Star Wars Is The Absolute Worst
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UPDATED: Monday, August 31, 2026 22:23
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Star Wars is a complete suspense-of-disbelief marathon for the mind. Star Wars is about adventure, excitement, and high tech what-ifs?
It's fun for everyone watching it.
Star Wars is fantasy, but fun. Kinda like McDonald's unspoken slogan for the past 4 decades: Food and fun. This is Star Wars.
You cannot watch Star Wars with a scientific mind.
-River
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First off, no it's not the worst. I have a simple solution for you: if you don't like something stay away from it. Whatever your gripes are with the PT get over them and move on with your life.
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Yes, the prequels were pretty bad. The dialogue killed me, especially Padme's, and the love scenes were excrutiating. But I'm not going to stop being a Star Wars fan. In fact, I'm a member of the 501st, and I troop all the time doing charity work, hospital visits, toy drives, etc. So if you can't stand the movies, don't watch them, but condemning Star Wars as a whole seems a bit much. The Clone Wars cartoon was really decent, and who can forget Bea Arthur in the Christmas special? Ha ha ha
***Never judge a book by its movie***
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Just to clarify my post yesterday.....I think George Lucas is a brilliant genius with special effects. He creates landscapes. cityscapes, and outer space scenes that are un-matched anywhere in science fiction filmdom...and I credit him with almost single-handedly resurrecting the sci-fi genre with Star Wars in 1977.
That said, I think most folks on this thread agree that the writing was atrocious, the acting atrocious, and the plot was juvenile & absurd in all the prequels.
I mean...just for starters..Is Padme the all-time stupidest, little retard in their universe? I wouldn't have thought so considering her education and service as Queen & Senator ...BUT...falling in love...frikkin' LOVE with Annakin...no way no how!
What was he.?..as a child, a little smart-assed , but cute kid, as a teenager he was a whiny, cocky, dis-respectful, arrogant big kid who just wanted things he felt he deserved...but not earned...I can't imagine Obi Wan being able to stomach him for just one day...and Padme fell in love with that??? Oh please...what..there weren't plenty of normal smart virtuous young fellas chasing her all her life???...She was sooooo desperate for love that she fell for him???..and her absurd dismissal of his murderous rampage against Sandpeople women & children....oh yeah that's the guy I want to marry and have a life with...for sure!
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Originally posted by slayer730:
In fact, I'm a member of the 501st, and I troop all the time doing charity work, hospital visits, toy drives, etc.
Cool! Did you march in the Rose Parade?
I heard there was some bad blood with Bob Eubanks over his remark: "These guys need to get jobs!"
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Originally posted by ShinyEd:
I mean...just for starters..Is Padme the all-time stupidest, little retard in their universe? I wouldn't have thought so considering her education and service as Queen & Senator ...BUT...falling in love...frikkin' LOVE with Annakin...no way no how!
What was he.?..as a child, a little smart-assed , but cute kid,
Don't forget 'idiot': He called Qui-Gon Jinn's lightsaber a "laser sword"!
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Recommendation to everyone and this has really helped me when watching the PTs. Fast forward through the Anakin and Padme love scenes in II and III. They are excruciating, and you'll get back to the action sequences much faster. It's funny, that after doing this for a while I've actually forgotten that Padme was even a character.
I am evil, I am sly, and if you get eaten no one will cry.
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Originally posted by Fastmover:
Recommendation to everyone and this has really helped me when watching the PTs. Fast forward through the Anakin and Padme love scenes in II and III. They are excruciating, and you'll get back to the action sequences much faster. It's funny, that after doing this for a while I've actually forgotten that Padme was even a character.
Perhaps you mean mute those scenes. Natalie Portman is hott. Episode II had her in a backless dress and tattered clothing. How can you not watch those scenes?
She's a great actress too. I believe 100% that the dialogue is what killed her character.
Besides the action wasn't even that great in Episode II & III. I mean in Episode I they have the ultimate lightsaber duel. Maul vs. Obiwan was awesome. In II you get Anakin and Duko's facial expressions while some lights splash around and then cgi yoda jumping all over. In III you get more of the cgi fight scenes and the ridiculous fight between obiwan and anakin. I mean they could not have done anything more rediculous in that fight. I mean they were fighting while dancing on droid's heads, fighting while falling off cliffs, fighting while standing on their heads and holding their lightsabers between their toes, etc. It was more funny than intense.
*takes a deep breath*
Has anyone read Timothy Zahn's trilogy that took place shortly after the movies? Now that's good Star Wars.
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Not to mention the refinery self-destructing around them for no apparent reason.
And if you mean the Thrawn trilogy (Zahn has a wide variety of Star Wars novels, each better than the last), I wouldn't say five years is "shortly" (especially considering all the stuff that happened in the interim), but yeah. If anything deserves to be made into movies (by someone-not-Lucas), it's the Thrawn campaign.
I want my big-screen Mara Jade.
With Bruce Campbell as Karrde. 
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Originally posted by Cybersnark:
Not to mention the refinery self-destructing around them for no apparent reason.
They clearly show a defelcted lightsabre swing cut through a control panel, which switched off the force-field around the refinery. The destruction was the result of loosing the heat shield.
Campbell as Carrde is an awesome idea, by the way.
"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."
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