I’ve said my piece on these films elsewhere. Most recently the Sequel Trilogy thread so I’ll keep it brief.

The plot is pretty thin and the characters are a little stiff but if you turn off your brain and enjoy it for being a low brow well paced action movie Phantom Menace is alright. Honestly I think it’s better paced than Jedi.

Clones has no redeeming qualities except maybe a few good action set pieces in the first 20 minutes and the last 20 minutes. The Anakin Padme stuff just comes off as creepy and it’s painful to sit through. Obi-Wan and Anakin’s dynamic just makes me hate both characters.

Sith comes dangerously close to being a good movie, but it’s worst moments are worse than Clones. A good fan edit like Hal’s takes care of 2/3rds of the problems. Still can’t completely fix that ending or how laughably dumb Grievous was compared to the early 00’s cartoon.

Really what saves the prequels is the two TV shows around it (even though they fit together like a square block in a round hole). They just needed some better scrips for the first two and a better director of actors. Sith could do with a better edit. It’s really bizarre that’s the one Lucas hasn’t messed with much seeing as how it’d benefit the most from removing a few scenes, adding a few and shifting some things around. Clones and Sith would be much better visually with more real sets, miniatures and costumes.