![]() ![]() Big spaceships, narrow-bladed light-sabers, and the freshly CGI-animated, martial-arts-leaping Yoda make our eyes feel happy. That said, this final edition does have its pleasures-all of them, as usual, on its surface. The result was like experiencing, over and over, a mediocre production of Wagner: grand, florid, and relentlessly inevitable. It was a phenomenon that all of us had to choose to either tiptoe around or surrender to-a force field that managed to swallow up sci-fi fandom, poor old Joseph Campbell (dragooned to grant gravitas to Lucas’s mythology), and even the once-pure pleasures of movie trivia. Since 1977, the year the “first,” really the “fourth,” Star Wars movie premiered (the fact that I have to number it in two different ways gets very close to the reason why I’m so heartily glad this most fussy of all epics is over), our beloved pop culture has contained a black hole. Fans get closure everyone else gets a chance to figure out why we started wanting to flee this galaxy a long, long time ago. Finally, Lucas’s 28-year-long catechism about the Force and the Dark Side and the Rebellion and the Republic and the Trade Federation is complete: The New Testament has been joined to the Old. The default setting of all of director George Lucas’s movies in this series, their all-climax-all-the-time mode, serves him well in Revenge of the Sith because it really is the climax. ![]() ![]() (Photo credit: Courtesy of 20th Century Fox)Ĭhances are, anyone psyched to see the wrap-up of the Star Wars saga, Episode III-Revenge of the Sith, is not going to be disappointed-it’s better than the last two. ![]()
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