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Prequeldome Guidelines: 1. Don't respond to effortposts with shitposts 2. Don't bring up drama from other threads/forums into here. Exception being that you have concrete proof that somebody is a nazi. 3. Keep insults down to the level of "lol you have bad taste" Original post: Memes and contrarians trying to earn their platinum movie analysis challenge trophies have tried to rehab these absolutely terrible films but let us recall that in fact, they are bad. Let us then also list all the bad decisions made in the PT, I'll go first. Number One: Starting with Anakin as a child instead of an adult Number Two: Every casting decision aside from Ewan Somebody fucked around with this message at 09:22 on Feb 2, 2020 |
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theyre actually goodzoux posted:Number One: Starting with Anakin as a child instead of an adult theyre actually good
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Jan 22, 2020 17:18
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i will be doing this for every post in this thread
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Jan 22, 2020 17:19
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They’re good op
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Jan 22, 2020 17:19
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Unbelievable
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Jan 22, 2020 17:21
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post in this thread about the immortal truth that the prequels are good and the sequels are bad more and more people are saying this
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Jan 22, 2020 17:22
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It's over OP, we have the high ground
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Jan 22, 2020 17:25
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I'm not talking about the versions of the prequels that exist in your minds that were created by literal hundreds of hours of posting in SW threads, I mean the movies as they appear on the screen, sorry for being unclear.
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Jan 22, 2020 17:26
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they are even better, because i get to watch them instead of just post about them
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Jan 22, 2020 17:29
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I hadn’t watched them for years before like 2012 and slowly grew into the popular consensus that they were kind of badly made, they had too much cgi or whatever, the romance was lame, it sucked that the Jedi were terrible people and mostly acted like they were superheroes, et cetera Then I watched them again and they were actually good, and many of the “problems” are actually the point of the movies
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Jan 22, 2020 17:29
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Well then you are lost.
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Jan 22, 2020 17:33
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zoux posted:Number One: Starting with Anakin as a child instead of an adult Number Three: Literally every scene in the movies except for the space battle at the start of Revenge of the Sith and, in a distant second, the big fights at the end of Attack of the Clones, maybe.
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Jan 22, 2020 17:34
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ItBreathes posted:Number Three: Literally every scene in the movies except for the space battle at the start of Revenge of the Sith and, in a distant second, the big fights at the end of Attack of the Clones, maybe. theyre actually good
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Jan 22, 2020 17:34
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Case in point child Anakin, the thrust of the story is that he's an innocent ruined by an institution indifferent to his suffering because they only view him as a weapon, and that's ruined if he starts off as a brooding teen anti-hero
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Jan 22, 2020 17:34
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Zoran posted:Case in point child Anakin, the thrust of the story is that he's an innocent ruined by an institution indifferent to his suffering because they only view him as a weapon, and that's ruined if he starts off as a brooding teen anti-hero Oh well those are the only two options THe brooding teen anti-hero stuff is also a huge mistake. There is no world in which whiny "I HATE YOU" Anakin is believably James Earl Jones Darth Vader one day later.
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Jan 22, 2020 17:36
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The "problems" were that they were bad movies, with bad acting and even worse writing. Qui Gon was somehow probably the best, or at least most consistent, part.
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Jan 22, 2020 17:36
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"Nooooooooooooooooooo" Least convincing origin story ever.
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Jan 22, 2020 17:37
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zoux posted:Oh well those are the only two options it's also ruined if he's like a 20 year old badass or whatever alternative you’re imagining
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Jan 22, 2020 17:38
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The space battle at the start of RotS might be a high point in the series though. It was awesome. And a grossly misleading trailer.
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Jan 22, 2020 17:38
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the most hated prequel moments are hated not because they are bad but because they are true. like arch liberal Padmé instantly excusing the broken young man who once saved her home world when he admits he murdered all those savages for revenge.
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Jan 22, 2020 17:40
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Zoran posted:the most hated prequel moments are hated not because they are bad but because they are true. like arch liberal Padmé instantly excusing the broken young man who once saved her home world when he admits he murdered all those savages for revenge. lol at thinking George Lucas, who made the movies because he wanted to do CGI bullshit, is at all that subtle "Well from my point of view the Jedi are evil" just extremely sublime dialog there No no, it was a GOOD directorial choice to make sure that every performance was utterly flat and without affect, that shows how the proletariat has been "emotionally flattened" by capitalism, represented by Trade Wars started by Bug People
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Jan 22, 2020 17:41
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darth vader is a quadruple amputee who cant breathe well, if anything he wasnt pathetic enough in the prequels
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Jan 22, 2020 17:42
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zoux posted:Number Two: Every casting decision aside from Ewan ?????????????????????? Come on, be serious. The casting was (mostly) fine.
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Jan 22, 2020 17:42
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If you have a problem with casting Christopher Lee in a Star Wars then space opera is probably not the genre for you.
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Jan 22, 2020 17:45
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:If you have a problem with casting Christopher Lee in a Star Wars then space opera is probably not the genre for you. Count, er, Dooku? The problem is casting an nonagenarian in a role that requires action.
