Reply #41: i'll back you up.

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PHANTOM MENACE is somewhat weak, but at the end of the day i think it's watchable. the story could have been told in 1/4 the time and the existence of jar jar binks is only minorly less offensive than the existence of the ewoks. but the light sabre battle rules, darth maul was a great villian, ian mcdiarmand is terrific (as is ewan macgregor) and the effects are pretty tremendous.

ATTACK OF THE CLONES is huge fun. apart from the terrible love scene dialogue and hayden christensen's.....um.....simmering.... the plot is good, they leave the humor to the gay robot rather than the aquatic stepinfetchit and three words: yoda lightsabre duel.

i actually think i'm one of the few people on the planet that believes RETURN OF THE JEDI to be a crapfest. much worse than PHANTOM MENACE IMHO.