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Newest Star Wars Reviews Suprisingly Positive
Patchw0rk F0g writes "CBC is reporting on the suprising results of pre-screenings of Lucas' latest (and final) installment of his sci-fi epic. From TFA, "The advance reviews of Revenge of the Sith, the sixth - and final - Star Wars film, have been mostly positive - and in some cases outright effusive." Go figure... maybe Georgie got it right finally."
I've been reading the reviews, too, with a bit a skepticism... but I liked this one most of all. She's an occasional columnist for AICN, and definitely one of their better and more trustworthy writers. She trashed the last two movies, but this one, well...
To quote:
Q. Give us a four-word review.
A. Bloody hell! It's good!
Lucas said flat out in some magazine-or-other that he was not doing the final 3, and since he, himself wasn't doing the final 3, he wasn't going to allow them to be made, either.
Things may have changed since then, but that's the last I heard of it.
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"ANYONE who's ever been interested in Star Wars knew the story. Anakin falls to the dark side, Obi-wan knocks him into lava so he gets the suit, Luke and Leia are born, Obi-wan and Yoda disappear to distant planets. The rest is really just details. This isn't exciting because no one knows what's going to happen, it's exciting because we DO know what, but we want to see *HOW*."
Bingo. That's the whole thing.
I knew that Anakin was gonna turn to the dark side ever since the original trilogy. I didn't know how or why.
After playing the video game, I know exactly how and why. And, while trying not to go into any explicit spoilers, let's say it was a bit... not what I expected, and it puts Episodes 4 to 6 in a very different light too.
So trust me, when I say the video game gives away the story, I don't mean just "it tells you that Anakin falls to the dark side, falls in the lava and gets a cool black suit." It gives away a helluva lot more.
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Actually, rottentomatoes is not an average score, but a percentage of the total that are positive. In other words, if EVERYONE gives a movie the exact same score, 60%, then the movie will get 100% on RT since they were ALL positive. Metacritic actually gives an average score.