evilromero said:
It all comes down to this: What do you like better, a piece of dog crap? Or a giant pile of elephant shit? I'm sure most would agree Episode I, as horrible as it was, actually stands above Ep II after all the hype clears away.
Go away, shoo shoo. *flutters hands*
I'm happy to see some prequel love in this topic. After AOTC was released, I really had thought of it as the better film, but once hype had passed away it just seemed like TPM aged much better than AOTC. I also really loved Ewan in TPM, coupled with Liam they were quite the team. Obi-Wan reminded me a lot of Han, but much more elegant. Qui-Gon had that sort of elite and elder way about him, but at the same time, very young "sauve" you could say. I don't know quite how to put it. I must say, I love Hayden over Jake Lloyd, and I can't help but roll my eyes whenever I see the kid, the other characters in TPM make up for it. Then we have whole duel at the end to tie things up, great fight sequence, not even any matrix fight topped it for me.
Attack of the Clones isn't horrible though. I just feel that there was so little to be done in it, there wasn't much to tell other than the clones and the start of the war, but thats about it really and about all we got from it. The rest was filled in with love scenes that just didn't carry the movie along well. Though, when it came to the action, it was there and great. The Battle of Geonosis is grand and I still love watching it, however short. And meh, am I the only one who still gets goosebumps watching Yoda fight? He's amazing.
I think Episode III will be the topper though with good chance of rivalling the OT. I hope it doesn't do that though, but as someone else mentioned it just wraps all the films into a nice package. That way we can get over the nitpicking of each individual film and look at the saga as a whole.
EDIT: Oh and I love your avatar ManaByte.