Saga Least favorite film of the Saga and Why?

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Attack of the Clones is my least favorite. I think it has some pretty awful dialogue, some really bad acting (although I think much of the poor acting is due to a poorly written script and bad direction), it feels very cartoony due to an over reliance on CGI and blue screen, and the pacing is all over the place. I also have a huge problem with Anakin being portrayed as such a creepy weirdo. I know someone his age who has no experience with women would naturally be awkward and whatnot, and I also know Anakin has to be shown as having a dark side, but he just comes off as a whiny brat. I much prefer Anakin in The Clone Wars, where he is shown as a really good hearted hero who has a lot of flaws. Also, the Yoda fight with Count Dooku is just ridiculous.

 

Aw, man, really?! That was awesome.

 

Yeah it just doesn't do it for me. I've always thought it comes off as silly rather than cool. I don't really like the idea of Yoda even fighting with a lightsaber in the first place, so I'm kinda biased against it. I will say, however, that I think his duel with Palpatine in ROTS is pretty well done.

 

Fair enough.

 

TFA and TLJ are tied for the worst, despite me being unable to get TLJ Luke out of my head. I think beyond giving him the failure arc which almost everyone in this movie suffers from, I have issues with the utterly puzzling and unfortunate character arcs in the ‘story’.

If, in IX, J.J. shows us why he was so enthused to work with John Boyega in the first place, perhaps I will enjoy it.

I dunno, I want another Rogue One that features many interesting new characters in a scenario we haven’t seen yet. I guess that is what I hoped the ST would be.

 

TPM. While I liked Liam Neeson's Qui'Gon and McGreggor's Obi-Wan; the boy-wonder that was Anakin just rubbed me the wrong way. I kind of have a thing against child actors in lead roles over the past couple of decades. Their emotions just seem too forced and their dialogue is mostly dry. Gone are the days of a teenage Jodie Foster in Taxi Driver, Tatum O'Neal in Bad News Bears and Paper Moon, and even Haley Joel Osment in The Sixth Sense.

 

My least favorite Star Wars film is Rogue One because I find it a bit dull, bland, and unnecessary. I also don’t particularly like seeing the OT characters rendered in CG.

But as far as saga films, it’s close between TFA and TLJ. I think TLJ is the worse film, but ultimately I like TFA less because the seeds for most of what’s wrong with TLJ were planted in that film. I just thought the whole story and approach was fundamentally flawed, so there was really nowhere the next film could go that would have redeemed it for me anyway.

I can still watch any of them if the mood hits, but I’ll never really consider the ST to be part of the story proper. In fairness though, I’m very much into authorship and don’t have much interest in any story being continued by anyone other than the original author, so make of that what you will.

 

I think the same can be said for the PT honestly - at least, back when it came out.

 

I had been involuntarily absent from the JCF for the past two months, but looking at the "pole position" is somewhat a confidence booster.

 

As for myself, I'm happier about one particular end.

 

TLJ by far.
The most positive thing about TLJ to me, was how it made many people reevaluate and ultimately even miss the prequels.

 

Yes Rogue One was brilliant. I had hoped the ST would be like that. I have a sneaky suspicion that Lucas' treatments were the sequels we "were looking for."

Indeed the silver lining in the cloud I suppose. I think if people take a step back and look at the saga, they can see the one story flowing from Episode 1 to 6. Whereas you might tweak some dialogue or a line here and there, the story is brilliant. Epic. It is Star Wars. The sequels are...well yeah. I think TFA and TLJ forget what they're meant to be and simply try to be other films. They are meant to be Episode 7 and 8.

 

Counterpoint: I like TLJ and still don't like 2/3 of the prequels.

 

Not really a counterpoint, I said "many people" not "everyone".

 

I guess it's just a Regular Point then.

 

TLJ is an absolute mess. First Star Wars film ever that I dislike.

 

I dislike both TFA and TLJ, but for different reasons.

 

The Last Jedi,The Force Awakens and Attack of the Clones for me

 

I dislike all the films equally. I hate Star Wars and just assumed this was the Star Trek forum this whole time until just now. I was tricked! Tricked I say!

 

I don’t understand why Star Wars fans spend so much time and energy arguing about which trilogies are best or worst when what we should be doing is dunking Trekkies’ heads in toilets, together, as a family.

 

Attack of the Clones is, in my mind, a truly horrendous piece of film-making. I screen movies for a local film festival. I see a lot of trash film while doing so and while AotC obviously has a higher production value than every single one of those movies, at its worst points it fits right in with some of the worst movies I've screen. The acting is uniformly embarrassing. The plotting is weak and contrived. The only sequence that is redeemable at all is the Tatooine sequence and I'm willing to accept that I view it fondly only in contrast to the rest of the movie. No other Star Wars film sinks to the lows that AotC dives into. RotS dips its toe in a couple of times, but it rises high enough in other scenes to compensate. I feel so strongly about this I truly have a difficult time comprehending how some people put AotC on anything but the bottom of rankings lists much less on top (no judgement; its all subjective, so you do you; I just don't see what you see in this movie, apparently).

With all that said I still love it to bits like every other Star Wars movie; just maybe I sometimes make fun of it when it isn't looking.