Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith [4K UHD]

The Star Wars movie was great. I feel so good about it, I don't know where to start. It was a very serious, very adult movie. It was modeled after a Greek or Shakespearian tragedy, not a Saturday morning serial or western. Here's what I liked: The saccharine lightness of the last three movies (including Return of the Jedi) now seems like a giant set up, to make Anakin Skywalker's fall more shocking and more emotional. He does some very, very bad things that are far more disturbing than the larger-scale, but less personal evil of destroying a planet. The movie is very personal and very human, which is, I think, intentionally ironic because it so heavily relies on special effects. Killing children and striking Padme (with the Force) were genuinely jarring. I had an emotional reaction. I very much liked the parallel operations on Padme and Anakin, where they both sort of die and are both sort of reborn. Padme is "reborn" in her children while Anakin was reborn as the Darth Vader we all know and love. I liked how the Vader suit came off as a prison, the fitting of the mask was like the slamming of the cell door. It reminded me of the end of the Godfather movies where there's a religious ceremony going on concurrent with a bunch of assassinations. I liked being kept off balance. Significant characters were dying at all points in the movie. Dooku got it earlier than I expected (and how he got it was the first of Anakin's jarring evil deeds). Mace Windu was killed off in the middle, Padme died in the end. Up until this movie, The Empire Strikes Back was the only big-budget blockbuster aimed at a wide audience that ends with what amounts to a win for the bad guys. This bad-guy win is more absolute, more total. I like that because life doesn't always have a happy ending (if all big budget movies ended this way, I'd like the occasional happy ending). The story of life is never as neatly complete as the end of Return of the Jedi. Shakespeare wrote comedies, that ended well, for amusement, but there's a value in tragedy, too. That's sorely, sorely lacking in pop culture, so I appreciate its use here. With the possible exception of Empire, Sith really isn't like any other movie. One of the reasons I like Empire is that it isn't a re-hash of Star Wars. Sith isn't a re-hash of anything at all (except, maybe Oedipus Rex or Julius Creaser). Despite all the heaviness of the movie, it never gets weighted down. All this happens at a break-neck pace. No drawn out, boring scenes in a swamp. Ewan and McDirmad (sp?) acted very well. Here's what I didn't like: I would have liked to have seen more of the masked Darth Vader. He still has some transformation left. He remains impulsive and emotional in this movie. He's cold and calculating in Star Wars and Empire. So to some extent he's still not the character we come to know later. I don't quite get the Emperor. What's his end game? What does he really want, and why? What does he do for the next 20 years? Is he happy? What's his vision for the Galaxy? He is established as a liar, so all his talk of peace and order is disingenuous, but though he caused the wars up to his ascension as Emperor, is the implication that the next round of wars is caused by the "good guys?" There seems to be a suggestion that the Sith and the Jedi really aren't too different. Yoda sends Obi-Wan off to kill his friend, which is the same thing Palpatine does with Anakin. If that's deliberate, I think we would have had a better sense of there being two sides of the same coin if we had a better idea of what life under the Empire would ultimately be like, and how it would be worse than life under the Republic, which seems characterized by corrupt government, constant war, tolerance of slavery and gangsterism, and, for that matter, high taxes. Jar Jar didn't die!

