Sith Happened

Since I assume that everyone has seen this movie, I can speak about it without "ruining" it for some dork.

The initial buzz of Sith was that it was just great, like Empire great. And that's a tall order to live up to, since Empire is the best Star Wars movie. So, needless to say, I was pretty psyched to see it.

During the first minute or so, when the two ships are flying about, and they fly over the big spaceship, and then you see the massive space battle going on below, I thought, "Wow, here comes some SHIT!" And, two and a half hours later, I was still waiting for that shit to happen. The verdict: This movie may be in the same league with the first three movie, maybe even on the same team, but it's like comparing Scott Seabol to Albert Pujols. Big difference in quality.

The thing about the recent trilogy is that each one has something great about it, even if the movies aren't very good. Phantom Menace had the pod race, and the great lightsaber fight at the end. Clones had the droid factory, and the clone war. Sith, well, had some stuff.

Quite honestly, there wasn't anything of great interest in Sith. (About half way through, one of the guys I saw this with said, "I think it's about time for a montage." It coulda used it. Anything at that point.) The way the Emperor got Anakin to turn to the Dark Side was well written, and the space battle in the beginning was kinda cool, but, really, there's nothing to put this movie up with the first trilogy. The story is as typically shitty as anything I'd expect from Lucas, as was most of the dialogue. After about the fifth lightsaber fight, I kept hoping for the Jedi to die faster, so that I didn't have to see anymore lightsaber fights. The Emperor destroying the Senate chambers was really lame, and I'm really sick of seeing fucking Yoda fly around. The dude's 900 years old, for fuck's sake!! And all of the last minute exposition (C-3PO's memory loss, Obi-Wan's learning to communicate with the dead) all seemed a little rushed, just kinda thrown in there to keep geeks from going, "Well, in A New Hope, C-3PO blah blah blah."

Is Sith "Empire good"? No, not even close. It may not even be "Jedi good." And that's really not very good.