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Am I the only one who thinks that a three hour movie would be enough to throw away eps. I and II and make the series perfect?
I don´t know. Maybe the first half hour would be dedicated to finding Anakin in Tatooine, another 20 minutes to him growing up and falling in love with Padmé and there you go. No need for the first two torture sessions. :D

...falling in love with Padmé and there you go. No need for the first two torture sessions. :D

If Lucas writes even 20 minutes of falling in love with Padmé then the torture complete will be

Nooooooooooooo!!!!!!

this is exactly what i've been thinking. ep3 is great as it is, but 1 and 2 could have been rolled into one movie pretty easy - you'd just have to have far less emphasis in 1 on the battle at naboo; just introduce the clone armies and get on with it

Yes - you probably are the only one ;)

Hehe - j/k

I would hate that personally - you'd lose much of the storyline by condensing 7/8 hours of film time into a meagre 3 hours. Also - we'd see less of the character development than we do already. If anything - there should have been MORE episodes, not less.

And, yes, admittedly - Ep 1 and 2 were bad - but if you put them in the context of Ep 3 - they provide a vital buildup to the darkness that we see in Revenge of the Sith, and allow us to see the full extent of Palpatine's treachery.

If it were possible to change the series, surely rewriting is better than cutting?

Looking back, I think episodes I and II were what they had to be. The series needed an introduction, and episode III couldn't do that. It's tough, but imagine watching episode III without any knowledge of what the Force, the Jedi, the Sith, or anything else was. Not only that, but you'd need to introduce Yoda, Obi-Wan, Anakin, Padmé, Palpatine, Dooku, Grievous, the clones, the council, the Senate, Anakin's mother, Owen and Beru, plus the story of why the War was being fought...

To truly open the story for someone who was completely oblivious to the originals (eps. IV - VI), it would have taken at least two hours. I say it's better to take two movies and try to make them somewhat exciting than make one boring history lecture.

That isn't to say that Phantom Menace was a brilliant piece of work, only that it had to be the opening to the story, and needed to spend time introducing the things we children of the original series take for granted.

I thought they already just introduced too much stuff through random speeches then by developing the characters and relationships properly, like the supposed close relationship between Anakin and the emperor which is just announed. That and Natalie Portmans character, who was reduced to the mindless love-interest who said nothing but : "I'm preggers" [zip!] "I'm afraid." [zip!] "Argh argh argh! Croak." I thought you ended up being told how the people thought of each other rather then seeing why. Also, the way Vader turned was so uninteresting...they really only had time to show him getting worse and worse, so personally i was left with the impression that he turned because he's just a dick, which didn't make for a great film, i thought. I just saw it. It cost me €7,80. Maybe if they'd done more in the other two films they could've made a better job of this one, since there was so much they could have done with the starwars story but the writing was really, really awful. I'm definitely not gonna see another George Lucas film, especially since he had them say 'younglings' three times, in cold blood. B*****d.

Well - nobody forced you to see the film in the first place ;)

I thought it was brilliant myself. But I don't agree with condensing down to one three hour long film. At all.