Audience of One

A prediction

In keeping with my long tradition, I will attempt to predict something that hasn’t happened yet – or, as in this case, I haven’t seen yet. Revenge of the Sith is released tomorrow, and I will be seeing it in the evening. The first two prequels were disappointing (though the lightsaber fights did make up for both of them – especially on the DVD when you can skip the boring/badly scripted/badly acted parts) but general signs are much better for this third one.

So what are my predictions? Hayden Christensen (Anakin Skywalker) will stop acting like a petulant teenager (I’m allowed to say this, I have first hand experience of being one) and mature into the role. Natalie Portman (Padmé Amidala) will continue acting well and not let herself down with any one-off pieces of stupidity (remember Padmé gasping in pain, unable to get up until a Clone Trooper asks her if she’s okay? Suddenly her pain is gone…). The film will lack any of the random aliens (Dex the four-armed dart expert, Jar Jar Binks etc.) and unrealistic love scenes (who has time to think up “I’ve been dying a little bit each day since you came back into my life” on the spur of the moment?), and will have a very dark feel. Somehow, George Lucas will mess up another aspect I haven’t thought of, but seeing as he did that for pretty much all of the films (even Empire Strikes Back) I don’t think it’ll matter.

As for plot, there’s no way I can predict anything beyond what we know is going to happen anyway (and I won’t go into it in case there are people who haven’t seen the original trilogy yet). It should, however, be excellent.

I’ll post a review after I’ve seen it – but I can tell you now: it’s going to be worth going and seeing it! (But watch Episode 2 at least beforehand – and skip the love scenes if possible.)

Matthew @ 13:59, May 18, 2005 to Miscellaneous | Comments (0)