facing the chaos of the galexy. He is exhausted of fighing years of the clone wars, yet now he feels that his love, his solace, in the end is to die too. How can you miss the teen angst? The frustration? The hopelessness that was sitting like the seed of a peach in his heart, fermenting in the same kind of secret of the sith. He saw with his young mind, across the planets, how the work of the Jedi was like choosing one of two political parties in our world. There's the good and bad on both sides, therefore, there is complacency and corruption of beaurocracy through and through. Anakin, even as close to cemented as Darth Vader as ever, would only kill Padme as a last resort in some other scenario. His sudden act of choke hold is the perfectly sad expression of his most true male emotions in the climax of his realizations, confusions, and frustrations. Padme and Anakin truly loved eachother, yet they lived very seperate lives. They were in a position of being mentally much younger than they should be at their age, relationship wise. This is because of the fast paced, hyper reality of their galactic world, and the Jedi' strict rule which kept them apart. In a literal attempt at survival, for the sake of Padme, and the republic, his consequential action is force, control and destruction. Where his it shown Anakins time with the Jedi to fraternize in peace? His story as a jedi began with war and war began again shortly after he became more than a padawan. Im sure many felt that it was weird ghe way Anakin obsessed over Padme Amadala in the begining of the second prequal. They were, after many years, only acquaintances and differing on age and opposed in lifestyles. Anakin didnt have much of a childhood or, seemingly because of this, many friends as a padawan. He latched on to the woman he met so long ago. Thats what people who feel alone for long periods of time do. You may remember him tinkering with his pod racer surrounded by friends on Tattouine. You may insist that he had a good experience in fhe temple with other padawans. His childhood at home was overshadowed by his slavery holding hik back from the feeling that he should be doing great things. Then with the Jedi, he was seperated almost emtirely from his mother. THIS is the perfect concoction which lead to his complete loss of life and submission as Vader. Who could he trust? Now that Padme was doubting him? Im sure that Anakin force choked Padme at times as Luke and Leia were conceived in secret. He had arguably the "baddest" woman in the galexy, who was also his complement, him being a warrior, and her a planetary leader. Shouldn't his confidence be through ghe roof? Not with all the uknown and pain that consumed bis past present and future. He was fighting and standing up for himself even though he couldnt understand it at the time and for all time leading up to. He didnt understand why, even with the super moral jedi outnumbering the known evil overwhelmingly, there was still so much cancer (evil/inequality) stirring in the galexy, which all exploded at the first substanial act of major war. The Jedi, somewhere in their lessons, must explain exactly what murder is and why it is wrong, yet in the movies, the focus is on letting go of death, and this feels like flirting with complacency. It feels like Anakin did the selfish thing, protecting Palpatine, yet Master Windu was excerising the same cold, rash act of violence which Anakin commited against Dooku. Anyway, all of this is the perfect symbolic story which many young men should resonate with over the decades. Our world is extremely disorganized and dangerous, not unlike the galexy far, far away. Boys have a lot on their shoulders and its very unfair. Authority has a very confused and archaic way of working towards and amongst progress. One day we are children, the next we are in this incredible middle phase where we have a serious drive to seek approval, enact an identy, and even mate. Too often the competition of all this comes like a storm on young people. Id say simply being a teen is traumatic for most people, because of this or that reason at whichever points in their growth. Freedom and natural order is a beautiful thing, but you can see how Anakin was lead to lash out in the worst ways possible.
watching ,again, him choke padme i complete my realization that the physical choke was the unfortunate key to her death, not at all the biggest reason. padme was in shock. she thought anakin died at the temple. then she learns he is evil. then that he is stubbornly evil, then that anakin and his father figure are about to kill eachother, all in a matter of one day and one moment. just like anakin, she is facing absolute mental and physical exhaustion. she probably also was facing natural problems in childbirth. she was in shock and knocked out for a long time, even though Vader had choked her, not even in the most violent death grip for about 4 seconds
9:33- It's very subtle, but Obi-Wan using a gun to kill Grievous- which the Jedi usually avoid at all costs and then only slightly complain about it- subtly hints to how subconsciously corrupt the Order has become, willing to use others as pawns, use subterfuge, and even using whatever is needed to get the job done- and only barely acknowledging it before they attempt to usurp the Chancellor is a blunt manner that would be seen as treason against the Republic even if they did succeed because from an onlooker, they wouldn't have killed the Sith parasite that has been further rotting the already failing system, but a seemingly noble leader out of a need for control, being ambitious hypocrites who want control of the Republic on their gaze to reign over their non-sensitive inferiors.
I think that Empire is all round the best SW film, but ROTS is VERY close behind it. Only flaws with it imo are Padme's reduced character, the Sifo Dyas mystery not being resolved, and the Force ghost thing not being properly explained. Other than that, I think it's FANTASTIC. Baffles me that people think Anakins turn was 'poorly written'. What, did they miss all the build up from the previous two films?
Hot take: only people that were children when they watched the prequels love them. It’s all nostalgia and they dismiss the wasted opportunity had to make a masterpiece if he just involved a few more people like he did for the original trilogy. If it wasn’t for his wife, there wouldn’t be a Star Wars debate at all
I grew up on the original trilogy and i found episode one to be cheesy, 2 was cringe but Revenge of the sith turned out to be my favorite film in the saga. For whatever i felt about the other two movies i still cared about the characters and it was compelling seeing the stakes raise and even knowing the outcome it was hurtful seeing Anni fall and obi's heart break
George L should have made Anakin get his arm and leg cut off and then he should have told Obi Wan, “I’m sorry Obi Wan, I need your help. I don’t know what I’m doing!” And Obi Wan should have said, “It’s too late Darth Vader. You’re a sith master. You’re not a Jedi any more.” Then Obi Wan would leave on a ship. Leaving Anakin there to die.
That would have been too cruel, for Obi-Wan at that point. I think the scene where he pours out his heart to Anakin was far better in that moment, because it shows that even after all he's done, the master still cared for his brother and friend. Years later, when Disney made the "Obi-Wan Kenobi" show, and Vader said he killed Anakin, I think it was good for Obi-Wan to echo Luke: "Then my friend is truly dead."
