dan76 said:

Bingowings said:

The PT is bad but there is a thick dense ground of much worse movies to dig out before you can put them in the worst films ever made strata.

If it wasn't for Mark playing Luke with all the gumption he gave the role in the previous movies ROTJ would play out much like TPM.

The tone, the pacing, the story structure and much of the imagery are nearly identical.

I really can't see how anything is identical. They have a completely different look to me, in terms of design... everything. That's another thing about those prequels, the ships, costumes, the overall look didn't say "Star Wars" at all. More like Babylon 5 or some cheap tv show.

Making a good film is incredibly hard, it's almost a miracle when it works, and looking at the prequels and what they had going for them: A world wide inbuilt audience, loved characters, an amazing universe all set up by the first three films. I can't think of any film that has all that going for it, a huge audience wanting to love it. What does he do?

Kill the Force. Have Darth Vader build C3-PO. Set it up that at the beginning of Star Wars Vader is on a ship with his daughter, the robot he built as a kid, above the planet he grew up on, where his son now lives... Why not make IG-88 Chewbacca's cousin?

There is nothing of the spirit of the original films in those prequels, all of which are so flat, lacking in any dynamic story telling. The acting is uniformly bad, but that's probably because it was mostly shot green screen. They're a cgi mess.

I think Star Wars ended in 1983, but each to their own.

Funny thing is, Mad Magazine did an issue in the 1982 featuring Lucas' stolen notebook for future episodes, and their resemblance to the prequels is uncanny. Maybe they actually got their hands on the real thing? ;)

Read and be amazed...