I didn't think you would.

The horrifying thing is, after seeing it yesterday, I have to see it's the best of a bad bunch....at least it didn't have fluffy-aliens-for-kids'-entertainment and that Binks thing wasn't around too much....we'', he WAS, but it could have been worse...
The place-crappy-game-promo-cutshot-here was better 'hidden', too..

Female 'lead' lost dorky hair-do soon enough...but pearly-white-teethed clean-cut American college-boy hero becomes evil Dark-Lager IS just a 'tad' far-fetched.

Clever use of 'Once Were Warriors' lead as the subject that was cloned....

LucasFilm should now be called LucasDigital.....but the CGI was pretty darn good.

The story telling seems to have matured a little over all these years....

Jafo thinks I'll be lazy and not correct his own typos....

Do not underestimate the power of the darkside... >

Most people like Ep 2.

I use the site IMDB.COM because you get tens of thousands of votes and it's usually quite reliable. Anything under a 7 on there I tend to shy away from.

Phantom Menace got like a 6.7, Episode 2 an 8.1. So it's clearly liked better than episode 1.

Well, going for my second viewing of AOTC tonight...

This will be the first Star Wars movie I will not see more than once. It was disappointing, especially after PM. For a romance that supposed to bring down an intergalactic republic, it was tepid at best.

I'd have to agree that LOTR:FOTR was better than ATOC. I loved the mythic/moral weight that LOTR has.

I agree that the acting sucked. I saw episode 2, Spiderman, and LOTR in a two day span (vacation - no kids!). I'd love to see episode 2 again though - only because the computer generated graphics were stunning. They did some absolutely amazing things there.

Don't get me wrong, the movie could have been great, but what is a movie if the main characters are bland and unsympathetic? All during the movie I was waiting for that moment when I felt for the starcrossed lovers, never happened. In the end I really didn't care what happened to them.

As far as Chritiansen and Portman are concerned, this may be the first time that somebody's career was actually hurt by their performance in a Star Wars movie.

Very good point Jafo! I too still "wow" a lot during 2001: A Space Odyssey and have done so each & every time I've seen it... although back in the sixties (in Cinerama Super 70mm) it was more like, "Hey, wooow... far out, man"!

Although on an entirely different level, Star Wars is, however, still great fun (and great business for the local Aussie film industry). But kids really should see "2001" once they get over the six second attention span stage!

LoidiBoid assumes most of the above catagory would already have become bored with this three paragraph post!!

I just finished reading an article where Dave Prowse (Darth Vador in the first 3 movies) was criticizing the new Star Wars.
He claims that the new SW movies lost that Star Wars magic that the first 3 had. He says also that the acting in Episode 2 is terrible and that Attack of the Clones depends too much on the special effects and not enough on the scenario. He declared to tha San Francisco Examiner that "part of the interpretation was rather insipid. I think that it's what you get when you rely too much on the blue background." (I'm translating here, I read the article in French). He also added "I think that the original Star Wars was a very basic movie, with victory of Good against Evil, relationship between the protagonists and a bad guy. People remember the caracters such as Han Solo, Princess Leia and Luke Skywalker, and not as Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher or Mark Hamill. Today, people talk more about Ewan McGregor or Liam Neeson for the first one, [...] It lost its magic."

I haven't seen the second one yet. But going by Episode 1, I tend to agree.
Note: I saw the trailer on TV, and if I go just by that, I will never even rent it. I just hope it's better than the trailer made it look. I REALLY HATE puns in movies, such as "I hate when he does that" after Skywalker jumps off a flying car... Actually, if it weren't for that line in the movie trailer, I probably would have gone to see it already.