I mean I've been online discussing star wars since high school just to set the stage. I've seen EVERY single debate made about the prequels as the movies came out one by one.
Listen, hear me out. They're Lucas' babies, and they have A LOT of cool good elements, but that's all they are. Golden nuggets floating in a sea of shit and that's not what star wars deserved.
Like I said on facebook and a few people agreed with me, the prequels basically are just all the crappy parts of return of the jedi for 3 movies.
Will a little kid care about that? No. Childhood is a great time where EVERYTHING is awesome. I know, I watched shit and turned it into gold through my childhood prism.
The prequels are such a missed opportunity and that's what makes them hard to sit and watch. The biggest issue besides the really terribly written scripts is the giant 10 year gap between TPM and AotC. Because of that, we have to completely re-introduce Anakin's character a second time because we have no idea who he is by the second film.. It's a waste of time for all of us. Keeping him as one guy, one personality from the first film to the second and third would have helped us in feeling sorry for his downfall.
Instead, we get used to and get to know him as a little kid, then it's a giant new different guy we're getting in the second movie to have to accept and forget the original one making his character obsolete... Of all the errors in judgement lucas made in crafting the prequels, this was the worst one. You can't do that. You can't make a giant farting huge leap of time jump like that in between films... It's like if yeah, we skip 20 years in between ANH and Empire and we see what the characters are up to as much older different personalities. For the love of jimmy Cricket.
Meanwhile everybody else we are very much still on the same page with and continue with their story without issue or any jerky nonsense.
I've tried night and day to make the prequels work as star wars films and not some weird star wars What IF stories that they truly are and Yep, they're not working as star wars films and DO NOT belong in the same league as the original 3 classic trilogy. I find it seriously offensive when I see them being forced into the same level as if the movies all sync up and fit, it's like watching a big fat ugly chick struggle to fit in with a bunch of sexy super models, no, just no...
But this is the movies and everything is subjective, maybe the prequels don't work for me, maybe they work for YOU.
I don't know... The thing about it to me is that they really are such fx-shows more than movies and that's what really sucks about them... I mean if Yoda has to have a lightsaber, wouldn't it make more sense that it comes out of his cane that he always carries? I mean it's that level of just not giving a shit that makes the prequels seem like the big slap dash 1st draft material that they are.
But what about my interest in seeing Daniel Logan return as Boba Fett. Like I said, there's some good shit in the prequels. I mean, yeah, it's hard to find the good shit but it's there somewhere. I do like the phantom Menace and how retro star wars it feels and the jedi fight on naboo was and still is the best fight of the prequels and probably whole saga until force awakens sees Luke go toe to toe with Kylo in what most likely will be the best saber duel of the series.
The Emperor's rise to power and everything Ian Mcdirmand did is what saves the PT. If they could just be about his character and his plot to take over the galaxy, they'd be wonderful star wars movies. Instead it's about a bunch of other nonsense that doesn't matter to us as we never truly get to know these characters or care about them much at all.
Star Wars got too big for itself I have to admit. When Lucas makes a star wars movie scared shitless if people will like it and care and go see it, that's when he tries harder. Obviously with nothing but a blank check and full knowledge that he could get away with making garbage and people will see it, we got star wars films that are excessive and bloated and ridiculous over the top CGI spectacles an very little else.
We'll fix that shit do.
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