Star Wars Episode III Revenge of the Sith. Obi-Wan: One, Padawan: None

[@Buford_T_Justice1]

This video has the high ground.

[@exidy-yt]

I can never hear 'Order 66' ever again without thinking of Jason Genova and his Pisstroopers.

[@Hawkeye26]

Anakin Force Choking Padme...one has to wonder if she was like "Anakin, not here, I thought this was only for the bedroom!"?

[@forfluf]

All I remember about this movie is 45 minutes of light saber fight over barely hot lava.

[@David_Baxendale]

Obi - "I can't kill him, he is like a brother to me". Leaves Anakin to slowly slip into lava and burn to death. Is it any surprised he turned, that is the kind of mixed abusive teacher/pupil relationship that would mess with anyone's brain.

[@mallninja9805]

Ian McDiarmid chewing the scenery is far and away the best thing about RotS.

[@jessica23claire]

So I’m not a Star Wars fan at all, but this is the only one of the movies I can remember seeing all the way through. In 2005 when this movie came out, I was 8. My family and I all went on a trip to the cinemas. Most of my family wanted to see Pooh’s Heffalump Movie, and my dad and I said “nah fuck that” and we saw Revenge of the Sith instead. He let me raid the candy bar, and we watched that movie together. The image of Anakin being burned alive is still seared into my mind 17 years later. But its a memory I still cherish because it’s one of the few positive memories I have with my dad (I estranged him years ago).

[@marieodu3149]

Daddy Palpatine… yep I’m done 🤣😂🤣😂🤣 going forward that is how I will refer to him especially since he was busy making his own clones 😏another awesome video Stam

[@shaggycan]

12:00 what Lucas didn't really make clear, but was (as usual) cleaned up by Filoni in clone wars, was that for Yoda to beat Palpatine in one on one combat Yoda would effectively have to become Palpatine. The Will of the Force already had a plan...a natural flow...to it that had Palpatines creation of Anakin come full circle and be his undoing.

[@tomsenior7405]

Finally, we get to see Stam's review of The Greatest Motion Picture ever made. Excellent stuff. Hang on. This isn't "Noddy in Toyland". Oh no! It's Star Wars III... oh dear.

[@caloss2]

Great job once again, here's another suggestion to throw on the unending pile " Sapphire & Steel" British television supernatural sci-fi/fantasy series starring David McCallum as Steel and Joanna Lumley as Sapphire.

[@paulbrecken2136]

I'm really enjoying your videos, keep up the excellent work.

[@CaminoAir]

Anakin is unable to bear loss. His 'love' for Padme is based on this. "I can't live without her." I know the Jedi in the prequels are usually criticised for a lack of empathy or understanding, as much as anything else (i.e. being clueless). But their behaviour is built on detachment. Lucas wanted Anakin in 'TPM' to be young enough for his separation from his mother to deeply affect him. Anakin never overcomes this pattern and he instead seeks to become powerful enough to prevent the things he cannot deal with from happening. Lucas could have told Anakin's story more clearly and consistently, but he did enough to get the core idea on the screen. It's not love, but dependence and a need for control that motivates Anakin.

[@briandain8432]

I read these really big Coffee table books with actual notes from meetings... ESB is remembered best, but went $5 million over budget because of friction with Carrie & Harrison and most of their scenes like their stories got cut. By ROTJ George was bored. And the Prequels he had all Control but no Marcia, the Unspoken Soul of the Original Star Wars!

[@robd9413]

The novelisation attempts to add more weight to Anakin's turn. In the film we go from "must bring Palpatine to justice" to "lets go kill some kids" in 5 minutes flat, but the novel tries to do more with the fall. It isn't 100% successful, but at least it tries. As I recall, the novel suggests Anakin's home world thought the stars were gods and when Obi-wan showed Anakin a supernova it messed him up by showing the "gods" could also die and left him afraid of all forms of death giving Palpatine an In to mess with him over Padme's fate. So add cultural insensitivity to Obi-wan's list of fails.

