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You dont get the hate for the movies?
Poorly acted main character - yes child version and adult version, shit ass villian in 2 and partially 3, racist caricature of bojangles in 1 and 2, padme dies of "sadness", the "objectively good" jedi gamble a childs life, fucking star wipes for every damn scene change, poorly fleshed out bad guys in 1, stupid-ass midichlorians and these are just off the top of my head.
And lets not forget george lucas forgoing practical effects for cg that did not age well at all.
There are plenty of good reasons to not like the prequel trilogy and it isnt just "cUz InCeLS" lame ass shit.
There’s a weird subset of people that got introduced to these films through the memes that didn’t watch the films without that. So when it’s not The Room level bad they think it’s okay. Not realizing these were major blockbusters at the time with insane marketing. Expectations are a bit different lol.
After watching the sequels I personally appreciate the attempt at telling a different story and if some of the motifs were fleshed out they could have been real cool (like the Jedi being more of the bad guys in the beginning). But they didn’t and the execution, for all of the reasons you mentioned, is atrocious.
And yeah the amount of racist caricatures in the films is absurd.
I think there's a bigger demographic of people who just saw these movies as kids when their standards were lower and are too blinded by nostalgia to see their flaws. I remember really liking them when I was 8 years old, (especially RotS) and I'm sure I'm not the only one. These days I'm much more critical of course, but some part of me can't help but admire the things this very flawed trilogy got right.
I'm not going to defend the very racially coded aliens though. That shit's cringe as fuck.
RotS is truly good unless lone delivrty is everything to you
I saw the movies when I was a child. I remember pod racing, cool red guy with horns and lightsabers. Shit was cool, I liked it.
Now I haven't seen the movies since then and I can't bring myself to. Tried to watch the new Disney ones and they were just boring as fuck.
I would agree with your theory about different expectations.
I recently watched Game of Thrones and I was confused about all the hate I've remember when the show aired.
I wathced the show for the first time and didn't have all the same expectations as someone who was hyped for it when it aired. And I just liked it, yes the end felt rushed, but it's nothing to riot about. It wasn't bad and I was in the similar boat with this show as with Star Wars.
Remember the 3 year run up where they screened the remastered originals? Yeah, the hype was at such high levels after starving every one out 20 years that the only option was disappointment.
I remember the McDonalds Monopoly game where you collected episode 1 characters and every restaurant had a Jar Jar Binks cutout proudly on display (these all went away for episode 2 and 3 lol)
Binks only makes sense if you know how greedy Lucas was. The reason he let the ip linger so long is because he had total rights to merchandising. Toy sales never faltered so Lucas never had to touch it. Binks was an attempt at guaranteeing and maximizing toy sales.
The world we better off if he just bought sesame street, instead.
You forgot Jarjar was actually a sith and Lucas pussied out due to fan backlash
Would have been a great reveal too.
Please, tell us how you really feel about the prequels.
Exactly the prequels and the originals are shit. The new trilogy is where it's at! Great writing, amazing actors, better CGI.
Wait what...noo!
CGI is part of why the sequels are shit.
No, the CGI is what saved it.