Originally posted by: Obi Jeewhyen
The L.A. crowd that fills Graumann's Chinese on opening nights reacted best of the three to Attack of the Clones, perhaps feeling it was a major improvement over Episode I, perhaps reacting to the genuinely StarWarsian goofiness of it.
It remains to this day my far-and-away favorite of the prequels .... but, tellingly, I can't so much as sit through it nowadays.
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The L.A. crowd that fills Graumann's Chinese on opening nights reacted best of the three to Attack of the Clones, perhaps feeling it was a major improvement over Episode I, perhaps reacting to the genuinely StarWarsian goofiness of it.
It remains to this day my far-and-away favorite of the prequels .... but, tellingly, I can't so much as sit through it nowadays.
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Isn't it funny how TPM made the most money of any PT movie, but you constantly hear from the defenders that ROTS is the best?
The reason TPM made the most money of any PT movie was because EVERY SW fan saw it atleast once, and many walked away for good.
TPM - 431 million
AOTC- 310 million
ROTS- 380 million
If you think about it ROTS should have made the most money out of the three. This was the reason we wanted the PT, we wanted to see why Anakin became Darth Vader. And the fact that it doesn't even come close to TPM, which was so reviled in '99 because of Jar Jar and many other problems, tells me that alot of older fans who loved SW back in the 70's/80's just walked away in the summer of 99 from SW.
Now there were the faithful naive fans like me who saw every PT movie hoping Lucas would get this one right, and that is why no PT movie bombed at the box office. But the sad fact that a SW movie that has 2 hours of an annoying Jar Jar Binks, and overlong Pod Race, and weird looking Yoda puppet, a monotone boring Padme, and a little kid who cant act, and it still made the most of the 3 PT movies, tells me Lucas lost more fans with the PT than gained them.