I'm glad you think that was a nice touch. Darth Vader hulking in that awkward way felt way too ridicolous for me.....NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMafoobula said:
Say something nice about the Star Wars Prequel. If you can.
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Well it did spawn a few Boba Fett characters (I.E- Characters who appear for a short amount of time yet are completely badass). Examples go to General Grievous, Count Dooku and Darth Maul. And despite being a bit flashy and overusing the special effects a bit I will admit that the fight scenes (and the musical score that accompanied them) were awesome.
-Natalie Portman is very attractive.
-Liam Neeson.
-Liam Neeson dies, so that one's canceled out right away.
-Liam Neeson.
-Liam Neeson dies, so that one's canceled out right away.
Lets be honest the first three weren't really all that great in comparison. The only reason you were disappointed is because the story didn't catch up with the times. The prequel films were good by everyone's standards but the fan boys. I'm not saying they were the greatest of all time, but I'm saying look at the old movies and tell me of one stellar performance besides Harrison Ford. Tell me one of those actors that had a future in acting after that. Yes I know Mark Hamill did the Wing Commander games and the voice of the Joker, but I mean acting in a film. No one. They were spectacles of the film industry at the end of the 70's and the prequel films gave you exactly what you wanted, the same thing but with modern special effects. Oh wait but then we discovered that maybe the originals weren't all that great either so now you're pouring all your hate into something that did exactly what you asked for : light sabers, Jedi, galactic struggle, and horrible acting. Hate on haters, hate on.
I only saw stars wars completely like 2 years ago (watched 1-6 in that order, never saw a full movie only clips before). I don't understand the hate with the movies (though yes I agree Jar is annoying), but in accordance with the thread I liked the way Yoda was animated in movies 2 and 3 specifically over the old ones. Also the fight scenes were better.
And direction. Don't forget that actors only do what they are told to do, and the director approves every last bit of EVERYTHING that you see and hear.Sexy Devil said:
Writing and direction killed the experience of the movies for me. Sure, I liked the pew-pew and voom-voom, but the movies were just painfully stupid to watch.
Who ever knew that Aunt Beru was such a looker back in the day? I watched the movies in order and I was thinking to myself "damn girl, you really let yourself go..."
The locales were STUNNING!
SHAFT with a lightsaber!
SCARAMANGA with a lightsaber!
Inspired KOTOR and Battlefront!
The locales were STUNNING!
SHAFT with a lightsaber!
SCARAMANGA with a lightsaber!
Inspired KOTOR and Battlefront!
You see, i know many people (like my dad etc) who watched the original when they were kids, and even they said that back then, they wanted to know what the "Clone Wars" were, so i agree with this, at least they showed what it was about.Kendarik said:
The Visual Effect are stunning, some of the best CGI out there, even by today's standards. Episode 3's space battle is still one of my favourite scenes from any film (but then again i am a sucker for space battles, and you don't see a lot of them in films.)
I thought the Characterization (for most part) was pretty good, i actually don't mind Hayden Christan playing Anakin, sure he seems constantly in a mood, but that's the kinda the point of his character...Jar Jar is a different story, but i let him slide because as a kid he made me laugh xD
The jokes are bad, but hey, there are FAR WORSE out there (see Revenge of the Fallen, Mudflap and Skids *shudders*)
To be honest, i don;t see why they get so much hate, how can 3 films make people so angry? If you don;t like simply ignore them.
Ahh But the Storm Troopers we know, actually aren't clones, if we go by What Battlefront 2 tells us.Tar Palantir said:The Clone Troopers are competent, but they are on "our side" almost the entire time, and only turn "evil" in time to deliver the doom we are all expecting, based on what we know of the Original Trilogy. No, basically nothing has changed, the Original Stormtroopers fill the same role of the Battle Droids, useless enemies (only the Battle Droids never met the Ewoks).....that really kills the tension.TheKasp said:Just for the laughs I imagine that the Empire would never be able to hold the power if they would rely on battle droids, the only thing even more incompetent than the Stormtroopers from the original movies!Saltyk said:
This is actually a big plus on the side of the prequels: The clone troopers seem to be competent, even competent enough to wipe out most of the jedi. The original Stormtroopers got defeated by teddy bears with stones and sticks!
That and the fact that the battles involve Droids and Clones.....they are not real people, no1 is going to mourn then when they die, so why should I care about the battle sequences? Couldn't Stormtroopers just be normal people enrolled in the army? The whole Clones subplot has no importance anyway, so they might have just skipped it.
Sometime later the Clones pretty much become replaced with trained troops from other worlds.
When people first started saying that, i kept watching the films but couldn't hear where it was saidDopi said:
I then realised i misunderstood the Emperor, I heard: "I'M BREATHING AGAIN! ARGHHHHHHHHHH!" When in fact he said Unlimited Power :')
It actually took me a few months before i realised :$
two of them were good.
Episode two is let down by poor storytelling, awful acting, and unconvincing effects.
Episode three has some down moments (NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, etc) but really is about as good a film as the orignals.
Episode one had a crappy child actor (jake lloyd) and natalie portman was still pre-talent (yes, face it, shes a good actress now. I still dont like her, but credit where its due) but otherwise the movie is solid. Excellent effects, and a soft story to set up the action.
THE STAR WARS FILMS ARE (with the possible exception of episode five) TERRIBLE MOVIES. They are only as good as their effects and whether you are willing to accept what happens on screen as entertainment.
I'm sick of people saying that the prequels suck, because they really dont, except episode two.
Yes, jarjar and the ewoks are stupid, but they work in the setting.
