Revenge of the Sith

So, the last chapter of the prequels and in all likelihood the last Star Wars film. As stated on various previous occasions, I'm fond of the prequels in general and of Anakin Skywalker in particular. Considering that this last installment is his tragedy, you can bet I was looking forward to it in my masochistic doom loving way. And boy did I ever get indulged. Was Revenge of the Sith perfect? By no means. None of the SW movies are, including ESB (sorry, but I fast forward through the battle for Hoth each time); there is always the occasional corny dialogue, and each time some detail or the other I'd have changed. But at its best, SW also has that grandiose mixture of fairy tale and space opera going for it. The prequels are all about the destruction from within, which makes them to me a more challenging and interesting narrative than the plucky good rebels versus big bad Empire narrative of the OT. And with this last film, they arrived at the pitch black core.

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