Huge thing for a newbie

Rating: 10/10 (21 May 2005)

I've never been into Star Wars, ever. In a weird way I had been traumatized by the Ewoks while I was younger (Yeah I may be the only person in the world, but I swear to God that it's true :p) and it always made me avoid all this huge worldwide passion around those movies. And then I met my current best friend, who's a real Star Wars fan, and he taught me what he knew about it... but still never made me watch the movies. But lately, a French TV Channel aired the first two episodes of the Prelogy, and I watched them... to get a chance to know exactly what I had missed. Well... after "The attack of the Clones" I thought I hadn't missed that much, and wasn't sure that going to theater to watch "The revenge of the sith" was the greatest idea. But when I went on this website, and when I saw what you people were all thinking about this Episod, I said "Oooh heck... let's take a look"; plus my best friend, and my ex-boyfriend had both been thrilled by the movie, so I wasn't taking a huge risk, was I? So finally I went to theater yesterday to watch a Star Wars movie... me lol... and what a surprise, what an amazing surprise... I've been as thrilled as my friends, without a doubt and, I'm now proud to say that I'm completely addicted to this particular movie. So many emotions, contradictions within the characters, and especially Anakin (amazing Hayden Christensen)whose love is driving him mad enough to make him choose the wrong way and do the most awful things a man could ever do (The Padawan slaughter is the pure contradiction between is fatherhood and is thirst for power and evil)... as far as I can remember, it's been a long time since I felt that much for the characters. And besides, the fights are totally crazy, the Obi Wan VS Anakin is undoubtedly the most perfect ever, and of course Yoda VS Sidious (Yoda being my favorite character since a long time, even when I wasn't into the movies at all). Though, the only thing bothering me into all this perfection, is Nathalie Portman's character... Padme is pretty annoying, I'd say the love story between her and Anakin could have been better, but the end helps to make us forgive Lucas for this. So basically, I'm just gonna try and become a true Star Wars fan from now on, and discover all that I can, because... wow, what a story.