And i'm the only one who liked Episode 3?

[Taufiq2u]

Seriously. I'm like the only one in this board who liked EP3. Yes, i do admit that the RiffTrax was good, but to me the film was great. A good improvement over the first two prequels. Yes, the lines are a bit cheesy but atleast acting has improved, and you got less Jar-Jar, more darkier side of the saga, Chewbacca's appearance ,a less-shittier portrayal of Kashyyk, Natalie Portman dying, and a Yoda fight scene with Darth Sidious. What else do Star Wars and RiffTrax fans want? George Lucas atleast tried his best to improve his tarnished prequels and tries to redeem his reputation with ROTS, and if he did succeed or not is depend on your opinion, but IMO he redeemed himself with this one.

To me, there's this mentality to some RoundTable members where they think "Ooh this is RiffTrax'd, therefore it must've sucked!" That's kinda harsh especially in this one.

[gammer]

I don't think that is necessarily true. I mean, they RiffTrax'ed Fellowship and I think by and far that movie was accepted as being "good".
I might be wrong here, but I think Mike's biggest beef with this movie (and the Star Wars prequels) is that Lucas whizzed the prequels down his leg because he had SO much to work with in regards to resources, yet he turned out some pretty boring flicks.
You'd think with the amount of money he has and the cool ideas that some writers brought to the table, that he would have done something a bit more like a LOTR class of movie.

[RoninFox]

While I wouldn't put this movie on the level of the originals, I do agree that it was a much MUCH better movie that Episodes I and II.  Most of the real flaws in this one were residual, leftover from the holes Lucas dug for himself in the previous installments.  There were other things too (the super-fast pregnancy with a woman who never looked pregnant) but if you can force yourself to ignore them you can have fun watching this.

[Doctor Who?]

Yes.

I like episode three the first time i saw it at the movies,but then I watched the DvD and all the stupid plot holes and bad acting jumped out at me.

It may be one of the worst films ever made.

It's badly shot,the plot doesn't makes sense,great actors are awful in it,Millions were spent on SFX that already look very dated,and it has NNNNNNNOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!

[bratpop]

I wasn't sure whether the film was good or bad after I saw it since it was like having your skull pounded for two hours. About a year afterwards I realized it's a horrible film. It starts out with mindless action that takes place in the middle of a cartoon nobody saw, with some stupid R2 jokes for entertainment, which is like enjoying the screams of a rape victim since that's essentially what was being done to the "star" droid of the saga by George Lucas. Follow that nonsense up with seemingly hours of nothing, and a hideous looking Natalie Portman that the movie is telling me looks beautiful. Finally, after several weeks, Obi-Wanker flies to some stupid gopher planet and rides some kind of turkey-lizard just so they could sell toys of it, and burns a villain's heart out of his chest with a blaster. Meanwhile Yoda is standing around while some robots fight Wookiees in a montage that manages somehow to be shorter than the clips from the trailer, despite Rick McCallum swearing blind that this epic sequence would open the film. Throw in Chewbacca for no reason and a suspicious absense of Itchy. Meanwhile meanwhile, Anicrap, after hours of stories about Sith lords, realizes Palpasidious is a Sith lord, runs away to tattle, and then comes back and cuts off Mace's hand and turns to the Dark Side, since he apparently really liked Mace a lot, despite no evidence of this. Then he kills a bunch of babies and flies to a lava planet to kill some helpless separatists who have no obvious purpose anyway. And then he fights Obi-Wan. And Yoda fights Darth Purple, and Padamay has two babies, gives magic fake memories to Leia, and dies. And Jar-Jar looks sad. The end. Happy Life Day, everybody!

I thought Episode 2 was a great war movie/film noir. This was a great film NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

[Pak-Man]

You're not alone. A lot of people have gotten bitter over the last few years because the Prequels weren't what they wanted to be, and they've forgotten how fun the universe was to begin with. We had years to romanticize and build-up the original trilogy and there simply wasn't anything Lucas could do to meet everyone's expectations. The prequels may not have been as great as the OT, but that doesn't make them BAD. (At least not to me.) I think people have made the prequels much, much worse to themselves than they actually are. And it seems like most of the people who didn't like Star Wars ended up Riffaholics. So don't look for much support for Eps 1-3 here, but just because they don't have the [joke]right opinion[/joke] doesn't mean I don't enjoy posting amongst them. . :^)

[prestonp]

Episode 3 sucked. It sucked so bad that one day I got the project of weighing out exact portions of coffee into little plastic bags over and over and over again and I put the movie on in the background to try to give it another chance... and then turned if off because it's a turd.

