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Originally Posted by Herr-Berbunch
Phew, thank goodness for that, for a moment I thought you'd succumb to the later crap.  |
I actually stood in line for several hours to buy tickets to Episode One, and saw it eight times, I think, in the first few days of its release. Three times just on the first day. Just missed a first midnight showing when the dude at the front of the other line bought the last ticket for it just as I moved up to the counter. And overall, I liked TPM. Part of it was the excitement of having a new SW film after all those years, I know. But I didn't even hate Jar Jar as much as some people did.
Especially in retrospect - after Eps 2 & 3 - TPM stands out as the best of the three prequels IMO. Even the kid actor "Annakin the Mannikin" looks halfway decent after the catastrophe that was his teenage counterpart. Not that I place a whole lot of the blame on the actors, I don't think Lucas really knows how to direct live human beings any more (if he ever did) and any actor who requires a lot of guidance from a director or is otherwise inexperienced will not fare well in that situation. Particularly given the crap dialogue they have to speak.
