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It's generally agreed that the prequels aren't seeing the original films at all, although III is agreed to be marginally more watchable than the first two. (I've seen some big-time Sith stans in this very forum).
I and II are nearly universally agreed to be the most
films in the franchise.
Episode I Pros and Cons:
Episode II:Pros and Cons
Your mileage may vary on some of these, so if I'm wrong on any of this stuff above, cool
But these movies aren't touching the originals either way.
I know most of this was covered in the red letter media reviews, but I want to know what YOU brehs think
I and II are nearly universally agreed to be the most
films in the franchise.Episode I Pros and Cons:
Pros:
+ Darth Maul. Could have been one of the dopest characters in the series. It's a crime that he wound up getting got as early as he did.
+ Podracing was actually kinda cool to me. But that's just me though.
+ Actually filmed certain parts of the movie on location, instead of CGI'ing EVERYTHING
+ The only prequel to not demystify and ruin Yoda by having him fight (when he's a character that should be above that). IMO Yoda should be above using a lightsaber. Yoda is the Zen Master of the whole thing.The whole point of his character was to drop wisdom and teach Luke about the patience and the discipline, and that there's more to being a jedi than just having a cool laser sword to swing around.
Cons:
- The opening scene makes no sense. If the bad guys wanted the Jedi out of the picture, why not blow them away before the ship lands, so they won't have a crater in their hangar and hella evidence lying all over the place?
- Elaborating on that, why would the Jedi knowingly sip their tea if they think something's wrong with the scenario? And why don't the bad guys keep the door sealed more than two seconds to let them suffocate after pumping all of that gas into the room?
- [EDIT] If Palpatine's whole goal is to create a panic and scare the senate into initiating a vote of no confidence on the other dude so that Palpatine can assume power in his stead, then wouldn't it make more sense if he had his people tell the Jedi that there won't be any negotiations, and tell the Jedi to leave so they can go back and inform the senate? Trying to murk them on the spot was counterproductive to his whole goal
- Jar Jar. Probably the most reviled character in the franchise, and for VERY good reason.
- R2D2 saving everyone when their ship's shields were damaged was pointless. After he got the generators working again, they don't get hit again after that
- Kid Anakin...
(A 9 year old building C-3PO? Really?)
- [EDIT] If they're a trade federation, then why do they have all of these weapons? And will blocking off trade to this lush planet really create that much of a disaster. Everyone and everything on Naboo looks caked up. They look like they can survive one day without space trade.
- Why does Nute Gunray trust this Sidious dude, despite not knowing who he is or knowing anything about him? Dude's a clown
+ Darth Maul. Could have been one of the dopest characters in the series. It's a crime that he wound up getting got as early as he did.
+ Podracing was actually kinda cool to me. But that's just me though.
+ Actually filmed certain parts of the movie on location, instead of CGI'ing EVERYTHING
+ The only prequel to not demystify and ruin Yoda by having him fight (when he's a character that should be above that). IMO Yoda should be above using a lightsaber. Yoda is the Zen Master of the whole thing.The whole point of his character was to drop wisdom and teach Luke about the patience and the discipline, and that there's more to being a jedi than just having a cool laser sword to swing around.
Cons:
- The opening scene makes no sense. If the bad guys wanted the Jedi out of the picture, why not blow them away before the ship lands, so they won't have a crater in their hangar and hella evidence lying all over the place?
- Elaborating on that, why would the Jedi knowingly sip their tea if they think something's wrong with the scenario? And why don't the bad guys keep the door sealed more than two seconds to let them suffocate after pumping all of that gas into the room?
- [EDIT] If Palpatine's whole goal is to create a panic and scare the senate into initiating a vote of no confidence on the other dude so that Palpatine can assume power in his stead, then wouldn't it make more sense if he had his people tell the Jedi that there won't be any negotiations, and tell the Jedi to leave so they can go back and inform the senate? Trying to murk them on the spot was counterproductive to his whole goal
- Jar Jar. Probably the most reviled character in the franchise, and for VERY good reason.
