Kevin's Watch

This ought to be good...

I'm only including those five films, cause if one of the other two is your pick, well your basically saying the last option. Oh, too...if you do pick that option, well...

...your just not Geek enough...

I vote Attack of the Clones. I shudder every time I think of the scenes between Anakin and Padme. Which is really unfortunate because I liked Padme on her own - she was a smart, sexy woman who kicked ass in both Phantom and Clones.

The last exciting half hour or so almost redeemed AotC, but it was simply too little, too late at that point.

Phantom, by a mile. In that film, we discover that our magical Force is, in fact, a virus.

Phantom Menace.

Phantom and Clones remain the only Star Wars movies I haven't bought. I just can't bring myself to: whenever I'm in the video store and entertain the thought of getting them for the sake of completing the "saga," their suckitude repulses me every time.

AOTC is the worst. TPM has issues, but is redeemed by the absolute awesomeness of Darth Maul and the lightsaber confrontation at the end.

Basically all 3 new ones.

The Phantom Menace was already horrible (a felt a bit like watching Beverly Hill 90210 in Space). Forcing myself to watch Attack of the Clones I fell asleep halfway in between (or maybe my instinct of self-preservation let me drift into a coma). I didn't bother to rent Revenge of The Sith. I watched the important part when Anakin falls into the lava pit and becomes Vader on YouTube. Call it heresy, but I am actually kind of glad Lucas is too old to screw it up even more with a third trilogy.

Vader wrote:Basically all 3 new ones.

The Phantom Menace was already horrible (a felt a bit like watching Beverly Hill 90210 in Space). Forcing myself to watch Attack of the Clones I fell asleep halfway in between (or maybe my instinct of self-preservation let me drift into a coma). I didn't bother to rent Revenge of The Sith. I watched the important part when Anakin falls into the lava pit and becomes Vader on YouTube. Call it heresy, but I am actually kind of glad Lucas is too old to screw it up even more with a third trilogy.

I'll bump that...

I voted 'all'. I grew up loving Star Wars, but the hype and the prequels killed the love.

Loremaster wrote:I voted 'all'. I grew up loving Star Wars, but the hype and the prequels killed the love.

Jedi too? I mean, yah the Ewoks sucked, and the whole "that issue with the vent from before, lets make it wayyy bigger this time, and have many of them, okay?", yah that sucked. But the Emperor? The beginning Act w/ Luke finely kicking some tail...the awe of seeing the new Death Star soooo freaking huge, and incomplete? Vader's Command Ship...Admiral Akbar..."sister"...the divided Luke?

I guess I'll vote Phantom Menace. I liked the desert race, I liked the Obi Wan scenes, but everything else sucked.

Attack of the Clones was better. Mr. Fett was awesome. The stadium fight was cool. Anakin was tolerable. C3PO absolutely wasn't.

But Revenge of the Sith totally absolutely 100% rocked. And the other three films were wonderful too.

(Clone Wars was so horrific in previews I refused to see it and can't judge.)

Phantom Menace, if Phantom Menace = Episode I

In 1977 I saw STAR WARS (I refuse to refer to it as Episode IV) in the theater 25 times (at least).

I was in the theater for Phantom Menace: The lights went down, the STAR WARS logo flashed on the screen, Johhny Williams's music kicked in, a thrill went up my spine, I was in HEAVEN...

It was all downhill from there. That film sucked ass, and so did the next two.

I guess you really can't go home again...

all of them.

Okay. How do I honestly answer the question?
Yes I'm a Star Wars fan...period.
So what criteria do I use to evaluate which film sucks the most?
Well, it's pretty hard.
First of all until the prequels I was quite comfortable hating many aspects of Jedi which made that film easy to assign as the most suckful of all the Star Wars movies.
(I'm still wrestling with whether I hated the Ewoks or Harrison Ford's campy portrayal of Han that bothers me the most...ah who am I kidding? Ewoks and everything about them!)
I am pre programed to think of the prequels as sub par or unnecessary so all three fall short of any one of the original film trilogy so it comes down to a prequel.
I found Jake, Hayden and Natalie annoying from day one. Something about the actors chosen either bored me or they got under my skin in some way so we have three films with lead actors I dislike. Not a good start. On the flip side Christopher Lee, Sam Jackson and Ewan McGregor were very entertaining actors in their roles so it wasn't a total mess for me. (JAR JAR!!!!!!) Anyway, I agree with those that say there are great, even awesome individual scenes in all three prequels. The sabre duel with Darth Maul in Menace, Yoda's surprise in Clones and the Yoda/Sidious - Anakin/Obi-wan battles were excellent.
I guess I have stop stalling and make a choice.
I suppose I have to give it to Menace due to the fact that I actually found myself being bored during nearly half the film. Clones may have had some truly vomit inducing moments with Anakin and Padme but I felt nauseous not bored. Sith was the strongest of the three. Even if the story/plot seemed very forced and Anakin's transformation (to me) wasn't as heartbreaking as it was unbelievable. Anakin, the chosen one, would have to be equally stupid as he was talented to have turned to the dark side as he did. IMHO of course.

Good post, aTOMic!

I agree with aTomic, but I thought Samuel Jackson did horrible, more because of the wooden and shallow dialogue Lucas gave him than anything else.

As a friend told me, your film can only be as good as your source... and Lucas, well... he did do a movie about a duck...

? (not...Howard)

The Phantom Menace is the worst, because of that insuffably long pod race and because of too much Jar Jar Binks.

How did I never post in this? AotC was the worst. Anakin / Padme / Palpatine. Yoda, the flying chipmunk. Gods, I cringed.

--A