Revenge of the Sith intro

Revenge of the Sith, in my opinion, was a huge improvement on Attack of the Clones both acting and editing-wise. I think most of the actors achieved their potential in this movie, especially Hayden Christensen, was practically the star of the show. The movie also contains some amazing scenes, I think even more than AOTC and TPM put together.

Story-wise however, I felt it to be very rushed, especially the whole idea of Anakin turning to the dark side. The whole latter half of the movie seemed to just fly by and a lot of events that tie the prequels with the original trilogy seemed very rushed. A lot of questions were left unanswered and a lot of new questions popped up. That was probably my main reason for disliking anything in the movie.

Now, this list was very hard for me to make because the movie doesn’t contain as many editorial mistakes, but what I feel to be an inconsistency in the tempo. The first half is very long, each scene gets plenty of time, sometimes even more than needed, while the second half of the movie is nothing but new events, drastic character changes, and huge decisions, all within a very short time period.

Also, the list might seem long because I felt some of the editorial mistakes made in AOTC have been repeated here, but anyways see the list and judge it for yourself.

Obi-Wan's lines in the space battle

Why: Ewan’s performance in delivering the first line (as well as a few others) wasn’t very good. I was a bit disappointed with his performance in this movie compared to the outstanding one he gave in AOTC. Anyways, “Oh I see them, oh this is going to be easy,” is not a good line to have as his first one, especially because he says, “Oh,” twice in one line.

Second, the part where he tells Anakin to forget him and concentrate on the mission and the Chancellor is followed by him saying how he’s running out of tricks, which contradicts the fact that he wants Anakin to ditch him.

How: If there is another cut of him saying the first line, a better cut, then replace it, otherwise just cut it because his next line works quite well as a first line.

As for the second part, “I’m running out of tricks here,” it could be moved to another, earlier part of the film or just removed.

Show more of the actual space battle

Why: During the promotion of the movie, we’ve been hearing that the Battle of Coruscant was going to be the biggest space battle in movie history and that it was going to redefine all scales. Well, to be honest, it did look like a big battle, but the problem is that we didn’t see much of it. If you take a shot from the battle and pause it, you’d see that it’s huge and with many ships, but when you’re watching the movie, all the focus is on the Jedi fighters and their adventure, and almost no attention is given to the huge battle around them. This for me was a bit of a disappointment.

How: If there is more footage of the battle, other than anything that has to do with Anakin and Obi-Wan, it would be good to see that, to actually get a feel for the battle.

It would be good to show more of the different kinds of ships so that people can actually differentiate between them.

The vulture droids should also be a little less goofy; removing their voices would fix this problem.

Maybe have a small subplot of what the clone pilots are up to when Obi-Wan and Anakin are dealing with the buzz droids.

Also, it would really be good to know what’s happening in the whole battle in general. Who’s winning, who’s losing, etc.

R2 and the buzz droid

Why: The conversation between Anakin, Obi-Wan, and R2-D2 when R2 is fighting the buzz droid is really corny and unnecessary.

How: Remove Anakin’s lines, “Get him Artoo,” and, “Watch out,” along with all the R2 shots in the middle. Make the only input from the others Obi-Wan’s line, “Hit the buzz droid’s center eye.” This would make R2 dispose of the buzz droid quickly and without any useless input from the others.