#1808

still need to see solo, dammit i knew there was one i was forgetting

i didn’t rate the prequel trilogy, altho i like darth maul, should have been the main villain all the way imo :thinking:

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#1809

Rogue One managed to get a really great scene with Darth Vader. Revenge of the Sith managed to turn the creation of Darth Vader, one of the greatest film villains ever, into a joke/meme. Anyone who thinks the prequels are better than the latest films is nuts.

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#1810

someone made a good point that the prequel trilogy is so lazy even interiors are CGI’d, so like when a character gets bad news they can still only walk at a snail’s pace to go let another character know because there’s only ever 10ft of green screen to work with lol, it’s true too

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#1811

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#1812

there were more real models used in the prequels than the originals

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#1813

for real? but how?

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#1814

Wildest take on the Revenge of the Sith Wikipedia page

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Just want to add the biggest “citation needed”

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#1815

nah, I much prefer the prequels, the sequels are completely unnecessary and make the original conclusion much less satisfying. the prequels have some clunky dialogue, but the overall narrative is solid, there is some good action, and it feels like it expanded the universe (sequels make it seem much smaller). they are by no means great films, but I would take them over the new ones any day

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#1817

tbt

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#1818

Extremely rude to be dismissive of others opinions like this imo

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#1819

i bloody love stuff like this

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#1820

Have they seen episode 9?

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#1821

very good point, iirc wasn’t empire strikes back ragged on att until the 3rd one came out and it was only later everyone said it was great

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#1822

Yeah I agree there was good stuff in them. Now we’ve got past the whole, “they ruined my childhood!” takes that were dominant at the time it’s not a controversial opinion that they had a lot of decent ideas and individual scenes. But the execution was so weird and wrong headed. Beyond the rubbish scripts the trouble was imo that Lucas seemed more fussed with Lucasfilm being at the cutting edge of visual trickery than he was with making stuff look, y’know, good. It all looks weirder with each passing year, and the stuff he insisted on adding to the original series now often looks more badly dated than the original fx.

The trouble with the new trilogy is we’ve had one director who wanted to play things incredibly safe and one determined to tip over the apple cart. We’re never gonna agree on which was the right approach but I think we can both agree having them both doing their thing back to back hasn’t quite worked. Unless the next film ties it all together. Seems a stretch but tbf I’m excited to see how it all shakes out

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#1823

This is the Star Wars thread! We can’t have reasonable points of view in here!

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#1824

ONLY A SITH DEALS IN ABSOLUTES

all the prequel films are bad films made with huge imagination. All the new trilogy films are good films made with minimal imagination. Basically depends on if you want a MasterChef level menu made by an amateur or a Margherita pizza at the top of its game.
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#1825

TFA just about scrapes a good film for me, some might argue that TLJ is way too long with a pointless side plot, with the most tedious central chase, for it to be considered a good film

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#1826

Wait… are you saying you DON’T rate TLJ??

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#1827

I think the prequels are better inasmuch as they are actually unique and memorable, the outcome of giving a giant hermit manchild complete carte blanche over billions of dollars’ worth of content and logistics. As opposed to machine-made by a factory complex intent on disgorging as much committee-tested product into the market as possible before its nostalgia value has been completely exhausted. TLJ had a halting go at breaking out of the self-imposed strictures governing the product, the board will have noted the shit-fit the fans threw over it, and they won’t be doing that again - safe and slavishly deferential to the originals will be the rule from here on out.

They aren’t good, but I think I’d actually prefer to watch Phantom Menace again over Force Awakens because I’ll get a good chuckle out of the former whilst the latter will slip right through me like a plate of microplastics.

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