Yeah, and private health care companies are the ones that really care about us...
I thought your post was a joke - a bad joke, but a joke nonetheless - until that last sentence. You are either the dumbest person in the world (not to realize that people in power try to make sure that they STAY in power) or you're a poor, brainwashed soul that listens to Rush and all those other morans.

Hmmm... you make really good points. I guess you're right about the subplot... I mean, even if I didn't like it (which I did), it wasn't essential for me to like it. And it was very much in the background. On the documentary, the director of Empire Strikes Back, Irvin Kershner, explains that he wanted romance, but no smooching... and I think he did great. And to me, it wasn't really that I couldn't believe that Padme would want Anakin - although it IS weird - but it's more that they had no chemistry.

And it seems like George Lucas really limited himself when he decided to make a prequel trilogy (as opposed to more movies). He had to compress a lot of story into each episode. I mean, the first episode couldn't have a love story with Padme, cause he was a child. Then we see a sort of courtship in ep2, even though they get married too fast. And then with episode 3, we're supposed to believe that his fear of losing Padme is the thing that drives him to turn to the dark side? And it wasn't even a slow turn... it was him slicing off Samuel Jackson's hand and that's it. In the original trilogy, Darth Vader doesn't turn back to the light side in an instant... it's built up from two movies. So when it happens, you're happy for him, not incredulous that one of the most powerful men in the universe would sacrifice himself like that for a son he never really knew.

Not sure if you were generalizing to everyone, but... I watched the original trilogy when I was 18. I loved it. I watched them because I went to see Episode 2 (at my friends' insistence) and I decided to watch the originals to understand the story better. I later watched Episode 3 (which I loved) and then Episode 1 (which I hated). I can say, having watched all six around the same time, that the original trilogy is way better than the prequel trilogy - the only saving grace being Episode 3.

Just a few examples:
The chemistry between Leia and Han is much better than Anakin and Padme.
The humor is worlds apart - not only were the droids a lot funnier than Jar Jar (I realize the droids were in the prequel movies as well, but they weren't as prominent), but Han was funny, the whole Han/Leia/Luke "love" triangle was funny, etc...
I did not like Hayden Christensen's acting, but I also believe that a good director would've fixed that. If it's a bad take, you do it again. He was awkward and it made me cringe a few times.

So it's not that the original trilogy was cooler because I was younger when I saw it. It really was better, imo. I think if any of the kids enjoy the prequels more than the original, it's because it has prettier CG and more action.

I agree. I would also add that there's a big difference between technology created for military means and technology created for entertainment, in this case. Of course, people say that the military usually has the technology that we'll be using tomorrow, but I still hold that destructive technology negatively impacts the environment while technology such as the one used in this movie does not - at least not in the same scale.

Sorry, I could only make it through the first half of your post :/ You then used a lot of quotations and negatively great formatting.