I was disappointed by Episodes I & II, but was waiting for Episode III to make my final judgement. Now that I've seen it, here are my thoughts, in no particular order.
Episodes I & II should have been combined to make one movie (or the opening crawl sequence to Episode III?)
Episode III tried to cram 2 movies into 1. It should have been split.
The best Star Wars films were the ones where George Lucas came up with the story and produced, but didn't write the script or direct (Empire, Jedi). So Lucas should have full control over the story, but needs someone to write the actual screenplay for him, or at the very least a good editor. (ESPECIALLY for the "romantic" scenes)
The acting was wooden and stilted. Ewan McGregor, Natalie Portman and Samuel L. Jackson are MUCH better actors than one would guess from watching the Star Wars movies. Ian McDiarmid was excellent, but most of his scenes involved human actors (except, of course, his fight scene with Yoda). As has been said before, too much green/blue screen work makes it tough to act convincingly. I haven't seen much of Hayden Christiansen, but I would imagine that he couldn't get much worse, at the very least.
Is it really that hard to come up with good names? Come on Lucas... Naboo? Dooku? Jar-Jar? Nute Gunray?
Padme should not have died, Leia remembers seeing her as a small child. Yoda and Obi-Wan could easily have lied and said that she died. They dummied up a fake belly for her so Anakin wouldn't know she'd given birth, they could have dummied up a fake body. Once again, an editor would have helped here.
All that said, I enjoyed the movie, and when all 6 movies come out as a DVD set, I'll be buying them...
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I was disappointed by Episodes I & II, but was waiting for Episode III to make my final judgement. Now that I've seen it, here are my thoughts, in no particular order.
All that said, I enjoyed the movie, and when all 6 movies come out as a DVD set, I'll be buying them...
but not before....