Isn't he great? I have a fond memory of first listening to his review of Phantom of the Menace. It kinda just snuck up on me and WHOOP there goes an hour and 15 minutes. Practically pooped my pants laughing.

And as for the Deathmatch: obvs original trilogy. Mark Hamill > Hayden Christiansen.

original...hands down.

i believe that Lucas is attempting to right his wrong w/the Clone Wars series, which far outstrips the prequels on every level.

Oh, Atrasin...Two words: "Politics episodes." Or "Mandalorian stories".

You were saying?

OT it is, something Red Letter Media just cemented for me.

I loved the original animated Clone Wars. You know, the incredibly short, yet still awesome ones. I think they aired about five years ago. Yeah, those rocked.

The 2d animated ones were fantastic, the new cgi ones are pretty fecking terrible for the most part with the odd exception.

EP2 is by far the worst film. Taken on its own as a stand alone film, it's just a complete mess. Not only is it a bad star wars film, I'd just happily never watch it again in my life.

Here's a good one for you: Indiana Jones IV versus Prequel trilogy?

Shia LaBeouf vs hayden christensen, it's a toughy!

(If the question was which would I tire of punching in the face first)

I'm not going to advocate one series or the other but pit the movies against each other on an individual level. In which case, I think the clear winner is Revenge of the Sith. The epic fight scenes, the heart wrenching tale of two best friends torn apart, Anakin's fall to the dark side, the masterful soundtrack. I say it wins hands down.

Thengil wrote:... The epic fight scenes, the heart wrenching tale of two best friends torn apart, Anakin's fall to the dark side, the masterful soundtrack. I say it wins hands down.

Two outta three isn't bad. It is my favourite of the prequels, too. Music in a Star Wars movie is always going to be good if John Williams is at the helm. The Phantom Menace gave us one of the best soundtrack songs of all time. The lightsaber fighting was mostly awesome (the beginning of the fight with Palpatine was shockingly bad), and the whole scene of Order 66 being carried out was, I think, really powerfully done.. That being said, I think Anakin's fall was ridiculously portrayed. Maybe that's just the awful acting, but the script surrounding his fall, which was the point of the prequels, was fairly weak. He went from conscience boy to child murderer in about fifteen minutes. And let's not even get started on the scenes between him and Padme.

My favourite series is definitely the original trilogy overall. Especially because it gave us the fewest, "Why, George?" moments (largely, the Ewoks).

I can never find the "this high ground adds +10 to my defense level" sketch when I need to

Guys. The prequels were a giant BORING FEST. I don't want to watch Anakin and Obi-Wan duel for 45 minutes. And throughout the prequels, what makes them such good friends? All they do is complain to each other. There is NOTHING redeeming about them in my mind. The characters are flat, the movies are poorly edited in terms of cinematic quality, and the story makes no sense.

Red Letter Media can explain these things much more professionally (and comedic) than I. Please, please, PLEASE watch them. They will change you.

Quote:Guys. The prequels were a giant BORING FEST. I don't want to watch Anakin and Obi-Wan duel for 45 minutes. And throughout the prequels, what makes them such good friends? All they do is complain to each other. There is NOTHING redeeming about them in my mind. The characters are flat, the movies are poorly edited in terms of cinematic quality, and the story makes no sense.

(This is just me pointing out some issues of reasoning in the above, not a personal attack. I can be a bit blunt, so I apologize ahead of time)

If you don't want to watch anakin and obi-wan duel for forty-five minutes why in the world would you want to watch the original series. The only lightsaber fight in the first movie is between Obi-Wan and Darth Vader and let's not go over how horribly painful that was to watch. In fact, the only bearable duel in the entire original series is the one between Han and the Tauntaun. The rest is just Darth Vader taunting Luke over and over again.

Let's move on to your point about Anakin and Obi-wan being friends. Instead of pointing out the obvious fact that their bickering is present in many friendships I'll just ask why Luke is so attached to Obi-Wan. I mean, he hardly ever sees the guy, teams up with him for two days, and then is distraught when Ben dies. More so than he was over his Uncle and Aunt. Luke's character is perpetually whiny, and the acting is about the same as Hayden's ability. The story is so overdone it's sad, boy's family dies, boy goes off becomes hero, boy wins. It's the same cliche that I'm sure most of us recognize when creating characters. It doesn't have any of the uniqueness present with Anakin and his relationship with his mother, whose emotional attachment to eventually leads him to the dark side.

I honestly don't understand what people mean by "oh it's poor acting." is it really as bad as Luke? Really? Maybe the second one is pretty bad in some parts, the padme stuff, but the Third one redeems all that in my mind.

A New Hope has a really flat and underdeveloped storyline. It's over before it begins. Luke's escaping the Death Star with Han and then all of a sudden he's a hot shot pilot for the Rebels. The transitioning made no sense. Sure, it's a good movie, but it's not a storytelling wonder.

Anyway, I can understand why some people don't like the prequels, I just don't think it deserves all the hate it gets. I think the only reason why is because it doesn't live up to the childhood experience many got when first watching the original series. RoJ is obviously the best one in my eyes, but people proclaim ANH as pure genius. Why? It was the first in the series. Because of that childhood experience no future series is going to meet expectations. Just like I would be horrified if they made a sequel to Sandlot.... oh wait.

The animated clone wars cartoons were epic. The new ones are horrible, they take Anakin's character and further defame it.

I'm not going to get into a drawn out debate, since those are usually useless, but I just want to speak out in defense of the prequels, which I think get too much hate.