Mielr said:

boba feta said:

I think people pick on that movie because of it's swiss cheese plot.

Yeah, and I just remember it being a silly movie. I don't remember disliking the effects, I just thought the movie was fluff.

Isn't that exactly what it was suppose to be? I think the directors even said at one point that it was suppose to be a modern day B movie. There are plenty of plot holes in that movie after all. I actually find ID4 to be a pretty entertaining film as long as I don't think about all that stuff. Even the PT doesn't reach that bar.

thecolorsblend2: Unfortunately, a lot of the elements you mention don't work either because the message is being delivered in an extremely poor fashion or it wasn't the director's intention (probably a little of both). Nobodies like Anakin because he's "the chosen one". How can anyone be told that at the age of 10 and then possibly be expected to keep their powers in check? Look at Akira for a perfect example. Teenager attains godly powers and ends up destroying half of Tokyo in the process of ascending. And as far as Jar Jar being an exile is concerned, he was given a pretty high position by the Queen herself. He was also the one person that wanted to give Palpatine full control. If anyone is to blame for Palpatine's rise though, it's Amidala with her no confidence vote in TPM.

But all that's way OT. I think the point is that a lot of things were done very unnecessarily. Look at the "Super Mario" chase through the factory in AOTC. What was that all about? Even Natalie Portman asked that in the behind the scenes footage because it made no sense. Quite simply, a lot of "story elements" just made no sense and then even more stuff seemed to be tacked on to try and make it fit with the OT. Then the OT had to be modified to try and make it fit with the PT. If a lot more thought had been put into the PT, it would have been very easy to make it fit with the OT without modifying the OT.