twooffour said:
but I somehow hadn't thought of the fact that TPM doesn't have any decent main character, which is a main contributing factor while it's so... "flat".
I never liked that argument of his.
I don't think a movie needs a single "main character" to be considered good. There are a lot of good movies with multiple "main characters;" The Seven Samurai springs immediately to mind, and even the OT has something of an ensemble cast.
I just think the failing with TPM was that they tried and failed to pull it off; none of the characters are well-defined enough to warrant an ensemble cast, and that makes it seem like it's a movie full of secondary characters that's missing a main character. They tried to introduce far too many new characters at once and therefore couldn't spend enough time with each one (within 133 minutes) to develop them.
It's also a problem because the content of TPM is more suited to be exposition for later movies than a whole movie itself. I'd have made AOTC the first movie and put some kind of explanation points in it that told the basic outline of the important points of TPM; like how Obi-Wan met Anakin, how Anakin came to be a Jedi, how Anakin met Padme, and all that good stuff.
So we'd have AOTC as the first film (starting with the beginning of the Clone Wars, not ending with it) to establish the Republic hero that Anakin was, then we'd have Episode II to deal with Anakin's eventual corruption and fall to the dark side (at the end, giving it that dark unsure nature that made ESB good), and then ROTS could deal with Anakin's transformation into Darth Vader, Padme's death, Order 66, the Jedi Purge (showing just how far Anakin had fallen), the Fall of the Republic, the Rise of the Empire, and the formation of the Rebel Alliance (at the end, leading into ANH).
But that's just me.
