Hey it's star wars. Whats not to like about them. But yes there were some cheesy moments but overall it did add a nice back story to the original trigoly. Only one major complaint was Windu's death. That was so lame!

It was definitely a 10/10 for me. I thought the writing was especially well done, and that Lucas really fleshed out Anakin. A superb trilogy.

I love the argument against the New trilogy from the older generation because they seem to always contradict themselves. When I was younger, I loved them and couldn't figure out why the older fans did. I watched them a year or so back, and understood why. In the first 3, there aren't any flavorful characters like Han. The Original seemed to be unintentionally cheesy, I thought - and people love that charm and sense of adventure.

The problem is that the first three are pretty blasted cheesy too - but that's not a problem. I always look at the first three as setting up the first for the latter. They're different flavors of Star Wars. So how does one complain about cheesiness when their big draw to the Originals was that cheese?

I understand why the older generation didn't like them, if they went into Episode I expecting to find the same wild adventure they got from IV, V, and VI. But I don't think that that lack of adventure made them bad movies, just different movies.


All of this being said, I did enjoy the first three. I'm not a movie critic and don't claim to be, so I won't comment on the writing/acting. I enjoyed the movie, the characters, the combat, and the story. I was entertained by the films and memorable characters such as Darth Maul, Jango Fett, Qui-gon Jinn, and General Grievous.

At the time, I remember thinking C-3P0 being Anakin's was cool, and even now, I don't see much of a problem with it. Of course, I believe Jar Jar Binks was the worst thing to happen in the history of mankind.

Per the cheesy thing, it's hard to properly describe - probably along the lines of corny. And maybe it's because it's easy to forget that episode IV was in the '70s.

The new trilogy is cheesy with regards to some of the acting. They're two different cheesies, for sure though.

I used to like the I-III more than the IV-VI! I think part of that was my attempt to fly in the face of such negative opinion, but I really did and still do like them! If anyone complains about EpI, I usually say 'sure, but it brought us Darth Maul' and without Maul we wouldn't have a modern version of cool-evil to wave around. Yeah - heaps of flaws, but the original trilogy had all that too (perhaps, just not as much). You just remember them differently. Twenty years is a long time.

Anyhoo, a coupl'a years ago, at the height of my I-III-likey-ness, I saw the scene of Luke at the Sail Barge for the first time since '05 and was struck by just how much I loved the scene - easily my favourite in all movies ever - and realised that, yes I do like the OT more than the PT. Just.

Yeah, I'm very grateful that the prequels were made. Most of the Star Wars stuff I like happened because of them. Minis, the Star Wars legos I loved so much (got into them when I was 8, right when RotS came out and there were some fun sets), Battlefront, probably KotOR, etc.

I voted "I hate them."

I chose not to vote the last option because there's a lot of good stuff in the Prequels. There are some cool (albeit underdeveloped) characters, some cool action moments, awesome music, and missed opportunities that could have been much better in another script. I think with different screenwriters, different directors, and more practical effects they could have been great.

If you haven't seen them yet, if you aren't offended by foul language or crude humor, and if you have a few hours to spare I'd suggest watching the reviews by Mr. Plinkett. He sums it all up perfectly and then some! I also had issues with them rewriting the continuity of the Clone Wars as established in the Zahn Trilogy which was written based off notes by Lucas.

see for me although i have read the books for all of the Series of movies at least, I still likes them. To me they did do a few things wrong, but they did a pretty good job for the information they wanted to get through to people. Now On the other hand i absolutely hated Haden Christianson's acting in the movies. He and Natalie Portman Obviously had no chemistry and it showed. now i have seen them both in other movies that were fine Separately but i think it was just in these movies. Now that is not the only mistake that was made and by far that doesn't not make the entirety of the Prequels horrible. Just the scenes with these 2 characters, which admittedly is a lot

Why does everyone hate Jar Jar? I thought he provided some much needed comic relief! Come on guys, admit it, he was funny!

Even so, that's not reason enough to paint him as the character that ruined Star Wars is it?