3. We're Rescuing This Guy Who's Clearly Not Evil - Revenge Of The Sith
Episode III opened with a sequence that was epic enough to close any previous instalment of what had gone before. Yet the rescue of Supreme Chancellor Palpatine, the wise, respected, wizened and totally sinister podium jockey at the heart of the Republic, administered a visual vitamin shot to the viewer before Anakin Skywalker's closing chapter got fully underway. Aside from the dazzling display of starships opening fire on each other across the cosmos, there were the goings-on aboard General Grievous' vessel. CGI gave George Lucas immense scope in the way he constructed his prequel series, and while some thought the results a bit antiseptic you couldn't help but marvel at some of what he managed to get onscreen. Most memorable was the sight of our protagonists (and one antagonist) having to run across the floor of the see-sawing ship as it rocked from nose to thrusters, buffeted by enemy blasts. A strange variation of Titanic played out as the group tumbled one way then the other, a feat that simply wouldn't have been doable under Industrial Light & Magic in the Eighties.
I am a journalist and comedian who enjoys American movies of the 70s, Amicus horror compendiums, Doctor Who, Twin Peaks, Naomi Watts and sitting down. My short fiction has been published as part of the Iris Wildthyme range from Obverse Books.
