Originally posted by: Puggo - Jar Jar's "Yoda"
. Billy Dee Williams just can't make up for the loss of Alec Guiness and Peter Cushing.

I cannot stress enough why all the other films are substandard to me, and why I think Star Wars was uniquely brilliant in its casting. Those two veterans elevated the film so incredibly much. After that, Star Wars became famous and rested on its own laurels of the stars it created. And yeah, Carrie Fisher and Harrison Ford and Mark Hamill were great, but there were no more heavyweight actors to give the sequels the heft that Star Wars had.

And it's no small measure of why Attack of the Clones is far and away my favorite prequel that they used similar casting philosophy in featuring Christopher Lee as the villain. It was a brilliantly StarWarsian touch in what I consider the all-around most StarWarsian of the P.T. films.

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