You've got a point about seeing it for the visual artistry (although i'll have to take your word for it, since to me the landscapes in Episode 2 looked very hokey) and the experience of being a part of what amounts to a sadly unique cultural moment: the biggest popular audience and ticket sales of all time, for worst film series of all time, by the worst writer-director of all time.
Ooh, I was just remembering and cringing all over again about the C3PO/R2D2 stuff in Episode 2. I'm not sure which was worse, every moment of C3P0's dialogue/action or every interaction between Anakin and Padme. Or Jar Jar addressing the Senate. Meesa wanna hit you with a sledgehammer. Or the scene of Anakin's Mom's death, the way her head slumped backward as if Lucas was right there saying "okay, now you die!" (which he probably was.) Yoda being kick-ass was cool but that lasted like 7 seconds.
Hey Dan,
I am in perfect sync with you on this. Episodes 4 and 5 were okay. They were fun for kids our age. And they hold up to a certain degree still today.
Maybe this is all about our age. But I don't think so.
I think that episodes 6, subjectively, was vastly inferior. And 1 and 2 are mong the worst films ever made. I think Lucas is perhaps the worst writer, director in the history of cinema.
And I saw Sith on opening weekend with Jess because, well, I knew it would suck and all the talk of darkness etc was suckk-up bullshit from half-witted tools.
But it is beautiful. I think it's worth the nine dollars to see the digital landscapes. Having said that, worst dialogue ever. Stupidest, least sensible story ever. Dumbest characters evetr. Hackneyed, no-talent filmmaking. Perfectly artless. Offensive in its struggles at humor. And the climatic scene, the CLIMATIC battle looks like an old 70's live action Saturday morning serial like Dyna-Girl or Dr. Shrinker. It's like once they hit the lava flows they were all out of tiem and money and just ran down to the local cable access green screen to knock off the scene in an hour.
Unbelievable how bad it was. For that reason you should go. Just so you know how bad filmmaking can really be. And so that you can be part of the cultural moment that made such a terrible film such a big moneymaker.
It's worse than Titanic, and that's saying something.