# Your least favorite Star Wars film **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 19, 2011, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-least-favorite-star-wars-film/593350 "2011-08-19T18:30:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-least-favorite-star-wars-film/593350/1 "2011-08-19T18:30:38Z")
of the 6 in the saga. I’m including all 6 though I’m sure that the votes are all going to be concentrated on the “prequels.” ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-least-favorite-star-wars-film/593350/2 "2011-08-19T18:34:40Z")
_Attack of the Clones_ had Amidala in a tight white jumpsuit. _Revenge of the Sith_ had Kermit the Jedi. There is nothing redeeming about _The Phantom Menace_. I keep my DVD copy of it in the same locked box with _Godfather III_. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-least-favorite-star-wars-film/593350/3 "2011-08-19T18:37:57Z")
> [@KneadToKnow](#): > > There is nothing redeeming about _The Phantom Menace_. Yeah, if TPM doesn’t win this poll in a landslide there is something fishy going on. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-least-favorite-star-wars-film/593350/4 "2011-08-19T18:41:04Z")
> [@Ike\_Witt](#): > > Yeah, if TPM doesn’t win this poll in a landslide there is something fishy going on. On the other hand, having it situated nicely near the middle like that provides a handy place to go out for a leisurely late luncheon on the annual marathon day. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Peremensoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@Peremensoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peremensoe)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-least-favorite-star-wars-film/593350/5 "2011-08-19T18:50:10Z")
Near the middle? They don’t show it first? ---
**Author:** ![ministryman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@ministryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ministryman)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-least-favorite-star-wars-film/593350/6 "2011-08-19T18:52:23Z")
> [@KneadToKnow](#): > > _Attack of the Clones_ had Amidala in a tight white jumpsuit. _Revenge of the Sith_ had Kermit the Jedi. There is nothing redeeming about _The Phantom Menace_. I keep my DVD copy of it in the same locked box with _Godfather III_. And Police Academies 2-7, Jaws 3 and 4, and Leonard Part 6. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-least-favorite-star-wars-film/593350/7 "2011-08-19T19:01:12Z")
I didn’t go into #1 expecting a classic or a masterpiece. But I think TPM has to win by the mere fact that it so lowered my expectations for II and III, that anything above “not complete shit” was acceptable to me. ---
**Author:** ![Paintcharge](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paintcharge/32/7946_2.png) [@Paintcharge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paintcharge)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-least-favorite-star-wars-film/593350/8 "2011-08-19T19:06:06Z")
Exactly what **Ender24** said. ---
**Author:** ![Tanbarkie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a698b9/32.png) [@Tanbarkie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tanbarkie)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-least-favorite-star-wars-film/593350/9 "2011-08-19T19:11:03Z")
> [@KneadToKnow](#): > > _Attack of the Clones_ had Amidala in a tight white jumpsuit. _Revenge of the Sith_ had Kermit the Jedi. There is nothing redeeming about _The Phantom Menace_. Not so. “The Phantom Menace” didn’t have Hayden Christensen (aka “The Original Sparkling Vampire”). Yeah, yeah, Jake Lloyd blah blah “yippeeeeeee” Jar Jar etc. I stand by my point. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-least-favorite-star-wars-film/593350/10 "2011-08-19T19:22:55Z")
> [@Tanbarkie](#): > > Not so. “The Phantom Menace” didn’t have Hayden Christensen (aka “The Original Sparkling Vampire”). > > Yeah, yeah, Jake Lloyd blah blah “yippeeeeeee” Jar Jar etc. I stand by my point. What he said. I actually didn’t dislike _Phantom Menace_. Sure, Jar Jar was annoying and entirely unnecessary, but I didn’t really mind the kid. I liked that they were back on Tatooine and the pod racing sequence was good. Darth Maul is the most interesting character in the entire prequel trilogy. And **no Hayden Christensen**. ---
