I love how critics love to criticize the prequel dialogue yet they made Spiderman's dialogue seem like Shakespeare. As for Jake Lloyd, I met him last month and he seemed like a really nice kid to me. The one thing that stood out about him was his handshake... like a vice grip! But he was very cool talking with fans, signing autographs, etc. He seemed like he had it together, intelligent and outgoing. I hope that everything is going well for him.
Anyway, I like the title as well. I admit to being shocked by the first two prequel titles when I first heard them, but in retrospect they make sense. They just didn't sound 'Star Wars-y' at the time.
The Phantom Menace pertains to an individual character whose actions affect the entire series. That character of course being Senator/Chancellor/Emperor Palaptine, aka Darth Sidious.
A New Hope was referring to Luke, who of course affected where the series went in the originals.
The Empire Strikes Back was a simple title, revealing basically the main action of that chapter just as
Attack of the Clones did. (It wasn't simply called The Clone Wars since we only got to see the opening battle of it.)
Of course then we have
Return of the Jedi, again referring back to the individual mentioned in the first title,
A New Hope. With Luke finally completeing his training and facing Vader, he became a Jedi, thus returning their order to the galaxy. Now, if this last film is really being titled
Revenge of the Sith it will follow suit, referring back to Palpatine and his dark order getting their revenge on the Jedi for exterminating their kind.
Here's a pic. Could be the DVDs?
http://www.starwars.se/nyheter2004/nyhe ... _stor.html