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  • i find your disinterest in the prequels…..disturbing

  • I think the reason episode 1 was so bad because all it is, is a pod race, a lightsaber duel, and a space battle (in which the nabooans were way too overpowered). The rest is just political bullshit. I mean who the fuck wants to see a bunch of people rant and debate about a pointless invasion of a pussy ass planey thats ruled by a queen that wears make-up like a clown, has the wierdest fucking hair, and has a really shity accent!!!!!!

  • Jar-Jar makes the Ewoks look like fucking Shaft!

  • there is going to be episode 1 in 3-D

  • I actually thought that Phantom Menace was A LOT better than Attack of the Clones. In fact, I consider that movie to be the only "bad" Star Wars movie there is(if there can be such a thing). The only thing I found nice about it is that it portrayed Yoda in a light saber battle for the first time ever and fighting the guy we find out was his padawan....priceless...like a a lesson about how destinies can repeat.

  • @masteryoda120988 I agree. Attack of the Clones was the only Star Wars film that I really disliked. Phantom Menace wasn't that great, but it had some cool moments like the fight at the end with Maul, and Revenge of the Sith was actually pretty good.

  • My Family owns the original and the Special edition versions or the original trilogy. (and the 3 prequels (but we hardly ever watch them)

  • if anyone has played the force unleashed, then you'll see jar jar frozen in carbonite in one of the stages

  • @fluxcapacitor21 which one? cloud city?

  • chuck norris shot first

  • Phantom Menace actually does a lot for me even today. I saw it in theaters when I was six, so it has a lot of nostalgic value. I completely agree that the original trilogy is superior and that the prequels are very flawed, but Episode 1 actually has my all-time-favorite lightsaber fight. 

  • I like all 6, idc.

  • While I wasn't born seeing the first Star Wars movie (A New Hope) I actually did enjoy Phantom Menace as a kid and even now. Episode 2 was good for me cause I always seem to watch it all the time. Episode 3 great and I remember seeing the scene where Anakin turned to Darth Vader, I was unaware of the original Trilogy, and I screamed no like that shouldn't happen to the hero. And after that I became a Star Wars fan for Life (sort of).

  • I would consider myself part of the new generation, I saw all the movies in chronological release. I didnt like the first one, I saw the originals first and I loved seeing the third one in theaters. these movies will always be close to me.

  • I agree that the original trilogy is better then the prequels and that episode III was the best of the prequels but I havent seen the unaltered versions of the original trilogy.

  • The original trilogy first, unedited versions. For sure.

  • I loved episode 1, it was the first and only time my dad ever took me to the theaters as a kid. Episode 2 I didn't really care for, until it came close to the end and the clone wars begun.

    Episode 3 was really good. I remember being super excited for it.

    Episode 4, 5, and 6 will be the first movies my kids will see in the Star wars saga. I want them to experience it the way I did.

  • Lucas should just stop fucking around with the original trilogy and do what he secretly wants to do:

    Remakes of them

    Just leave the originals alone or better yet, release dvds with the CHOICE of picking either the "Special Edition" or the "Original"

    How hard is that?

  • I swear everyone hates all the prequels just to fit in. I always argue with my friend that episode 3 was actually pretty good, but he's adamant that it's awful just because it's a prequel.

  • @animehobo

    Some perhaps, but not ALL

    I reserve "hate" for that special someone that I thought I knew a long time ago

    But I dislike the prequels, that's just my opinion

  • @animehobo I agree with you about episode 3. Revenge of the Sith was pretty good. I rate it as about as good Return of the Jedi.

  • For the prequels, I'd say episode one was good at most, episode 2 was much better, and episode 3 kicked tons of ass!

  • i think episode 3 should have been the first prequel then movies about vader going after the jedi.

  • Yo Yoda why you gotta be a playa hatter!

  • Kids, watch it like this:

    III, IV, V, VI.

  • Man... when i hear that theme.. and that scrolling title..

    I almost start crying.

    .