**Author:** ![That\_Don\_Guy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/that_don_guy/32/538_2.png) [@That\_Don\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/That_Don_Guy)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-least-favorite-star-wars-film/593350/11 "2011-08-19T19:23:55Z")
I live in fear of the day they make the “ultra-mega-hyper-extra-special” edition of A New Hope where the Death Star actually gets its shot off before it is destroyed, only for it to hit (and destroy) a ship Jar Jar was piloting (remember, in ROTJ, the Death Star’s shots could be “stopped” by ships), and in the end, they treat him as a hero (or worse, it turns out that “a long time later”, beings from “far, far away” who trace themselves back to Han and Leia end up populating Earth…) ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-least-favorite-star-wars-film/593350/12 "2011-08-19T19:57:32Z")
I fell asleep during Attack of the Clones, plus it has the most idiotic title so, I vote AoTC. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-least-favorite-star-wars-film/593350/13 "2011-08-19T20:00:09Z")
I’ll let [my prior comments re: Hayden Christensen stand](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=3327686&postcount=22) and say that I do not consider the lack of a damning element to be the same as the presence of a redeeming one. 🙂 It is positively obscene how proud I am of that offhand comment from 2003. ---
**Author:** ![brittekland](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aeb1de/32.png) [@brittekland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brittekland)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-least-favorite-star-wars-film/593350/14 "2011-08-19T20:04:27Z")
Last one. I don’t even know the name… with what’s her name… ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-least-favorite-star-wars-film/593350/15 "2011-08-19T20:05:03Z")
> [@KneadToKnow](#): > > _Attack of the Clones_ had Amidala in a tight white jumpsuit. _Revenge of the Sith_ had Kermit the Jedi. There is nothing redeeming about _The Phantom Menace_. Wait – weren’t Yoda’s aerial somersaults against Dooku in _Clones_, not _Sith_? ---
**Author:** ![Tanbarkie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a698b9/32.png) [@Tanbarkie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tanbarkie)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-least-favorite-star-wars-film/593350/16 "2011-08-19T20:15:13Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > Wait – weren’t Yoda’s aerial somersaults against Dooku in _Clones_, not _Sith_? Yoda somersaulted in both. In both cases, it was a net negative for the movie. ---
**Author:** ![GargoyleWB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gargoylewb/32/199_2.png) [@GargoyleWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GargoyleWB)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-least-favorite-star-wars-film/593350/17 "2011-08-19T20:15:45Z")
> [@Tanbarkie](#): > > Not so. “The Phantom Menace” didn’t have Hayden Christensen (aka “The Original Sparkling Vampire”). Nor did it have the 50’s sock-hop rollerskate diner, or the R2D2 Super Mario Brothers platforming level, or the “roll roll roll in zee hay” romance montage. I vote “Clones” as the worst of the lot. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-least-favorite-star-wars-film/593350/18 "2011-08-19T20:22:18Z")
> [@Tanbarkie](#): > > Yoda somersaulted in both. In both cases, it was a net negative for the movie. I do not consider an opportunity to laugh out loud an net negative. YMMV. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Dread\_Pirate\_Jimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dread_pirate_jimbo/32/3897_2.png) [@Dread\_Pirate\_Jimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dread_Pirate_Jimbo)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-least-favorite-star-wars-film/593350/19 "2011-08-19T20:31:00Z")
There was waaaay more Jar Jar Binks per square inch in The Phantom Menace than in any of the other movies and, on that basis alone, it becomes the worst movie in the history of the universe. TPM is actually more watchable than not IMO if you just fast forward past any scene with Jar Jar in it. 🙂 Plus both Qui-Gon Jinn and Darth Maul were pretty cool characters. ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-least-favorite-star-wars-film/593350/20 "2011-08-19T20:33:20Z")
> [@GargoyleWB](#): > > Nor did it have the 50’s sock-hop rollerskate diner, or the R2D2 Super Mario Brothers platforming level, or the “roll roll roll in zee hay” romance montage. > > I vote “Clones” as the worst of the lot. You may enjoy a webcomic I’ve recently discovered: [Darths & Droids](http://www.darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0001.html) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-least-favorite-star-wars-film/593350.md?page=2)