I'm 20. I grew up with the Star Wars prequels rather than the Original Trilogy, and I LOVED them far more than the OT.
I'm older now, and I've developed better taste, but one of the pervasive cultural opinions that I've heard throughout the years is that the prequels are all terrible, but they got progressively better from Phantom to Revenge.
I went through and re-watched them recently, and to me Phantom was the most tolerable of the three. Anakin and Jar Jar were terrible, as common complaints tend to agree, but all in all I felt that Phantom had a better visual aesthetic with less CG-augmented visual sets (If we're ignoring the Battle of Naboo, which doesn't take up a lot of screen time anyways), and less of the terribly whineyness that was pervasive throughout the rest of the Prequel trilogy.
Darth Maul and Sidious, though severely underdeveloped, make for a more aesthetically pleasing antagonist when compared to Grievous or Dooku. Grievous was a bit goofy in Revenge, and Dooku has always been a bit dull to me, though his final scene in Revenge is one of my favorite scenes in the series.
The CG in AoTC and Revenge, as well as Hayden Christensen are what make those two movies such a chore for me to watch. In the days of 480 and 720p TVs, the CG looked alright, but on a modern, 1080p television it looks like most of the scenes were live people plopped into some low resolution 3D environments. It's out of place, like a Halo 5 model plopped into a rendering of the original Halo's second mission. The mediocrity of Hayden kind of speaks for itself.
I dunno, I could just be sick of the prequels by the time I finish the three of them in succession and Phantom just doesn't have a chance to wear on me, but I can't even sit THROUGH Revenge of the Sith any more. I have to get up and make myself some coffee, or play a game on my phone while I'm watching it.
I'm older now, and I've developed better taste, but one of the pervasive cultural opinions that I've heard throughout the years is that the prequels are all terrible, but they got progressively better from Phantom to Revenge.
I went through and re-watched them recently, and to me Phantom was the most tolerable of the three. Anakin and Jar Jar were terrible, as common complaints tend to agree, but all in all I felt that Phantom had a better visual aesthetic with less CG-augmented visual sets (If we're ignoring the Battle of Naboo, which doesn't take up a lot of screen time anyways), and less of the terribly whineyness that was pervasive throughout the rest of the Prequel trilogy.
Darth Maul and Sidious, though severely underdeveloped, make for a more aesthetically pleasing antagonist when compared to Grievous or Dooku. Grievous was a bit goofy in Revenge, and Dooku has always been a bit dull to me, though his final scene in Revenge is one of my favorite scenes in the series.
The CG in AoTC and Revenge, as well as Hayden Christensen are what make those two movies such a chore for me to watch. In the days of 480 and 720p TVs, the CG looked alright, but on a modern, 1080p television it looks like most of the scenes were live people plopped into some low resolution 3D environments. It's out of place, like a Halo 5 model plopped into a rendering of the original Halo's second mission. The mediocrity of Hayden kind of speaks for itself.
I dunno, I could just be sick of the prequels by the time I finish the three of them in succession and Phantom just doesn't have a chance to wear on me, but I can't even sit THROUGH Revenge of the Sith any more. I have to get up and make myself some coffee, or play a game on my phone while I'm watching it.