Here is my ranking of all Star Wars Movies F-Tier 11. The Rise of Skywalker 10. The Last Jedi C-Tier 9. The Force Awakens 8. Solo: A Star Wars Story A-Tier 7. Rogue One 6. The Phantom Menace 5. Attack of the Clones S-Tier 4. A New Hope 3. Empire Strikes Back 2. Return of the Jedi 1. Revenge of the Sith
I rewatched/read the entire star wars series except the sequel Era because it's garbage and I despise those movies. I flatout loved every minute of it with the clone wars series, return of the jedi and revenge of the sith being my favorite in that order. My rewatch of this movie along with the clone wars finally had me in tears because all of order 66, the end of anakin and Obi-Wan's duel and padme's death left me bawling my eyes out but also couldn't help but feel the real life parallels. Ww2 was a clear inspiration for Palpatine's rise but January 6th of 2021 almost had the same thing with a political figure with many blind supporters refusing to give up power and attempted to take over a democracy and turn into a dictatorship. Moments like this gives me respect to George and star wars because it's not just our past he's telling it's also our future.
When Anakin took the knee and accept his apprentices that was NOT when he became Darth Vader. He became Darth Vader when he "Rise as Darth Vader".. tHAT IS VERY SYMBOLIC IN MANY RELIGION IN THE CONCEPT OF BEING BORN AGAIN. Go back and look at the Yoda scene when Vader rise , Yoda stop and almost fell because he felt the "SHIFT IN THE FORCE",.. That when Anakin went to the Dark Side and become DarTH VAder.. Remeber Darth Sidious said "Rise Lord Vader"... good video..
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I was 11 years old when I watched Revenge of the Sith in theaters. At the time, I thought it was an epic movie with epic scenes all around. I've rewatched it from time to time over the course of nearly two decades, and every time I do, it just hits harder. The dialogue and delivery is stilted at times, but the themes are as timeless as they come.
Same! Except I was like 6! lol. I just love this movie. I recently re-watched Sidious vs Yoda, which my favorite part in the whole movie 😁
I was 22 when this came out and it is my favorite SW movie. I still remember when the scene hit with Anakin and Padme looking at eachother across the city, you just knew this is where everything goes down. Amazing film!!!
Aptly put.
Agreed I love this movie with a passion.
With all due respect, what you perceive as "stilted dialogue" I would rather look at it as dialogue with some "musicality" to each spoken word. I think all 6 films have this. Remember that Lucas always saw the dialogue as part of the soundtrack. So, I think it's a mistake to analyze these bits of dialogue as any other Scorsese/Tarantino/etc film out there. Hell, even Tarantino's dialogue has a bit of a flare that's a bit unusual and it's not very "human-like" in places.
Revenge of the Sith and Empire Strikes are top Star Wars films. It is my favorite film and I love the prequels
So do I 😅
Same for me if you add ROTJ
I agree. I'm old and I love cinema but I also love popcorn theater when done right. The first trilogy was great even with roj kinda sucking it ended the story in the best possible way and in a way I couldn't foresee happening.
When the prequels came out I wasn't disappointed but expected it to not be as good after 20 years since roj. So I didn't hate them like soo many of my generation because they wanted cinema but got movies instead.
But holy cow Revenge of The Sith is amazing!!!!!!!! Such a great film. It's popcorn theater at it's best and in my opinion is the second best popcorn theater film behind The Mummy.
As the years have gone by I have found myself watching the prequels more than the original and I probably watch revenge of the sith no less than like 6 times a year.
@@Joshua-uw7wm I thought ROTJ was actually the best of all of them
Revenge of the sith is my favorite Star Wars prequal movie, but my favorite movie from the OT is return of the Jedi (still empire strikes back is a masterpiece of a film)
The tragedy of Anakin Skywalker is the most beautiful modern "greek tragedy".
Jedi tragedy.
Shakespearean, too.
The tragedy of the galaxy's biggest idiot
I would bet my life savings you have never read or watched a greek tragedy
Pity about the poor writing and execution 🤷🏻♂️
The prequels are absolutely fantastic! The themes, story, and characters are so deep and reflect certain real world elements that the originals trilogy didn’t quite show as explicitly. I hope George Lucas knows just how much of us love the prequels. Disney can certainly make the effort to fix the damage that the sequels caused but the pre-Disney era will always be true Star Wars to me.
The story and characters in the prequels are generally regarded to be very bad. The story is very poorly and lazily written and ridden with plot holes and the characters are all incredibly one-dimensional
@@tristanlanphere7736keep crying they are the best films
@@tristanlanphere7736bruh an sequel fan cringe😂
The sad thing is, they're not even making the effort to fix the damage of the sequels. They're doubling down on everything. Case in point: the Rey movie.
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Fool boy
"You have done that yourself"
Ewan McGregor can really deliver a line
Don't forget, "Hello there!" sry I had to say that.
@@darthsidious1158 Jedi scum lol
Anakin is the father isn't he... I'm so sorry 😢
"You have allowed this dark lord to twist your mind, until...until you have become the very thing you swore to destroy."
Ewan was perfect for Obi-Wan. George knows how to cast actors.
While I do love bits of Ewan's performance, I can't stop feeling like he is a bit emotionally stunted at times. Take the ”I have failed you Anakin, I have failed you.” moment: he kind of, smiles? And his reaction to seeing his brother-in-arms LITERALLY SLAUGHTERING INNOCENT KIDS doesn't go further than a ”Oh no…”.
I do, however, realise that this may be more of a directing issue than an acting one.
People who unironically dump on the prequels have been stupid since this movie was released. It’s amazing how it’s taken literally 15+ years for people to be able to interpret some of the fantastic nuances of the characters in the prequels.
yeah but the execution of it all is pretty terrible
I just wish the writing was as nuanced as the characters :(
@@wetsock111it was fine,, can you elaborate?
