A Certain Point of View: Writing, Film and Stuff

Author’s Note: This is the original review of Star Wars – Episode III: Revenge of the Sith that I wrote on May 19, 2005…the day the film premiered on wide release. I wrote it for Epinions as soon as I got home. As a result, it captures the emotions I felt on that day and my initial impressions about what at the time was the final Star Wars movie. The “title crawl” I came up with, obviously, is not the one from the actual film. I could, of course, have looked up the text from the movie’s crawl and replicated it here, but I wanted to present my review as I wrote it on that day. Pros:  Stronger-than-usual Prequel narrative; exciting action sequences; great score Cons:  Padme and Anakin storyline weaker than expected. And you, young Skywalker, we will watch your career with great interest. -- Supreme Chancellor Palpatine to Anakin Skywalker, Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace Someday I'll be the most powerful Jedi ever! I promise you. I will even learn to stop

“Star Wars - Episode III: Revenge of the Sith” Written and directed by George Lucas Starring: Ewan McGregor, Natalie Portman, Hayden Christensen, Ian McDiarmid, Anthony Daniels, Frank Oz, Samuel L. Jackson, Christopher Lee On Wednesday. May 19, 2005, 20th Century Fox and Lucasfilm Limited released “Star Wars - Episode III: Revenge of the Sith.” Written and directed by George Lucas, the film is the third chapter of the Prequel Trilogy and the sixth of a projected 9-film saga set “a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away.” The Tragedy of Darth Vader Set three years after “Star Wars - Episode II: Attack of the Clones” , “Revenge of the Sith” reveals how Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker (Hayden Christensen) falls under the influence of a Dark Lord of the Sith, turns to the dark side of the Force, and becomes the evil Darth Vader. Anakin’s transformation from the selfless former slave to fallen hero is tragic in many ways. His friendship with his Jedi Master, Obi-Wan Keno

(C) 2016 Marvel Comics and Lucasfilm Ltd. Cover art by Mike Mayhew On November 29, 2016, Marvel Comics published Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith, a hardcover volume that collects all four issues of the comics adaptation of the eponymous space-fantasy film by writer-director George Lucas. These comics (and a similar trade paperback compilation) were originally published by Dark Horse Comics in 2005; Marvel, which regained the license to publish Star Wars content in 2014, has also reissued Dark Horse's other Prequel Era adaptations, The Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones, as part of a collection that encompasses the entire Star Wars movie saga. Writer Christopher Cerasi (using the pen name "Miles Lane" in the original Dark Horse edition) and artist Doug Wheatley follow the story in Lucas's screenplay closely, even using the same title crawl text from the finished film. (For some reason, the "crawl" appears twice in this compilation. Fir

(C) 2015 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment A few weeks before the release of Disney/Lucasfilm's "Star Wars - Episode VII: The Force Awakens," 20th Century Fox tried to entice fans and collectors with a reissue of George Lucas’s Classic and Prequel Trilogies in Blu-ray disc (BD). On November 10, the studio released all six movies of what Lucas calls The Tragedy of Anakin Skywalker in new steelbook packaging with newly-designed cover art. Lucasfilm has not made any editorial changes to the movies. As a result, the 2015 BDs of “The Phantom Menace,” “Attack of the Clones,” “Revenge of the Sith,” “A New Hope,” “The Empire Strikes Back” and “Return of the Jedi” are identical to the discs in Fox’s 2011 “Star Wars: The Complete Saga” box set. (Incidentally, Fox reissued that box set in October with new Darth Vader-themed DigiBook packaging.) The 2015 Steelbox Edition  “Years after the onset of the Clone Wars, the Sith unveil a thousand-year-old plot, the Republic