>>214485813 (OP)
I was two weeks shy of eleven when it came out. I saw all three of the prequels in the theater when they came out. This is the only one that left me feeling disappointed. Emotionally and narratively it's the worst of the prequels, and I would even go as far as to say that it's the only bad Star Wars film that George Lucas made. It's both goofier and campier than the Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones and also excessively dark as a way to suffice for the lack of actual depth. For the first and only time in George Lucas's saga, the characters and events feel like they're only happening to bring about a certain end. People aren't acting like people. Anakin seems to have had some sort of lobotomy. He acts like his IQ is in the double digits. He doesn't even seem as upset as he did in Attack of the Clones, just stupider.
Attack of the Clones is basically a perfect Star Wars movie with the exception of some underdeveloped dialogue, but the dialogue in that film isn't nearly as much as a problem as it is with this film. I walked out of the theater believing that I had seen the best Star Wars film, but deep, deep down, I was disappointed. The fact that people hate Attack of the Clones and love this one is actually embarrassing. I think that people were just ready to like Star Wars again at this point no matter what it is and have decided to double down on their collective taker for twenty years. Even the lightsaber fights are boring despite how many of them they are. When you saw Yoda take out his lightsaber in Attack of the Clones, it was almost symphonic, like everything that had happened up to that point was getting you in a place mentally where you'd go with it. The duel is symphonically spaced out, and that's following the arena battle and the outbreak of the Clone Wars, so it kind of earns it. Revenge of the Sith is oversaturated with over the top lightsaber duels that aren't even that interesting.
