Episode 1 is indeed terrible, but this one is so much worse. The plot lines go nowhere, nothing connects to anything else, and nothing of consequence happens. We don't see Anakin transform at all. We see him react to plot points and, very poorly, act as if something has happened. Padme barely exists as anything other than a plot device, and once she's fulfilled her final plot point she's literally thrown out of a ship. There's that incongruous '50s diner, and then the inexplicable clone planet that Obi Wan finds where he's told everything he needs to know for no reason other than it pushes the film along. We keep hearing about Sifo Dyas, but he's dropped and never shows up or matters, and suddenly with 20 minutes left in the movie Count Dooku shows up. Christopher Lee might be the only good thing in the film, and really delivers despite the inane dialogue and motivations he's given. We have the whole side plot of the supposed love story between Anakin and Padme, which is terribly done. They have zero chemistry, and nothing that happens between them suggests that she should be falling in love with him. He tells her he just massacred a bunch of children, and somehow she falls in love?
As bad as Episode 1 is, there's at least some semblance of a story moving the film along. This is like three shitty films that were partially completed, then mashed up into one nonsensical end result that even Ed Wood would think twice about releasing.
Of course, all that said, this is merely the overture to the terrible opera to follow, as the worst film of a terrible trilogy came next.
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Martoto (5191)
a year ago
Precisely.
I think AOTC just edges it as the worst of the trilogy. But ROTS is without doubt, far and away the most overpraised and overrated film in the entire saga. To idea that it is better than anything other than AOTC, maybe and not by much, is utterly ludicrous.
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