And this bullshit about jarjar being racist is plain idiocy. Why, because of that stupid "meesa, yoosa, weesa" crap? what black people do you think talk like that? Maybe you're trying to say it sounds like "yessah massa" and other blackface-era negroisms? it doesnt. It sounds like a stupid way to make the character sound non-human.
The only legitimate complaint anyone can register against the prequels is that they aren't as imaginative as the originals, but even then, bugfuck crazy lucas was already imagining his ridiculous cartoon world in the seventies, he just didn't know how to make it.
Episode two is let down by poor storytelling, awful acting, and unconvincing effects.
Episode three has some down moments (NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, etc) but really is about as good a film as the orignals.
Episode one had a crappy child actor (jake lloyd) and natalie portman was still pre-talent (yes, face it, shes a good actress now. I still dont like her, but credit where its due) but otherwise the movie is solid. Excellent effects, and a soft story to set up the action.
THE STAR WARS FILMS ARE (with the possible exception of episode five) TERRIBLE MOVIES. They are only as good as their effects and whether you are willing to accept what happens on screen as entertainment.
I'm sick of people saying that the prequels suck, because they really dont, except episode two.
Yes, jarjar and the ewoks are stupid, but they work in the setting.
And this bullshit about jarjar being racist is plain idiocy. Why, because of that stupid "meesa, yoosa, weesa" crap? what black people do you think talk like that? Maybe you're trying to say it sounds like "yessah massa" and other blackface-era negroisms? it doesnt. It sounds like a stupid way to make the character sound non-human.
The only legitimate complaint anyone can register against the prequels is that they aren't as imaginative as the originals, but even then, bugfuck crazy lucas was already imagining his ridiculous cartoon world in the seventies, he just didn't know how to make it.
Something good about the prequels?
*insert the sounds of a hard drive spinning and churning for a good, long while*
Erm... It's got Sam Jackson as Mace Windu? The one Jedi who probably has a leather-lined lightsaber grip with "Bad Ass Motherf*cker" stitched on it?
*insert the sounds of a hard drive spinning and churning for a good, long while*
Erm... It's got Sam Jackson as Mace Windu? The one Jedi who probably has a leather-lined lightsaber grip with "Bad Ass Motherf*cker" stitched on it?
Well y'all, that's exactly the sort of thing I was asking to hear. How approachable it is.TheKasp said:
It sounds like, despite being 4,000 or at least 3,700 years before everyone you know in the franchise was born, they do a lot to make it very approachable. Thanks, I'm considering the new Star Wars games more than before. I don't know how they'd manage to make it not feel like a completely alien culture to Star Wars fans like me, but apparently they've tried.
While we're at it, what's so great about the original trilogy? Harrison Ford? Lightsaber fights that look like old men fighting with their canes? Leia's slave outfit from epi-yeah, gotta be that. Episode 1 wasn't fantastic, but other than that, Star Wars is Star Wars (except for the cartoon which I hate) (hate hate hate hate HAAATE).
the fight choreography was pretty cool, even if they didn't have a fraction of the tension and suspense as in the originals
Sam Jackson, Liam Neeson, Ewen McGregor, Christopher Lee.
They're fun to riff.
Darth Maul was cool, but would have been better if he didn't go out like a *****
Sam Jackson, Liam Neeson, Ewen McGregor, Christopher Lee.
They're fun to riff.
Darth Maul was cool, but would have been better if he didn't go out like a *****
I actually like The Phantom Menace despite its flaws. Liam Neeson was awesome as Qui-Gon, the podrace was exhilarating, and the lightsaber duel had impressive choreography (though it still comes across as a bit too clean). I also think Jar Jar gets too much flak. He simply provided the comic relief role that C-3PO filled for the classic trilogy.
It's when you get to Episodes II and III that I started to have my falling out with Star Wars. The more I watched them the more my dislike grew. Still, they have a few good moments.
Episode II had Jango Fett, who was awesome. He's certainly more entertaining than his son, who spent 95% of the classic trilogy just standing around doing absolutely nothing. It was neat to see a non-Force user hold his own against the Jedi using his wits and gadgets. The diner scene with Obi-Wan and Dax was also pretty neat. I liked the camaraderie between the two and how they maintained a level of respect for one another despite their radically different professions. Oh yeah, and there was also this:
Episode III had Emperor Palpatine hamming it up, which was entertaining in its own right. You can tell Ian McDiarmid had a lot of fun reprising the role. I also thought the "Order 66" scene was very powerful (though John Williams' score may have played a large role in that).
It's when you get to Episodes II and III that I started to have my falling out with Star Wars. The more I watched them the more my dislike grew. Still, they have a few good moments.
Episode II had Jango Fett, who was awesome. He's certainly more entertaining than his son, who spent 95% of the classic trilogy just standing around doing absolutely nothing. It was neat to see a non-Force user hold his own against the Jedi using his wits and gadgets. The diner scene with Obi-Wan and Dax was also pretty neat. I liked the camaraderie between the two and how they maintained a level of respect for one another despite their radically different professions. Oh yeah, and there was also this:
Episode III had Emperor Palpatine hamming it up, which was entertaining in its own right. You can tell Ian McDiarmid had a lot of fun reprising the role. I also thought the "Order 66" scene was very powerful (though John Williams' score may have played a large role in that).
1 and 2 had cool saber fights (2 had little else), podrace was awesome, and ROTS is the best of them. Aside from the poor portrayal of Anakin until the end, I have no major problems with 3. It also had the best saber duel in the prequel trilogy.