I'm watching Star Wars - The Revenge of the Sith

It really loses a lot from being shrunk to the dimensions of a television screen. The pay-for-view didn't have a letterbox option. Without the visual impact of the wide screen, the dialog and plot reek even worse than they did in the theater. The scenes with Annakin Skywalker are really awful. He has to be as thick as a brick, or the audience does, for this to make any sense. Everyone seems so surprised to discover that Palpatine is a Sith Lord, but that's about as believeable as Clark Kent's associates failure to notice his resemblence to Superman.

Mark Steyn said it best. George Lucas takes good actors and makes them wooden and unconvincing. It's a sad way for him to end this saga which began so fresh and exciting.

I also watched the March of the Penguins and Madagascar on pay-for-view. They had the virtue of being new to me, but I could imagine how much more impact they would have had on a wide screen.