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I can definitely get on board with this but I really didn't care for it at all when I first saw it. It's grown on me....
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Were the Star Wars Prequels good movies?
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I can definitely get on board with this but I really didn't care for it at all when I first saw it. It's grown on me....
I watched them again a few years back and still found myself enjoying 1 and 3. The first 20 minutes of Episode II was some of the worst shit I've ever had to sit through. I will never do it again.
It's not. The acting is so bad, that I can't even get through it.
Fairly terrible overall, but quite entertaining at times. I wouldn't say they're significantly worse than the original trilogy, though.
Keep asking the same questions, looking for different answers. They fucking sucked outside of a handful of scenes. Period.
I'm a little confused by this as I find very little about the prequels to be "original". All they do is remix original trilogy ideas. I mean there's literally a scene where a clone pilot says "lock s-foils in attack position". Could you elaborate?
But it doesn't. At all.
Just watched it the other day, and it's fucking dreadful.
My fondness for ROTS aside, I rewatched Phantom Menace a few weeks back and it was astonishingly dull.
They had their moments - few and far between - but no. They're widely derided for good reason. The direction was just miserable 90% of the time. The writing worse. The scope of ideas tiny compared to the OT.
When you make Natalie Portman, one of the greatest actors of a generation, be wooden and curt across three movies you know you fucked up.
When you make Natalie Portman, one of the greatest actors of a generation, be wooden and curt across three movies you know you fucked up.
Were they good? Hell no. But I still love them
Still keeps on giving
I guess what I mean is aesthetically. Probably not though
As a kid, I enjoyed them though I obviously preferred the original films.
Years later, I was pretty much thoroughly onboard the consensus of them just being bad films.
In the last several years, in particular with how Disney Star Wars has gone + the cultural & political movements in the United States, I've come to radically re-evaluate the Prequel films.
I pretty much see them as made to be deliberately schlock-y and antagonistic to the "hardcore Star Wars fan". Anakin Skywalker is a metaphor for the American men who idolize/glorify the imagery/symbology of Darth Vader and the Empire.
It is a social commentary on the state of mass American culture, and also how Star Wars fits and shaped said mass American culture/media and what those things mean.
Years later, I was pretty much thoroughly onboard the consensus of them just being bad films.
In the last several years, in particular with how Disney Star Wars has gone + the cultural & political movements in the United States, I've come to radically re-evaluate the Prequel films.
I pretty much see them as made to be deliberately schlock-y and antagonistic to the "hardcore Star Wars fan". Anakin Skywalker is a metaphor for the American men who idolize/glorify the imagery/symbology of Darth Vader and the Empire.
It is a social commentary on the state of mass American culture, and also how Star Wars fits and shaped said mass American culture/media and what those things mean.
The young fan in me who watched these films as a kid says YES. The film critic/graduate in me says HELL NO.
Honestly, I'm currently right in the middle. I think they are fine and well produced films (not written or directed). Revenge is actually good a few bad bad moments here and there. Phantom is okay with a lot of bad moments but some small great ones like the Pod Race and Maul scenes. Attack of the Clones is the only I would consider mediocre but not completely bad since the Obi Wan side plot was the best part of the film, though a bit mediocre as well. There is one huge positive I'll give the prequels, they did well with expanding the lore and world building, sure it was mainly done for marketing but damn it we got 2 excellent Clone Wars shows because of them, so they are alright in my book.
This about sums up my thoughts. Well said.
Nope. The last moments of Revenge of the Sith are... fine. I wouldn't even say good, but fine. Serviceable.
Goodness no.
Original Trilogy > Sequel [Soon To Be] Trilogy > Prequel Trilogy.
That said, the prequels have some extraordinary worldbuilding. Best in the franchise. I'll give them that.
Original Trilogy > Sequel [Soon To Be] Trilogy > Prequel Trilogy.
That said, the prequels have some extraordinary worldbuilding. Best in the franchise. I'll give them that.
I don't think they're good films either, but they are nowhere near the worst films ever made. Like it's not even close.
i didn't get bored in the middle and turn them off
i found them interesting enough to watch more than once
i don't know if that makes them good, but i don't think i can realistically call them bad
i found them interesting enough to watch more than once
i don't know if that makes them good, but i don't think i can realistically call them bad
I really do love that Anakin is a whiny cringey piece of shit in the movies. Vader shouldn't be seen as cool and someone to emulate, he's a fucking monster responsible for the deaths of billions, his true self being Anakin is great.
The CW cartoon shows a more ideal heroic Anakin and thus a more tragic character. It's great in it's own right, I wish the show could've combined the two.
The CW cartoon shows a more ideal heroic Anakin and thus a more tragic character. It's great in it's own right, I wish the show could've combined the two.
Loved them. The political plot is way more interesting than whatever "mickey mouse adventure" the new Star Wars have become with Disney.
Absolutely. It didn't have near as much green screen sadness.
I will never understand how people can rank Revenge higher. That movie is so bad it's basically an unintended sequel to spaceballs.
These were not good movies.
Badly directed, badly written...it takes a LOT of work to make Samuel L. Jackson boring as hell but Lucas managed it. The prequels were special effects showcase movies- and the CGI in them hasn't aged too well by current standards.
I can't think of a reason I would actually tell someone to watch one that didn't involve drinking games
Badly directed, badly written...it takes a LOT of work to make Samuel L. Jackson boring as hell but Lucas managed it. The prequels were special effects showcase movies- and the CGI in them hasn't aged too well by current standards.
I can't think of a reason I would actually tell someone to watch one that didn't involve drinking games