  • Annikin joined the darkside to save padmes life.........and the he tries to kill her

    -_-

  • I heard their putting back Episode 1 in theaters in 3D. I wasn't too happy about it, I wish they just put back the original trilogy in theaters instead. I saw this when I was a kid in the 90s with my uncle on VHS. I want to see it in theaters, it's somthing that I need off my list.

  • @billruller There putting ALL of the six movies in theaters.im guessing were going to have to wait 3 more years for the start of the original trilogy in 3D,if they decide to release the movies by year.

  • i just like movies lol...i don't have to make them. And I'm of the opinion that just because it's digital doesn't mean it was easy to put together and present to you the viewer...plus, if you can do better...let's see it! I like this whole series along with all the films that inspired it and films inspired by it.

  • Captainawesome, do u need to need to correct him on every video? Ur missing the point. And episode 3 sucked donkey dick. Why would he bother pronouncing grievous right?

  • @TheZiggirawk would you please be subjective here? Just because some people dissagree with you, or James for that matter, does not imply that YOU have to correct them either. I liked episode 3, fuck, i even enjoyed most parts of episode 2. Does that mean that i think that the old movies were worse? No, i think all of the Star Wars movies, has some significant value to it. Your opinon is not the universal law of everything. Just let people have a good time with the prequels if they liked them ey?

  • @TheQoler the view of fan or film maker you choice :D

  • @hadrowsillo I'd like to think the view of both(;

  • I love all 6 movies. It has taught me a lot while I have matured and I love how there is a back story for everything. To me it is interesting.

  • Correction. Darth Maul was and is awesome. And also it's prenounced Greeve-us

  • @CaptainAwesome64

    "Correction"?

    How can you "correct" his OPINION?

  • There was set o have another 3 films made, but George Lucas was offended by his fans showing him that the prequel trilogy was bad, and now he threw a hissy fit and is retiring after Red Tails.

  • i think Darth Vader's NOOOOOOOOOO was to make him more tragic

  • It will be good to have another 3 star wars movies ho are after the fall of the empire

  • 4-5-1-2-3-6 (all original) order to show the movies... just fyi

  • 348 people like star trek

  • couldn't have said it better myself. Very well done! Especially the final question you end with. How will you present these to your kids? A very good question indeed.

  • Even people who hate the prequels must admit the last 15 minutes of episode 3 were awesome!

  • @opszanski No, they weren't. Quite the contrary, they were the biggest shit I've seen in films, ever. The last 15 minutes were overindulgent and pretentious. It's a joke how people suck Lucas' cock just because it's Star Wars and some visual effects. I bet that if you removed the title "Star Wars", the prequels wouldn't get the idiotic praise it gets by retarded fanboys.

  • @FoggyFishburne "they were the biggest shit I've seen in films, ever."? That's a little excessive. Yeah they were quite bad, but not bottom of the barrel horrible. It's funny you say people like it because it has "Star Wars" as the title when really it's the title why people hate it. Episode 3 was pretty decent. Look at the critic consensus, it's considered better than episode 6.

  • @opszanski fighting on extremely fake hot lava for like 20 minutes? wow so intense. its fucking boring and overdone. episode 3 was the worst star wars movie by a long shot

  • @opszanski I didn't like Episode 1 & 2. Episode 3 is better, I didn't expect it to be good when I saw it in theaters lol Episode 1 was kinda boring and forgettable. Episode to was...eh, but not as bad as Episode 1. It's something I see once and never see it again. Episode 3, I will watch over and over. It has a great start and emotional ending. That's the only prequal I can accept.

  • @billruller Well said.

  • Fuckin Ewoks

  • Fantastic review.

  • the only thing I dont like about growing up after the star wars trilogy came out was that the fact that darth vader was lukes father was propgated throughout culture and ruined the twist for me

  • I feel really bad for most actors in the prequels. I don't think 1 or 2 were THAT bad, but because of them, most actors in them got a bad name. MacGregor I think is a geniunely good actor. If you consider how wooden his script is mostly, he actually plays his role really, really well, and episode III really saw him shine. I think Christensen has "Pattison syndrome", where the actor knows his script is shit and doesn't give a fuck about actually acting it out well. He might be OK, maybe, perhaps.

