Bad movie, but it was fun to see.

No : I was dragged there by an old friend who was a hardcore fan while I knew nothing about Star Wars at the time (I confused Star Trek and Star Wars and didn't even know what a Jedi was, my first SW movie was TPM and my brain didn't deem anything from it worthy of being remembered).

My friend hated the movie with a passion and spent the entire time loudly pointing out everything that was wrong about it.

So I was confused because I didn't know anything about Star Wars in general, then I was more confused because the movie in question made no sense whatsoever and then I was even more confused by my friend who kept talking about stuff from the OT that I didn't know anything about.

So my friend completely ruined this (already terrible) movie for me and still to this day it is the absolute worst experience I ever had in a movie theater all things considered (so not just the movie : I've seen even worse ones since...).

Yeah, me and the gang went to the theater and enjoyed the movie. It was only afterwards where the criticisms began to emerge. Some parts of the movie are brilliant (any scene with Palpatine), and others are ridiculous (Sand gets into everywhere and Death Star designed by bug insectoids instead of Bevel Lemelisk).

The best of the prequels.

It's true, the second and third prequels are bad movies by any rational standard, but can be very enjoyable if you're in the mood for a space opera.