>> [Altough there seems to be almost universal agreement that Star Wars III 
>> sucks beyond belief...]
> 
> Where did you see that? Of the 3 movies of the new trilogy it was the one 
> that had the best reviews (see the Wikipedia article and the IMDB and 
> RottenTomatoes ratings for instance).

Hmm, OK. The false concencus effect then, perhaps?

> In any case Warp is right, the problem with these movies were not that they 
> sucked: the whole Star Wars franchise is a tribute to the cheesy serials 
> from Lucas' childhood after all, so the suckage was built-in, from Darth 
> Vader to Jar-Jar. It was that the fans expectations were impossible to meet. 
> The material was cheesy from the very start, but it didn't look that way 
> when the fans were little kids in the 80s. The new movies are cheesy too, 
> but the fans grew up...

I wouldn't say there's anything "cheesy" about any of the films in the 
series - old or new. The problem is that the new films are an endless 
cascade of fantastical over-the-top visuals linked by little or no 
story, never mind dialog or character interaction. But there we are...

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