STAR WARS EPISODE III: REVENGE OF THE SITH | FIRST TIME WATCHING | MOVIE REACTION 

Cassie: "If anyone tries to hurt babies..." Me: "Uh-oh"

"You were my brother, Anakin! I loved you!" - such a powerful delivery, just rips your heart out.

Can we appreciate the fact that Hayden Christensen and Ewan McGregor actually did the fight scene together. No stuntmen and they did it at full speed because they learned the choreography perfectly.

Hayden actually acted Anakin about ad perfectly as you could ask. He did as good as one could with the corny lines, but he also absolutely nailed a young conflicted person. Don’t forget that he was a slave and basically raised to not show emotion too.

The biggest thing I missed watching this and was later pointed out to me in a RU-vid breakdown of this movie was that when palpatine told Anakin to kill Dooku Ani and said he shouldn’t because it wasn’t the Jedi way and Palpatine says he’s too dangerous to be kept alive. When mace Windu is standing over Palpatine and Anakin tells him he can’t be killed, mace Windu says he’s too dangerous to be kept alive. In that moment Anakin convinced himself there’s zero difference between the Jedi and Sith and that’s what solidified his turn

"Their dialogue sometimes... It's like I wrote it." I felt that.

Also! A note: General Grevious doesn't have a red lightsaber because he isnt a sith. He's technically a cyborg warrior. What does he hunt? Jedi. The lightsabers he has are heavily implied to be stolen off of the dead jedi he killed.

Christopher Lee's acting is so fucking good. When Dooku looks at Palpatine ordering Anakin to kill him, the look of shock and betrayal on his face says everything.

One of my favorite little easter eggs at 12:36 when Obi-wan says "Goodbye, old friend". That is the last time the two of them see each other before Anakin turns to the dark side. Obi is standing in the light, and Anakin is standing in shadow. That line just hits harder when you realize that he is actually saying goodbye to his best friend/brother without really knowing it.

Padme: Anakin, you're breaking my heart. Anakin: Silly Padme, it's pronounced "neck".

Fun fact: Anakin says Obi-Wans fate will be the same as theirs, and all three of them died on death stars

It's tragic that the last thing Anakin's mother, wife and mentor said to him before he became Darth Vader was that they loved him

“Shouldn’t they be red.” Funny you mention that: he gets them from Jedi he’s killed. His precious *collection*

John Williams truly fired on every cylinder he had with this trilogy.

When Anakin screams: 'I hate you!' at his best friend, Obi Wan it rips my heart out! He has truly turned to the dark side.

"So this is how liberty dies... with thunderous applause" is one of my favourite lines in cinema history

22:23 "I would believe that love could turn him around, but I know it doesn't" Here it doesn't, but his love for Luke is what turns him around in the end.

"I sense Lord Vader is in danger." "Stop calling him that," she says, wearing a Darth Vader tshirt! ☺

Fun fact: in the "making of..." special features, they said that the final fight between Anakin and Obi- wan was filmed without any timing or frame rate shenanigans: "they trained that hard, and they *are* that fast." Great scene of two sword masters going all-out balls-to-the-wall full tilt against each other.

I just finished watching the first six reaction videos. Watching the journey from “meh, they are just pew pew movies” to the passionate emotional investment by the end was spectacular. It made my heart smile watching someone fall in love with this universe.

There's actually so many intricate things to unpack when it comes to Anakin's downfall. This was 13 years of high expectations, repressed emotions, untreated trauma, adult manipulation, several notable losses, extreme anxiety, and overall disillusionment with Jedi, all culminating on the shoulders of one mentally ill man. To the point where that man finally breaks and loses his mind. Anakin was a good man dealt a really shit hand. By the end of it all, he was desperately trying to justify what he'd done until that final shred of humanity was literally burned off of him. At that point, all he was left with was a torture chamber that kept him alive, and the man that might as well have put him there. Sad shit man...

Cassie: “He’s like a robot Dracula.” Grievous: “I AM NOT A DROID!”

19:10 For those who aren't aware, at this moment, Hayden Christensen yelled boo to startle the kid.

Great reaction. Took me watching a few of your videos to appreciate what makes your reaction videos so great.... You're not narrating the movie, you're narrating the emotions. This is what a "reaction" video is supposed to be.