"I wish I could just wish my feelings away" 😂
I don’t know if your being sarcastic or something but there is no subtlety or nuance of the characters in the prequels. The only character who remotely comes close to having any sort of resemblance to depth is Anakin and even he and his goals are pretty one-dimensional.
Tragic endings makes for some of the best and most impactful stories.
Facts.
It was a tragic ending in the sense that all these characters made all the most obviously idiotic decisions possible and got fucked for it
@@jacobclark6002 What are you talking about? That the jedi order didn't know palpatine was a sith lord? How could they know, they can conceal themselves and especially someone as powerful as Darth Sidious. The only character that actually was dumb and ignorant was Obi Wan. Who ignored Anakins emotions(Jedi can sense peoples emotions, even those of other jedi.) Anakin always seemed so angry and hateful and Obi wan never saw the possibility.
@extrage3061 they say like 20 times through episodes 2 and 3 that they know a sith lord is working in the senate. "But Palpatine can diminish their force powers" boo hoo if only they could do ANY actual detective work like idk maybe testing the medichlorian count of everyone in the senate? Nah if those fucking idiots did that they still would see Palpatine has a count of 10,000 and just ignore it.
Anakin saying I hate you such a powerful scene it keeps on giving me goosebumps every time I watch it
Yeah, much more than TCW’s own version of it.
A few clunky lines aside ive never not enjoyed watching revenge of the sith. Had the best fights, the best soundtrack in history and by far the most emotional and intense star wars film and really showed the darkside of star wars in a way no other film quite did it was a masterpiece
What emotion? Any emotion they could have had is completely ruined by the poor acting, script and awful pacing and character arcs. How can you even get emotional about Anakin and Obi Wans relationship when they've pretty much had NO relationship the entire trilogy beside riding elevators and talking about fun, dangerous tales they had that happened off-screen?
@@marzipanmonkey Bro you're yapping. First of all just because most of the friendship between anakin and Obi wan is not shown doesn't mean it doesn't exist, a master jedi and his apprenctice aren't really supposed to be "friends" they're supposed to be teacher and student also it is clear they are friends if you would have any real friends you would know that. The jokes, even in serious situations. I mean how much more would you like them to show? Should we also see them bonding on the fucking toilet lmao.
And the guy who played anakin was a legend in his role. I have no idea who else but anakin you would be talking about when talking about "bad acting" but he played anakin just the way he was descrived by george lucas and the fact that Anakin is young and not very emotionally stable since 1. he can't talk to his jedi master of the bad things he did/thinks about doing because he might snitch to the jedi council and get him expelled.
Man you're hating just because you can, gtfo the prequels are amazing, just because anakin doesn't really sound that intimidating after becoming Darth Vader (when he kills mace windu) and not like a fucking beast doesn't mean the acting is bad, the bad guys aren't always intimidating.
@@extrage3061 "The guy who played Anakin.." wow you really know your stuff! The prequels are only regarded as amazing by people who grew up with them when they were easily impressionable and easily entertained kids. You look back on them now with nostalgia goggles because they remind you of a fun and happy time! The simple fact is they are poorly acted, overly cgi-heavy, full of plot holes and also contrived moments. With a godawful script and poorly paced storyline. ROTS only gets plaudits because it simply wasn't as god awful as TPP and AOTC. Just deal with it. ;)
@@marzipanmonkey Yeah, you're just wrong. I'm nearly 39, and the first Star Wars movies I saw and loved were the original trilogy when I was around 8 years old; however, the Prequels, especially RotS, are my absolute favorite by a longshot. So no, the only ones who love the prequels are not people who were kids at the time of their release. Now deal with it.
@@hypercubemaster2729 Yeah, yeah, you’re just yapping and pretending. Nobody ranks the prequels that high unless they were giddy and easily impressionable kids at the time. They’re god awful movies.
Definitely my favorite Star Wars film, great performances, themes, visuals and music. And hot take, but Attack of the Clones is my second favorite Star wars film
My favorite is The Phantom Menace. People can say what they will, but I adore that movie. Plus, podracing is awesome!
@@jaceyking5015 There's a lot of fun to be had in the prequels, and the internet exagerates so much nowadays, I remember everyone loving it in theaters way back when, talking about these films whenever a new one dropped.
I'm not a big fan of Phantom or Attack, but they're so much better than what most people would have you think online...
(And Revenge is top 3 in the SW series, easily)
Hot take, indeed.
Attack of the clones got a lot of hate for some strange reason but I loved the movie! It was amazing!
Great performances? Really?
Revenge of the Sith was the first Star Wars Movie that I watched in theaters when I was in 5th Grade.
Same here
Same here.
Them denying him the rank of master and then immediately forcing him to spy on the chancellor was definitely what made him make up his mind. I mean, seriously dude, whos guiding him into the dark side really at that point? Anybody would feel betrayed in his position. He literally did more for the war than many of them, if he had gotten that title and then maybe given some speech about his contributions, that would have made it much more fitting of a time to ask him to spy on Palpatine. You ask a favour of somebody when theyre indebted to you, not the other way around
The Jedi never knew how to handle Anakin.
@@gumdeo That's kind of my point tbh, he was always treated poorly but this removed all doubt. They asked an unrealistic amount of him against even their own code but asked him to follow a biased version of humility beyond even their teachings and actions
I think in all the prequels, George was trying to show that the Jedi had become dogmatic and corrupt. They were one-sided about their traditions, and so set in their ways they couldn't think rationally about anything else. This is probably most evident in the crooked advice Yoda gives to Anakin: "Rejoice for those around you who transform into the Force. Mourn them do not, miss them do not. Attachment leads to jealousy; the shadow of greed, that is." Even the supposed wisest Jedi Master in 900 years had become blinded by then, and it just sent Anakin even further over the edge.
Jedi fumbled Anakin.
