C3PX said:even though you had crazy low expectations for this film after seeing AOTC, the movie still managed to suck a lot harder that you though it would
That was precisely my experience. I was seriously disappointed by AOTC and I expected something on that level for ROTS and what I got was way worse. I couldn't believe how bad ROTS was. The first time I saw ROTS I had trouble staying awake because it was so uninvolving.
And the Yoda saberfight in AOTC was amazingly lame, reminded me of Kermit the frog dueling in Muppet's Treasure Island, not sure why. I felt embarressed to be watching the movie when Yoda started jumping around like a loon.
Yeah, Yoda flying around with his lightsabre buzzing was the lamest thing ever. He was like some overgrown bee or fly. So painful. And I bet Lucas thought it was so cool. And then there was the Yoda/Emperor battle in ROTS, which made them both look so lame. You keep getting these really lame scenes that you're supposed to think are really cool -a defining trait of the prequels is trying to pass off extreme lameness as extreme coolness.
And I nearly started laughing when Obi-Wan and Anakin where hovering over the lava riding on the backs of droids.
All the jumping and balancing and swinging and climbing around, it was really implausible they didn't fall in or get cooked (and I wanted them to). When Anakin finally did get burnt up it was seriously anticlimactic. And Anakin ranting at Kenobi was so lame. And Kenobi "You were the Chosen One!" Good lord Obi, you bought that hype? The lava scene was almost comically overdone and totally uninvolving and it was supposed to be so SIGNIFICANT. The music in particular really layed it on thick.
Oh, but Palpatine's big fight with the three stooges, two of them going down in the first two seconds, gets the award for the worst saber duel of all time, and the acting in that scene managed to make it even more unbearable that it already was.
The Jedi were made such annoying idiots in the prequels that I liked seeing those guys go down. And did they have to make the alien appearance of some of the Jedi look so dumb? Kit Fisto being so silly-looking made me enjoy his death more. Of the ones on the council, wtf is that on Ki Adi Mundi's head? The council are idiots anyway. Great, Lucas, bring us back to the great age of the Jedi to see what posers they were. I know the Republic was supposed to be declining, but seriously. Order 66 was a distinct relief. And considering it was supposed to be tragic, that's a distinct failure of filmmaking.