Best movie, 10/10 would watch again and again

STAR WARS: CHAPTER 3-REVENGE OF THE SITH just might be my personal favorite of the six STAR WARS movies. It has a very strong screenplay by George Lucas to compliment world-class sound design by my college best friend Ben Burtt and the expected stupendous visual effects and magnificent John Williams score. It, quite simply, has everything that one could ask of a STAR WARS film, and then some. It makes me feel like a kid again. Several thousand Lucas employees are all working to capacity and beyond. SITH is an adventure masterpiece. The first thing you notice, even with just stereo headphones and a 27" television in a bedroom, is the overpowering THX soundtrack and wondrous music. They come roaring at you and surround you like overwhelming jet engines. Then you notice the unusually rich color and super-clear images. I am told that SITH was shot in a different format, high definition digital or something. I have no idea what that means, but remember seeing the movie in a theater with that same format and noticing unusually clear images and vibrant color. So Lucas and company must be on to something when the results are tremendous even on a small TV in a bedroom. This is the longest STAR WARS movie, at 140 minutes. But editors Ben Burtt and Roger Barton keep it well paced, engrossing, and exciting. And Lucas gives it a powerful script. So much happens here, especially Anakin Skywalker (Hayden Christensen) becoming Darth Vader, the birth of Luke and Leia at the end, and the fate of Amadala (Natalie Portman) and Count Dooku (Christopher Lee). Anakin will give up his princess to embrace the dark side, and that packs a dramatic wallop I am not used to in even the best STAR WARS film. This is a very dark and gripping movie, worthy of a PG-13 rating. Disk 1 of the widescreen double DVD has optional audio commentary by writer/director Lucas, producer Rick McCallum, production designer Gavin Bouquet, animation director Ron Coleman, and visual effects suupervisors whose insights all enhance the movie we are watching. The disk 2 DVD seems to go to infinity. First are 15 mini documentaries, about five minutes each, that include such areas as creature creation, makeup, music (John Williams is justifiably proud of having scored all six movies), costumes, stunts with ace stunt coordinator Nick Gillard, sound with my buddy Ben, shooting on digital tape, animation, and even the essential catering for hundreds of hungry craft workers and extras. Then there are five or six Deleted Scenes, hosted by writer/director Lucas and producer McCallum. These are very good scenes that just run too long, slow the movie down, or refocus it, like several with Senator Padme that give her too much emphasis at that point in the story. Finally, there are three major documentaries: (1) 15 minutes on the film's stunts with Nick Gillard doing such a good job as fight arranger that Christensen and Ewan McGregor (Obi-wan Kenobi) wanted to do most of their own light saber stunts. (2) "The Chosen One"-30 minutes, which has George Lucas focusing on Darth Vader over six films. Darth Vader is a very serious and tragic character, a villain who becomes a redemptive victim. Does Anakin want to marry the lovely Padme or face his responsibility as a Jedi Knight? Anakin, then Darth Vader, is a good man who decides to embrace his evil nature, which makes a powerful conflict. This is one reason why I favor this STAR WARS chapter the most. And am I the only one who, at the end of THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK (Chapter 5) or RETURN OF THE JEDI (Chapter 6), when Darth Vader is finally unmasked as a harmless little man, is reminded of The Wizard of Oz (Frank Morgan) unmasked near the end of THE WIZARD OF OZ? Was that intended? And (3) the crown jewel of disk 2 is a huge 90 minute feature documentary that goes into microscopic detail on how just one minute of the movie was made, from screenplay to finished film. The documentary is called "Within a Minute", if you are trying to locate it on your disk two. The scene is a fabulous one, Anakin and Obi Wan having a light saber duel in a volcano called Mustafer (really Mount Etna in Italy when everyone got lucky from a real volcano erupting) full of brilliant orange lava. We start with Lucas' script, which will change a lot because Lucas believes that the movie is "made in the editing room." Each of two dozen craft areas have as many as six hundred workers, each with one specific task in the total jigsaw puzzle picture. Included are construction, props, makeup, costumes, and catering for several thousand people all over the world. 80 people worked on just costumes, under Trisha Biggars. Nick Gillard worked with the actors on stunts, especially light saber duels which required several types, sizes, and weight swords. The fights for this lava field fight were apparently done in front of what is called a "green screen", with the lava added as spectacular visual effects; the two must be perfectly coordinated, along with cinematographer David Tattersall's exquisite widescreen cinematography. There are three different camera operators, working with pioneering high definition digital tape, which everyone seems very impressed with in terms of both quality and final result time. There are also dozens of electricians (gaffers). Ben Burtt is the renowned and Oscar-winning sound designer again, supervising both dialogue recorded on the set and sound effects in post production, then blending everything perfectly with John Williams' lush music (one of his greatest scores) and what is called foley (sound effects, like doors opening and footsteps). It was apparently a mammoth editing job, eighteen months on two continents. Editors Burtt in Marin County (California) and Roger Barton in Sydney (Australia) had a herculean, if labor of love job. Remember again that Lucas likes "making the movie in the editing room," not surprising for a movie that will combine live action, animation, green screen, and computer graphics. Every single detail must blend perfectly. The audience might not notice an extra detail, but will definitely notice a flaw on a big theater screen. And re-recording will be done in London, where Williams will work on the almost non-stop music score. Now Industrial Light and Magic (ILM) in Marin County comes into play with 150 people. Several departments, each with their separate crews, will add the volcano effects to the green screen fight shot with actors Christensen and McGregor. But this is one of only something like 2100 separate shots, each of which has animation (supervisor Ron Coleman is one of the disk one audio commentators), computer graphics, and models. Rotoscoping and compositing next come into play-matte paintings (essentially painted backdrops that alter reality) and painting to combine everything flawlessly on a visual level. Ben and his re-recording mixers make sure the entire audio for each scene blends perfectly in itself and with the visuals. Sound mixing has to do with what track in a scene-dialogue or music or effects-will dominate and to what degree. Finally, we have a finished film that hopefully is ready for unveiling to the public. The result for most of the critics I've read is that SITH is the best of the first three movies, meaning chapters 1 - 3. No one seems willing to suggest, as I am, that just maybe it is even better than chapters 4 - 6 from two decades ago. And why not? After all, SITH has a knockout soundtrack, brilliantly rich and clear photography, fabulous music, and a very dramatic and powerful screenplay. 25 years of technological advancements have gone into it. Once again, so help me, REVENGE OF THE SITH is my favorite STAR WARS film. Everyone who worked on it, down to the lowliest laborer, can be very proud of his or her job. This is a majestic and unforgettable work of art and labor of love. And do see it on home video in widescreen format. And what a thrill it is to now finally have the entire STAR WARS sextette finished and available on a DVD bookshelf like a favorite friend to pull out and watch at whim, ideally over six consecutive nights. Now maybe the enormously talented George Lucas can get his gang back together to make another AMERICAN GRAFFITI (1973). Maybe he can do a change of pace adolescence drama or family human interest drama with my dear college friend Ben Burtt as sound designer and editor. 180 degrees different from STAR WARS. Cheers to all.

