Poll of the Day > What's the consensus on Revenge of the Sith?

(+) Yeah! (+)

It's my third favorite Star Wars.

I enjoyed it overall. Best prequel (not saying much), has arguably the best fight scene in all of Star Wars, has the great story told by Palpatine to Anakin, and yet is hampered by the usual BS of the prequels (weak dialogue overall, particularly the love stuff).
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Awful acting, awful script. Cool fights and cool special effects.

The prequels are awful movies

Obi wan carried the movie.

Mediocre movie that people think is good because they had the turds of 1 and 2 fresh in their minds

Better than 1 and 2 but that's really not saying much. Mediocre.
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it was fine. people did not like the previous two so it got shit on harder than it maybe should have, bro... the best part was Anakin killing all the kids. get rekt lol
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Zareth posted...

Better than 1 and 2 but that's really not saying much. Mediocre.

Yup.
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It's my 2nd favorite Star Wars movie (after Return of the Jedi).

It has some cringy stuff in it, but it also has some really good stuff. Some things could have been handled better, but whatever. You get to see The Emperor, and he's the 2nd best thing about Star Wars (the best being lightsabers). All in all, it's pretty awesome. My biggest complaint is actually a technical one. The volume on the DVD seems to be really low.
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That is seriously my favourite Star Wars film.
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It's a good movie and after watching Last Jedi, it made me appreciate the prequels a little bit more.
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Its pretty good. Better than every SW movie to come after it Im sure.

* I never bothered with any after Rogue One
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Bad, only thing good is Ian McDiarmid.
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My favorite SW film.
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Some cool action but some of the writing and dialogue is atrocious. Much easier to watch than the last jedi though
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It sucks, but it sucks slightly less than the other prequels
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The acting and writing...both what saves and hurts it is that it is a star wars movie.
Every time I try to watch a prequel, I'm quickly reminded how not great they are despite how much my mind wants them to be awesome.
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Serdar posted...

My favorite SW film.

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originial trilogy > rogue one >>>>>revenge of the sith>rest of prequels>>>>>the force awakens

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>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> tlj
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Awful.

Admittedly, not all of that is the movie's fault specifically - Lucas left way too many important things to the last movie and basically had to stuff them all in at the end - but even acknowledging that, the movie takes way too many missteps.

The acting and storyline are better than AotC, but not by much and only because it would be difficult for them to be any worse. The pacing is atrocious, as the movie spends far too much time on pointless dalliances like Coruscant, Kashyyyk, General Grievous (a completely unnecessary character that we're never given any reason to care about and that was seemingly tossed into the movie at the last minute when they realised they didn't have any new characters they could make into toys), and Utapau, while critically short-changing important scenes in the film of necessary screen time. Anakin's fall to the dark side took less than 30 seconds; the purge of the Jedi temple, arguably the most hyped event of the PT with the possible exception of Obi-Wan and Anakin's duel, was conducted almost entirely offscreen. That is simply indefensible.

It also featured some of the series' worst lightsaber duels, from the overblown mess that was Anakin vs. Obi-Wan to the gimmicky trash of Obi-Wan vs. Grievous. Palpatine looks like a bad cartoon after his disfiguration and the overuse of CGI in battles like Coruscant and Kashyyyk makes them look like video games rather than movie scenes.

Padme had almost nothing to do in this movie except stand around and cry, Hayden Christiensen's Anakin continues to come off like a whiny, cringey, angsty, spoiled teenager, despite supposedly being a young adult now (although thankfully someone apparently taught Lucas what a "second take" was between this movie and the last one), and about the only actor who seems to be putting in a decent performance is Ewan McGreggor, whose efforts are largely wasted because he's lamenting a relationship that's never been properly established and that we are never given sufficient reason to empathize with.

RotS avoids the distinction of "Worst Star Wars Movie" only by dint of the fact that AotC exists, but it is basically AotC-lite, committing many of that movie's same mistakes, just not quite as egregiously.
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It wasn't great but it wasn't upsetting like The last Jedi.
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It could've been executed a whole lot better if it wasn't just George Lucas alone running the show.

I still, to this day, believe Force Awakens is better than both AotC & RotS. The only prequel film I enjoyed watching all the way through was Phantom Menace (the mass-hate against Jar Jar was undeserved).
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Original Trilogy > 3 > > > 1 = 2 >> all others