I like the idea of the Phantom Menace - the overall plot is great - but I don't like the execution.
The script is horrible, Jar Jar is horrible, midichlroians are horrible, the pod race is horrible (it serves two purposes: one, to retrofit in a justification for Obi Wan's "already a great pilot" comment in Star Wars, and two, to sell computer games). In fact I'd say the only thing that remotely saves this film is Palpatine.
The second and third prequels have better action scenes and retain great plots but have even worse acting and even worse scripts than the first.
I'm neither the first to say this nor the last. If George Lucas had plotted these prequels, and produced them, and overseen design and look and feel, and delegated the screenplay and direction to someone else, then there could've been three great films made. But there weren't and that's a real shame to me.
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Date: 2012-03-05 01:32 pm (UTC)The script is horrible, Jar Jar is horrible, midichlroians are horrible, the pod race is horrible (it serves two purposes: one, to retrofit in a justification for Obi Wan's "already a great pilot" comment in Star Wars, and two, to sell computer games). In fact I'd say the only thing that remotely saves this film is Palpatine.
The second and third prequels have better action scenes and retain great plots but have even worse acting and even worse scripts than the first.
I'm neither the first to say this nor the last. If George Lucas had plotted these prequels, and produced them, and overseen design and look and feel, and delegated the screenplay and direction to someone else, then there could've been three great films made. But there weren't and that's a real shame to me.