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The first three movies were groundbreaking. They involved cutting-edge special effects, masterful (re)editing, amazing music, and a hitherto-unexplored melding of genre (Western, samurai, opera, sci-fi, coming of age).
The three 'prequels' were noisy, jumbled, overblown, badly-acted, horribly-written (both plotwise and God-awful dialogue-wise), and full of facepalm-worthy flubs (the two-headed podrace announcer and Jar-Jar Binks leap to mind).
"Star Wars" and "Empire Strikes Back" should make any cinephile's Top 100 List. "Phantom Menace" should make any cinephile's Worst 100 List. End of story.
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