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LeonhartFour posted...

I remember liking it when I watched it in theaters at the age of 13, but a lot of it might have just been excitement that it's a new Star Wars movie. But I guess at some point I wised up because I haven't watched it again since, and I've seen the original trilogy literally dozens of times.

This is almost verbatim my experience - even down to the age! I was so swept up in Episode I hype that I watched it in theaters four times. I guess that I reevaluated its quality during the next three years, however, as I never bothered watching Eps II or III in theaters.

And yeah, I'm probably powering through II and III this week, and those Obi-Wan scenes are the only ones I'm really looking forward to. I remember Ewan McGregor doing a good job taking ownership of that character despite Lucas's directing.

kevwaffles posted...

The thing that's really amazing is that 1 is not only completely terrible, but utterly unnecessary. It doesn't develop any of the characters that are in it or their relationships with one another in any substantial way that we either didn't already know and/or can't be summed by the mere fact they met each other. The most significance it ever has is the last five minutes of 3 where Yoda brings up Qui Gon the fuck out of nowhere so Obi Wan has someone to talk to off screen for the next 20 years.

That's totally true. The plot develops around Anakin (he gets to know Padme, he gets to train under Obi-Wan), but the dialogue between them is either bland (Obi) or horribly awkward (Padme). The relationships aren't really developed at all. The only other major goings-on is Palpatine's plotting, which I thought was really weirdly done. For all this movie's lack of subtlety, it was actually TOO subtle in hinting that Sidious and Palpatine are the same guy. It didn't hint it at all! I might actually like that, now that I think about it.
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