12th March 2010, 10:48 PM
Empire Strikes Back > A New Hope > Return of the Jedi = Revenge of the Sith > The Phantom Menace = Attack of the Clones [the third of the PT feels the most cohesive of the three, first two are just a mess of awful scenes mixed with a few good ones; Jedi weak compared to the first two of the OT, but I still have a special place in my heart for it, so it's at least equal to the best of PT if not better depending on my mood]
Raiders of the Lost Ark > Last Crusade > Kingdom of the Crystal Skull > Temple of Doom [might swap the last two depending on my mood, but the first two stay where they are]
And? There's not some huge deficit of good-to-great movies such that I need to vigorously fight against each bad movie that comes along in the hopes that my efforts lead to some better movie down the road.
I probably would have said the same about the PT, as I watched them when they first came out in theaters as well, if I'd not seem them since. They don't hold up at all, unlike parts 1 and 2 of the OT and, to a lesser extent, part 3. The PT has a lot of really awful scenes and some of the choices that Lucas made just don't make any sense at all.
Most of this stuff should have been changed, or cut out completely, with successive drafts of the script, but I have a feeling that Lucas whipped out a script for each movie in a week or so and just went with it since there was really nothing on the line for him by the time the PT came around.
Raiders of the Lost Ark > Last Crusade > Kingdom of the Crystal Skull > Temple of Doom [might swap the last two depending on my mood, but the first two stay where they are]
Quote:Prequels were inferior to the original trilogy.
And? There's not some huge deficit of good-to-great movies such that I need to vigorously fight against each bad movie that comes along in the hopes that my efforts lead to some better movie down the road.
Quote:PT ranks higher for me probably because I actually had the chance to anticpate them as new releases and watch them in theatres and stuff. I dunno, it's all part of one big saga for me, and I love it all.
I probably would have said the same about the PT, as I watched them when they first came out in theaters as well, if I'd not seem them since. They don't hold up at all, unlike parts 1 and 2 of the OT and, to a lesser extent, part 3. The PT has a lot of really awful scenes and some of the choices that Lucas made just don't make any sense at all.
Most of this stuff should have been changed, or cut out completely, with successive drafts of the script, but I have a feeling that Lucas whipped out a script for each movie in a week or so and just went with it since there was really nothing on the line for him by the time the PT came around.
Sometimes you get the scorpion.