Biggest disappointment in the history of film

Rating: 3/10 (14 September 2013)

Star Wars. The most successful, most loved and most talked about movie franchise of all time ended in 1983. For decades after the millions of loyal fans went nowhere, still completely swept up in the now dormant Star Wars world. Then one day, like a flash of heavenly lightning, there is an announcement, Star Wars is back! People all over the world rejoiced, looked up at the sky with teary eyes and kissed the ground they walked on as they heard the news. It was a wonderful day to be alive.
The build-up was unprecedented. Three long years the world waited impatiently for what seemed too good to imagine, it was a miracle, it was the second coming of Jesus, it was by far the most anticipated film of all time. Three years of production, sixteen years of ideas, this was bound to be the greatest movie ever seen.
And what did we get? Garbage. The most anticipated movie in history turned out to be also one of the worst, it was genuinely terrible.
It was so devastating many fans not only lost faith in Star Wars, but in movies themselves. It finally proved life wasn't fair, there was no justice in the world, you're beloved family would turn on you and chop your head off. It was cinematic apocalypse.
I saw this movie on the 31st of December 1999, and at the countdown to midnight I was hoping the Y2K Bug rumors were true so this tragedy and all evidence that remained could be erased from history forever.
The world stared blankly ahead in horror, there is no god.