Attack of The Clones discuss?

smuckers

I saw Attack of The Clones, it was good but by no means outstanding, part of the reason for that was the love story between Amidala and Anakin, dragged on, for 15 to 20 mins I thought I was watching an ep of Dawsons Creek lol. However it vastly improved it was superior to Phanton Menace Mcgregor was good as Obi Wan and the battles were brill, The darkness hasn’t really entered the film as of yet, Lucas did say the second one was going to be darker but it wasn’t really. The best SW film IMHO is Empire Strikes Back and Lucas didn’t direct it.

7/10 for Attack of The Clones

koneko

The only reason (apparantly) Lucas wanted to direct the films, was so he could have better material to edit. He's big into the editing. Weirdo :P

I found the love story part refreshing, though it could have been scripted/worked out better. Still, it adds to the characters, especially Anakin and he's big love/hate battle.

Saruman

Agreed.. the love story is essential as without it we would not have Luke and Leia... dragged on a bit but i did not yawn once.. i swear! As for being dark.. it was a lot darker than Phantom menace... I still enjoyed phantom menace but in MY oppinion Ep 2 was actually better than Empire Strikes back.. that was my least fave of the lot of them!

darthmise

i thought the love story was dealt with quite well. The film jumped to and from it and it was never more than five minutes at a time so it didn't break the film's tempo too much.

photty

Come on now.. it was utter rubbish. I admit the special fx were awsome, but it felt like the actors were taking the piss or something. Still I dont blame them when you hear the tripe they have to speak. Dont get me wrong, I do love the SW movies (Empire being the best of course) but this is even worse than episode one. Compare how Harrison Ford played Han Solo to any of the performances in this movie and you'll see what I mean. I didnt give a toss about any of them or their mothers. The orignal movies drew you in so much more! I think Lucas believes his own hype!

The Corinthian

I certainly found it an improvement to the appallingly saccharine Phantom Menace. It certainly appeared darker, although largely due to the fact that it was clearly not geared towards kids this time round - the sense of the Republic being manipulated into a dark oblivion were present in both movies. Personally, for me the highlight was the Machiavellian manipulation that is quietly employed, to which the good guys remain largely oblivious to throughout. I also found the love story a little painful, as I found Anakin’s acting poor (Obi Wan’s, on the other hand has improved since the Phantom Menace).

Overall, slow starting, perhaps but certainly picks up in the last third or so of the movie. I suspect, given the number of plotlines that had to squashed in, it’s more than likely that one would have missed something on one’s first viewing.

[Spoiler.Alert – DO NOT READ FURTHER IF YOU’VE NOT SEEN IT YET!]
The origin of the Storm troopers was well addressed (one gets the impression that when originally mentioned in A New Hope, the ‘Clone Wars’ was a throw away phrase that Lucas had to somehow work into the story - which he has). Yoda rocked - When he opens up his coat to revile a light sabre, the entire theatre seemed to gasp in unison - “No. You’ve got to be taking the p1ss!” Yet it worked well.

Jar Jar Bink’s most important cameo in the senate was a clever idea. Here we had the comic relief that failed to be funny, from the previous episode, doing the only thing he knows how to do, which is be a buffoon, and handing absolute power over to the bad guys on a silver platter (yet another reason that he should die ).

Palatine is excellent, and frankly the best scene of the film comes at the end as he oversees his new ‘grand army of the republic’ boarding the first Star Destroyers - with the ‘Imperial March’ in the background for the first time, of course...
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koneko

Good points Corithian, but it would be hard not to improve on TPM I've heard a lot of people saying it was a kids film (Ep2), which I totally disagree with. Far too much story and love elements to keep kids interested. Not enough Jar Jar

[big spoilers]

especially liked the part where they introduced their new secret weapon plans at the end, mmm death star


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c0y0te

AS has been already stated.. it was a major improvement on TPM, but to be honest that's not difficult. TPM was a complete disaster.

However, from a plot perspective I do not think it was dark enough. It did show glimpses of 'darkness' with various scenes involving Anakin, however it still missed the mark by a mile if the objective was to demonstrate the start of the slide into the 'dark side'.

Musically - nothing came close to the dark compositions of 'Empire', and I would have suspected that Williams would want to foreshadow or at least indicate the darkness within the music, as a simple queue for the audience. It just didnt' happen however.

