walking_carpet said:

+1

finding the worse scene in TPM is like debating the worse player on the Bears offensive line. But this is a microcosm.

+10

There was a lot of suckage in TPM: Anakin is a cutesy 10 year old. Slavery is bad. Yippee! That's gotta hurt no matter what planet you come from. Boss Nass. Anakin destroys the command center by accident.

It's really hard for me to pinpoint the one singular moment of the movie that is the worst. What sticks out the worst in my mind is the two headed announcer during the pod race. The need to inject really bad comic relief moments every few minutes just wears you down after a while.

I ignore the prequels, more or less. I much prefer the version of the prequels that was built up in my mind when Obi Wan speaks of the Old Republic, the Jedi and how Anakin was a great friend and great pilot.

I've seen the fan edits of TPM and AOTC, and while they greatly improve the pacing and the dramatic tension, they are still not nearly as good as the original trilogy.

Perhaps those web articles were right: it was George's ex-wife who edited the original Star Wars into the space opera grand masterpiece that it was. Empire Strikes Back is superior in many ways to it's predecessor, and George Lucas delegated the script and the direction to other talented individuals. While ROTJ was still a very good film, one can recognize many of the bad elements of the prequels starting to creep in here. A foreboding of things to come.