We've got tickets to an 8 o'clock showing this evening. I orginally bought tix for last night but had a work dinner I had to attend so I changed it. I'm not particularly into seeing it but the S/O is.
we went last night. I was completely underwhelmed. Ani & Padma couldn't have had less chemistry if they had been in 2 different movies.
She went from correcting the queen and telling her Ani wasn't a jedi yet and overruling his choice on where to hide to letting him kiss her....huh??? Did I miss the part where she went from being dismisive and curt to starry eyed? That was the most disapointing part of the movie for me.
I did enjoy the light saber fight at the end. Yoda kicks ass!
FYI, they already have a release date for the DVD/video. November 26 - just in time for Christmas!
Also, for any Lord of the Rings fans, there are actually 2 releases of the DVD. The basic movie and extras, 2 disc set, will be released in August. But if you can wait, there is a 2nd release scheduled for November that will include a LOT of extras - 5 disc set.
I join the ranks of the underwhelmed here. The best thing for me the movie had to offer was an awesome array of creative aliens. I loved the winged warriors, but overall, the movie did nothing for me, and I am a star wars fan. I don't think it was so much the movie, but the actors who fell short the young annikan and the senator for one. But it did have good special effects and we were in a very uncrowded theater so that helped.