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Were the Star Wars Prequels good movies?
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Yeah. The Prequel films are stories about abuse in the home (private: Anakin's slave upbringing/the Jedi 'code'/Palpatine exploiting Anakin's vulnerabilities) and abuse in the plaza (public: the Trade Federation in TPM/Palpatine's manipulation of all parties, political and otherwise). And how a culture of abuse perpetuates abuse and exploitation; how its a self-feeding/reinforcing cycle.
Wow... Phantom Menace is complete ass from top to bottom. Revenge of the Sith is a top 4 SW film. Nothing in it offends the senses like Jarjar, the worst misuse of CG effects in history. ROTS is great (it's currently #3 but sometimes moves up to #1 or #2):
1. The Force Awakens
2. The Last Jedi
3. Revenge of the Sith
4. Empire Strikes Back.
The rest range from decent (A New Hope) to horrible (Rogue One).
I like them.
I enjoy them, both for their good parts and because the bad parts became memes.
I also think it did WONDERFUL things for the franchise as a whole and am grateful we got amazing side stuff thanks to them.
Felt a lot better to be a Star Wars fan then back then than now for sure.
I enjoy them, both for their good parts and because the bad parts became memes.
I also think it did WONDERFUL things for the franchise as a whole and am grateful we got amazing side stuff thanks to them.
Felt a lot better to be a Star Wars fan then back then than now for sure.
Phantom has very bad parts. But thats what they are, parts. It does have some redeeming parts too, enough to make it the best of the worst at least, despite the valiant effort by jar jar to utterly destroy it.
Meanwhile there's basically no redeeming qualities to the other two. Revenge is one of the worst acted and shot films of all time.
EP3 was genuinely good, better then ST movies. EP1 holds a special place, expanded the SW universe, and introduced a brilliant set of Jedi, music, duels and the iconic possible racing which still holds up today.
I don't think anyone can argue against the PT movies for fleshing out SW, the planets and locations alone are some of the best the Saga has to offer (Mustafar, Naboo, Geonosis, Kamino).
I don't think anyone can argue against the PT movies for fleshing out SW, the planets and locations alone are some of the best the Saga has to offer (Mustafar, Naboo, Geonosis, Kamino).
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Episode 3 is one of my favorite Star Wars movie. Episode 2 is trash, I can't watch it anymore. Episode 1 is enjoyable, it was the first Star Wars movie I watched as a kid.
But as a whole, they are bad. They should have focused on grown Anakin, his relation with Obi Wan and made his transition to the dark side slower. In the movies you have this great guy and 5 minutes later he is killing younglings.
But as a whole, they are bad. They should have focused on grown Anakin, his relation with Obi Wan and made his transition to the dark side slower. In the movies you have this great guy and 5 minutes later he is killing younglings.
3 has it's moments but ultimately it's not very good.
1 and 2 can go to hell, ESPECIALLY 2. Hate that movie so much.
1 and 2 can go to hell, ESPECIALLY 2. Hate that movie so much.
PM is such a racist movie, I can't believe anyone defends that piece of shit.
It's also NyQuil in movie-form.
It's also NyQuil in movie-form.
They were shit when they came out and they are meme now. Which is better than shit, but still a far cry from being good...
They were bogged down with political drama no one cared about or asked for and CGI that is both poorly done and is placed front and center over everything else. I think George was less concerned with making a good movie and more concerned with showing us what he could do with money.
I mean look at this
This isn't from the show but your mind won't let you believe that it isn't from the show
I mean look at this
This isn't from the show but your mind won't let you believe that it isn't from the show
I was a kid/teen when they came out, so they were amazing. However, going back now they are hot ass. So now it's just memes.
I mean, no, come on, we all know they aren't. By any normal standard they're godawful; all the character development happens off-screen (if at all), nobody has motivations, Lucas is a terrible writer so everyone speaks with the same voice. It doesn't mean you can't still have your fun with them, though.
Terrible movies, RoTS has some great moments, in a really wonderfully made universe. The design and audio are flat out amazing. Hell, the ships from the PT shit on the gray blobs we get from the ST (besides the U-wing, the only good Disney era ship),
This. As movies they clearly aren't the best but they added a lot of interesting and cool things to the Star Wars mythos. I like the idea of the politics but it was so surface-level that you couldn't look at it as a political intrigue thriller but you couldn't just ignore it either. I appreciate that George went with a whole different influence for the general setting, from all the myth and fantasy that influenced the OT to using a lot of human history for the PT. It expanded the universe and made it feel a lot more real.
Also had some awesome music, Duel of the Fates obviously but also Droid Army theme, Anakin/Padme theme, and Obi-wan vs Anakin.
They're not really good movies but I enjoy them for the production values, action, entertainment and the general Lucasness of it all. Episode III especially will always be worthwhile for the pure narrative significance it holds.
We finally got to see the rise of the Empire, the birth of Darth Vader and the Battle of the Heroes. Not all of it was well executed but it was worth making movies about.
We finally got to see the rise of the Empire, the birth of Darth Vader and the Battle of the Heroes. Not all of it was well executed but it was worth making movies about.
I rewatched them all recently. None are good, but each have a few moments that are good. Phantom Menace is, to me, the worst of the three by far. The end is good with Maul and the Duel of the Fates, but otherwise it's trash-tier from beginning until the end.
Agreed. Episode II being a worse movie than Episode I is such an absurd opinion it's taken on meme status for me.
They're not good (except for maybe Sith), but they're a hell of a lot more interesting than the shit we've been getting for the last few years.
They're so bad I haven't felt the need to watch any of them a second time. Meanwhile I've watched the first trilogy countless times, and am fine with watching the recent films again.
This. Way too many people give this movie a pass but holy shit is it ever racist.
Kind of mixed on them. 3 was personally the more legitimately good one for me while the other two weren't that great, 2 less so than 1.
I guess as a whole for the prequel trilogy, I'd lean to no.
I guess as a whole for the prequel trilogy, I'd lean to no.
Between Jar Jar, the Trade Federation and Watto it's hard to tell what's the most offensive part of the movie. All three are so bad.
I don't love Force Awakens, but it is miles above the prequels and TLJ is even further above them.