I was hoping for better / more engaging acting, but found it instead mostly wooden.

Overall a good film, entertaining and popcorn fun..., but taken in context of the trilogy and things to come, not quite the dark half I was expecting.

I does leave the emphasis on the third episode for Anakins slide, but I felt it should have been signposted more in ep. 2 so that we could engage fully with the character and actually give a ****. One thing all the original movies had was seriously well developed characters, that we all cared about. When they died, it was tragic, When they escaped it was wonderful.. but at no time was anyone indifferent.

Unfortunately with the new stuff Lucas seems to have lost the plot a bit, and a lot of people just don't get as engaged with the characters and the story.

I must say that I did enjoy the references in ep. 2 to future events, but it was not enough for me. I wanted more from Anakin, I wanted to care about his slide to the dark side, the way I did about his redepmtion in 'Jedi'.

I know that people always make the argument that we were all a lot younger when we saw the original 3 eps, but that argument is invalid for those of us who watch those films every year, and see something new in them each time.

Bottom line... ep 2 was popcorn fun, but still nowhere near the quality of the original 3.

c0y0te

prenton

1: Who ordered the Clone army? Forget his name
2: Did Obi Wan not say that the guy from Q1 dies before he ordered the clone army? Whats that about?
3: Are the Q1 guy, the chancellor and the emperor all the same guy?
4: Did he order the robot army as well?
5: Before the Jedis found out about the clone/robot army what was the emporers plans for his 2 armies?
6: If Count Duckula , sorry, Dooku was an ex Jedi turned to the dark side what didn't the Jedi just sort him out.
7: Anakin reminded me of Harry Endfields character of "Kevin", its soooo unfair.
8: For Anakin to turn to the dark side in the 3rd ep theres a lot of groud to cover. Ok, he got nasty and wiped out the village that killed his mother for revenge but he got married at the end and should be happy enough. He must slide very quickly in ep 3.
Also got his 2 children going into hiding story to cover. Thats a alot.
9: Why were they trying to kill Portmans character in the first place, she isn't the Queen anymore.
10: The council (Jar Jar) gave the power to the Chancellor but can they not just take it back when the war is over.

Thought it was pretty cool when they went to see Anakins mothers home and Anakins half brother who will raise Luke. Nice.

Sorry if these are really stupid questions.

Spiffing

Originally posted by The Corinthian
“No. You’ve got to be taking the p1ss!” Yet it worked well.

It was taking the p*ss though, he was leaping abot the whole fooking room like an acrobat, and when the fight ended he picked up his stick and started hobbling along!

This movies great though for ONE reason!:

Natalie Portman!

The Corinthian

SPOLERS - DO NOT READ!!!

10: The council (Jar Jar) gave the power to the Chancellor but can they not just take it back when the war is over.

Once you grant someone right of dictatorship, you're really kind of screwed - much of the storyline in episodes 1 - 3 are based loosely on the fall of the Roman Republic an rise of the Emperors. The Republic had long had the political device of temporary dictatorship in times of crisis, but this was often abused and 'lengthened'.

Roman emperors we not emperors as we would know the term (at least not at the begining), but 'dictators for life'.

Saruman

Originally posted by prenton

1: Who ordered the Clone army? Forget his name

Basically the emporor

2: Did Obi Wan not say that the guy from Q1 dies before he ordered the clone army? Whats that about?[/B]

See answer 1

3: Are the Q1 guy, the chancellor and the emperor all the same guy?[/B]

Yes

4: Did he order the robot army as well?[/B]

YEs

5: Before the Jedis found out about the clone/robot army what was the emporers plans for his 2 armies? [/B]

Nothing more than what happened.. he knew they would find out and his plans were to have absolute power... the beginning of being emporor

6: If Count Duckula , sorry, Dooku was an ex Jedi turned to the dark side what didn't the Jedi just sort him out. [/B]

They did not know he turned.. he just left as far as they knew

7: Anakin reminded me of Harry Endfields character of "Kevin", its soooo unfair.[/B]

True but he was barely out of puberty

8: For Anakin to turn to the dark side in the 3rd ep theres a lot of groud to cover. Ok, he got nasty and wiped out the village that killed his mother for revenge but he got married at the end and should be happy enough. He must slide very quickly in ep 3.
Also got his 2 children going into hiding story to cover. Thats a alot.[/B]

Rhetorical question.. you answered it yourself.

