twooffour said:

generalfrevious said:

If the shoe fits...

What if Homer made a prequel to the Iliad and the Odyssey that was just as bad as the PT? Those two works would never have become the classics of western civilization as they are now. To be honest, at first I didn't even hate the prequels; but then I found out they were terrible movies from other people. Before that I honestly believed that these were as good as the OT. But I guess I was stupid (I hate to say this, but it took me years to realize that TPM was a bad movie). Six years after the PT and we have gone from a great film trilogy to a six-film franchise that may not even be half-good. Its now painful to watch these films, knowing what could have happened, GL took the route that was a hundred times worse than our worst fears. SW is dead, man.

I'll be satisfied if one person agrees with me on that statement.

May I ask you WHY you thought TPM was a good movie? Just curious. I mean, did you enjoy it, or aspects of it, did you have reasons to think that way?

I was naive, and thought any SW movie was going to be inherently good. I saw the OT for the first time two years prior, and was surprised that another SW movie was out. Unfortunately, my taste in movies wasn't very good at the time (no access to imdb), so I thought the lightsaber scenes between Darth Maul and Qui-gon/Obi-wan was awesome. Now to be fair I never liked Jar-Jar and always kept thinking what Darth Vader would sound like speaking Jake Lloyd's lines. At the bottom, I lived under a rock and didn't know people hated it and felt it was a letdown. Now I can't bear to watch it like the rest of the PT.