PT Revenge of the Sith Turns 20!

I do remember seeing it in theaters. I remember the commercials leading up to it..

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Let me think, did I see ROTS when it came out in 2005...

 

Time to party like it is 2005!

 

I hope they do an anniversary release in May!

 

Nope cause I was five

 

Did anybody end up winning this?

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Love this!

the anticipation to ROTS was so real. We took an impromptu trip to Indianapolis for Celebration III thinking it would be the last time to celebrate Star Wars. Were we wrong, but at the time in the cold rain it felt so right. Waiting for hours in lines for merch and a chance to see George Lucas. Watching the films with other fans, the cosplay, the photos!

did it take an extra summer to finish our thesis work — yes — but it was worth it. Now does anyone want some Celebration III merch? I got like tons of it.

 

Revenge of the Sith was the fourth Star Wars film I saw (I went VI-I-II-II-IV-V), in 2006 or 2007. I watched my first three on UKTV Gold as a confusing trilogy, leaping around the timeline and making little sense on first watch. A short while later I was visiting my gran's, and my cousin (a year younger than me) showed us ROTS on dvd. I don't have too many recollections from this first viewing, since I was only 10, but I remember a few moments, such as Grievous on the bridge of the Invisible Hand, some memories of Mustafar's lava. To be fair, the first Star Wars movies I can really remember watching for the first time are ANH and ESB when I picked them up in the trilogy dvd set (after first playing both through in Lego Star Wars, of course ).

Nowadays, ROTS might be the Star Wars movie I've seen the most times, thanks to a tradition I had with my cousins where every Christmas for a few years we watched the entire Prequel Trilogy. Add on a couple of other times where we watched just ROTS on its own and it probably reaches the top of the pile. There's a certain inevitable grand tragedy to ROTS that makes every moment along the way feel strangely powerful and iconic, from the dramatic opening battle, to the frantic sinkhole chase on Utapau, to the upheaval in the Senate, all the way to the fiery conclusion between Anakin and Obi-Wan.

After the giant climactic battle at the end of the previous movie, ROTS doesn't try to top it terms of a single action scene with an equivalent scale. Instead it opts for a higher quantity of action sprinkled all throughout the movie, including five separate lightsaber duels. Apart from the methodically paced sequence on Coruscant after the opening adventure, the movie is full of exciting incidents. Every scene feel like a vital piece moving the story forwards.

Hayden Christensen makes Anakin's downfall feel realistic, both disappointing that he can't pull himself out of it, yet extending fully from how he'd been set up, so it couldn't go any other way. The film initially shows him in a lighter performance, with Anakin's light-hearted quipping in the opening being a new side to Anakin and an effective comparison to later in the film. Ewan McGregor shows new depths to Obi-Wan, torn between his loyalty the council and his ideals, and his friendship with Anakin when forced to ask him to spy on the chancellor. He also gets to engage in a ridiculous chase between a wheel-bike and a giant lizard, perhaps the best example of George Lucas translating a serial adventure to a big budget scope. Natalie Portman, given comparatively much less to do than in the previous two movies due to the trimming of the 'early rebellion' scenes on grounds of pacing, still manages to hit the emotional beats on Mustafar with passion.

Despite being a thin character, who feels a little like a plot obstacle more than anything, Grievous is a marvel of both CG and Matthew Wood's distinctive voice work. He's just cool to watch, with a standout design involving bone-like armour and a beating heart within. His flaming death still gives me chills. Ian McDiarmid is having an absolute blast during the whole movie, relishing in jumping between a subtle, Machiavellian mastermind, and a self-confident, over-the-top lord of evil, hamming it up in basically every scene in the second half. Both are immense fun to watch, showing a master of his craft letting his hair down and going to town on the script.

Order 66 as a concept is possibly the most iconic single event in all Star Wars media, fuelling years of effective foreshadowing in The Clone Wars and scores of stories exploring the aftermath on both Jedi and Clones. The snapshots we see of the Clone Wars in its final days are exactly as impressive as they were always teased as being, without taking too much focus away from the core story of Anakin and the Sith.

There's just so much to love about Revenge of the Sith, so that after twenty it's still packed to the gills with exciting moments and memorable scenes.

 

Yoda farting

that is all

(those who were here on the boards know what I'm talking about)

 

Me who has no idea what you're talking about:

 

I remember it well because I was 26. I remember the hype for the first trailer and then the second one. I was online when it dropped during "The O.C.". I read both LOE and the ROTS novelization in early May, getting them both from the library. I had spent a year reading all of the EU books about the Clone Wars, in the lead up to the film. I had intended to see it in June, but my brother had a day off from work and he asked me to go with him.

 

The leaks for this film were insane. I saw gifs of spoiler filled scenes on this very forum weeks before the film was even released, specifically Anakin severing Dooku's hands.

 

https:/ /boards.theforce.net/threads/josh-the-facts.17297520/

for your viewing pleasure....some "facts and rumours" from the old days, when I was young ....before there was even a PT forum...

 

That link didn't work when I tried it

 

oops, there was a space after the first / (https)

 

They were wild for all three films. By March of 98, we knew all of the names and most of the general plot of TPM. By 2001, we had script spoilers for AOTC and then scans of the guide books in early 02. Hyperspace was supposed to control the flow of information, but it still got out there.

 

Just hoping we get a rerelease in theaters

 

Good JKF good

Release it. Release it now

 

I believe I still have my copy of LOE and the ROTS Novelization from 2005. Good times indeed..

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