9: Why were they trying to kill Portmans character in the first place, she isn't the Queen anymore. [/B]

She was the most oppinionated senetor + it gave a good opening for the story.

10: The council (Jar Jar) gave the power to the Chancellor but can they not just take it back when the war is over.[/B]

Eh Hitler? Mussonlini? Castro? sadam? ... etc etc... easier eaid than done when he has got his army.


Hope these answers help

azezil

post will contain spoilers


I nearly fell off my chair laughing when i seen Yoda come in with the walking stick then star jumping around like a lunatic, and then his light sabre was green! a green growth emerging from his mid-section!! LMAO

I thought the story was developed well, Anakin is drifting ever closer to the dark side.

Over all a good film, 7/10.

GreenHell

SPOILER.

1: Who ordered the Clone army? Forget his name
Forgive my spelling Darth Sidious, eg Palantine

2: Did Obi Wan not say that the guy from Q1 dies before he ordered the clone army? Whats that about?

Heres my theory, Sidious became Palantine, faked his own death sort of thing.

3: Are the Q1 guy, the chancellor and the emperor all the same guy?

Yep

4: Did he order the robot army as well?

No that was the trade feds, the chancellor wants start a war so he can justify using the army that he ordered.

5: Before the Jedis found out about the clone/robot army what was the emporers plans for his 2 armies?

To fight one another, odds are the emperor forsaw this, he can do groovy things like that.

6: If Count Duckula , sorry, Dooku was an ex Jedi turned to the dark side what didn't the Jedi just sort him out.

The dark side has clouded the jedi, so they can't since the dark side until it unveils itself, they just thought he was a renegade senator.
7: Anakin reminded me of Harry Endfields character of "Kevin", its soooo unfair.
Well ya

8: For Anakin to turn to the dark side in the 3rd ep theres a lot of groud to cover. Ok, he got nasty and wiped out the village that killed his mother for revenge but he got married at the end and should be happy enough. He must slide very quickly in ep 3.
Also got his 2 children going into hiding story to cover. Thats a alot.

I think I know what happens, Portman will be killed and he will slide into the dark side, Doku will prolly kill her, he'll kill him and become Darth Vader.

9: Why were they trying to kill Portmans character in the first place, she isn't the Queen anymore.

But she is a senator and a senator against the creation of the grand army of the republic she wants to solve it through negociations

10: The council (Jar Jar) gave the power to the Chancellor but can they not just take it back when the war is over.

No, they have given him direct rule over the republic.

jonno

**********SPOILER MAYBE******************

I thought the love story was a refreshing subplot and worked well into the story although some of it could have been scripted better.

I agree with GreenHell on Anakin's slide to the dark side. He flipped so easily when his mother died. So if Portman dies he'll flip again. I think she's the only thing thta's holding him from the dark side at the moment. The love story also shows the contrast between Anakin's dark side and light side. It's an interesting development in the story.

I also agree that there's a hell of alot of ground to cover in the next episode to blend it in with Star Wars: A New Hope.

I loved the movie and hope the last trilogy in the story is made.
I think it's just getting better and better. Roll on Episode III.

GreenHell

One thing I'm looking forward to seeing is how the hell they kill all the Jedi, they have a smaller number now, but its the cream of the crop that has survived. Also who is going to take Samual L Jackson down.

prenton

That scene where all the Jedis decloak, power up their light sabres and pull a cool fighting pose before wading into the robots. Pure class.

GreenHell

Aye, my favourite scene in the film, I like the guy with the squid head.

Jackoman

Just saw it last night - thought it was pretty good. The love story did drag on a bit. I found everytime they faded from Obi wan back to Anakins scenes, I wanted them to go straight back to Obi Wan coz it was more interesting following what he was doing. I didnt think Lucas needed to go on that long.
I was really disappointed when they didnt show Anakin killing off all the Tuskin raiders - I thought it would have been deadly seeing him go berserk and slaughtering them all, showing how he's building up with such hatred.

The battle scenes were class, and unfortunately a friend had built up the Yoda fight so much that I was a bit disappointed when it only really lasted about 20 seconds. The creatures and the bug type ones in the end were all pretty amazing

They have pretty much explained everything now, the death star, Uncle Owen, C3P0, Bobba Fett - which was pretty funny, coz all those extras and fett were all from New Zealand which a mate I live with, from New Zealand, was laughing at coz they are all in soaps in New Zealand. Seems to be cost effective filming down under.

