Best part about "Revenge of the Sith" (could be considered a spoiler)

[LynneSin]

Could be considered a spoiler because it's related to something that we all know and that is Anakin turns into Darth Vadar. But there was a very powerful scene when he becomes Darth (the actual body) that just was powerful as hell. I'll scroll it down a bit in case you don't want to know....
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I thought it was an amazingly powerful scene when they brought the face mask of Darth Vadar down on Anakin's face - because in a way we got to see the mask coming down like it was us lying there and they were putting Darth's mask on our face - in a way we all became Darth Vadar in that scene! Very powerful!

[Avalux]

1. It was very powerful -

and to hear the voice of James Earl Jones once transformed. I am firmly in the "I loved the film" camp. I really did and I don't care who knows it. :applause:

[Mutley]

5. me too!

It seems to be the 'popular' thing to do to say the movie sucked, but i don't care. I think it was FANTASTIC!

[unblock]

2. great, another movie spoiled. i spose now you'll tell me they find spock?

:kidding:

powerful moment, indeed.

[Mutley]

3. agreed

for the first time we got to see the world through Vader's eyes, even if only for a moment. It was a great prepective to have and I think it added to the feeling of sympathy we (or I) had for Anakin. I know I will never look at Vader in the original trilogy the same way again.

[unblock]

4. without spoiling more, i especially liked how they handled padme's fate

i thought that a very nice dramatic part of the story.

please no details for those who haven't seen it yet.

[Mutley]

6. Someone should start a thread which explicitly says SPOILER

so those of us who have seen the movie can discuss it in detail without worrying about giving anything away. This way if someone who hasn't seen the movie goes into the thread they have no one to blame but themselves.

[Catchawave]

7. I read in a backstory somewhere....

...that when they filmed this scene, the entire production team was there to witness it. Most came on their day off. This gave me goosebumps!

[ZombieNixon]

8. I especially loved that the theater went deathly silent

just as he took that first raspy "scuba tank" breath. Seriously. No one else was breathing.

[LynneSin]

10. same thing happened in my theater - fricking amazing

I had goosebumps all over me to hear that breath for the first time

[Anarcho-Socialist]

9. I loved that part too

I liked the film, it certainly gives a whole different perspective to Vader in A New Hope, Empire and Return of the Jedi.

[stopbush]

11. It was very sad. The LOOK on Anakin's burned up face as the mask was

coming down was one of bewildered terror.

I got the very strong feeling that he had no control over his life, that he was being kept alive by the Emperor to be his slave.

Yes, Anakin clawed his way up from the lava stream with his one remaining limb, which shows he wanted to live. But once he got "put back together" and was then lied to by the Emperor and told that he (Anakin) had killed Padme, well, it was just very sad.

The big issue to me that no one seems to address is that Anakin was also a victim of the Jedi. Starting in Episode I, the Jedi broke their own rules and went against their own feelings and allowed Anakin to become a Jedi (Yoda & Windu were very much against it as he was too old). Qui Gon basically said, "if you disagree, I'll teach him myself anyway." When Qui Gon gets killed, the task falls to Obi Wan. It's all because they've *convinced* themselves that he's "the chosen one." And why? Because his level of metti-chlorides are higher (purer blood??) than anyone else.

And Anakin was a real handful in Ep 2 as well. Yoda sensed this and Obi Wan had to deal with it directly. Yet, they still kept training him even though he was showing his rebellious side constantly (marrying Padme automatically disqualified him from being a Jedi. Is it plausible that the other Jedi didn't sense that this was going on?)

It makes Windu's observation in Ep 3 that the prophecy may NOT have been fulfilled all the more potent. There was a decadence in the Jedi order that made Anakin choose sides, even if he ultimately chose the less-benign side.

Another example of humanoids ignoring their smarts and buying into the "saviour" myth...and suffering the dire consequences when it all goes to shit (as it always does).

[realisticphish]

12. the Jedi are arrogant

this is a consistent theme throughout most of the star wars movies/books/games that i've seen. They really are selfless, but are far too convinced of their superiority.

[loudestchick]

13. He doesn't say that the prophecy hasn't been fulfilled...but rather that

perhaps they misread (misunderstood) the prophecy. I also found the arrogance of the Jedi to be telling. Lucas squewers the right for their longing for safety even at the price of liberty and the left for our unwillingness to see what is right before our eyes. My $.02.

[MidwestMomma]

14. But the prophecy was fulfilled

Just not in the way the Jedi thought.

Annakin Skywalker, as Darth Vader, does destroy the Emperor and with the Emperor's death and his own, ends the Siths.