  • In the end of Return of the Jedi, I loved seeing Skywalkers face when it wasnt burnt form the dath vader mask, so I was pissed when it showed the more Revenge of the Sith version

  • Honestly, Episode 2 imo was the worst one of them all.

    So fucking boring. Even though I hated #1 also. (I used to LOVE IT as a kid, but then I started to see why people didn't like it)

    3 was also really good, but also had alot of problems.

  • I'm old enough that I saw the original trilogy in the theater when they were first released, but I still like the prequels. Yes, Jar Jar was the worst thing since the ewoks - okay, worse. Yes, Anakin in 1 was a little punk and Christianson was a wooden actor. On the other hand, the Jedi's in general made Luke like a country squire. The light saber battle at the end of episode 1 was epic with the music. Jango fight in 2, great. The storyline of the republic and the emperors rise - fantastic.

  • You guys should watch the reviews of Redlettermedia.

  • @bbhaver I know, he rocks, it took me a while to get used to his voice though, but now its hilarious :D

  • i liked the new ones, but i wasnt around for the old ones so like the old ones for you are the new ones for me

  • I'm pretty sure not everybody is gonna like this idea. But I think George Lucas should stop with all the re releasing crap and make an Episode 7. With the same actors, taking place after Return of the Jedi, and make it dark and cold. Also, give it a better writer to make the dialogue more believable and dramatic.

  • @KTH568 I hope he does too. Though you should know that episodes 7 through 9 do exist in novel form. There are some Big spoilers so I won't blab about them xD

  • @SeoDragon117 Yeah, I read them. Thats what I meant, they should make movies out of em.

  • @KTH568 Not gonna happen, sorry.

  • one thing I don't understand in a new hope when c3p0 and r2 are in the dessert 3p0 says he doesn't want any more adventures which means that the have had adventures in the past but at the end of episode 3 they have there memories erased so how do they remember each other as well as previous adventures ?

  • Darth Vader is like a black dildo...

  • I didn't really care about the singing part, but the female singer is annoying. I liked Episode I, II, III and I seem to be the only one who ever liked II. I mean the war in the Colosseum was fucking awesome.

  • I'm 13. Episode IV was the best, VI was second best, then Episode V, then Episode III, and both episodes I and II aren't very good. Also, the holiday special sucks, and the clone wars movie also wasn't that good.

  • @MovieReviews98

    The clone wars movie was meant to just be an intro to the series, the series has actually turned out to be pretty awesome.

  • @nahor88 Yeah, I heard. I want to watch the series soon.

  • i am ur father

  • i am exited for episode 1 in 3D!

    

  • Now in 3D!!!! smh -__-

  • What you fail to mention is how episode II brought in politics and government into part of what star wars enveloped, along with some mystery. Episode 1 was like anakins trial by fire and it is basically an introductory episode. And if you watch what palpatine does throughout the prequels its hard not to think of the snake in the garden of eden. But episode III was the best, it showed how the emperor is like satan and anakin is the antichrist.

  • the real quote is, "art is never finished, only abandoned" --apparently something else lucas "paid homage to"

  • i liked all the movies but 4 5 and 6 are the best. i remember seeing return of the jedi in theaters with my mom back in the 90s and since then ive been a fan. i havent seen them in some time and i need to

  • I grew up watching the prequels so I'm not angry about the changes as much as the hardcore star wars fans

  • @ryanrox17 I'll admit, I don't think all the changes they made with the rereleases were that bad. Like the Sarlacc's beak, I thought that one was pretty interesting. But let's face it, changing a scene so that a character who originally never got a shot off not only shoots, but shoots FIRST just to please those in your audience who dislike gray morality enough to complain about it, and by extension subtly insult the intellect of the rest of your audience, is kind of a dick-move.

  • I forgot 3D re-releases. Fuck it.

  • I think people put too much thought in the movies, yes they startled the franchise. But now there is so much more history and life to star wars that the movies only take up a small fraction of star wars history. The books, comics, and videogames give a huge expansion to the star wars franchise, some of it even better than the original movies and I think that fans should expand their minds to remember that.