On the whole I thought it was a whole lot better than TPM. But you cant help but feel that there is still something lacking because they are spending so much time on the computer animations and special effects.

jonno

Me likes the bit when Sam L Jackson turned all 'Pulp Fiction like', pull out the light saber and says "This party's over". How does he do it so well?

I like the Jedi battle scene too - very well done.

Funnoest part of the movie is Yoda hobbling around the corner with the walkinfg stick and then opens a can of whoop ass on Dooku. Classic

Strong Yoda may not look but strong he is.

ButcherOfNog

the movie was mediocre at best, the actor playing anakin was woefull, there was zero chemistry between him and Portman. As for Yoda's fight scene, please, I laughed my ass off, its stupidly daft.

the film did look good, but having a crap actor in the main role ruined it.

smalltalker

You know who would have been better than Hayden Christensen?




Anyone!

Hell, I'm a girly, but even I could have played a better Anakin Skywalker.

I think he may have acting "issues". I read where he had to be told to stop making the swooshy noise when he was doing the scenes with the light sabres.

Yeah, I know, swooshy is not the correct term.

jonno

Ya I agree Christenson was very poor in the lead role. The final auditions for the part included him and Joshua Jackson. I personally would have liked to have seen Jackson in the role. I think he's a good drama actor and mioght have added more depth to Anakin. But be happy that Leo Di Caprio didn't make it to final auditions.

On the love story not working, I think it did. The only flaw was the scripting of the two characters in the the respective scenes (e.g "I truely truely love you" wasn't the best line ever). But i didn't see a problem with the chemistry.

GreenHell

So did Mcgregor when he did TPM.

I thought the film was good, mainly because it filled in the gaps in the SW universe and had brillant effects, I mean the cloning faclility!!

Anakin played a whining bastard(, his character was after all only 18/19 and because he was a jedi, had to keep away from the girlies

smalltalker

Originally posted by GreenHell
Anakin played a whining bastard(, his character was after all only 18/19 and because he was a jedi, had to keep away from the girlies

Girlies were the least of his problems, I think. They really should have filmed that scene where he's dreaming about his mother with his hands above the covers.

Just an observation.:)

It had some great moments, nonetheless - my first Star Wars film ever!

Saruman

Back to question 4 for a sec... The trade federation did order the droids yes but it was Duku who was controlling them and it was the emperor (palpatine) who was controlling him.. also he was directly controlling the trade federation in ep1 so it all comes down to being palpatine ordered both armies

prenton

Star Wars Characters Index

Amidala Jango Fett
Obi Wan Ken Obi
Palpatine not a very nice man
Anakin Skywalker


very infomative, you can find the rest the characters from the first line. No mention of Count Dooku though

The Corinthian

Originally posted by smalltalker
They really should have filmed that scene where he's dreaming about his mother with his hands above the covers.

Yes, that was a very disturbing image...

Originally posted by Saruman
The trade federation did order the droids yes but it was Duku who was controlling them and it was the emperor (palpatine) who was controlling him.. also he was directly controlling the trade federation in ep1 so it all comes down to being palpatine ordered both armies

As I said earlier Palpatine Owns. :cool:

GreenHell

Originally posted by Saruman
Back to question 4 for a sec... The trade federation did order the droids yes but it was Duku who was controlling them and it was the emperor (palpatine) who was controlling him.. also he was directly controlling the trade federation in ep1 so it all comes down to being palpatine ordered both armies

Yea Palpatine controlled the Trade Feds in TPM but the Droid army is referred to as being battle hardned by Qui ginn, so it stands to reason that the army exsisted before Palpatine started his move for power, also Palpatine is Darth Sidious who was a good Jedi, the trade feds exsisted before he turned to the dark side.

He used them because they had the umm robot power.

Ping Chow Chi

I thought the acting was dire - and the on-screen chimestry the worse since 'Romeo Must Die'

It wasn't the worse film ever made by a long shoot, but conisidering the potential for the film I was very very disapointed.

