Stop comparing, enjoy what's new.

Rating: 8/10 (6 June 2012)

Being a typical "ninties-kid" and a women, I couldn't help myself from falling for this one. As soon as I reached the IMDb-page I was blown away and chocked by all the slaughter that was done with the user reviews.
I admit, I haven't been 'the thirteen-year-old kid that had been watching the first one six times when it came out', I can never feel the experience of watching Star Wars as a new and innovative phenomenon. I might be prejudiced and spoiled by all the technical improvements the new millennium has offered me, but I am still able to watch and judge each movie on it's own. I understand that that will be a tough job for those who have fallen in love and for those who have been amazed with the first ones, but there are some aspects of the reviews I have read (and I have read an usual amount this time, amazed and terribly outraged) that I cannot agree with. For once: the lines and the way the actors brought them. You might say that some lines where cheesy, simple and stupid. But you cannot possibly claim that the actors are without emotion. Some claim the story is being brought in too few scenes, but what did you expect? One can't possibly bring a story like this in less than three hours (of course, what Lucas should have done was dividing the plot over three movies. That would have spared us the experience of the first two..). Yes, there are some actions that are hard to understand. Why does Obi Wan walk away when Anakin is burning his legs off in stead of just putting him out of his misery? Why did they gave Vader such an awful voice? (But that's something he has in all the movies..) Why didn't the Jedi take action as soon as they heard Chansellor Palpatine was Darth Sidious? Of course, of course. But I am, for one, shocked and heartbroken that all of you appear to have lost your ability to recognize a good movie when you see one. There's something called 'being critical' and there's something called 'just being ill-disposed because none of the prequels where like the original three'.
I can only say: stop begging so childishly discontented. If you want to be harsh on a movie, pick one that is really awful and stop ignoring the good aspect of this one. I am this close to let others ruin a movie I like. Stop wishing this one to be like the original three, because it's not. And start exploring what good this one had to offer. Don't let something bad (epI and epII) spoil what is actually good (the rest of it).