CatBus said:
timdiggerm said:
Was there really anything interesting in the film that one could spoil, if one had already seen the OT?
It was kind of interesting/surprising that it was the worst of the prequels. I didn't really expect TPM would be as good as the prequels were going to get, even after seeing AOTC.
Dang, forgot the spoiler tag. Hope I didn't ruin it for anyone. Sorry.
Yeah I'm used to being in the minority with this one because I've always believed that TPM feels the most like an actual SW film and is in fact the better choice. It has the best lightsaber fight of the PT (it's streamlined compared to the Ani/Obi duel, and the death of Qui Gon actually felt heavy), and the 3rd act space battle/music sequence is superior too all other PT battles because lets face it, the Naboo starfighter is the coolest looking ship in all of the PT and John Williams was on fuckin fire that day.
TPM gets thrown out like the baby in the bath water because of Jar Jar which is a fair enough reason but if you ignore his presence the movie is closer to good than any of the other PT movies. 2-3 are just confusing both from a character standpoint and plot construction, while the main themes in TPM are pretty straightforward: Free the kid, win the race, kill the bad guy, free the planet. AOTC and ROTS are filled with tons of awesome eye candy that don't really amount to anything and the characters constantly do stupid things that don't make sense to who they are as people. Yep, with the better plot/music/hype TPM is my favorite PT movie. *ducks*