[@FrostedSeagull]

@Rob D You said it ! THE best novellasation of a Star Wars book ever ! Mathew Stover seriously understands the Force, the Jedi, and the Sith. SPOILER ALERT The part where Mace Windu and three other Jedi attempt the arrest of Palpatine nee Darth Sidious. Stover does what George Lucas couldn't. We get a real feel for the power of the Darkside. EXAMPLE - Sidious dispatches the three Jedi in under a second. Mace Windu barely survives then goes into an 'illegal' Jedi fighting style that not only saves his life, BUT, almost dispatches Sidious. Great Rhetorical Question This is a great rhetorical question by Lucas/Stover, which is : Does Windu Mace 'defeat Sidious', OR , does the Emperor deliberately buy time to test Anakin's power and rub it into Windu's face. Personally, Sidious is too powerful for Windu. However, Windu forces dark force lightning onto Sidious, which melts his face and facial bones. Palpatine is left horrifically scarred. However. . . Palpatine was a Victoria's Secret Model compared to what Obi-Wan did to Anakin Skywalker. As I said l, read the novel as it is THE best Star Wars novel by a galaxy.

[@TheBeird]

I swear twenty minutes of this flick are ships going left to right or right to left before landing

[@white-dragon4424]

What I really want to know is why the Jedi can't "sense" Padme's baby bump and don't put two and two together.

[@Althea-M]

The Clone Wars tv series made these movies great. I especially loved how the final season melded with the final prequel

[@deadandburied7626]

Need a review of "Rogue One", please 😅

[@briandain8432]

Decided to unacknowledged Order 66. I sleep better at night.

[@oobrocks]

Just as this film shows, Hitler was (legally) given “temporary “ absolute power and any history bluff knows he kept those powers until he committed suicide

[@jacklawrence2212]

Really great video, Stam Fine... Would love to see Space Hospital! You should pitch it to Disney.

[@stewartfennell8926]

Ironically if he had listened to the Jedi and never had any attachments, he would have been fine....

[@pdlagasse]

Would totally watch “Space Hospital!”

[@briandain8432]

Great Video!! Looking forward to them every week

[@PatTheBatmanFan]

I love that the you made numbers in the credits for the clones Temuera Morrison played non-sequential.

[@colonelmustard2652]

You haven’t heard the story of Darth Jar Jar? *slowly turns head*

[@Alkeeros]

Always a pleasure to hear you give sarcastic digs at the shortcomings and earned praise at the good bits. As for Palpatine's overacting, I for one see this as fairly core to the series, but I'm not the biggest fan you'll ever meet so I could be way off.

[@crimsonator]

Anakin kneels before Monster Mash and pledges his loyalty to the graveyard smash. The End.

[@frankandstein8618]

Another excellent video, Stam.

[@rumblebars]

I watch much of this channels offerings but somehow I skipped this one. Correcting that now. I hit pause 30 seconds in though write down my comments in advance, since I have had them for a very long time now. Most fans of the saga knew where this story had to go. So all George Lucas had to do was "stick the landing" or "connect the dots" whatever you want to call it. Did he do so? Yes he did. Was this movie an improvement over Clones? Yes it was. Was it a great movie? - - - Okay: was it a good movie? Yeah I think so. Would I pull my DVD copy and watch it again? It's been a while but I have done so.. (would I do so for Clones? hmmmm. uuhhhh...) ============ Okay, watched it. S.F. pretty much said what I did. Thumbs up.

[@mikegwillis]

They really should put Bruce Spence in the constitution ... 😂 (and yes we know he is an adopted Kiwi but that's ok!)

[@braxxian]

As flawed as the prequels are they look like Shakespeare compared o the dross Disney churns out.

[@preahko]

"Sith Plus"..."he eats raw chicken"...DAMN you are good!!

[@jb6668]

Somethings wrong with a trilogy when it takes 2 and a half movies to some up with a good idea and bring some life to the series with Order 66. Alas it was all too late at this point and Star Wars would be forever dead to me. Which is sad given tStar Wars was my first in cinema experience win 1977.

[@evertonporter7887]

Where did it all go wrong....?

[@akshaytrayner1960]

Well I agree on most your points the video game show a lot more then what the filmed showed

[@Cmdr1962]

Gen Grievous has no "throat," just an armature thingie. How does he cough?

[@All2Meme]

Psychosomatic bronchitis?

