[Teófilo]

Typos, grammar, and expression errors, all are mea culpa

[ex-Texan]

This film was a lot of hype and hot air. The characters were all cartoons without any real depth. I watched about 40 minuets of George Lucas' cash cow giving milk and then walked out of this boring movie. Went to see 'War of the Worlds' which was a blast. Tom Cruise was merely adequate playing a single father who becomes a hero. Cruise ought to take acting lessons. Dakota Fanning stole the movie! She was great!

[thoughtomator]

SW3:RotS was simply bad moviemaking. The dialogue sucked, the action scenes were too fast to make real sense of what was going on, it completely failed to lead in to the next movie in the series (the original SW), and was inconsistent with story facts established in previous movies. The special effects were cartoonish and had the opposite effect of the special effects in the original - they took away from the story, they removed the suspension of disbelief.

[Grig]

ANAKIN: If you're not with me, you're my enemy.

OBI-WAN: Only a Sith Lord deals in absolutes.

Uh, don't look now Obi, but you just dealt in absolutes.

Anyway, the fact is that RotS was about Canada, not the USA. As evidence I present this:

The Empire	Canada
Separatists are used as a reason to conduct an expensive war and to suspend democracy	Separatists are used as a reason to conduct an expensive advertising war and to prevent an election from being called.
Emperor controls the government and the courts with his Sith powers.	Prime Minister controls the government and courts though his appointment powers.
Emperor seduces a young, power hungry rookie to switch to his side.	Prime Minister seduces a young, power hungry rookie to switch to his side.
Emperor launches a massive government building project (Death Star) to hold onto power.	Prime Minister recklessly throws billions to special interests (NDP Budget) to hold onto power
Jedi Knights are demonized and attacked unfairly.	Conservatives are demonized and attacked unfairly.
News media is useless.	News media is useless.
Small band of rebels fight to bring down the Empire	Small band of conservatives fight to bring down the Liberals.
Democracy ends with thunderous applause	Avoiding an election brings a huge sigh of relief
Stormtroopers hunt down secretly made copy of their plans.	Media hunts after person who secretly taped Liberal's plans.
Rebels get one good hit, then are on the run again	Conservatives get one good hit, then are on the ropes again.
The Senate doesn't work	The Senate doesn't work

[Momaw Nadon]

Jedi Ping!

Let me know if you want on or off this list!

[SunkenCiv]

ANAKIN: If you're not with me, you're my enemy.

OBI-WAN: Only a Sith Lord deals in absolutes. I will do what I must.

Looking at it another way, Anakin represents the mass-murdering Moslem terrorists, who deal in their absolutes, while Obi-Wan represents GWB (and the US, historically), doing what he must. (':

But it is true that the Star Wars series is an example of really bad writing hitting it big because of special effects and degraded audience standards. :')