They should have granted him the title and told him to spy then the jedi where dumb
Revenge of the Sith is by far the best Star Wars movie and no one can convince me otherwise
Aside from the weak script, poor acting, style over substance lightsaber fights, cringeworthy moments ("Noooooooooooooo" and "From my point of view the Jedi are evillllll" to name a few), poorly paced and mapped out character Arc for Anakin turning to the dark side, overreliance on CGI that in places looks very dated now... it's the best Star Wars movie by far.
Best Star Wars story forsure.
@@DaxTheRipperX No chance. A New Hope and Empire Strikes Back are better complete stories. End of.
@@luckigoon It was. But still more cohesive, well paced, clearly set out than ROTS which was a mess of a film. The only reason ROTS is so popular now is because you have a generation who have grown up and look at it through nostalgia goggles and remember watching it all the time as an easily entertained kid and all the happy memories that came with it - not because it's actually a good quality film.
@@marzipanmonkey Poor acting ?
Have you seen the MOVIE ?
I'm in complete agreement, ROTS virtually brought it all together, to segway the story of Anakin's journey into Darth Vader. It's well though out and all the special effects are unparalleled. The pinnacle is the light saber duel on Mustafar. Positively, the best in all the movies combined. Everyone was spectacular, George Lucas, take a bow, and thank you.
A special shout out to Hayden Christensen, for mastering both roles. He was phenomenal!
I remember when this movie first came out, Lucas once described it as "Star Wars goes to hell". When questioned about some of the violence and intensity, he said, "I could have dialed some of it back, but I didn't really want to." As a result, it was the first film in the series to be rated PG-13.
Every single person that praises this movie has 3 main praises in common.
1. drooling over flashy but narratively pathetic lightsaber fights, like Mustafar and Grievous.
2. It being "darker than the others" or some other dumb way of pointing out it's PG13, as if that actually makes it good.
3. "I saw when I was 6." Yeah we all did. Nostalgia isn't indicative of quality even slightly.
@@jacobclark6002 So much truth in this! Isn't it strange how the general consensus about the Star Wars prequels was that they were disappointing, incredibly flawed and not great movies for a good 15+ years.. then suddenly... "Best trilogy ever!! ROTS is the greatest movie ever made!!". It's almost as if all those giddy and easily impressionable kids have now grown up and see it through nostalgia goggles.
"The pinnacle is the light saber duel on Mustafar." That fight is godawful. All style over emotion and substance. The choreography is so fake and awkward, the dialogue cringeworthy. The set pieces ridiculous and make you feel like you're watching a cartoon.
Harry Potters ending is an example of a well thought out conclusion that ties things together. This wasn’t even close
This movie is my all time favorite Star Wars movie and all time favorite movie. This is a true masterpiece.
Revenge of the Sith is my favorite Star Wars movie. Nice to see it getting appreciation. I've always enjoyed Attack of the Clones and this but it seems it took Disney churning out dreadful sequels to show people how good the prequels actually are.
I love that as a kid, I was able to watch and enjoy the prequels for the flashy fun action and characters. But as an adult I’ve gone back and understood the themes and drama better and am totally invested in everything that happens. I don’t get that with the original trilogy as they are, by design, more adventure films with limited thematic value. I do still enjoy them of course but it’s definitely not the same as the prequels for me.
@@Drewgantka_97 I was 6 years old when it came out. How about you?
Its not the movie made it but your own development. That's why you only noticed flashing effect as a kid and discovered meaning when grew up. My experience with real world is that intensity of which we perceive reality around us is determined, driven by our own depth mind. You are right, I could not find the original trilogy so meaningful it was more an action movie.
It is my favorite SW film.
Revenge of the Sith is my top favorite as well. I love the prequels the prequels are awesome to me. The story how Anakin fell to the dark side.
I couldn't agree more
1-6 are all S tier in different ways
5:01 - Visions of wife and children dying are the story of Dune Messiah. Luckly, we will have Villeneuve Dune 3 soon and the pop culture will know were George took this idea
Thank god this was pre Disney era cause they wouldn’t let it be as dark
Yeah, for all the accusations people made against Lucas about him supposedly being more concerned with toys, I think Disney is more to blame in that regard.
@@Moviefan2k4I remember somewhere saying that Star Wars was intended for a generation that didn’t grow up with fairy tales, and in a way the Star Wars saga fills that. I don’t mean Disney fairy tales, I mean the old ones that often could get quite dark and violent, as they were tales told and retold from generation to generation.
Revenge of the sith is my personal favorite Star Wars movie and I don’t care what anybody has to say about that.
My childhood. Best ever SW movie😊
0:46 I Lena the Originals still had dark moments like the Death Star, Han Solo and Luke being tortured and Han turning into carbonate, and also when Jabba being choked to death
My favorite Star Wars film!!!
This is not the best Star Wars fight, it is the best cinematic fight.
Mustafar is a long, dramatic, wet dog fart of a fight lol. They only fight because both are complete dumbasses in separate ways. The fight compensates for this narrative impotence by being "EPIC!!!!" and lasting half an hour for no reason. Also, dialogue is part of the fight, and every single line is cringe inducing.
Just finished watching the prequels for the first time since they came out and I really enjoyed them, don't get all the hate. Revenge of the Sith was really, really good, definitely the best of the 3 which is rare for the 3rd movie in a trilogy.
For all that ep1&2 get shit on, they really set up the awesome climax of Revenge of the Sith.
My favourite Star Wars film.
Revenge if the sith is the greatest movie of all time. There will never be another movie like it. It was my first star wars movie. Tell me if yellow agree that it's the only movie u can watch 4 times a day for every day of the year
There’s a deep black irony to the way the Jedi Order act with Palpatine here. They’re not doing the right thing, but the ends that they reach are actually right. They are right to suspect Palpatine, but putting the chancellor under surveillance is not the “right” thing to do. It feeds into the distrust that Anakin feels and the muddying of the waters quite nicely.
It plays directly into what Palpatine wants too, because it gives credence to him when he says the Jedi are corrupt and taking over. The Jedi surveilling the legitimately-elected chancellor and then showing up to his office with weapons drawn? Perfect story to tell the senate and jot down in the history annals, with just the right details. Sure, it is still a lie by omission, but the most believable of lies start with truth.
