I'm with you. I kept waiting for the price to drop far enough for "AOTC" to overcome the bad taste left from "Phantom Menace." When it exited the dollar theaters and I still hadn't seen it, I knew my interest in "Star Wars" had finally been snuffed by Lucas' obsession with software over good filmmaking. I finally checked out a video of "AOTC" from the library and fast-forwarded through probably half the running time to skip past wooden acting, clunky dialogue, or endless, repetitive scenes of fake-looking, CGI cartoon battles. Lucas apparently thinks that if two guys having a sword fight is exciting, 1,000 guys doing it at once is 1,000 times more exciting. Nope, just scattered, confusing and boring. But with enough judicious editing, "AOTC" might make a fairly good 15-minute short.
Flame away, don't care.
You won't get a flame from me...it really was that bad. Even on cable, it was unwatchable -- I got halfway through it before I went to trying to fix my inkjet printer, so getting ink all over me instead of watching AOTC should give you a good idea of how I feel about it. I didn't record it then, and I don't ever intend to. It would be a waste of a perfectly good blank DVD.
No flaming from me, either. As weak as the Phantom Menace was- Attack of the Clones was ten times worse. At TPM was a good kids' movie to watch. AOTC was just awful.
I heartily agree with your comments. I've seen bits and pieces of the last Star Wars movie (whatever it was called) and really could care less about seeing it all the way through. It's just totally limp and uninteresting. On the other hand, when they happened to be playing Empire Strikes Back on the TVs at Walmart the other day, I was stuck there for like twenty minutes watching. I had to peel myself away from it. No fancy CGI, but a much, much better film. Thirty seconds of interaction between Hans Solo and Princess Leah is worth more than the last two movies combined. Hopefully Lucas will get back on track with this latest one.