So Mr. Skywalker Ranch thinks he can just go around popping off that the upcoming Star Wars flick is probably going to have to be rated PG-13 and little kiddies shouldn't go and it's real dark and think all is forgiven?
I'm sorry, but since your last two movies were the worst exercises in Hollywood flash-em n smash-em, I'm not buying.
Look, you can't build a cannon on sooper dooper special effects to the point where said effects become a way of cynically expressing the actual point of the movie (making the big buckarooskis). Dialogue and acting was such an afterthought you switched around people's faces and reactions from different takes with a little Photoshop magic. That's just weird.
The problem is, we all knew there would be darkness in the telling of the making of Vader. I mean, duh, we already knew he'd destroyed the "old republic," left his pregnant wife, killed his Jedi masters, etc. etc. We just expected the story, as a whole, to be better told. I mean, you had all the money in the world and actors who wanted a better vantage point to extol their talent were willing to give their left arms to be a part of the movie. You had the advantage of what, 20 years, since the last movie had been done to cogitate. You had an army of superior writers and directors at your beck and call.
Don't go out there trying to tell me "Revenge of the Sith" is going to be all dark and try to raise my expectations or my level of excitement. I'm betting it's going to be as ham-handled, as choppy, as confusing and as unnecessarily pagentrientric as the other two. Your last two SW films have all been a bunch of meaningless and feckless signifying. Why should "Sith" be any diff?
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