Reply #13: as opposed to the brilliant dialogue of the first movies?

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I don't see it. I'll grant you the acting is better, but mostly due to the talent in the first Trilogy who, seeing that their director was fairly useless as an acting coach, took it upon themselves to make their characters live.

And as for there not being dramatic weight to the battles- in Episode One the battle was a distraction: a useless excercise meant only to create a need for the Chanceollor to gain power. The Gungan's were pawns. The Naboo folk were pawns. The trade Federation and all their robots were pawns as well. It was all a Phantom Menace.

Sound like anything going on in the real world these days? Indeed.