I went and saw Star Wars: EP III today (June 27th) at 1:40 this afternoon. I went to eat lunch and popped in to the Harkin Cinema in Bricktown.

It was just me and a handful of people. I had hoped it would have been empty since it was 1:40 in the afternoon on a Monday. No one was there when I got there a few minutes before, but right after I sat down a few people came in.

It was however quiet and just like I like it.

The movie was pretty good. The story was cramed in like I thought it would be since there was so much ground to cover. And as usual it has its stiff clunky dialogue an corny moments that has plagued this knew trilogy. (Wookies swinging on rope and doing the Tarzan yell, and of course Vader’s, what should have been dramatic, "NOOOoooo!!!")

Overall I liked it, and it looked great visually. I do think the visuals distracted from the story and it was obvious that Lucas spent more time on fancy visual interludes and action sequences than story and dialogue. (How many drawn out flying in scenes do we need)

The dialogue Luscas writes is honestly just plain terrible and the romance between Padme and Anakin is as forced here as it was Attack Of The Clones.

I really wish Lucas would have hired someone to come in and help with dialogue and character development like he did with the original trilogy. These movies suffer greatly for it and knowing how much better they could have been makes me sad.

But its a good movie and I really did enjoy it.

At the core it’s really a movie about the rise to despotism more than it is the story of the rise and fall of a man. Which if you look at what is happening today and know anything about despotism there are certain similarities that we as American citizens should be aware of.

...we get the message George, President Bush is Supreme Chancellor Palpatine and the parallel to today’s war on terror... people and congress blindly giving into empire ideals and militant control in order to "keep us safe"... etc..etc..

Senator Amidala: "So this is how liberty dies; with thunderous applause."

"The condition upon which God hath given liberty to men is eternal vigilance." John Philip Curran (1790)