apart from some palpatine and dueling scenes...pretty much the whole thing.
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Well the palpatine vs windy duel could have been a lot better....except for the lightning messing palpatine up scene. Man I can't believe that was almost 10 years ago
I was thinking the same thing about it almost being 10 years old the other day, hardly seems like a day has passed.
What I didn't like? Well I really think they used way too much CGI, and in my opinion I thought the dialogue was just awful...oh and I didn't like Jar Jar very much. God was he annoying!
Did anyone notice how when Padme fell out of the ship she told the clone trooper "we've got to get to that hanger." How did she know Anakin & Obi-Wan landed in a hanger? Is she maybe force sensitive or was this just another gaping plot-hole devised by Uncle George?
I swear that guy has zero right breathing the same air as I do.
The political plot, Palpatine's rise to power is the only thing I really enjoy about them. Maybe someday I'll do some edition of a single "flashback" episode to see it before the OT, with a little documental-like minutes about the war, and the nice way Palpatine uses everyone.
But I would love to do it with phisical film, not on a Hard disk, to get the satisfaction to cut and then step over the Annakin and jarjar parts.
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For the Empire, against the rebel alliance.
"Good" is a point of view...The Sith and the Jedi are similar in almost every way.
I don't hate the prequels like a lot of people seem to. I enjoyed them all in the theater and actually thought Revenge of the Sith was almost on par with the OT. However, there are a few things that really bug me about them
1. Of course Jar Jar Binks. He shouldn't have been in the movies period. Comic relief should be both likable and funny like C-3PO was. Jar Jar is neither.
2. Anakin accidentally destroying a Federation starship at the end of Episode I. In fact, Jake "TurboMan" Lloyd should have never been cast in that role. I didn't have any issues with Haydn Christiansen.
3. The constant, forced cramming of OT elements that were not essential to the story being told in the PT. We didn't need to see Chewbacca on Kashyyyk, or a young Greedo, or know that Boba Fett was a clone of Jengo Fett. We didn't need to know that Anakin built C-3PO. We didn't need to see the early plans for the Death Star on Geonosis or even the beginning stages of construction in Episode 3. This, in my opinion, was the absolute biggest flaw in the prequel trilogy.
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That's it? 3 things? What sort of food do you eat that makes you forgiving of cinematic sewage?
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The three things I listed were the biggest, glaring flaws in the prequels in my opinion. Of course there are other problems with them. They aren't perfect movies. The original trilogy isn't perfect either. There are multiple cringe-worthy moments in A New Hope.
I agree with some of these points. I cut jar jar some slack as I ignored him and focused on the rest of the movie. However, I thought it was cool that they showed the building of the Death Star in ep2. Just unfortunate that they didn't show just a little bit more about aside from the ending scenes....
Those three are "the most glaring"? Those three things? They're all bad, but as films, those three things are just three spectators in an entire stadium of problems. And the noise from that stadium is deafening.
"Most glaring three..." Did you only see a select 20 minute clip of the prequels mashed together?
Aren't you only 12?
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I wonder if any of these glaring problems wouldn't otherwise be "glaring" if the prequels didn't have the original trilogy to be compared to.
Just sayin...
I really feel for the Farrelly Brothers. I got to see a rough cut of Dumb and Dumber To in March. It was a good little movie that will otherwise be masked by individuals who are going to compare every single frame of the sequel to the original.
No, they wouldn't be. But the PT is three things: 1.) a bad Star Wars series, 2.) a bad prequel series, and 3.) a bad film series. Take away the OT (and still somehow have the PT, but hypotheticals and all that...) and you only remove the first two. The PT would still be a bad film series, regardless of it's status as "Star Wars Prequels."
There are people who bad mouth anything for any reason. The trick is to sift through "the haters" and come to a genuine understanding of why something is disliked. The PT has been analyzed to death over the last 10+ years, it's tremendous failings have been dissected and preserved all over the internet. It was a bad series for a reason. Many reasons.
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