    Aside from jar jar and darth vader saying NO again. Star wars will always a place with

  • to answer your question james: Kids don't give a fuck about star wars anymore to quote every single person I've ever met " Star Wars?, gay!" all they wanna do is play Call Of Duty on their Xbox and not explore what other games or movies they like

  • I think the whole prequel thing is stupid.. I mean, if you're watching the films in order, it ruins the surprise that Darth is Luke's father..

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  • I think episode II was the best. no-one agrees...

  • unaltered versions 4 5 6 first then 1 2 3 and the edited changed around versions they can watch themselves :D i dont care who shot first and stuff but all the digital extra-crap they put in just doesnt do it.

  • i'm 15, though i grew up watching 1-6 instead of 4-6, then 1-3, i'm going to show my kids the original way it was meant to be shown, i won't hint anything, but just place him in front of hours of original footage.

    p.s. han was already a bad ass role model

  • Vierzbanator homer: youre both right!

  • Lenny: I say The Phantom Menace sucks more!

    Carl: No, I say Attack Of The Clones sucks more!

  • 3,4,5,6?

  • i don't know what to expect for the 3D releases but as just for seeing the movies in theaters I can't wait I've only seen episode 3 in theaters but i was 8 years old and couldn't really appreciate it much but now i'm older can understand the saga a lot better

  • @freeman922011 same here. like exactly the same.

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  • @sushiking1223 Dude,there will be the remake the 6 in 3-D starting 2013 or finals of this year...

  • @UnivingIshiro I don't care about them releasing the movies in 3-D. It's the prospect of a completly new movie which scares me.

  • 3,4,5,6,1,2

  • 4,5,1,2,3,6

  • one way to watch the saga is by starting from 4 and 5 and then watching 1,2 and 3 like it would be a flashback and then finnish the saga with episode 6

  • I'm part of the newer generation of Star Wars fans that grew up with episode 1, 2 and 3 rather than the originals and I can say that the originals are far better, the only thing that I loved about episode 1 was Darth Maul, he was such a fuckin badass, it's a shame he hardly had any lines and then died at the end.

  • Lucas should make 789 or The Force Unleashed or KotoR instead of the same 6 we've seen 300 times with different effects.Order seen4,5,6,1,2,3(first time)1,2,3,4,5,6(second time).

  • 6,3,4,5,2,1

  • 5,6,4,3,2,1

  • 5,4,6,3,2,1

  • @ 3:36 is that wolverine? lol

  • new saga coming no lie

  • @julexguiltyspark Suuuuuree it does,and I'm about to get a million dollars out of the sky!It's just the remake to 3d of the same 6 movies(more the ruination of them).

  • I would have loved to see more about Darth Maul. It was a sad disappointment dying in the first movie.

  • I saw the new star wars movies first and i thought wow this is just awesome but when i watched the older ones i thought holy fucking god this is the greatest movie series ever made

  • 6,4,5,2,1,3

  • episode 1 was to political i think

  • @halloweenfan92 SW EP1: Diplomatic Negotiations.

  • James should really do a lord of the rings movie reviews

  • Star Wars(1977): The story is flawlessly built up to it's climax,giving Star Wars the perfect balance of style and substance. The Empire Strikes Back: A perfect continuation of the story. Return of the Jedi: An emotionally satisfying cap on the trilogy. The Phantom Menace: Replacing the emotional connection that made the originals so great with lame characters,unfunny toilet humour and CGI. Attack of the Clones: Bad love story meets meaningless action. Revenge of the Sith: Poorly executed.

  • my dad just told me to sit down and watch it.

  • order of the best goes 4,6,5,1,3,2

  • episode I was the first movie i ever saw... and dont cried

  • @victoreguerra i feel so sorry for you

  • When I have kids, im gonna show them the movies in the order they were made! The original trilogy first (theatrical version) then the prequals, and then the remastered originals!

  • @SamyLakhdar then they'll b totally confused dumbass ¬_¬ and i doubt ull ever have kids :P

  • Hey! Hey! Hey! I object to that! Darth Maul was awesome! He was the highlight of the first movie.

