I finally saw Episode Three yesterday, at my semi-local UCI, where I bothered the usher for a set of those wireless headphones, since I read that this showing was supposed to be Audio Described. Sadly they just played the film’s own audio over the headphones, which sucked. I was really hoping to have some narrator guy going “Oh my god, Anakin’s been dismembered and now he’s, oh my, now he’s on fire!” or something . The film itself wasn’t all that hot either. I won’t bore you, but basically, what needed to have been done is this:

1) cut the pod-racing and some other retarded bits from Episode 1
2) mush bits of Episode 2 into Episode 1
3) expand ep3 into the remaining space

Of course, this only solves the bit where ROTS feels all too crammed together, it doesn’t fix the dodgy dialogue or wooden acting. But then, people tend to forget that those are very much in the spirit of the original trilogy, and should be left well alone.

Basically, don’t go and see this film because you want to go see a good SciFi film (wait for Serenity instead) go and see it because you want to know how it ends, or how it begun, or how the middle bit happened, or something.

On an unrelated note, Greece won Eurovision last night, which sucked because Norway so very should have! England’s entry was dire, as ever, with our real contribution to the evening being a sarky Terry Wogan. Shame the other countries don’t get to hear him…. or possibly not.