Catched Star Wars Ep 3 : Revenge of the Sith at GV Marina with Shyam on Sat. Go for the 7.30pm show, and as usual, the show begins at 7.50pm. Before the show, we go for the popcorns and surprised to found out that GV are selling caramel popcorns. But, caramel popcorns are more expensive than the normal sweet popcorns. So, i let Shyam used my $5 popcorn combo special coupon to get his sweet popcorn, and i get a free Vanilla Coke from the angpow draw when i watched The Sea Inside ages ago.
In the theatre, he had some of my popcorn, and we find the popcorn rather bland, while those that are nice, pop with a crispy caramel shells makes up only abt 45% of the regular size popcorn. I tell him: i am not going to buy caramel popcorn from GV anymore. I would rather have caramel popcorn from Bedok theatre, which now cost us $4 for a big bag (instead of the usual big bucket. Oh, how i missed the days of munching big bucket of caramel popcorns while watching movies at Bedok or Princess.)
And the so called Digital format at GV Marina is rather disappointing. First of all, even thought the movie is presented in digital, the whole colour seems rather dull and image looks bluury, compared to the DLP screen at Eng Wah. Yeah, at least Eng Wah presents digi films in crystal sharp images, compared to GV, where they used Christie Digi films. Cine Orchard is using DLP as well, but seats were totally sold out, and i do not have any chance of watching any digi movies at Orchard, cos movies presented in dig format are mostly kiddie's films, or shows i am not really interested.
The whole movie do contains some kind of disappointment, but because it is directly liked to Lucas's 1st Star Wars trilogy, so disappointment is expected. As expected, Anakin Skywalker becomes Darth Vader, after have his right hand and 2 legs striked off by his sifu Obi Wan at the end, and was burned severly by the hot lavas in planet Mustafar, a lava planet. Padme Amidala dies after gaving birth to Luke and Leia, which marks the 2 important characters for Ep 4-6. Mace Windu was the first Jedi to be killed, following the rest of the Jedi's, except Yoda, Obi Wan and Bail Organa, a senator cum 1st chairman and viceroy of Alderaan, cum Princess Leia's adopted father. Chancellor Palpatine leads Anakin to the dark side and makes him Darth Vader.
OK, George Lucas can now retire with honor, for making such a splendid classic for 30 years.
For the first time among the double trilogies, this is the only episode that 1) rated PG-13 instead of the usual PG, 2) to come with an consumer advisory in Singapore for violence. Yeah, but somehow, when compared with Collateral from Tom Cruise and Jamie Foxx, it seems that Collaterla was kinda overated to NC16. And in Malaysia, Star Wars Ep 3 was competing with its made in M'sia competitor Scenario XX, a dumb Malay show imitating Star Wars. I am not surprised if Scenairo flops really badly.
Now, another trilogy comes to an end...and i just wonder, is there anymore blockbusters worth waiting coming soon? I do not mean separate movies such as Mr and Mrs Smith, War of the Worlds (where Tom Cruise and Dakota Fanning are hiding from the invasion of alines, with Spielberg directing the non-Futurama style attack.), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory etc...what's next? Harry Potter? I don't know.
Alien, Matrix, Godfather, LOTR, Indiana Jones, Back to the Future, and now, Star Wars. What's next to worth waiting for?
Mabey the war will stop for good from now onwards. But how about the dircetors? Any news of Wachoski Bros, Coppola, P.Jackson, Spielberg, Zemeckis, Lucas, and the rest...where r u?