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Most of the players were perfectly adequate, it was bad writing and direction that was to blame.
I agree on the bad writing and direction, but I think most of the players were highly inadequate. Yeah, they were working with wooden, sometimes awful dialogue, but they should have enough talent to sell it at least a little more than the bad script on paper. Samuel L. Jackson is badass otherwise, but I still think he was miscast in SW. Palpatine was the only character with any real substance, with Obi-Wan a close second. The OT just had overall better actors for the roles-- and therefore better characters, of course. Fisher/Leia and Ford/Han were strong and had attitude and sarcasm, Hamill/Luke was an innocent yet strong fighter. Those levels and nuances were not reached in the PT, and I think it has just as much to do with Portman and Christensen's lack of ability as it does the crap script and direction. Portman is okay overall in other films, but her range is very limited, and Hayden's is nonexistent. He went from sulky to more sulky. I didn't buy his "anger" for a second, not even in the 2nd half of Sith.
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Lucas should have listened and got more people involved as he did for the original trilogy....
Ain't that the truth.