  • I used to like Phantom Menace when I was a kid, but now I'm 18, and it's not that good anymore.

    I feel like the prequels don't have soul, the 3º was very good, and 2º was alright, and the 1º too childish.

  • When i saw the Attack of the Clones lightsaber battle between Yoda and Dooku. I shit my pants.

  • I actually thought The Phantom Menace was pretty decent.

  • Hey James did u ever read the star wars comics ?

  • when the whole saga is released in 3-d, this generation will know what it felt like to hear that huge twist

  • werent they made like fourth,fifth,sixth then the first, second, third

  • 4:49 when ever my friends are over i turn that off because im embarrassed

  • 5:16 I agree time has passed for Darth Vader (like some 20 years or so) he would look like he did in the first return of the jedi (not the re-release)

  • I grew up with the prequels seeing them in chronological order. I had never seen the originals so I didn't know what to expect, so I didn't think the phantom menace was that bad when I first saw it. I see its flaw today of course but attack of the clones is worse in my opinion. At least phantom menace had a mix of puppetry and cgi; clones was ALL cgi. both are flawed but phantom menace wins because it blended the new and the old. the cgi in clones was good but not good enough to really amaze

  • i am a younger generation and star wars IV, V and VI were by far the best movies out of the all the six

  • Star Wars-5/5

    Empire Strikes Back-5/5

    Return of the Jedi-5/5

    Phantom Menace-1/5

    Attack of the Clones-1/5

    Revenge of the Sith-3/5

  • I remember going to watch Phantom Menace when it came out. I felt depressed. It was soulless and boring. It was like watching Aliens, then Alien 3. Very bad.

  • 2:16

    I agree I wish this scene would have been remade with stopmotion(w/ motion blur it makes stop motion smooth)

  • The action scenes of all three prequels are undoubtedly awesome (except the Gungan "warriors" scene), but yeah, I felt some of the "romantic" dialogue left something to be desired.

  • When I was 6 I knew Greedo shot first... stupids

  • if it wasnt for the cheesy dialogue episode 3 would be just as awesome as return of the jedi.

  • I never knew the jar jar scene in the new Return of the Jedi.

  • the prequel trilogy wuz great (on my opinion), but i gotta give them credit for Episode III - that movie wuz epic

  • 2 strikes?

    HEY EPISODE 2 WAS GOOD.

  • @nightbane2

    what james said it had a crappy love story, while others citied christensen's acting(it had best performaces in catina in coruscant, some of anakin's vaderisms,etc.), jedi acting dumb, and still jar jar. but in my opinion, it's a worth watching this movie.

  • as a kid i loved episode one i mean i was but after re-watching it and seeing what other people its not so bad its a good movie on its own but compared to the other movies its not as strong as than them but i still love all the movies

  • u will be able to see them back on the bigscreen AGAIN cos i hear the films are being released in 3D so there most likely will be 2d one idk lol

  • ON THE TOPIC OF EPISODE 1 it's not a bad film at all, i enjoyed it more than Avatar. it was the first one i watched and i thought it set up the story well and Qui-gon was not pointless. i then watched the original trilogy then ep. 2 and 3. i found all the movies were egually as good. i think what has happened here is back in the 80s there had neva been movies like star wars before so they though it was so epic. then they had way to high expectations for SW 1. just my opinion though. they all roc

  • @robbedthief it was really bad

  • @robbedthief you're right about the high expectations part but you should watch Redlettermedia's review for episode I if you haven't already, he explains why episode 1 was a bad film

  • @robbedthief Obviously just your opinion. I was a 90s kid and was 8 years old when the Phantom Menace came out so I had no high expectations other than for it to be a good film but I can't stand the prequels anymore. "High expectations" is really just an excuse to defend the prequels without really putting any effort into it.

  • because 1 is coming first in 3D until 6.

  • Actually *Children growing up today* are gonna watch 1,2,3,4,5,6

  • James watch Episode 1 in 3D.

    Watch it the 3rd time in theatres.

