Hayden kills these films

Quite.

I think he's a good actor. I liked him in Shatterred Glass, thought he was solid.

Everyone kinda stank in Star Wars, that's Lucas, not the actors.

I tend to concur.

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Hayden did a great performance of anakin it's George who turned him into a whiny ass emo. My mum was watching factory girl I was getting a drink and I saw hayden and I was like omg ANAKIN

Lol forgot to finish that post hayden was like a secondary idol like that to me. Mark Hamil though was my hero and idol.

At least Hamill had some leeway to make something of his character.

Yeah and GL wasn't telling him how to deliver his lines

I thought Hamil did a pretty god job personally.

So did I.

Basically the guy who started this has no clue about acting

So you think Hayden delivered the lines " I am so in love with you" and the other one he mentioned in a great way?

Now you know 99 percent of the time, I back George...lol
But with that scene, I just don't know how Lucas couldn't have said to himself...."wait a second...these lines don't work at all."

Hayden plain sucked in the prequels. There's no denying it.

I don't think he was that bad. Nothing special, but STAR WARS, and even the originals never really had acting going for it.

I think Hayden did fine. Especially the scene in EPISODE II where he's going off on Padme about killing the Tuskens. That was pretty solid. Then there's areas that weren't great either, but I won't be one of those people that makes a rather bold statement and say that he killed these movies. He didn't. What killed these movies to most people is the fact that they were different from the OT and were made more for kids than adults. I never had a problem with the PT. I am one the lucky few people that can sit back, relax and enjoy them for what they are. 😉

Originally posted by Sith Master X
I don't think he was that bad. Nothing special, but STAR WARS, and even the originals never really had acting going for it.

I think Hayden did fine. Especially the scene in EPISODE II where he's going off on Padme about killing the Tuskens. That was pretty solid. Then there's areas that weren't great either, but I won't be one of those people that makes a rather bold statement and say that he killed these movies. He didn't. What killed these movies to most people is the fact that they were different from the OT and were made more for kids than adults. I never had a problem with the PT. I am one the lucky few people that can sit back, relax and enjoy them for what they are. 😉

Well said, me too. I love it how people say the PT were for kids. ummm how about the ewoks? Jar Jar in the first one was for kids but after that he was pretty much nonexistant. I can look past Jar Jar and enjoy the story of episode I, and i thought Hayden was great. on par with Hamill.
Hamill was just as whiney in places (but i was going into toshy station to pick up some power converters!)

Hamill's acting trumped the bad dialogue. Sadly, Hayden couldn't get past that hurdle.

luke was the weakest part of the ot to me. his role was never very special or convincing compared to some of the more larger than life characters like vader or han.

Yet, he was the spark that made people come. It was a different time then. This innocent farm boy after the turbulent 60s and 70s was just right at the time. I doubt Hayden will ever fit in.