Originally posted by Rebel95
I liked the PT more. The sequel trilogy is just too... I wanna say childish? Almost like it was made more for a young audience than us older Star Wars fans. Which makes sense for Disney financially, but is disappointing. Not to say I don't enjoy the new films, they just could be so much better.
as an old-old fan, from my point of view the PT fit the same description. childish and overly concerned with hooking the current generation of kids from toddlers to 20-somethings. however i saw RotJ when i was 9, so i wasn't particulary bothered by the childish things like ewoks, tarzan-calling, and burp gags. from a fresh perspective i might call the whole thing childish.
Originally posted by Bashar Teg
as an old-old fan, from my point of view the PT fit the same description. childish and overly concerned with hooking the current generation of kids from toddlers to 20-somethings. however i saw RotJ when i was 9, so i wasn't particulary bothered by the childish things like ewoks, tarzan-calling, and burp gags. from a fresh perspective i might call the whole thing childish.
Originally posted by Bashar TegYou are 44 now, really? Bloody hell, I remember when you were 32 and you used to give me shit for being late 30's hahahaha funny stuff Bash. It was always childish I saw A new hope when it came out and I was in Primary school. Come on RotJ has ****ing soft toys running round.
as an old-old fan, from my point of view the PT fit the same description. childish and overly concerned with hooking the current generation of kids from toddlers to 20-somethings. however i saw RotJ when i was 9, so i wasn't particulary bothered by the childish things like ewoks, tarzan-calling, and burp gags. from a fresh perspective i might call the whole thing childish.
Originally posted by Putinbot1
You are 44 now, really? Bloody hell, I remember when you were 32 and you used to give me shit for being late 30's hahahaha funny stuff Bash. It was always childish I saw A new hope when it came out and I was in Primary school. Come on RotJ has ****ing soft toys running round.
43 at the moment. 🙂 even in ESB, the most adult-oriented episode, one of the stars was a muppet ffs.
Originally posted by Bashar TegTrue that is.
43 at the moment. 🙂 even in ESB, the most adult-oriented episode, one of the stars was a muppet ffs.
43 will go so fast... 44 faster etc, but you're seeing it first hand and know it already. 29, the crazy thing is the time from episode 6 to episode 1 is about the same as episode 3 to now give or take and I guarantee episode 1 doesn't seem as long ago for you as RotJ did when 1 came out. Ha, we are all geezers now.
Originally posted by Bashar Teg
imo the PT had the potential to be far greater and fell completely short, while the NT is better than i had anticipated; perhaps because of my drastically lowered expectations after the PT. whatever the case i like the new trilogy much more, but i have no motivation to highlight and defend it's merits since i didn't like it that much. to put it another way: if these were the first films released after the OT, i would probably have a less favorable opinion of them. yet currently i find TLJ to be a massive breath of fresh air.
I agree with this. The prequel trilogy is only watchable because of the hilarious memes that have sprung up from them. And because Revenge of the Sith is pretty good. Phantom Menace and AotC are both borderline unwatchable, imo.
On the other hand, I've enjoyed both the ST films so far.
I do think PT had better world building, though. That's something the new trilogy has been lacking overall.
Other than Jar Jar being a tad annoying and some pacing issues, I've never understood the hate for TPM. It's really not that bad at all. Although ROTS is my favorite, of the 3 prequels, TPM feels the most "OT" like to me in terms of "look" because it was actually shot on film.
Each of the prequels had something special to me. TPM had the best "look" AOTC had the best soundtrack, and ROTS had the best pacing. There are elements of brilliance in all 3 movies, that just fell a bit short in terms of comparisons to the OT.