[@akshaytrayner1960]

Great review

[@mikehunt4986]

Long live Episodes 4-6. The rest are bullshit. Good video though.

[@briandain8432]

This Video reminds me of why I don't own this movie! Also why I can go to sleep imagining how Cool it COULD HAVE BEEN.

[@raybearoz]

Awesome work mate

[@RCassinello]

My issue with the prequel trilogy is not the plots. The actual plot of each of these films is fairly good, and has an extra layer of intrigue that wasn't in the originals. If we're honest, ESB doesn't really have a plot anyway, and ROTJ's plot is so thin that it starts with a 30 minute side quest and is further padded out by a teddy bear's picnic. But the execution... Of all three of them... Is just terrible. The tone dial just seems to be stuck in "Staid melodrama", except when there's "a funny bit", at which point all attempts at humour are extremely juvenile. It's like they're being made by someone who's read the script of Star Wars but never actually seen the movie. The first inkling I had was the remasters in 1997 when just so many OTT puerile jokes were added without any consideration to the scenes they'd been shoved into. It was like a 12 year old had convinced a studio to let him add fart jokes to a classic movie. Sharper dialogue and better direction would have turned all three prequels into classics, but instead we got George's vision.

[@mammothchimp1774]

People don't understand the prequels. It is a different era and Lucas wanted it to be vastly different from the OT. Shakespearean. Tragic.

[@Scimarad]

What's going on, I can't find the Space Hospital Kickstarter link!

[@SlightlyDecent]

I don't know about you guys but I'd totally watch Space Hospital!

[@TheyCallMeNewb]

But did Palpatine feign frailty against Windu in order to force Anakin to choose at the fork in the road??

[@FrostedSeagull]

Yes, he did. Darth Sidious just defeated three Jedi Masters a few minutes ago. NOTE: I am heavily reliant on Mathew Stover's brilliant novelisation of Revenge of the Sith. It's a MUST read ! ! ! Novel definitively better than the Film: - Darth Sidious literally dispatched three Jedi Masters in a nano-second, leaving Mace Windu the sole living Jedi. Sidious does it deliberately as in Stover's novel, Anakin sees the speed of Palpatine/Sidious and is stunned and, in this case, impressed. This 'Mace Windu did beat Sidious' , as well as the Emperor beat Yoda, when Palpatine tried to run away from Yoda, leaving the immortal lines: If so powerful, you l are Why Leave.

[@lordofbats3601]

Good review stam

[@dougsfilmtv9810]

I really enjoyed it and question would you review The Clone Wars?

[@DomTheBartenderGuy]

Ani are you okay? Are you okay? Are you okay Ani?

[@thevfxmancolorizationvfxex4051]

Honestly, I feel mixed about the whole idea of Anakin turning to The Dark Side to save Padme. Sure, it's a tragic turning point for Anakin, but The Dark Side is meant to be this variant of the force that lures people in with false promises of power and corrupts them till they have no moralities left. I think Anakin's reason for turning would have worked better if it was more to do with rejection from those around him. Like say he was expelled from the Jedi Order for his romance with Padme and faces scrutiny by the Republic for betraying his cause, with only Obi-Wan and his wife to help him overcome this. However, Anakin feels jaded and swears that he'll become more powerful than the Jedi and anyone, and he'll bring the Clone Wars to an end even if it's by himself. Soon he starts having force visions to tell him to come to Palpatine, and he soon begins training Anakin in the arts of the Dark Side, allowing him to release all his pent up anger and frustrations, till he's eventually corrupted and twisted enough to do all the evil things that only Darth Vader could do. The Original Trilogy always talks about how The Dark Side is a quick and easy path to advance your force skills, and that not being able to control your fear and anger will lead you on a dark path. Anakin's fall should have been a prime example of this. The idea of Anakin simply turning against those who cared about him just to save his wife from dying is one that I'm not a huge fan of, even if it does add a depth of tragedy to his tale

[@colonelmustard2652]

If there were any notion of chemistry between the two shown on screen then it wouldn’t have been so low stakes and cringe. Every interaction had, tonally, a security clearance screening interview feel to it. This makes sense on account of her having been in an ambassador role. How much of the supposed romance was Anakin reading the room wrong? Was she just spreading her legs to milk him for intel? We’ll never know.