Cassie: "he's not going to kill the younglings is he?" Me: "This is where the fun begins"

Something to remember, Anakin's been manipulated by Palpatine since he was 9 years old, to the point he viewed Palpatine as a father who was the only one who truly understood him. So after 15 years of influence, he was much more willing to do what Palpatine wanted. What's more is that the moment Mace Windu said "He's too dangerous to be kept alive", that told Anakin the Jedi were exactly like the Sith since Palpatine said the same thing right before pushing Anakin to kill Dooku.

*Anakin starts strangling Obi-Wan* "NOOOOO ANAKIN THINK OF YOUR MOTHER 😱😭😱😭!!!" Goddamn I love this channel soo much 😊

"Anakin, you're breaking my heart" Me too, when you say it like that 😭😭😭

Edit: Cassie don't view the replies to my comment for the sake of spoilers :) It's up to you, but the stand alone Star Wars Story "Rogue One" fits in nicely as the next movie to watch, before the sequel trilogy. It's set between episodes 3 and 4. Oh and it's actually good!

The missing piece that's tripping you up from understanding Anakin after he becomes Vader, when you're like "but he knows this isn't true," is that the dark side is inherently corrupting. Once you let it in, it changes you and twists you. Once he started using the dark side, you see how quickly he went from "save Padme" to "rule the galaxy." That's why.

This movie is so much sadder when you've watched the clone wars series and it shows how much obi wan and Anakin have been through together. Also how good Anakin was and even had an apprentice and his bond and separation from his apprentice which also contributed to his progression to the dark side.

The sith have no room in their minds for compassion and love, they only think of themselves. In the end the biggest deceit of the dark side was that it tricked Anakin into believing that he did it for Padme, when in truth the dark side only gave him room for himself and his quest for power. And Palpatine knew this and used it, he used Anakin’s love to destroy him and turn him into his lap dog. It’s tragic.

To this day, Vader's birth and first breath is still the most intense cinema moment I've ever experienced. A 800 places cinema was SILENT AS A CEMETARY until the iconic breathing. And everyone tensed and their seats, getting chills. I heard a general whispering like 'and so Anakin Skywalker really became Darth Vader'

Just hearing "the good guys are always supposed to triumph over evil" makes me remember r why I love this movie so much. Because it was the rare time we get to see the bad guys actually be threatening and win

My favorite thing about watching her react to watching all of the Star Wars movies fresh for the first time is that she is completely not jaded about the whole franchise. Too often the worst thing about Star Wars is the fanbase and how at large no one is ever happy with the direction the series goes in one way or another. It's super refreshing to just watch someone take it all in and take it for what it's worth the good and the bad.

"What if the democracy we thought we were protecting no longer exists, and we're serving the very evil we swore to destroy?" That hit close to home.

Cassie's reaction to this movie may be the best I've seen. Her raw emotion and attachment to this story was spot on how a new fan should take this movie. She's probably my favorite reactor right now and I'm subscribed to a bunch of them!!! NEXT STOP... ROGUE ONE!!!

Something you need to understand about the dark side, is that it warps your mind. Unreasonable things suddenly seem reasonable. It can grant you incredible powers, but basically at the cost of your soul. It's a devil's bargain. Anakin's opinions flipped around so fast and he started rationalizing everything because the dark side fosters, encourages and nurtures all the worst impulses within you and brings them to the front. You know how when you get really angry or upset and you just don't see straight until you calm down? The dark side is like having that on 100% of the time with almost no way out. You can relinquish the dark side, as we saw Vader do at the end of Episode 6, but it's an act of incredible will, like quitting a powerful drug cold turkey--you have to first recognize it's a problem, and the dark side usually prevents you from doing so.

Anakin was probably already dealing with ptsd from his years of fighting in the clone wars and that made it easier for Emperor Palpatine and the dark side to corrupt his mind. I think the reason for Anakin’s quick switch in moral character was because the dark side was already growing inside his mind, his fear of more loss in his life, and the fact that the dark side is like an intense mind altering drug that controls you the more you give in to it.

The reason Anakin seemed to give in so quickly at the end is that the Dark Side bent then broke Anakin's will with the help of the emperor. Remember what Vader said to Luke, you don't know the power of the dark side "I must obey."

"he was deceived by a lie...." That shows that Obi Wan at least "understands" what happened to Anakin. That's good. he doesn't just suddenly consider him damaged and evil.

