Star Boring and painful

Rating: 1/10 (22 May 2005)

I do not have words to describe how painful was to watch this movie. I admire Lucas for his innovation and I pity a man with such tremendously imaginative technical talents who cannot but two good words of dialog or story together. It's ashame that everyone with rush to see this movie (kind of reminds me of the the second two Matrix movies, lots of money spent before we all realized how truly bad they were compared to the original). I think the real problem with these prequels is that Lucas didn't allow the story to take him somewhere he had it two laid out beforehand. Any good writer will tell you that most of the time it's not good to have too much of your story already laid out that leaves your characters nothing to do and no surprises for the reader. The characters tell the good stories and guide the writer to good plot and dialog. We still do not have any good characters in any of theses three movies including ObiWan and Yoda. Even the even Emperor is reduced to a single note. And poor Christopher Lee if he thought he got the shaft in ROTK boy was he in for a big letdown in this movie. At least Peter Jackson let him die with dignity in the ROTKEE, with Lucas he had no chance.
I have to admit that I haven't liked any of the prequels. I hated EpI, I tolerated II and I really hate this one. When my daughter leaned over and suggested we walk out I knew that I wasn't just being biased. My husband thought the problem was the love interest interfered with the story but then Jedi had a love interest that didn't internee. Poor Natalie such a good actress reduced to support and crying scenes but Lucas painted himself if a corner with her overt pregnancy though with a little imagination he could have done better by her.
And finally for the assertion that this would be "Titanic in space", he was right, it's a real disaster from beginning to end. No emotion (and I have extremely emotional). Yes I wanted to cry, from anger at my wasted money and sore butt. Sorry James Earl they ruined Drth Vader the moment his mask came off in EpVI and we saw what a whinny man he was. 1/10