Star Wars: Episode III--Revenge of the Sith

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I just can't get over the idea that Natalie Portman and Hayden Christensen (serious hotness in this movie) would have kids that end up as fugly as Mark Hamil and Carrie Fisher.

Maybe fug skips generations. They, at least, both inherited their mother's short-ness. And I gotta give credit to Carrie for pulling off that skimpy Jabba's slave girl outfit in "Return of the Jedi."

They were okay looking in Ep IV, but the car crash and drugs really did them in.

Right, the car crash. Poor Mark really got effed up. In "A New Hope," I think he's pretty (but short & whiny). Then in "Empire Strikes Back," he's not quite unrecognizable, but the middle of his face is rearranged. His nose is smashed and one nostril sits higher than the other. It really diminished his look. But I suppose he was grateful to just be alive.

Awww...while Mark wasn't helped by possibly the worst hairdo in SW history in Return of the Jedi, I thought he still looked cute in Empire.

I think Hayden's hair in this latest one is a close runner-up to worst hairdo. They should have done him better than that way-over-to-the-side-part and greasy flat stuff.

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chuppie said:

Why did General Grevious cough? I thought that was really weird, he's a droid, droid's don't cough unless they are programmed to.

General Grevious is part machine, part living being.

I wondered why he was coughing too, but at one brief point during his battle with Obi Wan they show eyes underneath armor.

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I thought Mark Hamill was pretty cute as Luke. (But definitely whiny in Episode 4.)
Carrie Fisher wasn't a raving beauty, but she looked like a real person, unlike some of the nowadays insipid, dyed blond hair, plastic featured look alike barbie doll actresses.

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Also, >>Obi-Wan killed Grevious by shooting him in the heart.<<

They, at least, both inherited their mother's short-ness.

True. "Aren't you a little short for a stormtrooper?" Good ol' sassy Leia.

I think Hayden's hair in this latest one is a close runner-up to worst hairdo.

Hee. I don't usually go for that type of hairstyle and was suspicious when I heard that he'd have a more "70s-esque" hairdo in the movie, but I actually thought Hayden rocked the Jedi mullet.

However, Obi-Wan was the Supreme Chancellor of Hotness in the movie.

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BrokenOx said:

Nooooooooo!

Bwah! I need to report myself in violation to the Good Movie Manners Cost Nothing thread because I laughed out loud at that moment in the movie--the very crowded theater.

And this:

However, Obi-Wan was the Supreme Chancellor of Hotness in the movie.

is nothing but the truth!

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Re: Grievous's cough. I read in Rolling Stone that they gave him the cough as sort of a one-off joke on a cough that George Lucas has.

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jynni said:

I know this is shallow but you know what bugs me? Out of all the continuity holes I've tried to fanwank, I just can't get over the idea that Natalie Portman and Hayden Christensen (serious hotness in this movie) would have kids that end up as fugly as Mark Hamil and Carrie Fisher. They were okay looking in Ep IV, but the car crash and drugs really did them in. Though, for Fisher it wasn't really until EpVI where she ended up with "butterface". Drugs are bad mmmkayyyy.

Are you mad? Carrie Fisher may not be sculpted perfection, but she's ten times cooler and sexier than Mr. Teak and Ms. Mahongany. Carrie was the bomb in the originals. Mark, maybe not so much. But that was the car accident.
Trivia point: Lucas asked Anna Paquin to be Amidala first, but shew turned it down (She must've been only 14). She looks a lot more like Carrie Fisher (Deep set eyes, squishy nose, pouty) than Natalie, IMHO. Would've been a lot better too. Probably. Maybe.

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The only question the movie left me with was at the end, <<when Yoda told Obi-Wan he could teach him to "commune" with Qui-Gon. What was the deal with that? I was all a-flutter thinking Liam Neeson was gonna show up, but of course he didn't. I was confused as to why they put that dialogue in there. It seemed like an extra unneeded plot point.

Did it have something to do with the "Darth Plagus the Wise" parable that Palpatine told Anakin? I got the feeling I was supposed to make the connection, with the ability to cheat death and everything. That parable had to mean something, right?>>

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January said:

The only question the movie left me with was at the end, <<when Yoda told Obi-Wan he could teach him to "commune" with Qui-Gon. What was the deal with that? I was all a-flutter thinking Liam Neeson was gonna show up, but of course he didn't. I was confused as to why they put that dialogue in there. It seemed like an extra unneeded plot point.

Did it have something to do with the "Darth Plagus the Wise" parable that Palpatine told Anakin? I got the feeling I was supposed to make the connection, with the ability to cheat death and everything. That parable had to mean something, right?>>

January, I think that line was supposed to explain to the audience how Obi-Wan is able to appear as an apparition to Luke in the OT. It was too much of a throw away line for something so important, IMO. We are to presume that while Obi Wan is in hiding on Tattoine, he communes with Qui Gon to learn how to stay on after death. IIRC, Liam Neeson actually had recorded some dialouge for Ep III. I guess it didn't make it to the final cut. I am hoping Lucas pulls a Peter Jackson on us and releases an extended version of Ep III on DVD. I did like the movie, but I did feel like there was a bit left out.

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Are you mad? Carrie Fisher may not be sculpted perfection, but she's ten times cooler and sexier than Mr. Teak and Ms. Mahongany. Carrie was the bomb in the originals. Mark, maybe not so much. But that was the car accident.

Only slightly ;D.

That's why I said I thought they were fine in ANH, Carrie was fine in ESB but by ROTJ she just haggard (once again, drugs are bad). Poor Mark had no control over his poor smashed face. I do agree that Carrie Fisher acted circles around Natalie.

Anna Paquin would have been an interesting choice. Actually, you know, I think Keira Knightly would have been a better choice than Natalie. She could have done it - she did play her bodyguard/double after all. She doesn't have dead eyes, even if her teeth are weird. Plus she wouldn't have acted above all of it and might have actually tried to put some effort into a decent performance.

On another note, Winona Ryder - circa "Edward Scissorhands" would have been a lovely Padma. She would have just needed to keep her mouth shut.