re: Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace

Darth Maul and the Pod races were pretty awesome. That was about it.

Not to post blasphemy but, really, much of the dialogue from the original Star Wars trilogy was mediocre at best. There were enough classic lines to compensate, though. Great movies, very innovative and creative, but the dialogue and acting could have been better.

Episode II was a steaming pile of crap. I really can't think of a single positive thing to say except perhaps that Jar Jar wasn't in it. The whole General Greivous / Obi-Wan fight could have been cool, but you're watching it and your like "ok, so WTF is this guy?" That character (Greivous)was only loosely developed. And Obi-Wan finds out vital information about the clone thing on the planet KAMINO from a fry-cook alien lizard named Dexter Jettster in a diner in the Coco district? Who writes shite like that?
It's like Lucas had a mental seizure and forgot that he was doing Star Wars and not American Grafitti.
Indiana Jones was and still is one of my favorite movies, for the record, so the guy deserves credit for a number of great films, but he fell off REAL hard when he made the SW prequals.