Say something nice about the Star Wars Prequel. If you can.
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Obi Wan and Qui Gon vs Darth Maul has to be the best Lightsaber fight in a Starwars film.
Awesome music.
Awesome stunts.
And it let us see the action instead of spending most of the fight watching the fighters faces like every other prequel saber fight did.
Awesome music.
Awesome stunts.
And it let us see the action instead of spending most of the fight watching the fighters faces like every other prequel saber fight did.
Really my biggest complaint about the SW preqeuls was the acting...most specifically the 3 douches they got to play Anikan, none of which could act their way out of a pre-school Happy Fun Time skit.
Acting aside though, the thing I actually enjoyed most about the Prequels was the combat. Obi and Qui'gon (spelling) vs Darth Maul is one of my favorite lightsaber fights of all time. The General Grievous fight, while disappointing seeing as how he was death incarnate in the Cartoon Network series, was still a good one. I also really enjoyed Yoda vs The Emperor, I thought that fight was very interesting in that it was unique: neither of them are known for their lightsaber skills, but rather their mastery of the force, so I thought it was neat to see a battle that revolved almost entirely around the use of the force. And, of course, the climactic battle between Obi and Ani (minus the dialogue) was a good epic fight.
So yeah, there's mmy bit of praise for the prequels. If you ask me, the combat was pretty damn good. Problem is the stories were based less on the combat and more on the crappy love story.
Acting aside though, the thing I actually enjoyed most about the Prequels was the combat. Obi and Qui'gon (spelling) vs Darth Maul is one of my favorite lightsaber fights of all time. The General Grievous fight, while disappointing seeing as how he was death incarnate in the Cartoon Network series, was still a good one. I also really enjoyed Yoda vs The Emperor, I thought that fight was very interesting in that it was unique: neither of them are known for their lightsaber skills, but rather their mastery of the force, so I thought it was neat to see a battle that revolved almost entirely around the use of the force. And, of course, the climactic battle between Obi and Ani (minus the dialogue) was a good epic fight.
So yeah, there's mmy bit of praise for the prequels. If you ask me, the combat was pretty damn good. Problem is the stories were based less on the combat and more on the crappy love story.Some of the casting was excellent (some). The lightsaber duels were more dynamic and interesting to watch. And as always Williams makes an awesome score.
The special effects and soundtrack were extremely well done.
The 3rd movie was decent and I enjoyed watching Anakin's and the Republic's downfall.
The acting was so bad that it made good comedy and offers up plenty of bad quotable lines.
The 3rd movie was decent and I enjoyed watching Anakin's and the Republic's downfall.
The acting was so bad that it made good comedy and offers up plenty of bad quotable lines.
They gave to the children of the original Star Wars generation, what Star Wars gave to the original Star Wars generation.
And they had amazing light saber fights and introduced interesting characters.
And they had amazing light saber fights and introduced interesting characters.
Let's see...
Ewan MacGregor, General Grievous, fucking sweet combat droids, dual-bladed lightsabers, and... Clones.
Ewan MacGregor, General Grievous, fucking sweet combat droids, dual-bladed lightsabers, and... Clones.
Liam Neeson.
The lightsaber fight between Obi-Wan and Anakin at the end of RotS.
And the fact that Samuel L. Jackson told George Lucas that he would only play Mace Windu if he had a purple lightsaber.
Other than that...
The lightsaber fight between Obi-Wan and Anakin at the end of RotS.
And the fact that Samuel L. Jackson told George Lucas that he would only play Mace Windu if he had a purple lightsaber.
Other than that...
They really did have some badass actors. Looked nice too, and RotS was actually a pretty good film.
It took me a while to come up with an answer.
I thought some of the music was nice, particularly in ROTS.
Even then, though, my opinion of most of the tracks has been tainted by the fact that I will forever associate them with George Lucas' three-stage fecal blast-off into a galaxy of rancor shit.
And the very, very beginning of the Anakin vs. Obi-Wan fight had a rare bit of emotion. Once again, the music did a lot to facilitate this, IMHO.
But then Ewan and Hayden started swinging glowsticks at each other and it became just another "Epic" Prequel Lazersword Duel.
I thought some of the music was nice, particularly in ROTS.
Even then, though, my opinion of most of the tracks has been tainted by the fact that I will forever associate them with George Lucas' three-stage fecal blast-off into a galaxy of rancor shit.
And the very, very beginning of the Anakin vs. Obi-Wan fight had a rare bit of emotion. Once again, the music did a lot to facilitate this, IMHO.
But then Ewan and Hayden started swinging glowsticks at each other and it became just another "Epic" Prequel Lazersword Duel.
It's really not that hard to think of anything (imo). Let us see here... Pod Racers, Crazy awesome lightsaber duels (Attack of the Clones lightsaber duel was "meh" though), the modern effects are always nice, the music! (Duel Of Fates ftw!), most battles seemed A LOT more intense, the "roger roger" from the droids seemed cool to me when I was younger (still kind of is), and finally Natalie Portman. She's just so damn smexy! Can't really go wrong there.
I honestly never really hated the pre-quels, and no I don't hate Jar Jar ( He's definitely not my favorite character or even relatively close though...) In my opinion, I think people got maybe a little TO attached to the originals, and were not really willing to accept different ideas or changes that came with the pre-quels (just a thought).
I honestly never really hated the pre-quels, and no I don't hate Jar Jar ( He's definitely not my favorite character or even relatively close though...) In my opinion, I think people got maybe a little TO attached to the originals, and were not really willing to accept different ideas or changes that came with the pre-quels (just a thought).
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that not only was the political aspect of the prequel trilogy handled masterfully, but it was far more involving than similar material seen in the first three films (Calrissian's bargain with Vader, the intricacies of Jabba's throne room). Perhaps my feelings towards it are slanted by my interest in real-life politics, but I thrill to the idea of seeing the inner workings of a space-based polity. And that's not just limited to Star Wars; my favorite Trek movie, The Undiscovered Country, opens with a lengthy roundtable session that could have come straight out of George Lucas' playbook.
Quite a few of the criticisms one reads about The Phantom Menace rail against the inclusion of the convoluted plot about the taxation of interstellar trade routes. I enjoyed it in 1999 and I do to this day. It's a real motivation for what happens in the film, as against the relatively hackneyed notion that the villain does what he does because he's a villain. It makes perfect sense and it sucked me in as a moviegoer and a Star Wars fan.
... Too bad the rest of the film, Darth Maul excepted, didn't come close to capturing my interest in the same way
Quite a few of the criticisms one reads about The Phantom Menace rail against the inclusion of the convoluted plot about the taxation of interstellar trade routes. I enjoyed it in 1999 and I do to this day. It's a real motivation for what happens in the film, as against the relatively hackneyed notion that the villain does what he does because he's a villain. It makes perfect sense and it sucked me in as a moviegoer and a Star Wars fan.
... Too bad the rest of the film, Darth Maul excepted, didn't come close to capturing my interest in the same way
Have to agree with this. All this pathetic bitching about Jar Jar really is dramatically overblown.SurfinTaxt said:
I agree with more or less all of these statement, but I have to agree that Vader's Big No at the end of Episode 3 paled in comparison to the Novelisation's ending, wherein he attempts to kill Palpatine in his rage and grief, but is no longer powerful enough to do so, forcing him to submit to being Palpatine's apprentice, since he has nobody else left in the Galaxy and he is too vain to just die.
Now THAT is an ending.
Lian Neeson was in it, I like Liam Neeson, Liam Neeson was awesome as Qui Gon-Jinn, Qui Gon-Jinn is one of my favourite Star Wars characters. Peace.