Practical

I had a number of problems with the film , everything below is my opinion so dont flare me with quotes :]

1. I found the acting rubbish

2. The quotes etc were so corny "I dont like sand , its rough and gets everywhere , not like you , your soft"

3. Till this day I dont inderstand why was picked to play Obi Wan Ken Obi , I find him too dull and he doesn't suit the character

4. Once again we seen very little action from the Bounty Hunter

5. I love Yodas fight scene but I felt it could of been longer , I hope in the next episode we will see more saber skills from him

6. I found the Love Scenes very boring

I know this film is for everyone but I just want to see if anyone agrees

ykt0di9url7bc3

THESE ARE MY


EP1
palpatine forces the trade fed into hostile action, and becomes chancelloer in process, he now has his own personal army ordered (clone warriors)

EP2
palpatine has the trade fed allign with sepratists (which he encouraged to leave), and has them build an army
he gets the jedi to investigate the trade fed planet and thus force the jedi to protect the republic and force the senate/jedi to acept the clone army due to the emergency of the situation

EP3
due to palpatine controlling both sides he uses this war to destroy the jedi and the trade federation, leaving him with absolute power and a huge fu<k off army

dun dun di dun, dun di dun, dun di dun.....

a good film

a class plot, had me thinking all they way through the film

but have the juedi ever heard of Sun tzu, a bit too evian for me

GreenHell

Originally posted by Practical
I had a number of problems with the film , everything below is my opinion so dont flare me with quotes :]

1. I found the acting rubbish

2. The quotes etc were so corny "I dont like sand , its rough and gets everywhere , not like you , your soft"

3. Till this day I dont inderstand why was picked to play Obi Wan Ken Obi , I find him too dull and he doesn't suit the character

4. Once again we seen very little action from the Bounty Hunter

5. I love Yodas fight scene but I felt it could of been longer , I hope in the next episode we will see more saber skills from him

6. I found the Love Scenes very boring

I know this film is for everyone but I just want to see if anyone agrees

I'll just flare you with one big one so

Acting wasn't fantasic but it wasn't even close to the worst I've seen.

Quotes... its an action/something/something film what do you expect Shakespeare

Mcgregor is the perfect Jedi, relax not emmotional, trusting in the force

The Fett family have had a lot to do with the sw saga but there really only there to push on the story, although I'd like to see the development of Boda odds are his a bitter little ****er now.

Aye loved to have seen more of yoda's lightsabre skills... hopefully next movie, possible the most enjoyable part of this movie along with the massive fight in the arena.

Love scenes, small part of the film really. There love should be a major part of the next one.

jonno

Originally posted by Practical
I had a number of problems with the film , everything below is my opinion so dont flare me with quotes :]

1. I found the acting rubbish

2. The quotes etc were so corny "I dont like sand , its rough and gets everywhere , not like you , your soft"

3. Till this day I dont inderstand why was picked to play Obi Wan Ken Obi , I find him too dull and he doesn't suit the character

4. Once again we seen very little action from the Bounty Hunter

5. I love Yodas fight scene but I felt it could of been longer , I hope in the next episode we will see more saber skills from him

6. I found the Love Scenes very boring

I know this film is for everyone but I just want to see if anyone agrees

1. The acting was very good except for Hayden Christenson - he was below average. I didn't have any complaints about the others though.

2. As i said earlier the love scenes between Anakin and Padme were very poorly scripted(perhaps new territory for Lucas)

3. I thought MacGregor was excellent in the role,which was new for him also.

4. The bounty hunter played his part in the plot. THere was not much need for him after that. There was no need for more action from him in the film.

5. Agreed. Yoda kicked ass big time. We might see more skills from him. But what we got was sufficient to get to know our little green friend kicked ass.

6. As i said they were poorly scripted but they were a very important part of the story. I didn't think they were boring, I thought they were a refreshing break from the other storylines. (Maybe it's just me)

Winters

All i can say is:

YODA HAS A LIGHTSABER!

daveJAM

But isnt the emperor a Sith? And Palpatine doesnt have those mad Sith eyes. Or does he? I didnt pay too much attention.

jonno

Originally posted by Davjm
But isnt the emperor a Sith? And Palpatine doesnt have those mad Sith eyes. Or does he? I didnt pay too much attention.

Since when do Siths have "mad eyes"? Sidious has them because he's so old.
Dooku doesn't have the "mad eyes" and he's a sith aprentice.

Palpatine is Darth Sidious, it's the only way it makes sense. We'll find out in ep. 3 anyway.

Samson

One point to think about...

