# 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:** 9\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2011, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-least-favorite-star-wars-film/593350/61 "2011-08-21T22:01:32Z")
> [@](#): > > Who the hell voted for “The Empire Strikes Back???” Someone posted on page 1 that he’d accidentally mistaken this for the “best” poll. > [@](#): > > What’s sad about Hayden Christiansen in the Star Wars prequels is that he’s actually not that bad an actor. He was decent in Shattered Glass, and I’ve heard good things about him in Life as a House. Which leads me to believe that George Lucas is at least partly responsible for his suckitude in SW. The same can also be said of Natalie Portman (well, except with a different set of good performances, of course). I can just picture Lucas shouting “Cut! Let’s try that again, but more wooden this time.” ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2011, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-least-favorite-star-wars-film/593350/62 "2011-08-21T22:04:34Z")
> [@Peremensoe](#): > > Hey, here’s another thing. What about the bit where the Imperial officer refers to Vader’s “sad devotion to that ancient religion”? That guy is certainly older than Luke. Under the prequel-revised timeline, he would have been alive when Jediism was in a prominent, privileged position in the galactic Republic. He ought to _remember_ it; calling it “ancient” makes no sense at all. “Ancient” means something that started a long time ago. It doesn’t mean something that _ended_ a long time ago. ---
**Author:** ![Bosstrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Bosstrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstrain)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2011, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-least-favorite-star-wars-film/593350/63 "2011-08-22T01:21:49Z")
I think we can all basically agree that the original series is the best, What I want to know is why Lucas would ruin them by trying to make more? In the past on top of that, and somehow they managed to have better tech back then…strange. I do agree there were some smokin’ hot babes, but still they all pale in comparison to the great and mighty sex goddess Carrie Fisher. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2011, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-least-favorite-star-wars-film/593350/64 "2011-08-22T02:21:54Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > The same can also be said of Natalie Portman (well, except with a different set of good performances, of course). I can just picture Lucas shouting “Cut! Let’s try that again, but more wooden this time.” I mentioned in another thread some time ago that the worst acting in the prequels - by a mile - is by Natalie Portman. Her performance is positively atrocious. She gets a pass, though, because she’s been in a zillion other movies and been good in all of them. Viewers quite rightly assume it must be the movie, not the actor. Hayden Christiansen doesn’t get the same pass because nobody knew who the hell he was. ---
**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 22, 2011, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-least-favorite-star-wars-film/593350/65 "2011-08-22T02:33:25Z")
> [@Bosstrain](#): > > I think we can all basically agree that the original series is the best, What I want to know is why Lucas would ruin them by trying to make more? They grossed a couple billion over budget. ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2011, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-least-favorite-star-wars-film/593350/66 "2011-08-22T03:09:41Z")
It’s hard for me to choose just one. All three of the prequels seem like _fan fiction_ of the original trilogy. In the end I had to pick _Attack of the Clones_. I can’t even describe why I hate it so much. At least _The Phantom Menace_ had 1.) Gungans dying and 2.) [Duel of the Fates](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbPX4xrKNlM) ---
**Author:** ![Maiira](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Maiira](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maiira)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2011, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-least-favorite-star-wars-film/593350/67 "2011-08-22T03:24:41Z")
> [@Bosstrain](#): > > In the past on top of that, and somehow they managed to have better tech back then…strange. See, I thought that too at first, but then someone (I forget who) pointed out that during the prequels, it’s implied that the galaxy was more prosperous economically, which means more money to make better-looking, sleeker stuff. But by the time the original trilogy rolls around, things aren’t as prosperous, so all that shiny new tech had to be used and reused over and over, which is why everything is so battered and worn (the _Millennium Falcon_, you’ll remember, is supposed to be a clunker). And if you look at Anakin’s false hand in _Clones_, you’ll note that it’s a metallic claw. Luke’s just looks like his own hand. ---
**Author:** ![Namkcalb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c89c15/32.png) [@Namkcalb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Namkcalb)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2011, 10:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-least-favorite-star-wars-film/593350/68 "2011-08-22T10:50:54Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > The same can also be said of Natalie Portman (well, except with a different set of good performances, of course). I can just picture Lucas shouting “Cut! Let’s try that again, but more wooden this time.” The “cry” she made when she fell out of the gunship was some of the wooden acting I’ve ever seen. ---
**Author:** ![Bosstrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Bosstrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstrain)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2011, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-least-favorite-star-wars-film/593350/69 "2011-08-22T14:22:37Z")
Never thought about it quite like that, **Maiira** , you’re right, after the Empire took over the wealth dissipated. Just goes to show how bad dictators really are :). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-least-favorite-star-wars-film/593350.md?page=3)