Going into Episode III I wasn't sure if I was hoping for it to be spectacularly bad (we'd brought a bit of whiskey to the theater), or surprisingly good.

As it turns out, I got the best of both worlds. Most of the first half was about as bad as could be hoped, and most of the second half was as good as could be hoped (for a film written and directed by Mr. Lucas). It would have been hard to screw up the material from the second half, but you never know.