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Excellent! I, like many people, think that this movie has unfairly gotten a very bad reputation. I believe that because Episode II was admittedly not that great, that it has overshadowed Episode I as well. I personally think that while Jake Lloyd was only the first bad actor to play Anakin, the rest of the acting in the movie was very good. Natalie Portman, as a queen, was not supposed to sound "human." She was supposed to sound stiff! But I think the best acting comes from Palpatine, and from the two Jedi Knights, Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi. I was very sad when Qui-Gon died, and felt that he could've proved a valuable character in the subsequent movies. Darth Maul, I felt, also died too soon. He showed himself to be a much better Dark Jedi than stupid Dooku, and could've been a good final opponent for Anakin before becoming Palpatine's apprentice. But I'm also a believer in George Lucas. I think that any decisions he made, he made them with the other movies in mind. But I wish I could travel back in time and tell him not to direct it. And to kill Jar-Jar. But I think I'm just dreaming.