I would dare to think the final battle is perhaps the greatest in cinema history.
Especially since the lava wasn’t cgi but a really clever model with real volcanic eruptions.
Really? It's godawful.
@marzipanmonkey I guess our eyes are in a disagreement of what a good duel actually is... I'm curious what other Star Wars lightsaber battle is better in your opinion.
@@Infinite.Worldz My issue with it is it's just completely style over substance. At one point they're literally balancing on droids over lava or swinging like Tarzan towards each other like cartoon characters. It's just completely over the top for the sake of it. That's before you throw in the forced and awkward choreography, hammy acting and awful script/line delivery "From my point of view the Jedi are evil!!" < who says stuff like that? For me personally Qui-Gon Jinn/Obi-Wan Kenobi vs Darth Maul, Luke vs Vader in both Empire and RotJ are easily better in terms of the drama, emotion and the choreography.
No new SW movie has been able to match it since 2005.
Blame the crazy Kathleen Kennedy for that. She's obsessed with political correctness, which is something Lucas didn't care one iota about. He wasn't concerned with whose feathers he ruffled - he just wanted to tell his story, and let the chips fall as they may.
No star ways related bit of media has been able to even get close to matching it since 2005
In the words of Camille Paglia: "Nothing in the last *_30 years_** in **_any_** of the Arts* has been produced as emotionally compelling and significant as the finale of Revenge of the Sith."
It's my favorite ! I love everyting about this movie !
Me too! God, I thought I was the last of a dying flame, but here I am surrounded by ppl who love this movie as much as I do. Sigh of relief.
Go to your doctor. Get your head examined.
The Prequals are a set of films I have always liked. They don't work that well on their own, but as a single, huge three-film arc, I have always enjoyed them, flaws and all, because they are for me the definition of the term "Space Opera".
And one of my absolute favourite aspects is one that is front-and-centre in Revenge of the Sith; the idea as the order of the universe is being shaken to its core, characters like Obi Wan and Padme, by remaining still and true to their principles, subtly change sides and become the enemy of the institutions they are part of, mostly without even realising, that those institutions have abandoned those founding principles ("This how liberty dies; to thunderous applause") and how Anakin has his owns principles subtly manipulated to serve causes he would never knowingly serve. And by the time anyone actually realises what's happening, it's all way too late.
The Mustafa and Senate battles are the last chance the Jedi have to stop the Sith and the sense of devastating defeat after really emphasises how complete Palpatine's victory has been.
People joke about how Lucas couldn't write romance to save his life, but he absolutely knows how to world-build and craft a story, and to be honest, I think the Prequals validate the OT films because the universe has sunk so far away from 'good', it gives weight and depth to how evil the Emperor is.
True enough, plus the Jedi were too dogmatic, rigid, arrogant, and too detached from others. The Jedi order suffered from a lack of independent thinkers such as Qui Gon, Dooku, Ahsoka, and Anakin, the order slipped into stagnation. In the ROTS novel Yoda realizes that he had failed the Jedi order because he didn’t allow it to change, to undergo a reformation. Whereas the Sith had changed, they had evolved and remade themselves, they weren’t the same Sith that the Jedi fought against a millennia ago. Yoda finally understood that the Jedi lost this battle a long time ago well before the clone war.
I dont think really any of the Star Wars films work that well on their own anymore. I used to think 4 and 5 worked great on thier own but not so much anymore. The only one that works as a stand alone narrative is episode 4 and even that one is problematic because of how bare bones it is compared to the others. EMPIRE has no beginning or end, it gets pretty slow in the middle, and its big action set piece is at the beginning yet pales in comparison to The Battle of Yavin. JEDI feels like two separate movies non organically fused together.
Revenge of the Sith is great if you take a shot every time you see characters sitting awkwardly before Lucas says “Action” and they start speaking
What if you don’t want to die
I like how the prequels are darker than all the others
Only revenge of the sith near the end because the films are generally very childish, even for star wars
Return of the Jedi was pretty dark for its time, with the Emperor using Force lightning on Luke and Vader contemplating who he would side with. But overall, I do agree - Lucas definitely ramped up the intensity for the prequels.
If I shit on the floor and it's really dark does that make it better?
I watched Revenge of the Sith twice when it was released in theaters, one of the rare cases of me going to see one movie twice in my entire life, I can count these on the fingers of one palm. And to be honest, I should have gone the third time too, which would've been the first and the last time ever in my life.
And I consider the first 30 minutes of ROTS as the BEST EVER movie sequence of all time, it is so well put and intense that it's a movie inside a movie eventually, and after you experienced it, you feel like "That was some good movie, dang! I can turn the screen off now" only to realise there are 2 more hours ahead. I can watch it forever!
I agree, the opening sequence is awesome!
I have to say George Lucas did a great job at casting in the prequels
I wasn't familiar with most of the cast, apart from Liam Neeson and Ian McDiarmid. But Lucas definitely got some very good performers to tell his story, that's for sure.
I couldn't watch this enough in the theaters 🖤 witnessing the fall of Anakin and the rise of Darth Vader
I always found myself wanting to watch this one out of all of the rest. Never understood the hate
The original 3 were very fun space adventures, but they had little substance until the very end. That's why I always preferred the prequels, the story and characters were all so nuanced and intertwined with each other and the world, and the enormous, overarching plot was a lot more compelling imo. Sure, they have some cringe lines, but people seem to forget that the originals did too (power converters, anyone?).
I don't hate jar Jar, he's mildly irritating at the worst, I don't hate Anakin, he's an emotionally stunted child soldier with severe mental trauma, he's bound to be a little off. The jedi are wrong in hindsight, but their mistakes are completely believable. Overall, the prequels are masterpieces of storytelling and cinematography, and they did more to flesh out the Star Wars universe than any movies before or after.
When the sequels came out and the outrage started I asked myself: Is this history repeating? Does my generation now pass on the trauma that the original triology fans had caused, when they made George Lucas quit Star Wars over the prequel backlash.
