![]() ![]() When looking at the numbers, the prequel series is 33.3% kind of good, as agreed upon by the Star Wars community, so that provokes (not begs) the question, why are people so attached to this series? People that favor the Prequels are not simply operating on irony, their love is legitimate. Plus its Chinese translation is a banger. Christensen captured the demonic energy of a young sith-lord through his facial expressions alone, and some scenes aged well, like, really well. Meanwhile Episode III still stands as the film that most fans can kind of agree on being at least sort of good. It had a cool scene of the clone troopers marching, and Yoda flipping around like a 13 year old who had his first Red Bull, but not much else. Most scenes felt stiff as actors started the scene sitting on a green-screen set, before ending them by standing on a green-screen set. The only real redeeming moments of the film came from the pod-race which was the greatest decision to forgo background music in cinema history since Heat, and the overstated bombast of Darth Maul vs Qui-Gon Jin and Obi-Wan Kenobi, something that looked more like an NJPW Super Juniors match with swords than anything Star Wars fans were accustommed to seeing.Įpisode II weathered the tides thanks to Hayden Christensen becoming thee image of Anakin Skywalker, the introduction of Christopher Lee as Count Dooku, and the downplaying of aspects Episode I that everyone hated (Jar-Jar), but never felt like a remarkable work of cinema in the way that Episode V did. Jake Lloyd just never had the acting chops he needed. The senate scenes were as exciting as a 30 second clip of C-SPAN from the 90s. The beginning lacked the gravitas that it needed. With that said though, there has to be something more than just ironic hipster camp that draws Star Wars fans to episodes I, II, and III.Įpisode I is most infamous for being the movie that ruined the franchise, with so many things going wrong that anyone can point to their favorite issue and correctly identify it as an abomination of cinema. Watching my Alma Mater get blown out by Nebraska last year was enjoyable in a macabre and grotesque sort of way. Okay, sure, you believe in the basic principle, that “the franchise had some good things” but which denomination do you belong to? Are you an Original Trilogy purist who believes that every decision George Lucas made after 1985 exists as a revisionist cancer on the rest of the series? Are you a Disney Revivalist, on the edge of your seat waiting for the next episode of mini-series to eek its way onto Disney+ while you constantly insist that anyone slightly implying that the Sequel Trilogy is a bit uninspired has too much internalized sexism or racism for their opinion to ever matter? Or are you a Prequel Boy that incessantly posts memes to Reddit and 4chan to harvest some sick upvotes and (you)’s?Īmong the members of the Star Wars community, it is commonly agreed upon that the prequels are not really good movies, even by fans of the prequels. Calling yourself a Star Wars fans these days is like calling yourself a Christian.
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