Two co-workers went and invited and myself along for the ride.

First things first: If my brother was in terrible pain, dying a slow, agonizing death, I wouldn’t sit there and watch. I’d end his misery. Especially when I’ve got direct imperical evidence that proves his soul will join the Force after he dies.

But I digress…

I agree with one of my co-workers when he says: “It’s just too dull to call it ‘bad.’” I have to concur.

It wasn’t so much that anything was “bad,” it’s just that everything was… well, dull. I didn’t really believe anything that happened. I didn’t believe the romance, didn’t believe the seduction, didn’t believe the shift in gravity (on a dying ship that defies all previous laws that suggest artificial gravity in all previous five movies), didn’t believe that everyone in the galaxy is so stupid they can’t notice Padme is pregnant, didn’t believe that the entire Jedi Council is so stupid they can’t figure out that Anakin is the father, didn’t believe that Obi-Won would leave someone he calls “my brother” to die a slow, agonizing death.

There’s more. Much, much more. But I’d bore you pretty quickly.

The sound was bad, the soundtrack was bad, the editing was bad, the direction was bad… the best thing about the movie — the swordfighting — was ruined by Lucas’ sorry excuse for directing. I couldn’t see anything. One — pretty, pretty please, Mr. Lucas — just one wide-angle shot of the duel so we can see the hours and hours and hours of choreography training these two actors went through pay off. No. We’ve got to have extreme close-ups so we can’t see what they’re doing.

And the Yoda/Emperor fight was completely pointless. Completely. Exactly what element of plot did it advance? What did we learn that we didn’t know before? Nothing. Nothing was accomplished — except we now know that any real Jedi can handle the really scary lightning thing from previous movies. That lightning thing was fuckin’ scary in Return of the Jedi. Now, we’ve seen Mace Windu take it and turn it around, Yoda take it and turn it around twice… thanks for making Luke even more of a wimp, George.

(PS: In Jedi, why didn’t Yoda train Luke to turn the lightning? He knows the Emperor can do it… why didn’t he even warn Luke about that? Sheesh.)

Anyway, I didn’t like it. In fact, I’d put it near the bottom of the list. The only that made me more sick to my stomach was Clones.