  • I saw them un altered on VHS when I was so young, and oh my god they were MAGIC. (as a trailing note... I would not step on a Hut's tale...)

  • Looks like James is kinda hate cg effects which I don't, however I totally agree with what he said in this review

  • my older bro (now is 22) showed me the movies like this: A New Hope,The Empire Strikes Back, The Return of The Jedi,Phantom Menece, Attack of The Clones,and last but not least Revenge of The Sith. Thats the way that I think they should be shown in because it just makes it feel classic

  • Chris Gore suggested watching them in this order. New Hope, Empire (which of course ends on a cliffhanger), Phantom, Clones, Sith and then Jedi.

  • I saw 4-6 then the 1-3

  • I say first se Star Wars 4,5,6 and then Fanboys and after that Star Wars 1,2,3.

  • I love how you think of things that I have never would have done! the way younger generation will look at the series another way than before.

    I did not even know there was differences in the movies! sure i now understand that some effects were too good to be from 1975, but before i knew that they made differences U just did not think of it.

    The order i saw it was: 3, 4, 5, 6, 2,1.

  • I Find this extremely annoying, at my age i cant find one original non edited Star Wars movie, i hated the dance scene in Jaba's palace and it made all of my friends mock a brilliant movie.

    My favorite is Empire strikes back, and if i was to pick a prequel it would be Episode III.

  • The final cut on the Blu Ray where Han kills Greedo is much more tight. Greedo still shoots first, but it looks like he genuinly missed. Also, one of the special features disc contains a rough early cantina scene version, and there, Han is the only one who shoots.

  • Revenge of The Sith is way better than Return of The Jedi

  • @StupidWizardFilms

    I agree with you. probably because of ewoks, but return of the jedi is a good movie too. in revenge sith, fans hated some nitpicks like love story,some of wooden acting, jedi acting dumb, overuse of CGI. but revenge of the sith is a worth watching this film

  • @tmMcHugh

    I heard originally that it was going to be the wookies from episode 3 so I have no idea why they changed it in the end

  • Bad thing about Star Wars movies and great movies in general, they are much better when you are a kid than you are a adult because it was your first real great experience, your expectations are too high.

  • I've never seen Star Wars.I tried to watch clone wars when it came out and it drove me far away.Now I wanna see 4-6

  • @KorintioX there some people that uploaded them on youtube

  • "Darth Maul was useless"

    Aside from the fact that he killed Qui-Gon Jinn so Obi-Wan can teach Anakin the ways of the force and become a jedi *facepalm*

  • @SuperDarthVader1 yea but most of the time thourghout the movie he did nothing so that did make him useless

  • @SuperDarthVader1 yea but most of the time darth maul did nothing.

  • @SuperDarthVader1 yea you are right but he was useless for most of the movie

  • @SuperDarthVader1 The prequel should have started off with episode II

  • Im surprised that James Rolfe didn't talk about the Adywan version

  • they are making 3d version of star wars now.i wonder will that be good?wait it wont just bunch of new effects. seeing it first time will always be best.

  • Episode III is still the best prequel of the series!

  • Darth Maul should've been the "main" villain of the prequels.

  • i also always thought that they put the effects in the movie because they could then. back in 77 they couldnt do much with computer graphics and shit like that. but in 97 they could so they made more things computer animated rather than puppets. i for one prefer the originals over the newer ones but the newer ones r still kick ass......if ur a star wars nerd :)

  • thats not jar jar binks. its a fuckin gungan. isnt it possible that a gungan has a close enough voice to jar jar that it sounds like him? idk. maybe im wrong. i dont wanna tell u how 2 do it. im just sayin that when i saw that part i didnt think it was jar jar at all. in fact im pretty sure jar jar died somehow a little after the third one.

  • The order i saw it was really fucked up. I saw it 6,1,5,4

  • im 15 and i prefer the originals that are unaltered you were right the originals were the greatest the force is strong with you cinemassacre

  • Ummm isn't it James job to review the movies...

  • Personally, the only part I liked about Episode I ever since I was a kid was the podracing.