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Why the star wars prequels may disappoint, but not quite suck
Here's my reasons why the prequels dont suck (theyre not as good as the originals by any stretch of the imagination)
5) the action
yes, it doesn't matter that much if it shouldn't be the main draw of the film in the first place, but still, the action sequences were pretty great. technically, the movies are all wonderful
4) The villains
Now, I know these can't compete with Darth Vader, but in my mind, theyre fucking close. Darth Maul is so awesome and General Grievous....i just love him. so much. Count Dooku, meh, but fuck it, we got Jenga Fett (which made up for Boba Fett's bullshit death)
3)All the actors except Hayden.
I just don't like him, but honestly everyone else seemed to make up for it. Natalie Portman was a bit iffy, but good enough. Everyone else though was just excellent
2) The weaving into the original mythology
Now, as for the midiclorians (sp?), i understand alot of people got angry about that, but i choose to see it as a sortof religion vs. science point of view. But I have to say, I very much enjoyed all of the references, foreshadowing, and the overall transfer from trilogy to trilogy.
1) Episode III
The first 2 aren't terrible, but theyre not very good. They don't have much to tell and tehy each have pointless action sequences that just waste screen time (pod race, coliseum, etc.). but episode III gets down and dirty from start to finish. it concludes all the story lines and sets up the next movies so perfectly. (and we got general greivous! i love him...so much) Another wonderful draw of the movie is the complete lack of a certain annoying CGI fuckface. the problem with the movie? Hayden Christiansen pretty much. he doesnt do well at all. it's not as bad as 'Clones' but still not good.
Bonus reason) it spawned the excellent miniseries, Clone Wars (no not the new 3D animation crap)
As for the many flaws in the trilogy, i see them. They bum me out. They don't make me scream at the heavens and curse Lucas's name. I simply question some of the decisions he made. overall, i have deemed personally that the movies don't suck (while the first two border on being bad, but are mainly just mediocre and pointless) and can even be great at times. and i got General Greivous. I love him...so much
5) the action
yes, it doesn't matter that much if it shouldn't be the main draw of the film in the first place, but still, the action sequences were pretty great. technically, the movies are all wonderful
4) The villains
Now, I know these can't compete with Darth Vader, but in my mind, theyre fucking close. Darth Maul is so awesome and General Grievous....i just love him. so much. Count Dooku, meh, but fuck it, we got Jenga Fett (which made up for Boba Fett's bullshit death)
3)All the actors except Hayden.
I just don't like him, but honestly everyone else seemed to make up for it. Natalie Portman was a bit iffy, but good enough. Everyone else though was just excellent
2) The weaving into the original mythology
Now, as for the midiclorians (sp?), i understand alot of people got angry about that, but i choose to see it as a sortof religion vs. science point of view. But I have to say, I very much enjoyed all of the references, foreshadowing, and the overall transfer from trilogy to trilogy.
1) Episode III
The first 2 aren't terrible, but theyre not very good. They don't have much to tell and tehy each have pointless action sequences that just waste screen time (pod race, coliseum, etc.). but episode III gets down and dirty from start to finish. it concludes all the story lines and sets up the next movies so perfectly. (and we got general greivous! i love him...so much) Another wonderful draw of the movie is the complete lack of a certain annoying CGI fuckface. the problem with the movie? Hayden Christiansen pretty much. he doesnt do well at all. it's not as bad as 'Clones' but still not good.
Bonus reason) it spawned the excellent miniseries, Clone Wars (no not the new 3D animation crap)
As for the many flaws in the trilogy, i see them. They bum me out. They don't make me scream at the heavens and curse Lucas's name. I simply question some of the decisions he made. overall, i have deemed personally that the movies don't suck (while the first two border on being bad, but are mainly just mediocre and pointless) and can even be great at times. and i got General Greivous. I love him...so much
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Comment by Ron Grijs on July 8, 2009 at 2:19pm - I just thought the entire prequel trilogy was far too complex for it's own good. The overall story wasn't that bad, it just got lost between all the over the top action, bad dialogues and CGI. The original trilogy might be epic but it was also rather small, going on an adventure with these guys in their broken spaceship was really the heart of the story. In the prequels the characters are all over the place due to some bad story decisions. It would have been better if Anakin was a teenager in ep1, if Padme really was a princess from Alderaan (and didn't die) and there was one sith apprentice before (and possibly killed by) Anakin just to give a few examples. I'm 20 andf I watched starwars ep4 as a kid on tv (and the sequels on the 25th anniversary edition) and I liked the action scenes in them much more then in the prequels. I couldn't care who won during the lightsaber fights because the action was so fast that you just knew that every hit wouldn't do much, in the original trilogy I feared for Luke's other hand with each blow. Same goes for the spacecombat, apart from the ships being really ugly it was never exciting. And as I mentioned before, the dialogue was so bad, for me it was a symbol of how the entire cast was just doing with Lucas told them to do instead of having fun with their roles. I also blame the overuse of bluescreen, but that's Lucas fault aswell so I just blame him. He gave me great childhood memories and he also killed them, I haven't watched SW since ep3.
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Comment by Nigel Cat on July 8, 2009 at 1:17pm -
I think a lot of the problems stem from looking at Star Wars with two different eyes. Right now, all I've got in my head is that scene where Leia and Luke are on that ledge in Episode IV, and she yells "Quick! Find the controls that extend the bridge!" If that line was in the prequels, it'd probably be derided, but it passes by unnoticed in the original.
I'm not saying it's a bad line, or that it was even awkwardly delivered by Carrie Fisher, but it's one of a thousand nitpicks one can have with the original films that can also be said of the prequels. It just depends on what eyes you watch them with.
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Comment by Mikeynike on July 8, 2009 at 11:51am - Wayne this is about Star Wars prequels wtf are you talking about..I agree. There ok action movies but not as good as the originals.
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Comment by Wayne on July 8, 2009 at 11:42am -
I'll say this much with all the problems the prequels have and yes there are a lot but I still enjoyed them But my problem is with all the flaws they have movies such as Spiderman, Pirates and Star Trek get past and they have JUST as many flaws if not More.
Spiderman yes all of them are just a mess of film making, Pirates is lazy with Depp being the only good thing and Star Trek is beyond terrible in my eyes, People say how the prequels Ruined Star Wars well they never had Spock making out with a crew member.
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Comment by Jay Perry on July 8, 2009 at 11:33am -
Hey,at least they gave us that clone wars thing that itchynader posted.
But I will admit that I used to jump on the "prequels suck"band wagon just because everyone else was.
*hangs head in shame.
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Comment by Itchinader on July 8, 2009 at 11:14am
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Comment by Moxie on July 8, 2009 at 10:28am -
What is this a trend now?
Its gonna be whack if everyone jumps on the bandwagon.
Get off my WAGGON!
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Comment by Mason Daniel on July 8, 2009 at 10:16am - Still, it's nice to see people who don't absolutley loathe them to the point of absurdity.
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Comment by KrissKross on July 8, 2009 at 1:07am - i definitely dont love the prequels. i really like the third one and the others are ok
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Comment by Mason Daniel on July 7, 2009 at 8:03pm
- YES!!! Let it out, prequel-lovers!
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