The prequels get too much credit. People have nostalgia glasses on for what were bad movies. The same complaints today about the Disney trilogy (except for the chud complaints) were made about the prequels.
Like how you gonna have Samuel L. Jackson in your movie and have him be completely wooden? There’s multiple academy award winners and nominees in there, yet their acting sucks. It’s because they had a shitty director with Lucas not letting anyone else have input or telling him no.
I was still a kid, but older going into my teens when they came out. I remember the reactions people had, comparing them to the original trilogy. My point is, chuds get themselves worked up over a franchise that’s been objectively terrible as though they were the pinnacle of modern cinema. They need to just shut the fuck up and enjoy the slop.
I was 22 when TPM was released and my friends and I were so excited to go see a new Star Wars movie. The first one came out the year I was born so even though I’m nearly 50 now I never got to see the originals in that form and this was a huge moment for Scifi nerds like us. We got together all the old crew, we had all graduated college at that point and didn’t see each other often and this was like an event. We piled into the theater…
When it ended we all just sat there confused. No one wanted to be the one to admit that the movie fucking sucked. It sucked so hard I was embarrassed to be there. We all looked at each other like uh… was… that good? Finally someone was like “I wanted to leave since the underwater scenes”
The prequels suck. The only reason anyone like them is that they were kids when they came out and it tickles the nostalgia centers of their brains. The next two were slightly better but only very slightly. I will never watch them again.
I am not! I liked it at the time then the prequels killed it for me. The OT is not good on rewatching either lol. I’ve actually never even seen Andor either, who the fuck cares
I don’t know, I’ll defend the prequels a little bit. They’re still bad movies, but they’re bad in a way that was… interesting? Besides pod racing, which rips, they had some actual political ideas and were at least set against a backdrop of a liberal democracy descending into fascism.
A manufactured war creates a crisis and goads a small group of bourgeois senatorial elites to concentrate power in the hands of a unitary executive who uses that power to abolish the liberal democracy. The sequels don’t have anything resembling politics, just vibes.
George absolutely needed reined in but he did have some good ideas in the all the slop. But I’m willing to give him way more slack for modeling the rebels in the OT after the Viet Cong than maybe should.
I loved the movies as a kid and realized years later how bad they were. I’m surprised to see a resurgence of apologia for it because at the time the vitriol towards these films were as great as they are for the current movies.
The prequels get too much credit. People have nostalgia glasses on for what were bad movies. The same complaints today about the Disney trilogy (except for the chud complaints) were made about the prequels.
Like how you gonna have Samuel L. Jackson in your movie and have him be completely wooden? There’s multiple academy award winners and nominees in there, yet their acting sucks. It’s because they had a shitty director with Lucas not letting anyone else have input or telling him no.
I was still a kid, but older going into my teens when they came out. I remember the reactions people had, comparing them to the original trilogy. My point is, chuds get themselves worked up over a franchise that’s been objectively terrible as though they were the pinnacle of modern cinema. They need to just shut the fuck up and enjoy the slop.
I was 22 when TPM was released and my friends and I were so excited to go see a new Star Wars movie. The first one came out the year I was born so even though I’m nearly 50 now I never got to see the originals in that form and this was a huge moment for Scifi nerds like us. We got together all the old crew, we had all graduated college at that point and didn’t see each other often and this was like an event. We piled into the theater…
When it ended we all just sat there confused. No one wanted to be the one to admit that the movie fucking sucked. It sucked so hard I was embarrassed to be there. We all looked at each other like uh… was… that good? Finally someone was like “I wanted to leave since the underwater scenes”
The prequels suck. The only reason anyone like them is that they were kids when they came out and it tickles the nostalgia centers of their brains. The next two were slightly better but only very slightly. I will never watch them again.
> implying that the OT isn’t also nostalgia slop
I am not! I liked it at the time then the prequels killed it for me. The OT is not good on rewatching either lol. I’ve actually never even seen Andor either, who the fuck cares
Yup I came out of that theater like “The pod racing and final duel were the only good parts…what the fuck was that Jar Jar character? Midichlorians?”
I don’t know, I’ll defend the prequels a little bit. They’re still bad movies, but they’re bad in a way that was… interesting? Besides pod racing, which rips, they had some actual political ideas and were at least set against a backdrop of a liberal democracy descending into fascism.
A manufactured war creates a crisis and goads a small group of bourgeois senatorial elites to concentrate power in the hands of a unitary executive who uses that power to abolish the liberal democracy. The sequels don’t have anything resembling politics, just vibes.
George absolutely needed reined in but he did have some good ideas in the all the slop. But I’m willing to give him way more slack for modeling the rebels in the OT after the Viet Cong than maybe should.
I loved the movies as a kid and realized years later how bad they were. I’m surprised to see a resurgence of apologia for it because at the time the vitriol towards these films were as great as they are for the current movies.