But no. This is not our fault and this is not even Disneys fault. Star Wars died when George Lucas quit. They just make bad movies for an equally bad and unforgiving fanbase. I hope the boomer generation is happy about what they left for their grandchildren.
I think Lucas gave up, in part, because he was worn down by so-called fans who kept screaming that he raped their childhood. He even got death threats over the prequels, and at a certain point he just decided it wasn't worth the hassle anymore. I do think he made a mistake in trusting Kathleen Kennedy with his creations; she's about as loony as they come.
ROTS basically defines Star Wars on a whole.
3, 6, 5 , 4, 2, 1 in that order.
Can you do return of the Jedi as a perfect conclusion.
My favorite prequel is Attack of the Clones, but Revenge of the Sith is also very special. Hayden proved he was perfect for Anakin in both films, and he had great chemistry with both Ewan McGregor and Natalie Portman.
10/10 editing bruh
The first 3 was so good
I loved the 4th one as well the first 6 was so good but the 7 to 9 wasn't really good but they could've done it good but they failed it but I agree 3rd one was the best but they just changed it too much that it wasn't good
When they brought back Palpatine it was so avenues that they didn't had any plan cause they didn't even gave us any glimpse
No matter what the problems with the prequels I have are (and there are many) I will always respect that these films were made out of respect of the OT, unlike the sequels which were just pure money grab. Only Disney star wars product made that is remotely good is Rogue one. And now Andor as a tv show is also decent. Other than that, there is no heart and soul to star wars anymore. Just a bunch of "Der 🤪 remember lightsabers." Completely just disrespecting the world as a whole for merchandising sales. Lucasfilm died after revenge of the sith
The animated stuff has been almost all-around good. The Bad Batch finale came out today
I gotta tell you, almost everything you said here applies to George Lucas' prequels. He spent far too much time worrying about merchandising sales, and not nearly enough on making decent movies. There is a reason Anakin has 6 ships in three movies, and they are all yellow. I would also be willing to bet that lightsabers are used far less in the sequels than the prequels. Hell, that god awful, soulless, Battle of Geonosis probably accounts for more than half of on screen lightsabers in the entire saga.
Also, I would argue that TFA & TLJ are better than any of the prequels, and even though I consider TROS, AOTC, and TPM equally bad, of the three I would rather watch TROS, because at least it isn't boring, and the other two are boring AF.
@@broncojuan “boring” is not a critique. It is an opinion. Merchandising was of course a factor, but the most famous example of this was in the OT, clearly not here. The Battle of Geonosis was an insane technical achievement and something the entire cast and crew were proud of making. Aside from being “boring”, whatever that’s supposed to mean, you present no reasoning for TFA or TLJ being better films than the prequels
@@officialmonarchmusic I wasn't offering a critique, I was stating why I would watch one bad movie over two equally bad movies.
I'll grant you the Ewoks were all about selling toys (and the biggest reason Jedi is considered the weakest of the OT), but so was Maul and his double bladed saber, Jar Jar and the Gungans, Pod Racing, Droid Armies, Grievous, Jango... There were far more instances merchandising opportunities impacting decisions in the prequels.
The Battle of Geonosis can be "an insane technical achievement," and still not work as a believable movie scene. In fact, that scene is a microcosm for why the prequels didn't work. Nobody is giving a believable performance. Everybody looks as if they are interacting with a wall. There is no sense that the heroes are in danger, or even that they believe they are in danger. Even throwing in some Jedi deaths couldn't increase the stakes because they were all nameless and faceless. Their deaths carried no more weight than the destruction of thousands of battle droids.
This all falls to George's newly acquired (at the time) "fix it in post" philosophy of movie making. It is also why Peter Jackson completely ate George's lunch with the LOTR trilogy. He knew to get the performances first, and enhance them with special effects, where George assumed it could all be fixed later.
Star Wars geek always......the Prequels are my favorites. I just wished Revenge of the Sith had shown Darth Vader in the suit destroying the Jedi. I would have had Anakin losevto Obi-Won earlier in the movie and the Jedi believe Anakin is dead. Then the war is turned by this mysterious Warrior in a black suit that the Jedi cant defeat.
While it's not my favorite in the series, I will admit to the fact that this movie does signify one thing about religion and people in general...
There is always going to be people who will manipulate and control and as long as they can create two sides and make them fight each other, they will always win, no matter what happens. You can see this in the real world today, making this movie even more relevant today. This revelation comes from the scene where Mace Windu and Palpatiene are at the stand off and Anakin has a choice...
This film is seriously not that deep
@@tristanlanphere7736 "You will find only what you bring in."
When Lucas originally came up with the idea of the Force, he based it in part on different religions, trying to distill them to what they had in common. In my opinion, this was a mistake, because there's so many differences between religions you can't reconcile them all. But anyhow, George was also very much into the writings of Joseph Campbell, who cited Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung among his own influences.
dude are you me from another universe, this video is just my exact opinion nearly word for word.
The new clone wars season makes this movie so much better seeing the different points of view.
I believe its possibly the greatest movie of all time
It’s possibly the only movie you ever seen
xD
The prequels felt exactly like what a live action anime should be. It was beautiful fights with dark story, but with goofy elements.
Absolute masterpiece. Is it perfect? No, but we are so lucky to have seen Lucas's universe realized on the screen. Gotta give props to his whole crew though. Without them we would have never seen the best saga of all time.
even though i agree that revenge of the sith is pretty good i wouldn’t go as far to say it was a masterpiece. overall the film was good but had a lot of things that just didn’t work well one example being anakins fall which felt a little to rushed. I think a lot of this movies recent success along with the rest of the prequels is due to nostalgia. in my personal opinion i don’t think the prequels were all that great but atleast rots was pretty good.
Back when it was released i remember it was hated to the ground but in retrospective it is a masterpiece. And compared to the now released parts after episode 6. this is a masterpiece ever.
it's just EPIC
PURE ADRENALINE
AND I LOVE IT FOR THAT
Its mazing how i find both Revenge of the Sith and Return of the Jedi my favourite. Same as you!
