Poll: Alright, I wanna see if anyone agrees with me on this...

[Outright Villainy]

I found them really boring (the first two. Haven't seen revenge of the sith). And the writing is atrocious. And the direction is really static. And they make no sense.

Someone already posted the Red Letter Media review, if anyone hasn't seen that yet, do so now. It's fucking hilarious.

 

[thatguy1]

I am indifferent. They are action movies with lots of fighting and plot twists. I don't go into it expecting much, so I'm happy.

 

[endplanets]

Not better than the original 3, but still good. The Jedi temple/culture/etc is cool and used well and everyone loves their robes. The droid army was awesome too and everybody loves the Sith.
Things that the new movies do better are
1) force powers. Even as a kid I did not get why Force users were considered powerful. The best use of the force was Force Lighting by Palpatine and when Vader throws stuff at Luke on Cloud City. Impressive yea, but not world changing. In the prequels we see Jedi take out entire battle groups, bring down cruisers and destroy tanks, which establishes them as powerful and a legitimate threat.
2) Overall plot: the first 3 Star Wars are good on plot but it boils down to evil people are evil and we need to kill them and Luke becoming more powerful that Darth Vader after just one week at Yoda's training camp for Jedi. The prequels have Palpatine start a civil war while playing both sides to create a secret army so that he can take control. He twists the supposed savior Anakin, wipes out the separatists, takes over the Republic and rules the galaxy all in one well planned move. The problem is that this great story is not told that well.

Ways that it is worse:
1) acting/writing
2) special effects suck. I prefer the real world models to easy to identify CGI.
3) Jar Jar is still worse than Ewoks.

 

[Canid117]

I loathed the first one. I thought the second one was watchable but mediocre and I felt the third one was pretty decent except for a few glaring flaws. That said I have seen the originals so many times that I find them hard to watch.

 

[AvsJoe]

I didn't like Episodes 1 or 2, but I did really enjoy the third one. It was a good film that is unfortunately saddled with a tarnished reputation because of the two films that came before it.

 

[dkyros]

I'm just going to point you here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxKtZmQgxrI

What he says pretty much covers it.

lmao, that was awesome.

 

[Echo136]

The only reason to watch the prequels were because the lightsaber battles were way better. Thats all. Everything else was pretty crap.

 

[theheroofaction]

The prequels weren't as good as the originals, though they were still A movies.

 

[Thespian]

I honestly understand why people hate the movies. I do. Jar-jar is offensive and annoying and unfunny, Hayden Christensen can't act for crap, and the romance was constantly being beaten over your head, but still... I love the prequels. The action, the jedi, the music, and the universe itself more than make up for their faults for me. 4,5 and 6 are still classics of course, but I don't honestly consider them "better" than the prequels. They had quite a few flaws too, and not just because they were older. I love all 6 movies, but I can almost never find anyone who thinks the same. Anyone!

I agree with you on almost all of this, but still, I think the originals were infinitely better and I still can't watch attack of the clones without fast forwarding to the coliseum scene.

 

[Verlander]

I don't think Hayden Christiansen is a bad actor (haven't seen him in much else tbh), I'm pretty sure that no actor could have made those lines and shitty character work.

 

[chowderface]

I don't really care for 'em. Those movies are a case study in why green screen should be used sparingly.

I did think the whole "hollow planet" thing with Naboo, though. Although Darths & Droids coming up with an explanation for how such a thing would work was even better.

I didn't find Jar-Jar annoying either. People said he was a racist stereotype thrown in to entertain the kids. I say, a) there's nothing racist about him, he's just a klutz even in his society

I think he was supposed to be Jamaican or something, and that's what was racist about him, because he portrayed Jamaicans as klutzy retards who couldn't even speak language properly.

 

[Bad Jim]

On the bright side, if it wasn't for the prequels we wouldn't have the Darth and Droids webcomic.

http://www.darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0001.html

 

[Kolby Jack]

Not better than the original 3, but still good. The Jedi temple/culture/etc is cool and used well and everyone loves their robes. The droid army was awesome too and everybody loves the Sith.
Things that the new movies do better are
1) force powers. Even as a kid I did not get why Force users were considered powerful. The best use of the force was Force Lighting by Palpatine and when Vader throws stuff at Luke on Cloud City. Impressive yea, but not world changing. In the prequels we see Jedi take out entire battle groups, bring down cruisers and destroy tanks, which establishes them as powerful and a legitimate threat.
2) Overall plot: the first 3 Star Wars are good on plot but it boils down to evil people are evil and we need to kill them and Luke becoming more powerful that Darth Vader after just one week at Yoda's training camp for Jedi. The prequels have Palpatine start a civil war while playing both sides to create a secret army so that he can take control. He twists the supposed savior Anakin, wipes out the separatists, takes over the Republic and rules the galaxy all in one well planned move. The problem is that this great story is not told that well.