- R2D2 saving everyone when their ship's shields were damaged was pointless. After he got the generators working again, they don't get hit again after that
- Kid Anakin...
(A 9 year old building C-3PO? Really?)
- [EDIT] If they're a trade federation, then why do they have all of these weapons? And will blocking off trade to this lush planet really create that much of a disaster. Everyone and everything on Naboo looks caked up. They look like they can survive one day without space trade.
- Why does Nute Gunray trust this Sidious dude, despite not knowing who he is or knowing anything about him? Dude's a clown
Episode II:Pros and Cons
Pros:
+ Mace Windu
"This party's over"
+ It spawned a cartoon that was far better then any of the actual Star Wars prequel movies
Gendy Tartakovsky, one of the best to ever do it
Cons:
- The ridiculous decisions so many characters made. If they knew someone was going to come and murk Padme in the beginning, why would they let her go to sleep that night in a room with a huge window that any sniper or assassin would have a clear view of?
And why would they send slow and obvious poionous bugs over using snipers or explosives if they could clearly see her?
- the WOAT love story
Padme fell in love with this dude even after being a knuckleheaded, thirstbucket chump and murdering whole tribes of women and children in children in cold blood? Really?
And the sand speech
- The origins of the clone army.
Why would Obi-Wan and Yoda greenlight the use of an army cloned from a known goon that tried to earth Padme and was hella cool with the sepratists? Dude was just straight chilling front row in all of their coliseum matches and everything.
It's even more suspect that the Jedi they don't know for sure who erased the files on Kamino from their records, or who funded the clone army's, or why. (It was probably Dooku or Sidious)
- The cheapening of Yoda. Like I said earlier (you might disagree and that's cool), I always thought of Yoda as as this intentionally tiny, weak dude that was great not because of his own abilities, but because of the Force. It, and it alone was all he needed-- wars do not make one great. He should have been the professor X of the whole thing, just the the guy that can mindwipe everybody and have them reliving their worst nightmare for eternity in two seconds without even having to fight ever. Just rearranging everybody's memories with no effort without even having to fight. Yoda should have been that dude.
+ Mace Windu
"This party's over"
+ It spawned a cartoon that was far better then any of the actual Star Wars prequel movies
Gendy Tartakovsky, one of the best to ever do it
Cons:
- The ridiculous decisions so many characters made. If they knew someone was going to come and murk Padme in the beginning, why would they let her go to sleep that night in a room with a huge window that any sniper or assassin would have a clear view of?
And why would they send slow and obvious poionous bugs over using snipers or explosives if they could clearly see her?
- the WOAT love story
Padme fell in love with this dude even after being a knuckleheaded, thirstbucket chump and murdering whole tribes of women and children in children in cold blood? Really?
And the sand speech
- The origins of the clone army.
Why would Obi-Wan and Yoda greenlight the use of an army cloned from a known goon that tried to earth Padme and was hella cool with the sepratists? Dude was just straight chilling front row in all of their coliseum matches and everything.
It's even more suspect that the Jedi they don't know for sure who erased the files on Kamino from their records, or who funded the clone army's, or why. (It was probably Dooku or Sidious)
- The cheapening of Yoda. Like I said earlier (you might disagree and that's cool), I always thought of Yoda as as this intentionally tiny, weak dude that was great not because of his own abilities, but because of the Force. It, and it alone was all he needed-- wars do not make one great. He should have been the professor X of the whole thing, just the the guy that can mindwipe everybody and have them reliving their worst nightmare for eternity in two seconds without even having to fight ever. Just rearranging everybody's memories with no effort without even having to fight. Yoda should have been that dude.
Your mileage may vary on some of these, so if I'm wrong on any of this stuff above, cool
But these movies aren't touching the originals either way.
I know most of this was covered in the red letter media reviews, but I want to know what YOU brehs think
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