It had nothing to do with that. It was just a bad make-up job... plus, her Leia hairdo was all fucked up since she has more triangular face compared to Carrie Fisher's rounder face and the hair was DOA. Then the make-up had her looking rough when I think the intention was to make her more appealing.

A friend of mine had an extra ticket, so I saw the movie tonight. I thought it was good, as it had both high and low points. It didn't really blow me away or anything.

 

Obviously, this was a Star Wars movie and it's not supposed to have crisp and engaging dialogue, but that doesn't mean that you can completely forgive the fact that the actors are uttering some of the worst lines imaginable. In addition, they also had to deal with filming everything on green screen which made it even harder to use the correct amount of emotion when saying the lines. I just think that if Lucas would hired an established writer for the dialogue, the entire trilogy would have been better off and it's connection to the old movies wouldn't have been hurt either.

 

I was surprised that the story actually had me rooting for the good guys. This surprised me for two reasons. Number one, I knew that the Jedi were all gonna die and go into exile. And number two, I NEVER like the good guys. I wanted to be able to get behind Anakin/Darth Vader and cheer him on every step of the way, but I couldn't. What really bothered me in terms of how I'm going to perceive the original triology though is how Darth Vader has now been humanized. Anakin shouldn't even have been given the name until he actually was DARTH VADER, in the suit and all. I think the movie, in terms of Anakin's story should have just ended with Palpatine coming to pick him up after he got burned. Maybe have one closing shot of them both looking at the death star. I just didn't feel the surgery and the mask going on were really necessary. I liked it better when the character was just this downright evil guy in a sick life-sustaining suit. Now he's not even evil, he was just manipulated into going over to the Dark Side, it's not a choice he really made on his own. At least not for the "right" reasons. Basically he became evil because he loved his wife. Kinda lame.

 

I was into most of the characters except for the last scenes with Darth Vader, and everything with General Grievious. That character was just so fucking under-developed, I mean worse than the abortion of a character that was Darth Maul. I don't care if there was a cartoon on cable TV, most of the movie going public didn't see it, so how is anyone supposed to know why he is such a big deal, where he came from, and why he is considered lethal? Also R2-D2 aggravated me to no end. He was the Jar-Jar of Episode Three. As for Jar-Jar, I appreciated what someone said earlier. Lucas knew we all hated that character and his antics, so now we got to see him miserable at the funeral. I don't know, it made me somewhat happy.

 

I'm very anti-CGI, but to an extent I was able to tolerate this. It's just that after two and a half hours of it, you become so numb to the whole concept. I think George Lucas' two main goals for this trilogy was to make money and show off all the cool stuff his ILM guys could do now.

 

For me though, I had no real emotional connection to the happenings of the movie. I felt very underwhelmed by the end. I think I would have preferred the movie just end with Obi Wan defeating Anakin. I'd give it a 7/10.