After hearing RLM, AMAZINGATHEIST and other losers bitch about it I was convinced they were the worst movies ever. Till I rewatched them.
Jar Jar isn't as obnoxious as he's made out to be, jake lloyds acting is fine, hayden christensens acting is actually great. I was close to tears during the tusken raiders scene. The movies are epic, have a great soundtrack and great actors like liam neeson and christopher lee.
I have no idea. I'm a zoomer that grew up with them and I still like them
I have no idea. I'm a millennial that grew up with them and I still like them more than the OT.
Gen Xers biggest crime is prequel hate.
No generation will commit a bigger crime.
I was 9 when the Phantom Menace came out and never understood the prequel hate.
I'm pretty sure Lucas just cared about making his movies for kids, because Anakin's development follows ours: we were awkward teenagers by the time Attack of the Clones came out and approaching adulthood with Revenge of the Sith
even little things about this film are kino. the diving and droning sounds of the cars during the vehicle chase scene. the explosion sounds during the obi wan space chase scene
palpatine was just his puppet
I never thought about that lol
I love how Zig Forums thinks its le epic counter culture contrarians for worshipping movies everyone and their fucking mother has seen 10 million times
You really owned the normies by being normies
>Monkey see monkey do
Boomers didn't like the movie because it wasn't the same fantasy garbage they watched as kids. The thought of politicians not having the welfare of people in their best interest came off as unrealistic to them and having wrongdoers in both sides became too confusing to them. The CGI was shit and the first movie has quite some script issues, but that first impression was enough to condemn the entire thing.
They are quite amazing really, and they offer a whole different perspective of the force. Watching them without hearing any commentary online gives the impression the force is a conscious being which rewards those who achieve balance in it, a balance of passions and senses, and the tragedy of the world is the consequence of foreign actors pulling towards either extreme. Of course, this is too complex to understand so Lucas just yielded to whatever words boomers put in his mouth to keep them content and keep funding the movies.
gen x obsessively thinks the originals are the best et everything
Fundamentally its because Lucas tried to explain away the mysticism of the force by personifying it with things like midichlorians and such. It takes away a lot of its mystique when you attempt to explain in detail why it exists in the surrounding world. Prequels have some problems mostly in the dialogue and at times trying too hard to explain things that should be left understated, but overall they are pretty good and did a lot for world-building. Also, they are arguably more creative than the original trilogy, although not better films, because they don't follow the heroes journey as a template, Lucas took a lot more liberties with Anakin.
>I love how Zig Forums thinks its le epic counter culture contrarians for worshipping movies everyone and their fucking mother has seen 10 million times
>You really owned the normies by being normies
I never ‘got’ the midi-hate, You were happier with It’s ‘space magic’?
It’s not needed but it doesn’t ruin the whole thing for me.
>Fundamentally its because Lucas tried to explain away the mysticism of the force by personifying it with things like midichlorians and such.
Do you remove the mysticism of christianity by having priests around? People are idiots who take everything at face value. What are midichlorians supposed to be? How do they get there? How do they have the ability to create life out of nowhere? Are each conscious and capable of communicating with one another telepathically or are they part of one being? If people were imaginative they'd end up with a lot more complex questions than saying "durr space magic". No doubt americans never get what the bible says despite being so eager to hear the pastor's blabbing.
prequels had lackluster acting and pacing but great ideas and a good overarching story
thanks to RLM we got OT but worse
Rian Johnson tried to steer it in a different direction but it didnt work
complainfagging OTboomers can suck my nut
>Fundamentally its because Lucas tried to explain away the mysticism of the force by personifying it with things like midichlorians and such
Two fucking lines. And you niggers have been bitching and moaning over something you don't even understand for 20 years
Those complaints were fucking valid. And corporate greed was to blame for the fiasco of mousewars. They clearly had no plan and made no effort but to to pander to the wokes.
>valid
Are you a spaniard?
Well, if you think about how Yoda describes the force to Luke in Empire, adding in midichlorians in to the equation verges on undermining how an individual can harness the force in my opinion. I think Lucas tried to be like Tolkien and explain in a Silmarillionesque way how the force operates on a minutia level. As an example for Tolkien, a being like Gandalf isn't really a wizard but is more of a spirit inhabiting a body. I couldn't imagine the kind of butt hurt would have coincided with Lucas doing something like that with Yoda or someone similar.
Either way I just think he flubbed the execution of his ideas in some areas overall. I get where you're coming from though. I don't hate midichlorians, I just think based on the backlash relative to other artists doing similar things in their expanded universes that Lucas had to have a more careful hand in how he went about explaining sensitive topics that are principals of the Star Wars franchise.
I'm not bitching, I'm just trying to contextualize the gripes with the prequels while attempting to be civil about it.
>yoda is incompetent and did the sith's bidding
>The Republic sucked and systems wanted to leave it
>Jedi are cops sent to break the will of those that fall out of line
>Your ability to become a force user depends on how many microscopic organisms are in your blood stream
I grew up with these movies, and while I think the OT is better, I'd still take these over the Disney movies any day.
This seems to be the general opinion.
They were expected to be the level of the OT when they weren’t.
They were poorly directed and scripted, overly CGI’d, and suffered from many technical flaws. I agree that the level of hate never made sense to me, although attack of the clones was bad.
That said, they told a complete a story without completely destroying the film cannon of Star Wars like Last Jedi. They had overarching themes and arcs for all the characters that made sense. The music was wonderful and on par with the OT. The PT had moments like Order 66 and Anakin’s fall, which are actually heartbreaking and emotional in their own right. Managing to get the audience to feel that relative to the wood was on screen to a credit to the story.
Most importantly, they added something beyond the OT and fleshed the Galaxy and Jedi in a way that hadn’t been seen before. The expansions of the lore and world provided the bedrock to build the franchise around for the next 20 years. There was so much to explore.
Attack of the clones was kino. The action scenes were over the top, but overall it was great.
It's time to grow up.
If Midi-chlorians are so bad why are they so hecking cute and valid?
can't think of a single Star Wars movie that is good, anything reddit talks about is shit, like Shawshank Redemption
only thing i hate about this was the second movie with cringe love story
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The hate came from people who expected it to be what they believed the OT to be like, but it wasn't to their liking. It still had a lot of flaws. Some parts dragged a bit, some parts appeared unnecessary, people griped about Jar Jar, and so on. Because of this fans believed that people who were not longer involved with Star Wars (Marcia Lucas, Gary Kurtz, Leigh Brackett, Lawrence Kasdan, etc) were the true creative power behind Star Wars and kept pushing this theory, even before the RLM guys did that as well. As it turned out, it wasn't true (Lucas was more involved with Empire than people believed) and the Sequel Trilogy ended up making people gradually realize that, even if the Prequels were flawed.
That's because you came from Reddit
The primary purpose of the film was to establish and explore the romance between Anakin and Padme. This was very poorly done and on screen lacked chemistry. It will never not be awkward.
The film failed at this fundamental purpose. I accept what it wa starting to do, and agree with the general purpose, just that it didn’t reach that goal.
They are kind of boring and dated.
You have to be a fucking idiot to not think Episode 1 has abysmal pacing, dialog and characters. Two isn't nearly as bad, and three is better than 2, but they're both still worse than the original trilogy, just not by an incredibly wide margin.
>jake lloyds acting is fine
Boomers grew up with Nixon you dolt.
>AMAZINGATHEIST
thats a name id forgotten, surprised to see hes still going
It's simple: blockbuster movies have gotten that much worse since then.
There are people out there whose entire purpose in life seems to be thinking about star wars. If they can't think about how much they love star wars, they think about how much they hate star wars.