[Natureboy]

I liked Episode 3....but the digital effects really wore me down in subseqent viewings.  I still like it (even though I HATE Episodes 1 and 2.  Revenge of the Sith is not a bad film, just not the classic fans craved.

[bratpop]

Actually, it IS a bad film.  Just because each part was "well made" doesn't mean it can't suck. Batman & Robin is well made. It's just well made from really stupid ideas. So they perfected stupid ideas to get a perfectly stupid end result. The prequels simply aren't well structured stories. They're just documentaries of something that didn't happen. No plot, no arcs, no climax, no satisfaction. Just a bunch of things happening the way things sometimes happen. Boringly. It's a documentary of what happened in the Star Wars universe before the interesting adventures of Luke Skywalker (or IAOLS). It's nerdy backstory that somehow managed to fail with nerds. THAT big a failure at something so easy is what we call BAD.

[MartyS (Gromit)]

Actually, it IS a bad film.  Just because each part was "well made" doesn't mean it can't suck. Batman & Robin is well made. It's just well made from really stupid ideas. So they perfected stupid ideas to get a perfectly stupid end result. The prequels simply aren't well structured stories. They're just documentaries of something that didn't happen. No plot, no arcs, no climax, no satisfaction. Just a bunch of things happening the way things sometimes happen. Boringly. It's a documentary of what happened in the Star Wars universe before the interesting adventures of Luke Skywalker (or IAOLS). It's nerdy backstory that somehow managed to fail with nerds. THAT big a failure at something so easy is what we call BAD.

I agree, it may be the best of the 3 prequels, but it still falls short.

I suppose some of it is expectations of an older audience, and some of it is the fact that it is a prequel and we already know what's going to happen in the end.  But there are ways to make those types of movies interesting, every episode of Colombo you saw the murder happen and knew the murderer would get caught in the end but you had to watch to see how he got them... 

It's too bad Lucas labeled Star Wars as episode IV, that locked him into doing 3 prequels when there obviously wasn't enough story for more than 1 or 2 movies.  Ep. 3 was probably the best because that's the part of the story he wrote back before Ep. 4, some of the story for Ep. 3 is mentioned in the novel for Ep. 4.  The story was way to spread out, by the time Ani really starts turning to the dark side it seems like it happened too fast, because too much pointless crap has happened since the time he tried to save his mom.  There should have been more incidents like that, making you wonder which one was going to push him all the way over.

[Ortega]

I remember going to see it in the theater and being entertained. BUT, once you watch it at home, you can see the cracks and the flaws.  Was it better than the OT, no.  Was it better than Epi. 1 & 2, yes.  But being that i wasn't a very huge SW fan, i didn't have this seething hatred for the prequels as other people did.  I could care less who shot first, and i could care even less about Sebastian Shaw. 

[RVR II]

Here Here!!
I Thought it was the Best of the 3 because of Bill's input!

[MartyS (Gromit)]

 I put Ep. 3 a little lower than the extended version of Ep. 6, if the acting had been better in Ep. 3 it would have put it above Ep. 6.  I guess I can stand the ewoks better than I can stand bad acting, but only by a small margin.

 In general, as a science fiction fan, there are so few good space based movies out there, a lot of the hatred out there is probably because the prequels could have been so much better.  The all time list of really good space based sci-fi is pretty small.

[RoninFox]

Here Here!!
I Thought it was the Best of the 3 because of Bill's input!

We're talkin the movie itself in here, not the riff...though I do agree Bill's involvement made it the best of the three riffs.

[RVR II]

Here Here!!
I Thought it was the Best of the 3 because of Bill's input!

We're talkin the movie itself in here, not the riff...though I do agree Bill's involvement made it the best of the three riffs.

Well.. Just the movie, I'd agree as well only because it brought the whole story together; vaguely, but it came together