The Prequels. In 2012, how bad are they ACTUALLY

Sith gets the least complaints from fans. There's effectively no Jar Jar, less awkward romance, and more of a darker tone. If the other films had matched it, I think people would be fairly happy overall.

Jar Jar alone derails Phantom Menace. I honestly think that without him the film would play fine. There would still be things to complain about, but without that one thing to totally hate, the rest would feel like nitpicking.

Clones suffers terribly from Anakin's whining and the awkwardness of the romance. It's much worse than Phantom Menace because of that, and there's no easy fix for it, altho recasting Anakin would have helped.

I still haven't seen the Apes prequel, but I think X-Men First Class was easily better than any of the star wars prequels.

This thread makes me sad.

I mean, you could build an argument on this line of thinking. Alas, I don't think it'd be wise to do so, because it's fucking hard to tell where legitimate storytelling complaints end and general "this is the way of things" fatalism begin.

Let's call the whole thing off. Who's got a cave and some bits of charcoal?

You would feel different. A lot of it has to do with what movies you grew up on and were surrounded by. I grew up on Star Wars, Close Encounters, ET, Alien and Jaws. If you grew up with Jurassic Park, ID4, Stargate and Home Alone, then Episode One probably fits right in.

But, personally, while I like Jurassic Park (for the most part), I hate every single one of those other ones. Just a totally different approach to how to tell a story. There's a fundamental difference in those movies, beyond just acting or editing or whatever.

EDIT: But then, I don't know how old you are, either. That's just my own history.

Last edited by Squiggly_P (2012-06-10 22:03:26)

Yes and no. TPM IS the best of the prequels EXCEPT that Jar Jar makes it almost unbearable. And yes ROTS is bad because of Anakin. But, like I said, get rid of Jar Jar and make Anakin cooler and less whiny in AOTC and ROTS and fans would be happy with all three films. They would still have problems, but the fans would mutter about them instead of ranting about George Lucas raping their childhoods.

I was fortunate enough to be born in 1990, And to have an uncle who was a movie buff. By the time I saw episode one I was 9, but had seen the original trilogy enough times that I had to get another copy of Star wars (..... a new hope.....) due to the tape wearing out.

And I enjoyed it. Jar jar was never a funny character even at that time, but I thought of it as the C-3P0 of this movie, someone annoying, but basically acts at the 'vessal' for the audience.

I got older, saw Episode 2 with middle school friends, and then finally episode 3 as an awkward high schooler...  alone.
It was then I discovered what I loved in Star Wars, the production design/modelwork and whathaveyou... WORLD BUILDING. All of which weren't present in the newer 3.
It became a fanservice fiesta.

and its hard for me to look at it in any way but that.