Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith won two Saturn Awards yesterday: for Best Science Fiction Film and for Best Score. Good choices!

Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith has been nominated for 3 MTV Movie Awards:

The following is the 4th in a series of articles originally produced on GalaxyFarAway.com in the fall of 1999, coinciding with the release of Star Wars Episode I in India.

Duel of the Fates: Sanskrit Lyrics

Korah Matah Korah Rahtahmah
Korah Rahtamah Yoodhah Korah
Korah Syahdho Rahtahmah Daanyah
Korah Keelah Daanyah
Nyohah Keelah Korah Rahtahmah
Syadho Keelah Korah Rahtahmah
Korah Daanyah Korah Rahtahmah
Korah Daanyah Korah Rahtahmah
Nyohah Keelah Korah Rahtahmah
Syadho Keelah Korah Rahtahmah
Korah
Korah Matah Korah Rahtahmah
Korah Daanyah Korah Rahtahmah
Nyohah Keelah Korah Rahtahmah
Syadho Keelah Korah Rahtahmah
KorahSource : The Sheet Music for Duel of the Fates

What does it mean?
According to John

The following is the third in a series of articles originally produced on GalaxyFarAway.com in the fall of 1999, coinciding with the release of Star Wars Episode I in India.

Newspaper clippings

The following is the second in a series of articles originally produced on GalaxyFarAway.com in the fall of 1999, coinciding with the release of Star Wars Episode I in India.

From the Lines
Hi! I (DevanJedi) just saw it in Hindi; and I must say, the dubbing was done well. I knew every line in English, so could tell the difference. It was well done; but for a bit of a heavy dose of  Hindi! Another problem was that the ‘profecy of the chosen one’ was reffered to as ’ chosen by God’! God? In Star Wars?

In English : Qui Gon: He is the chosen one.
In Hindi : Qui Gon : He has been sent by God.

The voices were well done;

The following is the first in a series of articles originally produced on GalaxyFarAway.com in the fall of 1999, coinciding with the release of Star Wars Episode I in India.

GalaxyFarAway.com – The Only Indian Star Wars Fan Site

Releasing in India – October 22nd, 1999

Very interesting Picture from Times of India :
Vajpayee and Musharraf in Star Wars Episode I : The Phantom Menace!

This story comes via Slashdot from the desk of Ghent on the new Star Wars blogs. Ghent’s 7-year old son had interesting observations regarding the original trilogy after having watched the prequels:
“Look… Obi-Wan is pretending he doesn’t know R2-D2.”
“Is Chewbacca the only Wookiee that survives the Clone Wars?” (with great concern)
A lot of it is quite unique and questions I definitely didn’t have and will take a clear minded rewatching to fully appreciate.

UPDATE: $50mn OPENING DAY
Can we sink the Titanic? It’s too early to say, but many other records are going to be rewritten within the next few days as Episode III takes on the world.

This one- this movie- is for you. Personally. It is a big fat present with a bow on top specially gift wrapped for you. You who feared, doubted and secretly dreaded that the prequels wouldn’t live up to everything you had dreamt of. Henceforth there will be no more Star Wars movies and this one is our parting gift. SPOILER FREE

It’s 3AM and I just got back; I will keep this short. The last 45 minutes of this movie are the most satisfying in Star Wars history. Remember the kid inside you that heard Vader say ‘The circle is now complete’ and wondered what it was all about? Remember wondering who that old crazy Ben was and how he got there? This film is for that child; the child that wondered all those things.

The film is not perfect- parts of the first half hour had me squirming in my seat. But there is a moment in the film- and I will leave you to discover which moment it is- after which the movie spins into overdrive and doesn’t recover

The end is upon us. In five hours, I will be sitting in a packed theatre full of the faithful; and in 2.5 hours from then it will be over. Faithful readers, this site shall live on. And many others like it. And out there in the world children will keep discovering the films for the first time as Star Wars enters in to pop cultural mythology once again. And people will ask “Were you there?” And you can proudly say, “Yes, I was there. And loved every moment of it!”

Expect a review within 12 hours. Thank you for listening…
Leave your thoughts, comments and reviews as a comment below.

As I type this, people are watching The Phantom Menace after having sat through the original trilogy since 06:00 AM this morning. The evening will end with Revenge of the Sith; but they’ve had fans, costumes, the Royal Philharmonic playing the themes and all kinds of general mayhem. The best report online is at BBC where the reporter is logging the activities as they happen. Not during the movies though!

The official web site of the Cannes Film Festival has a lot of cool pictures of the screening. Natalie Portman looks very different with her shaved head for the upcoming Wachowski brothers’ movie. George Lucas had the following to say about the political context of the film: “Because this is the back story, and one of the main features of back story was to explain how the Republic became the Empire, at the time I did it, that was really during the Nixon years and the Vietnam War, the issue was how does a democracy turn

Just saw their early review on TV; overall they love the movie but are not impressed with the dialogue. Following points stood out from their review:

• Overall probably the best Star Wars since Empire.
• Dialogue is clunky, pedestrian. Dramatic moments lose some of the effect because of limited power of the dialogue.
• Though we know how the movie is going to end, the movie does well to keep the suspense going.
• Overall a good, fun movie in the tradition of the old space operas.

To put this in perspective, Ebert loved Phantom and was not impressed with Attack of the Clones and was a great admirer of the original trilogy.

Two weeks until the final film of the saga! I’ve missed out on a lot of the pre-movie hype this time (life intervened), but that has left me absolutely spoiler-free. I don’t know anything besides the names of the toys that came out last month. No planet names, no character names (besides Grievous) and not much else. All I know is this: Anakin will become Darth Vader!

Send me your Celebration III experiences, pictures and stuff! Also, anyone in the Boston area going to a midnight screening? Write me!