If they had filmed the book exactly as portrayed, "Sith" would have been rated R. It was brutally violent.
Everybody got lightsabered through the skull. Not just bug-creatures like on geonosis, but humanoids' heads chopped off. Like Kit, Saesee and Agen in the attack in the chancellors office. They all die horribly. In the movie it's just a quick swish swish, and it happened so fast I didn't even see which parts of their bodies were hit, but nothing above the neck.
Originally posted by chinabing
If they had filmed the book exactly as portrayed, "Sith" would have been rated R. It was brutally violent.Everybody got lightsabered through the skull. Not just bug-creatures like on geonosis, but humanoids' heads chopped off. Like Kit, Saesee and Agen in the attack in the chancellors office. They all die horribly. In the movie it's just a quick swish swish, and it happened so fast I didn't even see which parts of their bodies were hit, but nothing above the neck.
Yes, it is important to remember that SW has never been rated R. RoTS was the only movie to earn a PG-13 rating, most likely due to Anakin's immolation. The rest kept a PG, and it needed to be that way to have the full audience.
Unfortunately, this means that sometimes adults are disappointed in a scene that was obviously intended to play out differently but had to be edited/changed for the sake of the children. 🙁
Originally posted by chinabing
If they had filmed the book exactly as portrayed, "Sith" would have been rated R. It was brutally violent.Everybody got lightsabered through the skull. Not just bug-creatures like on geonosis, but humanoids' heads chopped off. Like Kit, Saesee and Agen in the attack in the chancellors office. They all die horribly. In the movie it's just a quick swish swish, and it happened so fast I didn't even see which parts of their bodies were hit, but nothing above the neck.
Wurd! That arrest sequence in the novel was bad-ass! It had good dialogue, and Kit Fisto put up a decent struggle and died with a smile.
And that was some fukt-up shit how Dooku called Lord Maul a "beast" and an "animal". whatta speciesist......
My favorite line in the novel:
Shu Mai: PLEASE! Lord Sidious said we would be rewarded handsomely!
Darth Vader: I AM your reward! Am I not handsome!?
...and then he decapitates her!
😆
Of course no SW movie has been rated R. But my point was how brutal and violent the book was. I mean, a lightsaber blade through the forehead? please... even in a book I don't want to read that. Let's face it, through the forehead is more brutal than the way Qui-gon bought the farm.
I just didn't like the really violent parts of the novel, it was like I was reading the novelization of Pulp Fiction.
I liked the Dooku parts in the beginning, that was very fun to read, he was very good in the book. But then the book spoils the whole palpatine/sidous development, destroying the drama of its revelation to Anakin... and to us.
I thought the line to shu mai was a little over the top. Zingers don't do a lot for me.
Well, never read a novelization before you go to its movie, that's asking for trouble. The movie itself is the main thing, the novelization should definitely come after because the book is based on and elaborated from the movie. Reading a book first that was a real book is wise, however.
I agree tho Elonora, I'd have liked to see more of what I liked about the book in the movie, more of palpatine's machinations. But true there was a lot of that. I'd have liked to see more of Anakin's turn to Vader in Palp's office.
Posted by Chinabing
"Well, never read a novelization before you go to its movie, that's asking for trouble. The movie itself is the main thing, the novelization should definitely come after because the book is based on and elaborated from the movie. Reading a book first that was a real book is wise, however."
Note to self: "Watch movie first THEN read the damn book"
Originally posted by DiamondBullets
Wurd! That arrest sequence in the novel was bad-ass! It had good dialogue, and Kit Fisto put up a decent struggle and died with a smile.And that was some fukt-up shit how Dooku called Lord Maul a "beast" and an "animal". whatta speciesist......
My favorite line in the novel:
Shu Mai: PLEASE! Lord Sidious said we would be rewarded handsomely!
Darth Vader: I AM your reward! Am I not handsome!?
...and then he decapitates her!
😆
I loved that too, and when Nute Gunray (I think) says Lord Sideous had said they would be left in peace, Vader says, the transmission was garbled, he said you would be left in pieces!