Hey everyone, I watched Star Wars III last night! Awesome. Totally :-). I'm not sure if movie theaters are appropriate even if the movie is appropriate (something I'm going to investigate), but the experience is definately better with Dolby Sgitial Surround SOund and a screen as big as my house as opposed to my 20 inch monitor at home (plus, I would have had to wait...)

Definately well done movie. They depicted Anakin's move to the "Dark Side" perfectly. It really showed the all the little subtleties that evil uses to attract a person. There was no swearing, no skin scenes, and no excessive gore.

I was thinking at the end of the movie how much it reminded me of the Macbeth movie I was watching for school - the whole rise and fall of a great man thing. Star Wars III was definately more entertaining :-), but Macbeth would have been awesome to if the same technology was applied to it's making (the movie was done as a play, set against a black background). This got me to thinking, if script wrighters would only take the classics and update them to Modern English, with our actors and our technology, they would be incredible! Why bother with new ideas for movies when we already have centuries of classics written out, ready to be put to the screen?

It is some consolance that movie makers are beginning to follow this trend. Take for example Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, and C.S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia (Walt Disney is supposed to be coming out with an amazing production of it this Chirstmas). However, these are all modern day classics. How about classics from Shakespeare's time or even from the Greeks? Amazing literature back then. I doubt that grade schoolers would curse Shakespeare's name and doubt his genius if such works would be put in a production the caliber of Lord of the Rings or Star Wars. What do you think..... even more importantly, do you think? :-P