So the psychology of Anakin/Vader is one of my favorite parts of Star Wars. Anakin had MAJOR abandonment issues after being taken from his mother at a young age, losing Qui-Gon, and watching his mother die. All Anakin wanted was to loved. He felt oppressed by the Jedi for refusing him a place on the council, and the higher ups had issues with him being there (Yoda said he was too old, Windu didn't like his arrogance or the prophecy). He was also raised by Obi-Wan, who was barely an adult when he had to play the role of both a father and a teacher to young Anakin. He is constantly called young and an apprentice by other Jedi, and is under constant pressure to be a great Jedi. However, he doesn't really want that. He wants his mother's love, and he latches onto Padme as a surrogate due to her presence in his childhood and her nature. Padme is a very loving and maternal person, and it's exactly what he sees in her. The fear of going through the pain of losing his mother again is something he will not go through again, and if that means killing the people who stifled him, took him away from his mother (whom they did nothing to save), and tried to kill the one person who made him feel powerful and in control of his life, so be it. Anakin is blinded by the promises of Palpatine, and starts to see the Dark Side as a new path he can take towards power and greatness. Vader's actions between the trilogies is interesting. In the comics, he shows no regard or respect for anyone besides the Emperor, and starts fights with imperial officers just to get a fight. He is a man with nothing left to lose, and it shows. After finding out that Padme's child survived, he suddenly has hope again. Luke isn't just an apprentice to him, it's his chance at having a family again. It also serves to distance himself further from the Jedi, who even after death denied him a family again. Finding out about Leia as his daughter would be the same thing again. It's when he sees Luke being tortured by the Emperor that Vader finally realizes what happened to him. Luke is all that remains of Padme, and he won't lose her again. So he kills the man who trained him and saved him to save his wife's legacy. His final wish is to see his face one last time with his own eyes, and to die in peace, because he doesn't feel worthy of living anymore. He had done so much wrong in his life, and knew the New Republic would not allow him to live anyways, so better to die looking upon his son.

If you think she is shocked, imagine my face when watching this movie, after 6 seasons of clone wars. But man is this a great Star Wars movie. A little bit let down by the prequel problems like acting and so on, but overall, Anakin's fall is an amazingly dark and tragic journey. Someone who fights for love, and doesn't want to lose anyone, ends up becoming a dark lord, who is unable to love, and has lost everyone. It also makes his final moments in Return of The Jedi, so much more heartwarming. Despite all that monster has done, Luke puts his life on the line, and leaves it up to him, and he ends up doing the right thing.

This movie and the prequels make anakin's redemption even more satisfying

i love how christopher lee is such a good actor there was no cgi for his dismemberment, he's just that good, he got up and walked away after, fully formed

"I just want him to be dead!" Sidious: "Gooooood. Gooooood. Embrace your hatred!"

You must realize that yes, Palpatine manipulated Anakin, but more importantly he manipulated the Jedi. He used them against themselves. And by doing so Anakin was never really accepted or trusted by them, which is why he could believe the lie. Remember, from the beginning they didn't want him, and the person he respected was giving him everything he wanted. A cautionary tale for our real lives.

Something truly amazing about this movie is if you watch the weather/time of day it goes hand in hand with how Anakin changes throughout the movie.

Imagine, i watched the movies for the first time during Covid without knowing ANYTHING about Star Wars, only knew that Vader was the vilain in the old movies, but nothing else (not even that there was a Luke + Leia Skywalkers). The fact here is that instead of starting with episode IV, i decided to watch them in chronological order, therefore i started with the Phantom Menace.... I could not believe what i was watching when i got to The Revenge of the Sith, i was loving Anakin´s evolution as a Jedi, and thought he was going to be the one fighting Vader in Episodes IV-VI... trust me, it took me weeks to recover from this movie, but still love to recall how i surprised i was when watching it....

This commentary is hilarious: “Ok we’re riding dragons now” General Grievous loses his hand, “oh this guys a noob” 😂😂😂

"if anyone hurts babies" I HAD to sit up in my chair and wait for the temple attack xD

I love how invested you've become.. calling Kodi, Kodi. Your actual reactions are genuine. Its incredible. Thank you.

When the Emperor calls Anakin 'Lord Vader' and you say "Stop calling him that". I love how you get so invested in the story, it's why I keep watching you 🥰

"Shouldn't they be red?" The lightsabers aren't red because Gen. Grievous had kept them as trophies of the Jedi he has defeated in battle. Watch the animated 2003 _'Clone Wars'_ miniseries and the animated 2008+ _'Clone Wars'_ series, which are set between the events of Episode II and this film to learn more about General Grievous.

