The other “Star Wars” movies only got worse. The first Abrams flick was a sentimental piece of space junk. Abrams, the man behind does-anyone-know-what-is-happening series “Lost” on TV, took over the “Star Wars” franchise in 2015, most people were excited. The Jedi warriors and Princess Leias slouched toward the exits in silence. I think it was when the boy Darth Vader jumped off a table onto the floor and chirped, “Yipee!” Darth Vader never said “Yipee!”in his cursed life. Maybe the stench started with the dull plot or the plodding delegation meetings or perhaps it was the blabbering character of Jar Jar Binks. The capacity audience, most dressed up as characters, filed into the cavernous AMC theater and yapped until the lights went down. “Star Wars: Episode 1 - The Phantom Menace,” which would tell the saga of Darth Vader from the beginning, became the most hotly anticipated release of 1999.
Lucas announced the next three installments of “Star Wars” were coming back now that computer-generated technology (CGI) had caught up in the late ‘90s.
