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Originally Posted by nik-
The prequels were easily worse than the holiday special.
The Holiday Special was cheesy schlocky crap, but at least it didn't retroactively destroy the mythology of a classic film trilogy.
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I think you need to go back and watch the Holiday special Nik.
To be honest, to me Revenge of the Sith ranks ahead of Return of the Jedi and is a par level of anh just based on pacing. Empire is the best of the bunch
If I was to rank them all
Empire
ANH - ROTS
Jedi
Phantom Menace
AOTC
With two of the three prequels, PM and AOTC, they had some outstanding scenes, but a lot of scenes that were purely bad
PM - The good, anything involving Ian McDarmid, the fight between Maul and Qui-gon. Three way fight between Qui-gon, Obi-wan and Maul, the senate speech. The bad Binks, Portman and Jake Lloyd, talking battledroid, slightly racist villians.
AOTC - The good, anything involving McDarmid and Chris Lee, MacGregor, the fight between Anakin, Kenobi, Dooku, some of the ground battlescenes were very cool. less Binks, and he destroys the universe, Anakin kills Tuskens. The bad, the romance scenes, Anakins girly throw in anger, the cheesy lines in the arena scene. The final scenes between McDarmind and Lee
ROTS - the good, the opening battle scene, Mcdarmid Palpatine, Anakins fall (could have been a bit better, but his scene in the Temple before his fall was exceptional), Kenobi vs Anakin with the exception of the high ground. Anakin slaghters the confederacy leadership, Order 66. Yoda fights Sideous and loses. the final scene of Vader striding across the bridge of a star destroyer. Obiwan hands look to Beru. Have you ever heard the story of Darth Plagious the wise? The bad. McDarmid becoming a monster of the week, but later redeems it with the scene with Yoda. The romance scenes between Padme and Anakin. Mace vs Palpatine in that McDarmid isn't a action actor and he looked awkward. Some of the dialogue during the fight (only the Sith deal in absolutes. Really, the Jedi are more about absolutes then the Sith), oh and NOOOOOOO
ANH - the good, almost everything because it was the first time we'd seen a movie like this. The bad, you think the acting in the prequels was wooden, watch this movie again, Harrison Ford was great, Hamil was bad, and Fisher was ok but wooden at times. The pacing, it was actually a very slow movie in a lot of spaces. Some of the dialogue was terrible.
Empire - Awesome movie.
ROTJ - Very good, but ruined by the Ewoks and especially the final battlescene. McDarmid was great but the Empire was more of a smack talking brother then a arch villian. Some of the acting was terrible.
The Holiday Special - All bad, Bea Arthur bad, the only good scene was the intro to Bobba Fett cartoon. Carrie Fisher was stoned out of her mind, Mark Hamill was wearing a ton of makeup due to his accident. They sang lyrics to Star Wars. Chewies grandfather watching porn. Terrible terrible terrible special.