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Jan 22, 2020 17:45
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zoux posted:lol at thinking George Lucas, who made the movies because he wanted to do CGI bullshit, is at all that subtle I know you live in a meme world where every performance was utterly flat and without affect, but in the films that are real, Hayden’s Anakin is among the most dynamically emotional characters in the saga. He has raw outbursts among people who are much more refined and controlled, which they often find very disturbing
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Jan 22, 2020 17:46
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Zoran posted:I know you live in a meme world where every performance was utterly flat and without affect, but in the films that are real, Hayden’s Anakin is among the most dynamically emotional characters in the saga. He has raw outbursts among people who are much more refined and controlled, which they often find very disturbing This is gaslighting
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Jan 22, 2020 17:47
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I don't even like the prequels but lol at the idea that prequel-likers are just "memeing" when like 90% of any prequel complaints on the internet are just badly recycled RLM catchphrases
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Jan 22, 2020 17:48
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zoux posted:This is gaslighting zoux posted:Oh well those are the only two options
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Jan 22, 2020 17:50
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IMO, they should've made Yoda the central character of the prequels and not Obi-Wan. That way they could've spread the decline of the Republic out over a couple centuries instead of a few decades.
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Jan 22, 2020 17:53
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IMO they should not have had the guy who said "the Force is never used for attack" be the CinC for the entire Republic military forces and they sure as gently caress shouldnt' have had him flipping around like a dipshit with a lightsaber I brought this up in the TV thread but: what did y'all think the Clone Wars were prior to 1997
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Jan 22, 2020 17:55
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rots was okay I didn’t see aotc I remember nothing of phantom menace
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Jan 22, 2020 17:55
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super sweet best pal posted:IMO, they should've made Yoda the central character of the prequels and not Obi-Wan. That way they could've spread the decline of the Republic out over a couple centuries instead of a few decades. they should make the prequels to the prequels. we could call them.... the superprequels
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Jan 22, 2020 17:56
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zoux posted:IMO they should not have had the guy who said "the Force is never used for attack" be the CinC for the entire Republic military forces and they sure as gently caress shouldnt' have had him flipping around like a dipshit with a lightsaber shocking that the hack George Lucas wrote a prequel story where the wise old sage who said “wars not make one great” was in charge of one side in a phony war between two slave armies that ended in tragedy
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Jan 22, 2020 17:58
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zoux posted:Count, er, Dooku? There's no problem at all, Lee did the lightsaber fights just fine.
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Jan 22, 2020 17:59
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Zoran posted:shocking that the hack George Lucas wrote a prequel story where the wise old sage who said “wars not make one great” was in charge of one side in a phony war between two slave armies that ended in tragedy He was in charge because Lucas wanted to make a CGI Yoda. This is the same guy who made the decision to reinsert the awful Jabba-Han scene into ANH to see if he could get away with it and then make that the only version that you could see without a VCR There should've never been more than a handful of Jedi, it completely contradicts everything we were told about the Jedi in ESB and that's not "the point" of the prequels. The point of the prequels is seeing if you can make a movie staged wholly in CGI. zoux fucked around with this message at 18:03 on Jan 22, 2020 |
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Jan 22, 2020 18:01
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super sweet best pal posted:IMO, they should've made Yoda the central character of the prequels and not Obi-Wan. That way they could've spread the decline of the Republic out over a couple centuries instead of a few decades. I feel like Yoda should have been like a long retired consultant who occasionally trained Jedi like Obi-Wan and was trying but failing to steer the Jedi away from being hubristic douche bags, and Obi-Wan only survived because he was one of the few who actually respected Yoda's teachings about not just being a laser ninja but actually like, adapting and thinking on your feet and trusting the force.
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Jan 22, 2020 18:01
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zoux posted:IMO they should not have had the guy who said "the Force is never used for attack" be the CinC for the entire Republic military forces and they sure as gently caress shouldnt' have had him flipping around like a dipshit with a lightsaber I broadly agree with this post although will pedantically point out that having him command an army does not quite contradict "don't use the Force to attack someone." That said the prequels repeatedly ignored/contradicted "don't use the Force to attack" which depending on how you read it was either unfortunately lazy or a subtle indicator of how the Jedi Order had strayed from its values.
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Jan 22, 2020 18:03
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acrobatic sword fighting and spell casting → “your weapons... you will not need them” obsessed with a prophecy about person with big Force number → “luminous beings are we, not this crude matter” tries to assassinate his enemies → “a Jedi uses the force for knowledge and defense, never for attack” SMALL BRAIN: hey, Yoda seems to have learned a few things from his past GALAXY BRAIN: Yoda was RUINED. He should’ve been exactly the same
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Jan 22, 2020 18:05
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Zoran posted:acrobatic sword fighting and spell casting → “your weapons... you will not need them” HE WAS 900 YEARS OLD So y'all will defend the Special Editions with the same vigor I assume zoux fucked around with this message at 18:10 on Jan 22, 2020 |
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Jan 22, 2020 18:07
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