When did I say it was worse than the Holocaust? I never said anything of the sort.
As for accusation of being hyperbolic, let's look at what I said:
"ROTS was so bad it beggars belief."
-literal truth. It's unbelievably bad. In other words, it's hard for me to believe Lucas made it so bad. I'm still trying to get used to the fact that he made it so bad. So it does beggar belief.
"I expected it to be bad, based on my experience with AOTC and the trailers which had Hayden's I-frown-therefore-I-am-evil acting and some bullshit about "he is the chosen one"."
-again, nothing there that's not literal truth. And Hayden's acting in it did involve a lot of I-frown-therefore-I'm-evil.
"But it was way worse than I expected."
-again, literal truth.
"The first time I saw it I had trouble staying awake during the earlier part because it was so fucking uninvolving."
-literal truth. True account of what happened in my first watching of the film.
"ROTS is bad in whole new inventive ways."
-literal truth. It is. I'm not going to go into those ways here, but it is very inventive in finding ways to be bad.
"Hayden's performance was like a nightmare."
-Anakin and Vader being so horribly portrayed onscreen in a major Star wars movie would definitely qualify as a literal nightmare if some Star wars fan who cared about Star Wars dreamed it in a dream back before the prequels came out, so nothing hyperbolic here. It's a pretty accurate description and not over the top, considering how bad the acting was and how important the character is.
"Natalie's performance was like a nightmare."
-Similarly, if back before the prequels some dedicated Star Wars fan was having a peasant sleep and suddenly along came a dream in which Luke and Leia's mother was portrayed as incredibly stupid and incredibly lame plus weak and ineffectual (accurate description of how the character was played, NOT an exaggerration), then that dream would definitely count as a nightmare. So we're not dealing with hyperbole here. I wasn't exaggerrating how bad it was.
"Ian's hamming was horrific."
-straightforward statement of fact. It WAS horrific.
"Mace Windu was a pain the butt and so was fake Yoda."
-well, I didn't actually feel a literal pain my arse, but figuratively speaking they sure were.
"Everything about the movie was terrible."
-well, in the strictest literal sense you might find something about the movie that wasn't terrible, but it's amazing how many different things in the movie were awful one way or another, so while there might technically be a bit of hyperbole here, there's not much. Most things about the movie were terrible one way or another. It was that bad. So it's a pretty accurate description and not really over the top.
"But I had to see it again, to understand how it managed to be so terrible and to make sure my first impression was fair. And there are times in my consideration of Star Wars when I have to go back to it to understand something better about what went wrong with Star Wars or the differences between the OT and PT."
-statement of fact.
"And by now I can get some amusement out of its moments of maximum lameness (sing "IIIIII have the hiiiigh grouuuund")."
-maximum lameness is a pretty accurate description. The film really does look like they tried to maximize the lameness.
"And I really do get a kick out of better understanding its fucked-upness. Star Wars being turned into shit is a matter of considerable emotional importance to me, and I like to understand it."
-it IS fucked up, not an exaggerration. And while Star Wars was not in a literal physical sense turned to shit (Lucas did not transmute old OT negatives to bodily wastes), turned into shit is an accurate figurative description of what happened to Star Wars.
"AOTC is pretty damn bad too. It's utterly flat, with zero real feeling, and everybody in it comes off 100% false."
-no exaggerration there. Well, maybe if you looked you could find somebody who doesn't come across false, but the important characters do and that's what I meant. I couldn't find any depth of feeling in it whatsoever, hence "zero real feeling". And it IS utterly flat. I meant what I said. I wasn't exaggerrating.
"And there's so much uninvolving action (Jedi vs droids, clones vs droids, lightsaber battles, zzzz) and the awful Yoda vs Dooku swaggering match, complete with howling bouncing Yoda."
-zero exaggerration here.
"And of course the romance, if it can be called that, which must be one of the worst romances ever put on screen."
-literal truth. The romance is so false it's questionable whether it deserves to be called a romance. There was nothing romantic about it. It was two people coming off totally false and lame. And as much as it could be called a romance it must indeed be one of the worst ever put onscreen.
"And let's not forget the stupid pointless droid factory obstacle course video game sequence."
-no hyperbole there either.
So I don't see all this hyperbole you see in it. And I certainly never said anything like it was worse than the Holocaust, nor would I. I take the Holocaust seriously. Nor was anything I said at all like saying the prequels were worse than the Holocaust, either in terms of hyperbole or in terms of offensiveness. I think the main hyperbole here is in your assessment of my post.