Star Wars- 5 Movies Too Many. Revenge of the Sith Completes Lucas's Anal Fixation With Symmetry

Rating: 5/10 (22 May 2005)

First of all I remember as a 14 year old walking out of Star Wars Episode 4. That is to say the first Star Wars movie. (I won't make a comment on how I find the entire Star Wars movie numbering system clumsy and annoying.) (Heh, I just did) It was the first movie that truly captured the romance of space in full cinematic grandiosity. It speaks to the potency, originality, and wonder of the first movie that it can spawn 5 annoyingly plebeian follow ups just on anticipation alone! And never mind all the nonsense of the the 2nd being the "dark" artistic triumph. Or the 5th being the return to the "dark" motif that somehow redeems the series. "Dark" for who? For little boys who still sleep with the lights on, no doubt.
I believe commentary from critics that rate other Star Wars movies comparable to the first one is done only because the original generated so much positive momentum that critics either (1) were swept along or (2) feared for their professional life to say anything too negative about followups.
"Revenge of the Sith" is the last movie of a series that has lost its luster 28 years ago. Think of that, 28 years ago. I read a comment by Lucas something about whether he really wanted to make the most recent 3 movies. The thing that caused him to return was the new technological fx capabilities. Apparently the idea of doing Chewbacca in a few hours what before took him weeks was a real draw. And here is probably the entire problem. It's ALL about the technology. "Revenge" is without a doubt the busiest and most cluttered fx movie of all time. There is not a single scene where a character is not is some visually noisy scenery. Distracting.
The movie annoyed me. Lucas annoys me. Star Wars annoys me. You annoy me.