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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The_lurkeR" data-source="post: 2266544" data-attributes="member: 11092">I disagree.1) If you read many of the reasons in this thread that people post for liking it, they're fanboy reasons and not actual merits of the movie*. Oooh I saw Antilles, Tarkin, Chewbacca, the Millenium Falcon, the Death Star, a Sith naming ceremony? Oooh we found out why the Emperor is deformed (maybe?), why Yoda and Obi-Wan come back as "ghosts" (but not Anakin).Therefore...2) If there weren't any other Star Wars movies, nobody would be seeing this movie at the midnight showings. This movie would have to survive on it's merits and word of mouth. So what exactly would those merits be? It certainly wouldn't be the dialogue, pacing, or acting. I guess the whiz-bang special effects, but that hasn't made many other poor movies do very well lately.If this was people first introduction to Anakin / Vader there is NO way he would be as popular as he is now. He's just a un-empathetic poorly written character in this film. The Frankenstein ripoff ending scene with the NOOOOOO! whine was hardly awe inspiring.*(No slight against fanboys intended, they're entitled to their opinion. I just don't think they'd feel the same if they did not have the history behind it.)</blockquote>