10:44 "He's like a girl." 🤣💀 Padme: "What's wrong?" Anakin: "Nothing. I'm fine."

I remember my mom taking me and my sister to see this when I was 11 years old, and my God I was loving every minute of it! Not my first SW movie I saw in the theater, that was Episode 2. But I have the most memory of seeing Episode 3.

You should really watch Rogue One next. It falls between this and Episode IV: A New Hope and ties into Episode IV so well. Also, it's by far the best Star Wars movie of the Disney era.

There is an animated series called The Clone Wars that tells the story of how Anakin becomes evil more in detail. The most interesting thing about The Clone Wars however, is that it makes you wonder if the Jedi really are the good guys or not. There is a RU-vid video called "How Liberty Dies: The Politics of Star Wars" that is really worth checking out.

It was like running into an deadly storm - you knew what will come but you could not turn around. I CAN FEEL YOUR ANGER

One of my favourite SW films. When this came out in 2005 we all thought this was the last one. What a chilling scene to end on with John Williams score, baby Luke fast asleep and a sunset. Amazing ending.

Sixteen years onwards this film still stabs at the heart. I’m sure everyone who loved this film is keen to see the new Kenobi series.

Cassie... your reaction to this was very spot on ... Now you must see Rogue One... it simply bridges the gap in a great way, between episodes 3 and 4...

Fun fact! When Ewan McGregor said the line to Padme about seeing footage of Anakin killing younglings he covers his mouth with his hand because he couldn't stop laughing every time he said it

You nailed it on the head. The prequel stories were A+ with C dialog.

10:36 "Nothing. Again. He's like a girl." I AM DECEASED. This is why I love watching reaction videos. I've seen this stuff so many times (often a long time ago), I forgot what happened the first time I watched it, and it's fun to see someone discover the joy/horror of it

One of Vader's most emotional moments was in the comics after the first death star was destroyed. Vader ordered Boba Fett to hunt down and kill the pilot who destroyed the death star, (Luke Skywalker). Boba Fett failed but returned to Vader with a name... Skywalker. Anakin realized not only did Padme give birth but that Sidious misled him about padme's death.

6:58 I've heard that pilots say a good landing is any landing you can walk away from - even if it's a crash landing.

Sidious is able to mask his presence in the force. Even Plaguesis his master said when he first met Palpatine that he was like a shadow in the force. Plus the Jedi did have their temple on a former Sith site essentially and this further corrupted their abilities to sense Palpatine. Only Mace was really to catch onto Palpatine and Anakins potential in the darkside. Yoda was slightly suspicious of Palpatine as well though.

I'm so proud honestly. Look how far she's come: from knowing nothing about Star Wars to guessing plot points fans have been pondering over for years. So proud 🥲

Palpatine: "Dew it!" Cassie: "Dew it!" Annakin: *immediately does it* Cassie: *GAAASSPP!!!* "He did it!" Classic PiB!

I love that you thought Anikan could be saved, when you already know his fate.

I like how when anakin killed dooku, Anakin was holding the red and the blue lightsaber. Symbolizing that he had to choose between the light and dark. He ended up killing dooku...and chose dark.

Her reactions to every scene is very genuine and so adorable.

“I wanted love to save them all.” Your optimism is so refreshing and cheering, even as we get to watch you growing to appreciate more complex and diverse types of stories. I think that’s what sets you ahead of other reactors. Don’t ever change! ❤️

Sir Christopher Lee had a mightily interesting life! A legend!!!

Wow. For someone new to Star Wars, you were spot on with your understanding of the attachments-code that the Jedi abide by. You did great at 8:58 mark. So cool to see someone watching and enjoying these movies for the first time.

One detail I loved, the last time Anakin and Obi-Wan saw each other before the fight. Anakin was in the shadows, and Obi-Wan was in the light

The novel version of this movie is extremely well written. I mean, just look at this: "And you rage and scream and reach through the Force to crush the shadow who has destroyed you, but you are so far less now than what you were, you are more than half machine, you are like a painter gone blind, a composer gone deaf, you can remember where the power was but the power you can touch is only a memory, and so with all your world-destroying fury it is only droids around you that implode, and equipment, and the table on which you were strapped shatters, and in the end, you cannot touch the shadow. In the end, you do not even want to. In the end, the shadow is all you have left. Because the shadow understands you, the shadow forgives you, the shadow gathers you unto itself-And within your furnace heart, you burn in your own flame."

