Welcome to the VGChartz STAR WARS Tournament!

Feel free to discuss the episode after rating. DO NOT EDIT YOUR SCORE.

This is a competition which Darthdevidem01 and I are hosting in celebration of what many (with good taste) feel is the greatest fim franchise in history! There will be a thread on every other day, beginning with The Phantom Menace, and going right up to Return of the Jedi... and perhaps beyond.

The average rating for each episode will be based on the scores given by users in these threads, and it will be fun to see which episode is most popular here on VGChartz.

Rankings So Far:

1) Episode 1: The Phantom Menace

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Today's movie is :

STAR WARS EPISODE 2 : Attack of the Clones.

Warning: Synopsis May Contain Spoilers.

The Separatist movement under ex-Jedi Count Dooku is growing. Worried, the Republic begins to consider assigning an army to the Jedi forces, to aid with keeping the peace. Meanwhile, Jedi Knight Obi-Wan Kenobi and his apprentice, the young Anakin Skywalker, trace ex-Queen of Naboo Padmé Amidala's would-be assassination weapon to Kamino, where Obi-Wan discovers an enormous army of clones, modelled on legendary bounty hunter Jango Fett, which is allegedly intended to be the new Army of the Republic. On learning from Obi-Wan of a new battle droid army being prepared by the Trade Federation, Chancellor Palpatine, with emergency powers granted by the Galactic Senate, orders the clones into battle. However, Count Dooku claims that there is an individual even more powerful than the Chancellor in the Republic, and that this secret leader is a Sith Lord, Darth Sidious. Thus begin the Clone Wars, a long and violent conflict between Separatists and the Republic; between machines and clones.

Main Characters:

• Jedi Knight Obi-Wan Kenobi
• Jedi Padawan Anakin Skywalker
• Senator Padmé Amidala of Naboo
• Sith Lord Count Dooku
• Galactic Chancellor Palpatine
• Bounty Hunter Jango Fett
• Trade Federation Viceroy Nute Gunray
• Jedi Master Yoda
• Jedi Master Mace Windu
  
• Gungan Jar-Jar Binks
• Droids R2-D2 and C-3PO
  

Box Office Performance:

Worldwide Gross - $649 Million

American Gross- $431 Million

American Opening Weekend - $80 Million

Fun Fact -- Attack of the Clones is the only Star Wars film to not be the highest grossing film released in its year (2002): It was beaten by Spider-Man, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, and The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers. It is also the lowest-grossing of all of the Star Wars films.

Critical Reception:

Rotten Tomatoes: 66% Positive Reviews (Fresh)

Metacritic: 53% Review Average (Mixed/Average Reviews)

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- Enjoy!

Pros: 

Battles

Clones

Yoda

Cons:

Weak story.

Those love scenes between Anakin and Padme, which were horribly written. Ugh.

Anyhow, 5/10. Exactly average on my scale.

I think I'm being generous of the movie because I just love its universe so much.   

0/10

It's a prequel the plot makes no sense,no main charter,the rormace bettween anakin and padme is painful.

It all most as painful as episode 1 but it's a bit better.

8.5/10

I'm not good at explaining, so I make it short:

Pros: many Jedis (Mace Winduu FTW!!), great battles, good plot

Cons: love story between Padme and Anakin (the presentation of it was just a bit weird IMO)

Edit: Changed my score a little.

I liked this one so much more than episode 1, i give it a 6/10 for anakin actually killing something out of hate(when his mommy got killed), but the love story was tiring, and the film was stil OTT.

Pro:

Yoda battle
Jar Jar had little screentime

Con:

Acting
Plot
Character development
Cartoony Special effects (that scene where Anakin and Padme in a factory and those beasts in the ring)
Romance...
and everything else.....

pretty forgettable.. 4/10

I have conundrum.  I rated Phantom Menace because it's just awful but then I started thinking about Attack of the Clones and remembered that it's actually worse than Phantom Menace!  Can I actually rate a movie 0/10?  I hope so because that's my only option since Attack of the Clones is worse than my already rated 1/10 movie.

As for reasons, I think I would just list this, one of the single worst scenes in all of cinema:

0/10

VOTE 5.5 out of 10

Yay, an improvement on the 4/10 Phantom Menace.

What's better?

Well we have a plot, sort of.  It's a bit half baked, but it's there.  Not sure how it relates to the first film though, although a hint of some sort of fuzzy background scheme might be emerging.  Or not.  Bit most tellingly I still don't know what the hell the Jedi/Sith thing is all about (I'm not having any truck with expanded Universe or OT stuff - these films should hold up sequentially and make sense in order with no other knowledge, which they don't)

We have a bit more genuine sense of fun and a bit less plain stupid - funny how quickly Jar Jar got sidelined after Phantom.

We have a Star Wars Universe that feels a bit more connected to the OT and the sense that this time we're seeing important stuff (all of Phantom Menace managing to add zero to the overall story really).  But only just.

We have some better action that feels less like a bunch of CGI and more like our heros are actually involved.

We have Christopher Lee (he got it the .5 BTW).

We have a decent battle - hey, yeah Star Wars, and here's a conflict going on finally.  Whatever did happen to all that taxation stuff from before?  Never mind.  It obviously sorted itself out somehow.

But...

We have a very uneven Anakin

We have what may be a worse script!  Which you'd think would be tough but apparently not.

We have Padme/Anakin thrust together (pardon the pun) because they have to be for the story, not because there actually seems to be any real reason or even attraction.

We have an even dumber Jedi Council.  Really, how did this lot go from seeming so badass to so lame?

We have a poorly handled dark moment for Anakin - again, rather than seeming organic to the overall story arc it seems forced in because o'migod we're halfway through the prequels with no real sign why Analkin's going to end up as Darth Vader - I can almost sense Lucas realizing he almost forgot that bit!

Wait - that taxation stuff - it's the same guys, plus some buddies from the banking sector.  But what the hell are they up to?  I mean, in terms of what the film conveys not what my own knowledge can supply for me.   Damn are we going to keep getting unrelated characters and factions randomly dropped in all the time?

The curse of the obvious event is still to, well, obvious.  Why is that Fett guy hiring an assassin if he's one?  Oh, so he can kill his hired assassin at a dramatic moment but then fly conspicously away so everyone can see him.  Also, how come after the chase we just saw with the Jedi easily trailing the assassin no matter where they went this time they're stumped buy a guy with a jetpack slowly fly away?

Still, it is a bit better as a film than Phantom, just not much.

Note, I nearly made it 6 by adding a .5 for having Fett bang his head as an in-joke to a mistake in A New Hope, but really I wish Lucas had spent less time wondering how to rationalize an extra banging their head in the background and more on actually writing a story that really kinected with the previous narrative he'd created.  Hey, did I just say kinected there?

When he says

"Here everything is soft, and smooth"....how? The railing he is holding on to doesn't look soft or smooth!

can you post the red letter media review.