Digikid said:
You are welcome to your opinion but it is you that is incorrect. The prequels did have good tight stories. The only reason why ppl did not like them is because they were different.
Difference is a GOOD thing.
Wrong.
Taste is subjective. But objectively speaking, and I mean undeniable "look at it if you doubt it" standard (and this is true for each of the three movies of the "prequel" ):
- Have more plot holes than things that connect.
- The pacing is terrible. You have really long periods of completely emotionless people talking about arbitrary and plot-irrelevant dribble. Then extremely long highly choreographed fights with the emotional depth of a tea spoon that drag on and on and on and on... Most of the fights end up becoming boring, namely the big Obi Wan Vs. Anakin in the third movie, that goes on for so fucking long it actually becomes dull...
- Storytelling is terrible, relying heavily on direct exposition instead of weaving the narrative into the actual action (which the first 3 movies did).
- Plots range from non-existent to terrible: Phantom Menace is an amalgamate mess that makes absolutely no sense and has next to no real story [http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/12/17/watch-this-70-minute-video-review-of-star-wars-the-phantom-menace/], best summarized as "dumbed down first part of Episode I + Mario Kart". Attack of the Clones has, almost literally, 5 fucking minutes of relevant story to it. You can actually not watch this movie entirely, and all you really miss is one fucking dialog that can be entirely bypassed by having a friend tell you the relevant issue part before the start of the third movie. And finally, Revenge of the Sith, the movie that had, by far, the most potential out of the entire pile of shit that was the "new" trilogy, is best summarized as "Anakin is given an untold honor and is allowed to join the council earlier than anyone else in history as an exception. Anakin doesn't receive instant and unconditional acceptance by the most powerful Jedi masters alive, all of which had to work their asses off to get to that place. Anakin instantly goes Emo and joins the dark side. Lots of random fights happen throughout the movie so Lucas can show how cool his CGI has gotten."
In essence, people who, like you, claim "they're all good movies!" are Georgy's direct target. People who can't recognize a good movie and are easily swayed and distracted by fireworks and glowy things. Anyone with half a brain can tell you there was a very significant shift in George's "focus" in the movies.
The first movies weren't good because the lightsaber fights were amazing, or because of epically choreographed fight scenes and battles that extend throughout the world... They were all about the story. They had an interesting story, told by interesting, fleshed out and relateable characters in emotionally involving situations. The special effects were just means to deliver that. Go look at those movies again. There are a whole 3 or 4 lightsaber fight scenes in the whole trilogy. The horrible Obi Wan Vs. Anakin fight by itself lasts longer than all lightsaber fights of the original trilogy combined. And yet, any of those 3 or 4 fights in the original trilogy carries more depth and "content" by itself than the entire "new" trilogy movies put together. The problem is that the "George Lucas" that made the "new" trilogy isn't the same George Lucas that set out to tell the original space epic. This is a new George that's more concerned about showing how cool his CGI is. "Look at me mom. Look at what I can do now!". Fuck all the substance, just tack on more glowy shit...
You may love them, but by any objective standards, the "new" movies are junk.