Cassy: I hate the emperor so much! The emperor: Good, good

Appreciate the raw, unfettered, emotional responses to on going reviews .. appreciate you have not been corrupted by previews and opinions prior to viewing .. and your piecing together the story on the fly .. kool! Thanks.

“He’s probably planting these dreams in him!” It’s so funny you say this, because the irony of his dreams, is that if Anakin simply ignored those dreams he had, Padme never would’ve died, Republic wouldn’t have fallen to the extent it did. By acting on his nightmares, Anakin essentially brought that future into existence

Cassie: noticed how the ship that flies Padme to Mustafar to convince Anakin, is shaped like an angel? Well, the very first line between them in episode 1 was : "are you an angel?". She is indeed the angel who travels to hell just to try to bring him back.

5:45 You repeating the “dew it” made me so happy 😂

17:58 he crossed the line by helping Palapine kill Mace. He knew there was no coming back

“This guy is a noob.” While using the sabers taken from the countless Jedi he killed with his bare droid hands.

"We're in a space war. Pew pew pew." That should be the tagline for the entire series.

fun fact: ewan mcgregor (obi wan) actually had to cover his mouth when watching the recording of anakin killing younglings because he struggled to read his lines without laughing

So refreshing to see someone go through this the first time. It's truly something out of a Greek tragedy.

Anakin trusts Palpatine because he has been mentoring him since childhood, supporting him, instilling the idea in his head that he is the best Jedi /chosen one and because of this, pride gradually manifested in him...(During the Clone Wars, Anakin also received the rank of general, not to mention the fact that he became a master and got himself a student, I personally do not know whether he got it only because of his merits and military exploits or the chancellor also helped there and was involved...Just by the standards of the Jedi is a very young age, mmm 25 years?!) Palpatin replaced his father, Obi-wan his brother (interestingly, Anakin thought he was his father, and Obi, on the contrary, perceived him as a brother) And Anakin did not switch to the dark side "in 10 minutes" and "just like this" his doubts about the code and the methods of the order grew over the years (as did Qui Gon, Dooku, Saifo Dias, among others) and the turning point in his life and in his psyche was also the expulsion of his padawan Ahsoka (see the animated series Clone Wars ...)

One of the reason Obi-Wan is my favorite character is because of how loyal to the Jedi he is while still doing un-Jedi things. The biggest example being his love for Anakin.

Anakin went through a galaxy spanning war (the clone wars) and he was definitely kinda depressed at this point, and was quite close from falling to the dark side. Sidious’s manipulation was just a small push.

2:19 "We're in a space war, it looks like." Yes. One could even call its a war among the stars or something like that. I love this channel.

If you notice, Anakin's first breath as Vader happens at the same time Padme breaths her last...They had a strong connection in the Force. There is a fan theory that Anakin accidentally kills her trying to save himself by sapping her life... Q_Q

The moment Anakin is alone on Mustafar and shedding a tear, it's like then he knows he's resigned himself to servitude... He's trapped by the emperor and he is lost.. It's the most powerful example of a tragic hero's fall story... So much is missed obviously from the Clone Wars series but that can't really be taken into full account

I went to the theater to see this film with my dad in 2005 when it came out (can’t believe it’s been 17 years!) Everything was amazing to me, but the thing I remember the most was when the mask and helmet came down onto Vader and you heard that first breath. I felt a chill go right up my spine. Truly an amazing moment of film and cinema.

Something I missed for years was, as the helmet comes down(just before it seals for the first time)Anakin whispers "Padme, help me..."

Mace Windu: "We must move quickly if the Jedi Order is to survive." *Walks casually*

The moment when anakin says to palps, His fate will be the same as ours, and you realize all three died on the death star

"Anikin is the father isn't he?" "Uhhh ... meesa beena badgirl!!"

I love in that scene as Sidious is being “Shocked” by his own lightning and Windu is telling him he’s the traitor, both trying to pull Anakin to either side, you notice Anakin’s turn of his head, and that dark look on his face it’s like that moment Vader has finally broke through Anakin, Anakin stops mace and causes his death, Anakin goes “What have I done! “ That was basically the last moment the Jedi knight Anakin had before being completely engulfed by Vader, Anakin was out just enough to realise what had happened before Vader resumed control and swore allegiance to Sidious, I love the subtle body language in that scene the switch between Anakin and Vader