I just got finished watching Return of the Jedi and I watched number 4 and 5. My question is should I move on to the prequels or should I just stop.
Poll: Should I move on to the prequels
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You might as well, they still are enjoyable they just were not what people expected after 30 years of waiting.
May as well. They're not perfect, but they're not, strictly speaking, bad. That, and it's interesting to see Anakin's downfall into Darth Vader in episode 3.
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Go for it, a lot of the complaints are just nitpicking and the backlash from hype when they came out, they're quite enjoyable films and give a wider tour of the Star Wars universe and the pre-Empire galaxy.
They're terrible films, but if you want to see them, you should. I watched them because I was curious and whilst I'd never watch them again, I don't have any lingering questions as to whether I'd missed anything big plot wise.
The acting is appalling in the prequels. By everyone. The good actors seemed bored. But the visuals are nice.
I found them terrible films, virtually unwatchable, boring, consequence free and painful to the eyes.
And don't go complaining that it's just the hype that backlashed or some other flimsy excuse, the prequels were the first Star Wars films I watched as a kid so that kite isn't going to fly.
They're just so badly made once you look past the special effects. The characters are all boring robots or something, with a few minor exceptions, usually when someone acts completely out of character.
An example of how these films fail is how they "introduce" a major villain in the third episode, General Grievous, who could have been awesome, if you knew who he was or why he was doing what he was doing.
Apparently this got explained on a cartoon show for kids before the film came out, but COME ON, who the fuck writes his characters as if everybody saw the kid's show?
Another big, big problem, something that failed the entire three prequels for me, was:
1. Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader was the most important guy in the prequels.
2. The character was exceptionally bland, and not because of the actor, but because of how he was written. In the first film he is just a boring kid, in the second and third film he looks and acts like a bad guy before he is supposed to be a bad guy. His character arc is nearly non-existent and makes no sense.
There are some good points in the film, like the effects (When nobody is sitting down on a couch to talk about the plot, obviously), and I liked the action scenes. Too bad you rarely know what is going on in those scenes, but whatever.
TL;DR:
The films are bad. Not because they couldn't live up to the original films, but because they where just poorly written and directed.
Hey, do you want to watch an old science fiction film were all the things that went wrong with the prequels has been done right? Go check out Things to Come, an adaptation of the H.G. Wells story (With screenplay by him), made in 1937.
Do it now, it's in the public domain so you know how to get it.
And don't go complaining that it's just the hype that backlashed or some other flimsy excuse, the prequels were the first Star Wars films I watched as a kid so that kite isn't going to fly.
They're just so badly made once you look past the special effects. The characters are all boring robots or something, with a few minor exceptions, usually when someone acts completely out of character.
An example of how these films fail is how they "introduce" a major villain in the third episode, General Grievous, who could have been awesome, if you knew who he was or why he was doing what he was doing.
Apparently this got explained on a cartoon show for kids before the film came out, but COME ON, who the fuck writes his characters as if everybody saw the kid's show?
Another big, big problem, something that failed the entire three prequels for me, was:
1. Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader was the most important guy in the prequels.
2. The character was exceptionally bland, and not because of the actor, but because of how he was written. In the first film he is just a boring kid, in the second and third film he looks and acts like a bad guy before he is supposed to be a bad guy. His character arc is nearly non-existent and makes no sense.
There are some good points in the film, like the effects (When nobody is sitting down on a couch to talk about the plot, obviously), and I liked the action scenes. Too bad you rarely know what is going on in those scenes, but whatever.
TL;DR:
The films are bad. Not because they couldn't live up to the original films, but because they where just poorly written and directed.
Hey, do you want to watch an old science fiction film were all the things that went wrong with the prequels has been done right? Go check out Things to Come, an adaptation of the H.G. Wells story (With screenplay by him), made in 1937.
Do it now, it's in the public domain so you know how to get it.
Watch episode I, its deadly. As for the others, meh. Watch them to see what all the fuss is about.
I'd say no, they are appallingly bad movies. But, that's merely my opinion. I'm obviosuly right and all, but you might like appallingly bad movies for all I know.
Eh, I think some areas are really improved upon in the prequels, though ultimately they aren't nearly as good. That and you can play a fun game that really works well.
Whenever Anakin says anything ever, imagine somepony else saying the line. I chose Christopher Walken.
Whenever Anakin says anything ever, imagine somepony else saying the line. I chose Christopher Walken.
The acting is terribad, the script is appalling, the directing is so far below par, the mole people are complaining.
But the visuals and the sense of story completion are just so damn nice. So yeah, watch them. You'll enjoy the Order 66 scene.
But the visuals and the sense of story completion are just so damn nice. So yeah, watch them. You'll enjoy the Order 66 scene.
I'm Indifferent on the subject, I havn't watched them since they were released in cinemas, back then they seemed really good (I was a child, everything amazed me) but I'd have to review them again and then get back to you about it, sadly I cba and am too busy with looking at the escapist :3
Well I hated them because the originals were so much better.If the originals never came out, they would probably be B- movies,but they are part of the originals and leave out the better acting, believable characters, and a story that didn't revolve over a whiny Anakin Skywalker. So yeah they are now in my eyes D- minus movies.
The big thing worth talking about here is that the prequels made the series much more child-centric, Lucas no longer being the angst-ridden anti-empire man he was while making the first film, now rather the emperor of his own empire which he sought only to further.
From Jar Jar, to the toned down violence (which he fixed for 3 after realizing that his child audience for the original trilogy had grown up), to Mediclorians or whatever (I refuse to know how to spell that) the whole series lost it's mystical slightly mature tone and went for more of a cartoon sort of feel.
Basically, there are moments worth seeing for each movie, but don't be shocked when seeing those lowers how you look at the whole series.
Myself, I never thought Lucas was that great of a writer or director once I got out of childhood. Once you realize David Lynch almost directed Return of the Jedi, and you start to picture that scene in the tree done by Lynch, Lucas just doesn't look as good. Really Lucas wasn't trying to make anything more than a sci-fi b-movie when he first started the series, so it's not shocking that at the end of the day thats all the star wars series really is, with the fans raising them up to some absurdly high pedestal for nothing.
However, I love what Bioware has done with the property and were it not for KotOR and the newly minted Old Republic, I'm betting Star Wars wouldn't be half as popular among my generation, I certainly wouldn't give the series a second look except for nostalgia were it not for those games drawing me in, and drawing me back again and again.
So: Yeah, watch them if you want.
From Jar Jar, to the toned down violence (which he fixed for 3 after realizing that his child audience for the original trilogy had grown up), to Mediclorians or whatever (I refuse to know how to spell that) the whole series lost it's mystical slightly mature tone and went for more of a cartoon sort of feel.
Basically, there are moments worth seeing for each movie, but don't be shocked when seeing those lowers how you look at the whole series.
Myself, I never thought Lucas was that great of a writer or director once I got out of childhood. Once you realize David Lynch almost directed Return of the Jedi, and you start to picture that scene in the tree done by Lynch, Lucas just doesn't look as good. Really Lucas wasn't trying to make anything more than a sci-fi b-movie when he first started the series, so it's not shocking that at the end of the day thats all the star wars series really is, with the fans raising them up to some absurdly high pedestal for nothing.
However, I love what Bioware has done with the property and were it not for KotOR and the newly minted Old Republic, I'm betting Star Wars wouldn't be half as popular among my generation, I certainly wouldn't give the series a second look except for nostalgia were it not for those games drawing me in, and drawing me back again and again.
So: Yeah, watch them if you want.
