The OT did get mostly positive reviews when they all came out. I know cause I was there. A new hope and empire both got FOUR stars from every major critic. siskel and ebert, rex harrison, rolling stone, time magazine, life magazine, entertainment tonight..ALL OF THEM. returnm of the jedi got the least fav reviews. it got 3 and a half stars. but return of the jedi started lucas turn from making good films to making commercials for his toys and his ILM company.
the prequels on the other hand got mosty bad reviews from all the major crtics. except for episode 3. even now 11 yrs later the prequels are used as the butt of jokes on tv shows and movies. they are made fun of and laughed at. prequel lovers and fan boys can defend the prequels till their last breath but that dont change the fact that the PT is universally laughed at and made fun of and the OT has always been hailed as some of the greatest motion pictures of all time.
if fan boys want to take a page from lucas book and try and say the OT got bad reviews when they first came out then go ahead....live in a make believe world. sure the OT got a few bad reviews. so did casablanca and gone with the wind. no movie gets ALL good reviews. the difference is with the OT it is the exception with the PT it is the rule.
prequel lovers go watch jar jar go watch the pathetic acting and awful screenplay in episode 2 and enjoy the way over done circus stunt lightsaber duels in episode 3
all three of those films lacks anything original lacks anything realastic..its one long 7 to 8 hr ninja film in space. nothing more. designed and written from the ground up to appeal to little kids and to sell toys. why u think the hero in epiosde 1 was a 9 yr old kid? why was there a jar jar? you really think its cause lucas visioned a 9 yr old anakin?lol riiiight. tis cause he wanted to bring in a whole new generation of kids as fans to sell his toys for the next 10 plus yrs. if he had made epiosde 1 a serious film like episode 5 he knew he risked little kids not liking it hence no toy sells. no cartoons...etc..etc everything he did was based on some guy in a boardroom telling him how to appeal to kids in this generation and how to make the most movie. anyone who believes different is living in a fantasy land.
lucas is a lier...nothing more nothing less.
anyone ever stop to wonder why when lucas was a serious film maker back when a new hope was being made and empire he was consulting people like francis ford coppala, steven spielberg, marlon brando etc..etc and when he made the prequels he consulted HIS CHILDREN. i mean he took what they said and wanted so bad and serious he actually hired NYSYNC to be in the film as stormtroopers. he actually hired them and eventually had to change it cause the backlash from fans was so bad. it makes u wonder what else was his KIDDIES idea that he put in the film. truly sad. I knew starwars had hit the point of no return when c3po got his head shot off in attack of the clones and he was running around like charlie chaplin and r2 was flying around with rockets on his feet.. so sad...so pathetic.