Ways that it is worse:
1) acting/writing
2) special effects suck. I prefer the real world models to easy to identify CGI.
3) Jar Jar is still worse than Ewoks.

I definitely think Palpatine's plan was ingenious. If the viewers didn't know exactly what was going to happen it would've been right up there with "Bruce willis is dead" and "rosebud was his sled."

Also, a lot of people are hating on Anakin's character portrayal, which I can definitely see why, but I'm wondering if any of those people have seen the cartoon on Cartoon Network (The Clone Wars) and if they like Anakin better there. I certainly do; he's actually kind of badass.

 

[Canadish]

No ones posted the Plinkett review!?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxKtZmQgxrI

Watch it. Be Educated. Be Entertained.

Edit: The forum only showed me the last page for some reason, made out there were only 3 posts...weird :S
Still...watch it

 

[Macgyvercas]

Though I thought Jar Jar was mildly amusing at best and outright stupid at worst and that every word out of Padme's mouth was complete and utter bullshit, overall, I enjoyed the prequels.

 

[ZeroMachine]

I think the originals were better, but yeah, I still love the prequel trilogy.

Oh, and also:

I'm just going to point you here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxKtZmQgxrI

What he says pretty much covers it.

Fuck him and everything he stands for. He insults those that enjoy the films. To quote Donnie Darko, he can go suck a fuck.

 

[Andy of Comix Inc]

As Star Wars films, they're atrocious, badly-written pieces of money-grabbing junk that was in serious need of a better set of executive producers (or just a script editor) to tell Lucas when his script made no sense. Which was all the fucking time.

As sci-fi fantasy films, though:

Episode I is poorly written garbage, but at least has a 3-act plot structure that, while meandering around, has a lot of bright colours and an exploration aspect that is quite nice. Not incredible, but a ride nontheless.

Episode II relies on good acting to let the romance plot be the crux it needs to be. Which is why it's so lucky that the acting was... completely atrocious, with absolutely no chemistry between the leads, with a horrible "tell don't show" policy applied to everything that happened between Episode I and here, and... well... Lucas just doesn't know how to write a love story. It's like he read the screenplay of Romeo and Juliet and thought it was the most contemporary, up-to-date vision of love imaginable, so he shoehorned Shakespearian-era dialog into what is existentially a modern love story. Weakest Star Wars film to date.

Episode III isn't bad; see comments on Episode I, then but it under a black filter. End fight scene didn't need to be 50 minutes long. Star Wars-related note: Darth Vader shouldn't have been the be-all end-all puzzle piece to the universe (to quote Red Letter Media). Not a terrible film, it too was a ride like Episode I was, so it works.

Like I said, though. As Star Wars films, it basically fucks up the entire backstory, makes a lot of the religious ideology of the "original" trilogy redundant, reduces what was once a 3-dimensional universe full of real people into a 2D universe full of creepy alien monks with no emotion. Also did I mention the script never made any sense? Yeah.

 

[Gammaj4]

I kept running headlong into issues with the design of things.
There's lots of earth tones that make everything feel more archaic, but the design is consistently light-years ahead of what was seen in the OT. Not to mention, all these clone ships are BRISTLING with guns that they never use.

"We're out of rockets, Sir!"
Yeah, but you've got about six lasers you could be firing at the guy.

There's just a ton of stuff that makes no sense.

Also, Anakin's turn to the dark side felt unbelievably lame.



Just my opinions.

 

[Nouw]

I like Jar Jar Binks and yes I'm serious.

They were okay, I guess. Of course, I haven't watched them since I was about 8, so my perception of them may be distorted.

Pretty much this, watched it at a young age so I naturally enjoyed it.

 

[Darkness665]

I really enjoyed the prequels.
The movies had bigger budgets, the technology was significantly better.
There were several characters that were totally CGI.
One didn't get the sense that the English film unions were fighting production like they did on the original.

Ep. 1 was setting up the basic world. Good enough and the battles were cool.
Ep. 2 was Yoda watching how the chosen one was progressing. Not so well it turns out.
Ep. 3 was shit hitting the fan. And the final conversion from Skywalker to Vader.
Man, Darth Vader always wanted to rule the universe.

With the caution that (imho) Lucas doesn't write dialog well, in anything.
And that Hans had all the great lines and he wasn't in the prequels.