[@white-dragon4424]

Better still if he was corrupted by the norm, power, just as he offers Luke in ESB. I mean, sometimes there's no figuring out Lucas. One moment he's ripping things directly from the OT and saying "It rhymes", then he avoids the totally logical idea of Anakin being corrupted by military and political power as he offered Luke in the OT! And why? Why does he turn in the end? For LOOOVE...Awwwwww!

[@colonelmustard2652]

@@white-dragon4424 I think the consistent trait between both seductions, as it were, is that Vader waits until you're backed into a corner to drop some horrible plot reveal on you. It's disingenuous and shows just how weak of a hand he keeps playing from. Why is he letting that old gas bag play him so hard? The character's entire sinister appeal relies exclusively on the dumb plastic mask and voice modulator. He's literally the star wars kid waving a shower rod in the air while wearing a straight jacket. At least Grievous was nimble as hell. Why downgrade if you're Palpatine's number 2? Is he a rube or what?? Very Elliott Roger vibes.

[@denial987]

Yeah don't remind me about this crap that came after revenge of the sith. That new trilogy, Rogue One and the all tv shows were the end of the franchise thanks to Kathleen Kennedy. She really was a Sith Lord all along. And the less said about Opie's SoloL A Star Wars Story, the better.

[@organicketchup5171]

I was miserable after my first time seeing this movie. I was spoiled by the quality of the LotR trilogy. But, with hindsight and nostalgia, I really do like RotS, now.

[@AllanGildea]

Yer a legend, Stam!

[@tskmaster3837]

"Hello there!" Apparently, it's not just a greeting it's also copyrighted.

[@davehandelman2832]

Sorry, EP. 1 is the best PREQUEL. You can argue ALL YOU WANT but ep. 2 AND 3 are TOTAL GARBAGE. I FUCKING hated this film. Every second is painful to watch. But great review as always, Stam!

[@deadandburied7626]

Biggest disappointment was Darth Vadar's "noooooo!" voiced by CH and not James Earl Jones. Also Vadar in suit looking too short compared to Dave Prowse.

[@andylikesstuffchannel]

Most overrated star wars film online out of all of them. Can't believe some channels even claim its better than EMPIRE STRIKES BACK 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@samuelgordino]

WHAT???? Is that true? Someone said this movie is better them Empire Strikes Back ? I hope you are just joking 😂

[@kaykutcher2103]

The SW prequels have the dubious honor of being the only films to put me to sleep. "But Kay you were only ten back then maybe now that you're ol"- Mate I watched Ben-Hur, The Ten Commandments and Spartacus in a row at nine years old whilst bedridden with severe sun stroke and all its delightful symptoms. The sequels being worse or just as bad doesn't make the prequels great. It's the ole would you rather have constipation or the runs bit with the right answer being neither.

[@andylikesstuffchannel]

@@samuelgordino no seriously 🙄🙄🙄😳😳😳😳😂😂😂

[@damienkakoschke3099]

LOLs Bruce Spence

[@sapiotone]

Smooth

[@bigratkiller1]

C'mon dude....it's been months. Where is Space Hospital????

[@michaelcarbone6101]

No children were shot in this movie because Jedi religion uses sabers!

[@samuelstreeter5780]

Bad guys Wanted??

[@pjgathergood6987]

As paradoxical and ridiculous as it might sound, I have sometimes wondered if this film (and indeed the two proceeding it) would still be remembered if they weren't 'Star Wars' (if you get what I mean) or if they would have just fallen by the wayside. On the flipside of course, if they weren't 'Star Wars' but instead their own thing (again, if you get where I'm coming from) I wonder if the would be regarded higher on their own merits. As it is such a nonsensical - and rather pointless - question, I guess we'll never know!! 🙃

[@stephenevans6070]

🤣 Asthma bot.........

[@white-dragon4424]

To put it more accurately, it's the least terrible of the PT. 8:39 "Not-for-a-Jediiii Mwahahahahaha!

[@CDubya.82]

Attempts at comedy here do not have the high ground

[@crashburn3292]

Another video covering the prequels? Really?