Two of you have suggested that the major factor that turns Anakin to the dark side is the death of Padme Amidala.

However, thinking about this I'm not so sure.
Didn't Obi Wan tell Luke in episode six that he had to hide the children from Anakin ?
Therefore, he must have turned to the dark side before the children were born.
Hence, Padme was still alive when he turned.

Am I right or am I missing something ?

Samson

Originally posted by prenton
very infomative, you can find the rest the characters from the first line. No mention of Count Dooku though

http://www.starwars.com/databank/character/countdooku/index.html

Practical

Aye ,
I have to agree with most of the comments there.

Oh just one quiestion : I heard from my mates there is gonna be 3 more episodes of Star Wars in the future [ 7 , 8 , 9 ]
Is this true ?

daveJAM

Darth Maul had red and yellow rings in his eyes and so does Darth Sidious in the original trilogy. But Palpatine doesnt. I agree that it makes sense for Palpatine to be the emperor though.

GreenHell

Originally posted by Practical
Aye ,
I have to agree with most of the comments there.

Oh just one quiestion : I heard from my mates there is gonna be 3 more episodes of Star Wars in the future [ 7 , 8 , 9 ]
Is this true ?

Aye Lucas was the scripts to 9 movies, if there going to make the final trilogy hopefully it won't take 25 years

_CreeD_

Taking going to the movies just for the overall experience it was enjoyable enough.
But trying to analyse the movie I'd have to say it was pretty disappointing.

Plus -
Great Visuals and sountrack.
They've done a good job of making Ewan get into Alec Guinness' character style.
You can see the frustration and anger in Anakin building bit by bit.
The basic plot is sound, and provides a strong base for the next trilogy.

Minus -
Wee Awful Annakin acting.
Plodding love interest.
Incredibly bad script. Sloppy dialogue and a lot of repetition. For me this is what ruined the whole movie.
Lazy character links - each new Jedi seems to have trained the last. Yoda -> Duku -> Qui Gon -> Obi Wan -> Anakin. It's so inbred the Jedi must have come from Alabama.



And that the hell is with everyones wierd obsession with the Fett's (probably MTVs new live in series). Boba had a minor role in the later series. Get over it .

koneko

The Fetts were great Lucas isn't even sure how they became such a cult fave. It's partly the reason he added Jango into Episode 2 (though he admitted he may have done so otherwise).

Not sure how they'll work this into Episode 3, but apparantly another old character is coming back. Probably Chewbacca.

The story after Episode 6 is pretty interesting, read it up on the web. I've heard the Ep 7,8,9 rumour too, but not sure how true it is.

prenton

Originally posted by GreenHell


... Palpatine is Darth Sidious who was a good Jedi...

GreenHell, how do you know this?
How come so many good Jedis go to the dark site? The Jedi council should set up a recovery program like the AA to help them

Saruman

The Sith dont have "Mad Eyes"

Darth Maul had them but that would be a racial thing... Vader did not have mad eyes when his mask was taken off... nor does anakin now in the new films... Palpatine does not have them but he im assuming is using the force to make him appear as just plain palpatine and not the sith lord...

GreenHell

Originally posted by prenton


GreenHell, how do you know this?
How come so many good Jedis go to the dark site? The Jedi council should set up a recovery program like the AA to help them

Because strong in the force I am mmhmmm, not a lot if Jedi's can go to the dark side, since there can only be 2 in the sith the master and the apprentice, if there where any more they would be kicking the snot out of each other .

EvilGeorge

How come senator palpatines skin hasn't started decaying yet ?

From what I remember the Dark side of the force corrupts the body which is why darth vadar had to were the suit - he was falling to bits - the emperor in 4,5 and 6 was actually a clone of the original.

GreenHell

Palpantine doesn't use the clone he makes until after the orginal trilogy, when the empire is getting the crap hammered out of it.

Pepe LeFrits

I could be wrong, but apparently the reason Vader wears the mask etc is because in Episode3

Anakin fights Obi-wan on the edge of a volcano, Obi-wan throws him into it, and then returns as Vader with mask etc to sustain him.

Kalina

The love story was a little bit tedious, but it is neccesary to be true to Episodes 4-6.
Anakins acting was plain terrible but he's a fox so it makes it bearable
The storyline was a lot better than The Phantom Menace and thankfully there was less of Jar Jar Binks!!