You know you should probably just make one thread for all of this. It\'s not you\'re getting so many replies that one can\'t hold them all :| That\'s not a slam - this board is ridiculously slow. I think no one comes here any more, much less anyone with any sense or who knows jack about movies. I\'m going to have to disagree with you somewhat on this. While RotS is the best of the prequels by a large margin, it still does not come near the originals. Every time I see someone ranking Star Wars films and putting this above Jedi or New Hope I RAAAGGE... and know they must be in their teens or younger. Sith is okay - it has the darker tone that was needed for this story, but it has a lot of problems. Not the least of which is that the dialog and delivery is STILL cardboard and awkward when it needs to be impeccable. The only great performer left in the series at this point is Sidious, and even he gets stuck with \"UNLIMITED POWAH!\" The ending is much worse. Yoda says \"Not if anything to say about it I HAVE.\" (!) That may be the most unwieldly line of dialog in the whole series. Then we get \"Anakin, you\'re breaking my heart!\" and \"NOOOOOOO!!!!\" GOSH this movie tried so hard to make me hate it. If I didn\'t love Star Wars I would hate it. But I love Star Wars and that\'s why I can\'t love this movie. The subplot with General Grievous? Completely unnecessary, and Grievous is a weak villain. Seems like he padded the runtime of a movie that was plenty long enough to begin with. Then there\'s the actual turning of Anakin. One minute he\'s defending the galaxy, then he\'s on his knees calling Palpatine his master? WTF HAPPENED? I mean we know there were seeds of doubt being planted, but come on. \"From my point of view the Jedi are evil\"... ?? Really? Anakin? Dear heaven. Lightsaber battles? Pretty cool. All that flashiness is just fine - they have the budget to make it work. And honestly at the time I really enjoyed this because it was darker than the others and I always wanted to see how Vader got those scars. Fight with Obi-Wan delivers on that. But that\'s about all I have to say about it. The execution of order 66 was not even that great. Why? We don\'t care about any of the Jedi. We don\'t know them. Only Yoda do we give a flip about, and only he apparently has the sensitivity to the force to realize a galaxy-wide conspiracy is out to kill him and his entire order. If Lucas thinks just cause he gives someone a laser sword I\'m going to cry over their death, he needs to realize not everyone who watches his movies is six years old. Rest of it I don\'t even care to comment on. When this movie came out I gave it a 4/5, but I would have to probably drop it to a 3 - and that\'s because a) it\'s Star Wars and b) it\'s nice to look at. It does carry more interest and emotional weight, but somehow it just doesn\'t quite succeed in ushering us into the original saga or fixing the problems that plagued the other prequels. Some progress was made, but it\'s too little too late.