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Ok, ok, no more bitching already!!!! Enough 'Well, ya know, in line 17 of 'A New Hope...' Let's just come out and say it, the latest movies aren't as good as the originals. It's ok, we can SAY THAT. How many times have the sequels been as good as the original? Ok, now that we've gotten that out of the way, we can STILL say they're a lot of fun to WATCH. Just a few things to think about.
1. Ah... so THIS is why the Jedi were feared. Remember in Ep 3-5, everyone seemed to turn into Jello when you even said Jedi? Why didn't anyone screw with Vader in 'SW; A New Hope' when he was the ONLY Jedi, and the only cool thing we saw him do was strangle a VERY annoying Imperial officer? NOW we know why. From the opening sequence of Ep 1 with Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan gangsta-slapping a bunch of droids, we see the Jedi at their peak; a warrior class who can take on ANYTHING. Deflecting blaster-bolts without blinking, burning through a 2-meter thick blast-door like it was chocolate, TAKING OUT BOBA FETT'S DAD. Daaaaaaaaaaaaaang.
2. Natalie Portman. Hey, she's a hottie. Enough said.
3. Samuel L. Jackson and Christopher Lee. These two actors LOVE what they're doing. Both give their lines with a sense of joy the same joy the original cast did in 'SW' and 'Empire.' Sure, sure, corny lines abound, but they say them with abandon. And would YOU mess with either of these guys if they had a lightsaber?
4. The Republic in all of it's glory. So how do you govern something that spans a GALAXY?!??!?! You get a biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiig meeting hall with lots... and lots... and lots... and lots of chair... and hope you get something done before you die. Now we finally see the Republic at full power; cities the size of continents that reach into the sky forever. A governing body composed of THOUSANDS of delegates, and we get to SEE them in a huge arena. The scope and power of the Republic is finally revealed, and we also see how easily it all came tumbling down since it was SO big.
5. YO-DA, YO-DA, YO-DA. The duel with Dooku is one of those scenes where you thought it was AWESOME... or you laughed because it was the stupidest thing since Roseanne trying to sing the National Anthem. Personally, I loved it. After all of the waiting, we see Yoda with his power unleashed. Not the annoying elf who terrorized Luke all over Dagobah. You see the Jedi MASTER at work. Oh, and the on-going questions of why Yoda just waddles around with a cane when he can kick-butt like that? If you pay attention to what Yoda is teaching Luke in 'Empire', you'll know why.