episode iii

I have seen it tonight, with my parents. I won't tell you anything about it, but I will talk about it in the most general terms.

I have to thank Larry for posting information from mopix.org about rear-window captioning that allows me to understand the dialogue by reading off of a reflection from the back of the theatre. In this way, hearing people won't necessarily be bothered by text showing up on the silver screen (helping them to get the full cinematic experience), while letting me to get an experience at all.

Normally, I wouldn't have thought that Star Wars was going to have captioning available until a few months later, but that they have it on the same day as opening day for a week--this definitely surprised me. But only select theaters, the AMC Theatre (which we went to) had this. Other theaters don't.

If you want a rating, I would give it 89%. The other 11%, of course, was the dialogue. However, the way the characters talk did remind me of . . . Episode IV: A New Hope. In that movie, Obi-Wan Kenobi did always wax philosophy, talking about "entering a larger world" and "trust your feeling."

What people said was true: The betrayal is indeed heartwrenching, but appropriately in character for Anakin Skywalkler.

The reviewers were also somewhat right: The dialogue was a bit dry and clichè at times, especially with the yabbering about politics.

Believe you me, politics is never a good thing for the cinematic ears. I think "democracy" was said too often; once should be enough.