I think the other two jaded me.....

Rating: 6/10 (16 June 2005)

I wanted this movie to rock me. I wanted it to blow me away...... but i just sat there picking holes in it.
I love the original trilogy with all my heart. I could sit and watch them all day. They are magical films that contain a certain spark. A spark bright enough to allow you to overlook their imperfections.
Not so the prequels.
They have all been so cold and mechanical they have sucked whatever magic was in them away.
For example, the film started with 'War!' and I hummed to myself 'What is it good for'. And it didn't get any better.
The slapstick in the first scene annoyed me, general grevious being a coward annoyed me and the jedis practically giving anakin to the emperor annoyed me.
I just kept picking holes while I should have been enjoying the culmination of nearly 30 years of film making.
The ex-positional scene with Anakin and Palpatine. Palpatine states that one dark lord could influence Midichlorians (blech) to create life. And anakin, being a virgin birth, doesn't once think to say 'oh right. I wonder if he had anything to do with my mysterious origins......'.
Things like that kept pulling me back from the immersion I usually give myself to in great films. I just kept getting jarred back to reality.
Like I said, I think AOTC and TPM battered most of the goodwill I had out of me and left me cold and cynical.
Its not all bad. Some scenes are great. But then they get spoiled by a huge honking lizard.........