Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge Of The Sith is the seventh-biggest box-office blockbuster of all time. And what is the only part of it that we can remember? The rubbishy bit at the end where Darth Vader goes "Noooooooo!" and spoils the entire series, that’s what.
But now Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith is out on DVD. Will it be a success? Probably. Will it be followed up by a gazillion different special edition boxsets produced solely to wring the last pennies out of all the Darth Vader spazzes around the world? Without a doubt.
In a sensible world, the DVD release of Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge Of the Sith would
be the absolute final chapter of the Star Wars franchise. After
enduring the ignominy of having the Star Wars corpse dragged up and
kicked over to get made into a cheesy kid’s film (The Phantom Menace), The Worst Film
That Has Ever Been Made By Anyone (Attack Of The Clones) and the
"Noooooooo!" film (Revenge Of The Sith), the sensible thing would be to
let Star Wars lie now.
That’s clearly not going to happen, though. As well as the Clone War
cartoons and the mooted TV series, there’s bound to be all manner of
Star Wars DVD re-releases to look forward to. The complete series box-set,
the special-edition complete series box-set, the special-edition
complete series box-set as acted out by three tramps and a cardboard
box… if there’s a way for George Lucas to get his hands on your
money, he’s already thought of it.
But back to the current DVD release of Revenge Of The Sith. As well
as the story (roughly this: Anakin gets his wife and falls
into a hot lake. His wife instantly names the kids and dies, while
Anakin wakes up as Darth Vader and shouts "Noooooooo!"), there are
apparently all kinds of DVD extras to look forward to.
There’s the Within A Minute documentary, which deconstructs a minute
of the Anakin/Obi Wan Kenobi lightsabre fight into a two-hour
documentary detailing the 70,000 man-hours that went into creating it.
There are the six deleted scenes, all reportedly full of the Lucas
trademark unfathomable intergalactic politics talk. And there’s even an
Easter Egg where Yoda dances and raps Don’t Say Nuthin’ by The Roots.
Read more:
Star Wars III DVD issue marks final release in long-running film franchise – Canada.com
[story by Stuart Heritage]
DarthVader says
Nooooooo!
Yoda says
It is truly amazing that after all the years of technological advances which have been made since the first film was released, something so vapid and one dimensional could happen. I had such hopes (Despite the evidence) that this final movie would hold some merit.
I thought Maybe I was jaded, after all, I was a young child when A New Hope was released. I went back to my archives and carefully assesed the situation and could only come to the conclusion that I had Yes, in fact, been let down by “Revenge of the Sith”