Well, everyone the time has come, we've talked about the greatness behind Episode I, talked about the underappreciative aspects towards Episode II. Now we can finally dive into the Twentieth Anniversary of Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. 2005, for me was a excellent time for movies some I will mention in futures to come, but if you want to talk about the one movie that was the most anticipated movie to see twenty years ago Revenge of the Sith was defiantly that one film on every Star Wars fans minds even better anticipation than the JJ Abrams Star Trek movies. And really when you look at the gap between 1999 to 2005 being a Star Wars fan was so much fun, especially back then when all the action figures came out in a full lot for the video games as well as the release of the DVDs. Man, I wish I can go back to when movies were fresh and new at least.
Three years after the events of Attack of the Clones, the Clone Wars are coming to an end. As the Jedi plan to put an end to General Grievous. Anakin (Hayden Christiansen) becomes tempted by the Dark Side from Chancellor Palpatine (Ian McDiarmid) who slowly reveals himself as the Sith Lord, Darth Sidious who's been pulling the strings of the Republic.
What I remember most about the anticipation as well as preparing to see the greatest conclusion to any Star Wars trilogy can ever have been the sad realization that it's all coming to a complete end. Meaning it's all over no more Jedi no more lightsaber fights as well as the characters that you've come to know and loved especially characters like Natalie Portman playing Anakin's wife and even Mace Windu played by the ever great and legendary Samuel L. Jackson and this was my first time ever seeing Sam Jackson dying and seeing him being executed by Darth Sidious, just kicks you in the massive gut and even he in Attack of the Clones had some of the best fights especially his great entrance when confronting Count Dooku it was just amazing, and don't get me wrong he goes out with a bang especially when fighting Ian McDiarmid but it was just hard to watching him die off camera and it's not like Django Unchained when you can tell the Jackson gets what's coming to him, but this was just sad and the same with all of these other Jedi as well including Padme who you know is not going to make it in the end but you really don't want to see that because again you loved these characters through the course of Episodes I and II furthermore you just can't bear their ending. But then again that's the beauty behind George Lucas's writing is that you grow and love these characters and when the end comes you feel for them towards the very end, even if as Harrison Ford said it best "George, you can type this sh*t, but you can't say it". If there was one actor that doesn't get a lot of credit, especially in all six films of the Star Wars Saga and that's Ian McDiarmid playing the ever evil Darth Sidious/Emperor Palpatine, for MANY reasons is that he is the Syfy/Fantasy's version of Lucifer aka the Devil, because the way he's able to manipulate Anakin by telling him the Jedi are lying to you and I can save the one's you love is almost reminisce to the Devil tempting Eve into eating the forbidden fruit. More importantly even watching McDiarmid evolving on screen through the Prequel trilogy is just pure brilliance even when he's playing his disguised good guy role of Palpatine to even his shady role of Darth Sidious is like if Julies Caesar was disguised as the Devil to the point of even acknowledging his own apprentices and then throws them under the bus, and a great example of that is when Anakin defeats Dooku, and Palpatine just instructs him to kill him like he's now no use to me is just so great especially when Christopher Lee looks at him like "oh you sack of sh*t" just shows how cold and unremorseful Palpatine/Sidious is and it’s just great and I truly believe being able to witness Ian McDiarmid finally getting his time to shine as the real antagonist has always been for me a great thing to see as well as truly a treat to watch, because out of all of the characters in Star Wars he deserves a lot of the credit of playing a legendary evil, puppet master. And hell, I almost picture Lucas through the making of Episodes I and II telling Ian "look Ian you're most certainly the bad guy but we need to tone it down just a smidge" and then when the begin production of Revenge of the Sith, George gives Ian a phone call and told him "Ian it's time", then when McDiarmid came on set he was caring a paintball gun and came up to Jackson and said "Samuel how you been", then shots him with paintball, then replies "Great, I'm back and your fired". Back when this Star Wars was still a thing, I always question in my teenage mind as to why Anakin claims that the Jedi we're evil furthermore just didn't make sense to me, but then I slowly began to see that yes the Jedi weren't trusting Anakin moreover not believing he was the chosen one for which explained why they were doing a lot of talking behind his back but more importantly we're doing things that where outside of the Jedi code, but more importantly Palpatine was clouding the Jedi's mind as well as being a puppet master in all of the Clone Wars though what I'm trying to explain is while watching Tales of the Jedi through Dooku's eyes as well as Anakin's eyes I begin to see that the Jedi's sense of code and honor where a bit of shady as well as their ways were not comprehensible when it comes to defeating their enemies and that's the more interesting aspect I learned while watching Episode III. The Prequel Trilogy of Star Wars will always be the best movie trilogy of my era and always will be with the fact that the Original Trilogy of Star Wars is still the greatest, but the Prequel Trilogy will always be that go to movie series that I can sit down and enjoy from start to finish moreover Revenge of the Sith is the greatest conclusion to what the Star Wars saga can dream of and yes I'm not counting the Sequel trilogy because those don't exist. I now look back on all the trolls who were trashing on how awful the Prequels Trilogy and realized how full of sh*t they all were and if it were me, I would round them all up, strap them to a chair and force them to watch the Holiday Special every hour and the hour Clockwork Orange style. So, be warned trolls because I'm coming for you and it won't be pretty.
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