Zuerst mal vorweg, ich finde auch EP I und II so wie die OT ( EP IV, V und VI) super. Ich habe eigentlich nie zwichen alter und neuen Trilogie unterschieden, denn es ist EINE SAGA. Und nachdem man Die Rache der Sith gesehen hat merkt man es auch da der übergang zu Eine neue Hoffnung sehr gut gelungen ist. Episode III ist einfach ein Meisterwerk, in den knappen 2 1/2 Stunden kommt kein einziges mal langeweile auf. Zudem haben die Schauspieler ihre ohnehin schon gute Leistung aus den Vorgänger Episoden noch einmal deutlich gesteigert. Allen voran Hayden und Natalie. Ähnliches gilt auch für die CGI Effekte, was ILM hier gezaubert hat gilt wohl als neue Refferenz. Einfach Top. (Mein Tip, seht euch den Film auf einem HD Fähigen TV an) Eigentlich sollte ich jetzt noch was zu Story schreiben, aber ich möchte auch nicht zuviel verraten. Man sieht wie Anakin Skywalker der dunklen Seite der Macht verfällt und zu Darth Vader wird. Das dürfte glaube ich fast jedem bekannt sein, aber in Episode III erfährt man endlich auch den Grund, und der ist so etwas von dramatisch das es einen einfach nur packt und mitfiebern lässt, ja man kann es sogar nachvollziehen und fragt sich ob man nicht selbst so handeln würde. Auch wird vieles aus Episode I und II durch Die Rache der Sith deutlicher und gewinnt an tiefe. Vor allem die Szene aus Angriff der Klonkrieger, in der Ani`s Mutter stirbt, bekommt viel mehr Bedeutung. Und an alle die nur die originale Trilogie mögen, wenn man sich Episode IV direkt nach Episode III ansieht wird die Episode IV noch besser. Die Figuren aus der alten Trilogie bekommen noch mehr tiefe, vor allem Darth Vader, aber auch die Gespräche zwichen Luke und Obi Wan haben durch Episode III viel gewonnen. Das gleiche gitl natürlich auch für Episode V und VI. Also für mich ist Epiosde III ein Meisterwerk, es gibt eine Menge Leute die es vieleicht nicht so sehen, es ist warscheinlich Geschmacksache, aber wer mit Episode I und II was anfangen kann, der wird bei Episode III hundert pro NICHT entäuscht. Viel Spass mit Star Wars Die Rache der Sith.

Owned this movie on DVD for many years but it was starting to not work so i finally upgraded to blu-ray. The packaging and movie itself look great. Its great to finally have my favourite star wars movie in HD quality on physical media.

lo compré para tener la edición 4K no editada en mi país.

Se for consumidor brasileiro não compre. O Blue-ray é „region locked“ e o código para resgate só está disponível se estiver nos EUA. Joguei dinheiro fora.

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