The Phantom Menace or Attack of the Clones

Clones, far and away.  It pains me to watch TPM except for the lovely Natie P and Darth Maul.  Clones was cool as it opened the STAR WARS universe open so to say on the Silver Screen.

MACE got his cut on, YODA fights too, more NAtie P in her PJs and a mid drift, scant Jar-Jar and of course Jango.

Block at Anikan (his whinning has made me reconsider how BA Vader is in comparison to Chuck Norris) and YAHTZEE.

I agree with you about OBI and QUI-GON, is was good to see OBI fleshed out and to develop an appreciation for how awesome he was.  I do hate that we only see a glimpse of QUI-GON, he is an incredible actor, I had forgot about KINGDOM OF HEAVEN.

To leave NATIE off though, for shame.  Her and Carrie Fisher set the standard of beauty in the SW Galaxy, and in many ways have become a cross cultural phenomena.  The brass bikini and the over the top costumes are indetifiable by almost anyone.

Is hard as I come down on VADER for betraying the whole galaxy to a geratric, it is almost understandable when you look at the face of Padme.

I definitely think AOTC was better. It had more of a story to it and less of Anakin whininor Jar-Jar's antics. But best of all it had the Fetts.

I'll pick The Phantom Menace.

Those are the best parts of AOTC,MG. I dunno,but I just like The Phantom Menace.

This would be a hard choice on my part. There are so many things I like about each one. 

Costumes.... TIE ( I love Trisha's work SO much)

Sith.... TPM (Maul is so menacing where as Dooku was old, although still quite the connsumate evil.)

Jedi... AotC ( There is so many of them! Including my a bunch of my favorites- Shaak Ti, Kit Fisto, Luminara Unduli, Bariss Ofee. Qui- Gon is fabulous but one favorite vs. three favorites.... )

Duels.... TIE ( Maul vs. Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan is probably my favorite in the entire saga, where as AotC has two really good ones with Jango vs. Obi and Dooku vs. Yoda.)

Anakins.... AotC ( I hate Hayden so much less than Jake Llyod. I wish I understood why.)

Settings... AotC ( I simply fell inlove with Lake Como because of those Lake Country scenes simply amazing... TPM has what.... Sand in Tatooine, again....)

Bonus.... AotC has Boba and the Clones. TPM has... Jar Jar and that damn two headed announcer.

So after careful and scientific study and consideration I present the winner....... ATTACK OF THE CLONES!

Well i'll go to topics.

Costumes= AOTC
Sith= tie(i think Maul is overrated)
Jedi=TPM
Anakins= AOTC
Settings=AOTC
Music= tie
Duels= tie
Dialogue= TPM
Plot= AOTC
Visuals(in a good way)= AOTC
Yoda's AOTC
Space Battle= TPM
Emotion= TPM
Acting= TPM
Sound effects= AOTC
Space scenes= TPM

overall= TPM is better

hmmm....I think I do

The original trilogy was more spontaneous... things seemed to happen really fast.  Hell, the first couple of minutes in Ep. IV have no plot or set-up other then the scroll, it just throws you into the middle of a friggin space battle.  Things like that kept you waiting to see what would pop up or happen next all through the old trilogy.  In the new one we all basically knew what was going to go down, and there was only one real theme in all three of the new movies *that was interesting anyway*, Anikan's fall to the Dark Side *Clone Wars would be a theme to, and by far more interesting to me then dear little "Annie," but that doesn't really kick off until like the end of Ep. II, even if I and the rest of II were all setting it up*

But back to the original question.

Ep. IV definitely had it's moments.  Maul was great...in mho Qui-Gon was better *just cause I'm a huge fan of Liam  *, and I liked the throw-back they stared with using the model ships...or at least giving the appearance they were using the same movie-making tech from the original movies.  If you watch Qui-Gon's/Obi-Wan's Republic cruiser blow up in the beginning of Ep. I, it really looks like an explosion/special effects from the old movies...or at least it did to me.  I thought it was a nice touch, and that the second 2 films might have been better if they hadn't relied so much on CGI.

But Ep. II wins it for me.  I hate most every scene with Anikan, but the rest is too good.  Obi-Wan, Dooku, Jango, Clones and Clone Wars, huge battle at the end *done in awesome fashion.* 

That's my take on it

Yes!! Finally somebody understands my moejoe!!!

Neither. In my mind they both sucked. But at least the AotC had some clone action...I guess that puts it a little ahead.

Interesting synopsis, Tempest, I prefer AOTC also over TPM but then again I may be bias because I'm a Fett fan.