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Which Star Wars trilogy was better, Sequel trilogy or the Prequels?
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What's the point of a poll if multiple votes are allowed.
Important note for the thread, just because you grew up with something does not make it good.
Important note for the thread, just because you grew up with something does not make it good.
I grew up with the Original Trilogy which I suspect most people would think is the superior movie trilogy.
The events of Revenge of the Sith change him. He was already the best warrior the Jedi had (I'm pretty certain he could've taken Windu), but he lost everything - his friends, his family, his home - and grew more distant as the only thing keeping him alive was his rage and his job became hunting down survivors of Order 66 and killing them or torturing them and turning them into an Inquisitor.
You have to remember of course that he knows he fucked up, too. He knows he played right into Palpatine's hands and he hates himself for that. It's why Vader says "Anakin" was weak and he "destroyed" him, but I don't think he ever understood that Vader was the weak one until the end.
Anakin was fearless, he was brave and he followed his gut and did the right thing (as he saw it, anyway). He was plagued with an inner darkness and he fought it most of his life, but that anger inside of him only grew.
Vader was a coward, terrified of Palpatine's power, so full of hate and regret and acted as little more than a machine following his master's orders. He didn't snap out of it until he realised he actually had something to lose - his children.
I am glad, though, that portrayals of Darth Vader since the original trilogy haven't tried to make him more like Anakin. They kept his humour ("be careful not to choke on you aspirations" he says, to the guy he's choking right now), but he's always still cold, detached and ruthless.
The moment between him and Ahsoka in Rebels broke my heart. 😢
Or it's a huge relief there's still some sanity in the world and the prequels are seen for the embarrassment they are, a disaster in every single aspect of film making.
I do agree we need originality of course.
Are you suggesting the ST is more original than the PT or vice versa?
Prequels.
They have a lot of bad elements, but there's something resembling a coherent narrative.
Sequel trilogy is random shit thrown together with no rhyme or reason. Luke's arc is the only good part.
They have a lot of bad elements, but there's something resembling a coherent narrative.
Sequel trilogy is random shit thrown together with no rhyme or reason. Luke's arc is the only good part.
Prequel trilogy. This new shit had a few good ideas but was pretty bad over all. I mean the prequels weren't that much better but I had far more fun watching them.
I don't get the whole "PT had a coherent narrative" I keep seeing. There's the one major thread which was predetermined but as for what is actually going on in each movie is a mess.
I remember the jokes about asking people to describe what's going on in PM to AOTC and they have no clue. Even if you pay attention a lot of the characters motivations and actions make no sense. Stuff is done that conflicts with the OT. It was common on this board to say you could disregard PM entirely. Then you need a long running animated series to go back and jump through hoops to make the OT better? How is this some great coherent narrative?
They are both awful in different ways. The Last Jedi is the one film of the six that comes closest to being decent, so I guess the sequel trilogy has to take it.
Poll results are skewed by the ST actually having good movies.
When your competition is Starkiller Base and Death Star Destroyers, even pod racing is actually unique and cool.
Ah yes, the thirty minute racing scene in the middle of a Star Wars movie with an annoying 10 year old as the main character.
If they would have cut the podracing in half it wouldn't have been so bad, but it just goes on so damn long.
I dunno... I want a Star Wars movie similar to Red Line and pod racing is perfect for that. 🤔
Which silver bullet explanation do I BELIEVE????
The revisionism with the prequels is a sight to behoçd indeed, the thing has worse dialogue and plot than brazillian telenovelas.
The pod race is still more interesting and relevant to the plot than the one with the Rathtars, kanjiklub and Guavian death gang.
Gonna need sources on this one.
Also, nostalgia has nothing to do with how old you were when you saw them.
It really is so bizarre.
I can't think of any other movies ever that were discussed as much as the prequels at the time, on the internet, in magazines, newspapers, tv shows etc. It was relentless and it was with very little praise to put it nicely. Everyone was getting their dig in. The OT are probably the most referenced movies ever in other forms of media, and it was always done with love and affection. The PT was at the complete other end of the spectrum, every time they were referenced it was having a laugh at their expense, whether it be Jar Jar, the dialogue, the acting, the CGI, the fan service, the love story, they were a joke everyone was in on. Look what they did to Jake and Hayden for goodness sake (which was of course awful).
Yeah I want to watxh these movies with these people who love the prequels, figure out what the hell is so appealing to them.
more like they're skewed by people's nostalgia for the prequels they saw as kids
those movies are fucking garbage
even revenge of the sith only has like 3 or 4 good scenes in the whole movie
What I don't really understand is how people just came to accept the saga had nine parts. Like 4-6 were made and people knew and accepted there was something that came before. It was uncontroversial. The SAGA was COMPLETE with 1-6. Lucas even marketed it like that. Then all of a sudden people were like, "Ah yes, now the REAL end of the Skywalker Saga is coming!" when 7-9 were being made? Says who? Why can't they roll out 10, 11, and 12 at some point? Now the REAL!!! end of the Skywalker Saga is coming! The SECOND ORDER rose from the ashes of the First Order. And now there is a resistance to the SECOND ORDER!!!
I think basically the ST was a waste. The PT is pretty unwatchable though. I don't really care about new or big ideas when the first six hours of the trilogy are basically lots of sitting around and talking in the worst dialogue imaginable. The ST looks better, the PT sounds better. But to me the ST's existence is like presumptuous.
I think basically the ST was a waste. The PT is pretty unwatchable though. I don't really care about new or big ideas when the first six hours of the trilogy are basically lots of sitting around and talking in the worst dialogue imaginable. The ST looks better, the PT sounds better. But to me the ST's existence is like presumptuous.
This is heresy.
The Podracing sequence is one of the best parts of the entire saga, and is even better in its extended cut.
This wasn't really a thing until the marketing for Episode IX started. That's really all it is - marketing - that also kind of tries to legitimize the return of Palpatine. Before he was ever involved in the ST, the connections between this trilogy and the others were obviously still present in major ways, but not in a "everything has been building up to this moment, now we're really gonna take down the overarching villain of the whole series" way.
This take honestly shocks me. The pod racing sequence is one of the worst and most boring sequences in all SW films.
The podracing sequence and the final Darth Maul fight sequence are the 2 parts of that movie that can be enjoyed entirely on their own, completely divorced from the mess that is the rest of The Phantom Menace