Johnny Ringo said:without explanations as to how you arrived at certain scores it's hard [for me] to see this as much more than prequel bashing,
The more prequel bashing the better. The prequels need to be bashed, particularly ROTS.
skyjedi2005 said:To me the special editions and prequels are not real star wars.
I agree with that view.
I'd rate Empire Strikes Back number one, but Return of the Jedi has some of the best stuff in the films. I'd put Star Wars third, because while it's a great film I feel it's a bit weaker than ESB and ROTJ. That's one, two and three. All those three are great films, a joy to watch.
Phantom Menace is a huge drop from the OT but it's next. It's closest to being Star Wars out of the prequels. It's got the most humanity and depth out of the prequels, even if it's shallow by the standards of the OT. The cgi characters don't fit with Star Wars at all, but Neeson and Portman are good and Jake Lloyd is at least better than Hayden Christensen. The film doesn't have the unnatural emptiness of the later two prequels.
Attack of the Clones is a biiig drop from Phantom Menace. After I saw this film I wasn't interested in seeing the next one. This film was mostly crap. Even apart from the dreadful fake romance. And that battle at the end with the Jedi was so bland and feelingless, and Yoda fighting with a lightsaber has to be one of the lamest sights ever.
Revenge of the Shit is as big a drop from AOTC as AOTC is from TPM. Horrendous. One of the very worst films I've ever seen. Absolute shite. Absolutely zero depth of feeling or humanity. Flat crap. I can't belive how bad this film is. So much bad acting. Crap cgi. Feelingless uninvolving battle scenes, from the useless opening battle down to the awfulness of the overdone painful lava fight and the pathetic Yoda vs Palpatine. The film has a seriously off message (love is bad, don't love, love turns you bad, passion is bad) and it seems to follow this message in not having any depth of feeling. We're supposed to be sad when the Jedi are "tragically" killed, but they're such a bunch of insufferable jerks that it doesn't work at all. Anakin turning to the dark side is written so poorly it's laughable. And Hayden Christensen's performance was worthy of twenty razzies. Let's also note the the awful bland visual look of the film. You have to work hard to make a film this bad. It really takes effort. Supreme awfulness. A totally shallow empty film.