Order 66 still gives me chills.
The OT are excellent movies; the PT are excellent stories.
I’ve been scared to say this for along time but I love “Revenge of the Sith” lol 😂
My favorite of the 6
CW made it even better
Revenge of the Sith was it. Target was lifve with the clone trooper action figures
I don’t care what anyone thinks. I loved the prequels.
Will you do a video on Episode VI also?
In hindsight, it was actually good planning for episodes 4-6 to be released before 1-3, because it’s a good way to show the origins before the classics and how those universes were created.
At the time, Lucas didn't have much of a choice but to do the Rebellion stories first. The technology for movies didn't exist in the '70s, to depict the kinds of worlds and characters that George had in his mind. So many of the visual effects in "A New Hope" were improvised on the spot, and the total budget was estimated at around 11 million dollars. By comparison, "Revenge of the Sith" had a budget of 113 million.
The fact that Anakin (almost now entirely Darth Vader) in his final act is trying to kill Padme with his hand, which is who he wanted to save that started all of the tragedy in the final third of the movie is mind boggling. Before all of the action, he is still just a troubled, albiet extremely stressed but disciplined and decently morale young jedi boy. He is born of a poor mother with no husband. He dreams of his mother dying then sees his mother die in his hands. Then he dreams of Padme dying in childbirth, which is absurdedly frustrating given their relationship is already a miracle, given his story as a jedi and hers as a politician. I thought that he was over associating and his brain created a problem out of nothing. Now I see that it was none of his doing and totally a concoction of the sith to concludd his story as a jedi and finalize their galactic plans. The war was going to end one way or another. Palpatine was going to make a run for total power, one way or another. Even darker times were indeed ahead of the jedi, take Anakin out of it. Padme and Anakin's relationship, with the baby, was inevitably going to be Even more strsined than ever before. Why? Half because of the siths plans. Other half, because of the Jedi's strictness/obtuseness. This drew Skywalker to consider the dark side and reject the light. What he feared for and cared for most was on the line. If he had felt secure in being open with Yoda about his fatherhood, then he could have advised him to not only remove his fear of death, but to possibly figure out s better way to deal with fatherhood. Now we understand his pure hopeless rage, even towards his innocent wife in the finality of which feels like total loss to him. He could have convinced Padme to do anything. They could have run away together after using Sidius to supposedly save her life, all the while the galaxy is falling apart? Instead, the same moment she protests, it is revealed that Obi wan is confronting Anakin. His 20 something year old mind doesnt catch a single break. Its WILD that the jedi we know would so suddenly slaughter every innocent at the temple. However, which any real man cares about the most is on the line and Anakin, born and raised in slavery, taught and refined in fighting corruption and evil, is still facing the chaos of the galexy. He is exhausted of fighing years of the clone wars, yet now he feels that his love, his solace, in the end is to die too. How can you miss the teen angst? The frustration? The hopelessness that was sitting like the seed of a peach in his heart, fermenting in the same kind of secret of the sith. He saw with his young mind, across the planets, how the work of the Jedi was like choosing one of two political parties in our world. There's the good and bad on both sides, therefore, there is complacency and corruption of beaurocracy through and through. Anakin, even as close to cemented as Darth Vader as ever, would only kill Padme as a last resort in some other scenario. His sudden act of choke hold is the perfectly sad expression of his most true male emotions in the climax of his realizations, confusions, and frustrations. Padme and Anakin truly loved eachother, yet they lived very seperate lives. They were in a position of being mentally much younger than they should be at their age, relationship wise. This is because of the fast paced, hyper reality of their galactic world, and the Jedi' strict rule which kept them apart. In a literal attempt at survival, for the sake of Padme, and the republic, his consequential action is force, control and destruction. Where his it shown Anakins time with the Jedi to fraternize in peace? His story as a jedi began with war and war began again shortly after he became more than a padawan. Im sure many felt that it was weird ghe way Anakin obsessed over Padme Amadala in the begining of the second prequal. They were, after many years, only acquaintances and differing on age and opposed in lifestyles. Anakin didnt have much of a childhood or, seemingly because of this, many friends as a padawan. He latched on to the woman he met so long ago. Thats what people who feel alone for long periods of time do. You may remember him tinkering with his pod racer surrounded by friends on Tattouine. You may insist that he had a good experience in fhe temple with other padawans. His childhood at home was overshadowed by his slavery holding hik back from the feeling that he should be doing great things. Then with the Jedi, he was seperated almost emtirely from his mother. THIS is the perfect concoction which lead to his complete loss of life and submission as Vader. Who could he trust? Now that Padme was doubting him? Im sure that Anakin force choked Padme at times as Luke and Leia were conceived in secret. He had arguably the "baddest" woman in the galexy, who was also his complement, him being a warrior, and her a planetary leader. Shouldn't his confidence be through ghe roof? Not with all the uknown and pain that consumed bis past present and future. He was fighting and standing up for himself even though he couldnt understand it at the time and for all time leading up to. He didnt understand why, even with the super moral jedi outnumbering the known evil overwhelmingly, there was still so much cancer (evil/inequality) stirring in the galexy, which all exploded at the first substanial act of major war. The Jedi, somewhere in their lessons, must explain exactly what murder is and why it is wrong, yet in the movies, the focus is on letting go of death, and this feels like flirting with complacency. It feels like Anakin did the selfish thing, protecting Palpatine, yet Master Windu was excerising the same cold, rash act of violence which Anakin commited against Dooku. Anyway, all of this is the perfect symbolic story which many young men should resonate with over the decades. Our world is extremely disorganized and dangerous, not unlike the galexy far, far away. Boys have a lot on their shoulders and its very unfair. Authority has a very confused and archaic way of working towards and amongst progress. One day we are children, the next we are in this incredible middle phase where we have a serious drive to seek approval, enact an identy, and even mate. Too often the competition of all this comes like a storm on young people. Id say simply being a teen is traumatic for most people, because of this or that reason at whichever points in their growth. Freedom and natural order is a beautiful thing, but you can see how Anakin was lead to lash out in the worst ways possible.
watching ,again, him choke padme i complete my realization that the physical choke was the unfortunate key to her death, not at all the biggest reason. padme was in shock. she thought anakin died at the temple. then she learns he is evil. then that he is stubbornly evil, then that anakin and his father figure are about to kill eachother, all in a matter of one day and one moment. just like anakin, she is facing absolute mental and physical exhaustion. she probably also was facing natural problems in childbirth. she was in shock and knocked out for a long time, even though Vader had choked her, not even in the most violent death grip for about 4 seconds
Episode III will never be matched.
Damn right it's a masterpiece!
Best movie
Revenge of the sith is high art
9:33- It's very subtle, but Obi-Wan using a gun to kill Grievous- which the Jedi usually avoid at all costs and then only slightly complain about it- subtly hints to how subconsciously corrupt the Order has become, willing to use others as pawns, use subterfuge, and even using whatever is needed to get the job done- and only barely acknowledging it before they attempt to usurp the Chancellor is a blunt manner that would be seen as treason against the Republic even if they did succeed because from an onlooker, they wouldn't have killed the Sith parasite that has been further rotting the already failing system, but a seemingly noble leader out of a need for control, being ambitious hypocrites who want control of the Republic on their gaze to reign over their non-sensitive inferiors.
It’s Revenge of The Sith of course it’s a masterpiece 🤘🏼
A masterful movie for eternity!
We're literally watching this movie play out in real time. Go listen to Palpatine's "attempt on my life" speech
Okay, thanks for the summary of that episode. And where is the analysis?
I think that Empire is all round the best SW film, but ROTS is VERY close behind it. Only flaws with it imo are Padme's reduced character, the Sifo Dyas mystery not being resolved, and the Force ghost thing not being properly explained. Other than that, I think it's FANTASTIC.
Baffles me that people think Anakins turn was 'poorly written'. What, did they miss all the build up from the previous two films?
I agree I liked the third one alot
The Best Star Wars film!
i want to see 4 hour version of RotS.
Yeah I love the film as well, the dialogue makes me laugh everytime
One of the Star Wars movies ever made!👍👍
Hot take: only people that were children when they watched the prequels love them. It’s all nostalgia and they dismiss the wasted opportunity had to make a masterpiece if he just involved a few more people like he did for the original trilogy. If it wasn’t for his wife, there wouldn’t be a Star Wars debate at all
best movie everrr
I grew up on the original trilogy and i found episode one to be cheesy, 2 was cringe but Revenge of the sith turned out to be my favorite film in the saga.
For whatever i felt about the other two movies i still cared about the characters and it was compelling seeing the stakes raise and even knowing the outcome it was hurtful seeing Anni fall and obi's heart break
I’m so with this
While I agree with many of the people who hate the prequels when discussing episodes 1 and 2. When they criticise episode 3 it just doesnt make sense
This is a very bad video with little to say besides “It’s good because it provides more context for things”
I love Revenge Of The Sith.but i would put this number 2 on my top Star Wars movie list.because Return Of The Jedi is number 1 to me.
George L should have made Anakin get his arm and leg cut off and then he should have told Obi Wan, “I’m sorry Obi Wan, I need your help. I don’t know what I’m doing!” And Obi Wan should have said, “It’s too late Darth Vader. You’re a sith master. You’re not a Jedi any more.” Then Obi Wan would leave on a ship. Leaving Anakin there to die.
That would have been too cruel, for Obi-Wan at that point. I think the scene where he pours out his heart to Anakin was far better in that moment, because it shows that even after all he's done, the master still cared for his brother and friend. Years later, when Disney made the "Obi-Wan Kenobi" show, and Vader said he killed Anakin, I think it was good for Obi-Wan to echo Luke: "Then my friend is truly dead."
What I don’t understand is why Palpatine has a desk. What does he need it for?
Are you kidding?
Every leader has a desk: company CEO, office manager, POTUS.
@@danjonmills It’s from a Family Guy joke, look up “What does Palpatine need a desk for?”
thanks you to have me discover this@@joaquinm9148
Here is my ranking of all Star Wars Movies
F-Tier
11. The Rise of Skywalker
10. The Last Jedi
C-Tier
9. The Force Awakens
8. Solo: A Star Wars Story
A-Tier
7. Rogue One
6. The Phantom Menace
5. Attack of the Clones
S-Tier
4. A New Hope
3. Empire Strikes Back
2. Return of the Jedi
1. Revenge of the Sith
I rewatched/read the entire star wars series except the sequel Era because it's garbage and I despise those movies.
I flatout loved every minute of it with the clone wars series, return of the jedi and revenge of the sith being my favorite in that order. My rewatch of this movie along with the clone wars finally had me in tears because all of order 66, the end of anakin and Obi-Wan's duel and padme's death left me bawling my eyes out but also couldn't help but feel the real life parallels.
Ww2 was a clear inspiration for Palpatine's rise but January 6th of 2021 almost had the same thing with a political figure with many blind supporters refusing to give up power and attempted to take over a democracy and turn into a dictatorship.
Moments like this gives me respect to George and star wars because it's not just our past he's telling it's also our future.
When Anakin took the knee and accept his apprentices that was NOT when he became Darth Vader.
He became Darth Vader when he "Rise as Darth Vader".. tHAT IS VERY SYMBOLIC IN MANY RELIGION IN THE CONCEPT OF BEING BORN AGAIN.
Go back and look at the Yoda scene when Vader rise , Yoda stop and almost fell because he felt the "SHIFT IN THE FORCE",..
That when Anakin went to the Dark Side and become DarTH VAder..
Remeber Darth Sidious said "Rise Lord Vader"...
good video..
I feel there are similarities between Vader/Anakin's tragedy and Bill Sike's from Oliver.
It was the fan edits of ROTS that convinced me that there was a good movie underneath the cringe.
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