Poll: Which of the Star Wars Prequel Movies Sucks the Most?
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The "trade dispute" was mentioned in passing a couple of times and never explained. It was insignificant, merely an excuse given to adults who might be wondering why the fuck these guys are attacking these other guys.Lionsfan said:
The "diplomatic maneuvering" took up about 20 minutes of the film. It was a big part of existing Star Wars canon and therefore had to be in there, but in the context of the full film, it was insignificant. Hell, Padme didn't even bother to hang around after she got the Chancellor fired and her Senator promoted. It didn't change anything for her situation and it literally meant nothing in the movie except to keep existing canon alive (barely)
As for the genocide of the Jedi, it was a such a huge part of the existing Star Wars canon that not even George Lucas could have removed or overlooked it. The most brutal it ever got was the embarrassing slaughtering younglings scene and I don't think I've ever seen Ewan McGregor look more in pain than when he delivered those lines. And not because he was trying to convey Obi-Wan's pain.
Lucas Arts did not accidentally appeal to a younger audience, they purposely CHOSE to appeal to that younger audience. It was a business decision, and it was a damned smart one too. By doing it, they created an entirely new fanbase which will continue to stream money in for far longer than existing fans would have.
I don't blame them, but that doesn't mean I'm not bitter. If you're girlfriend of three years goes overseas for a once-in-a-lifetime job opportunity and you can't follow her, you accept that she has to go but you still feel the pain when she does.
For me, it's 2.
Phantom Menace has nostalgia for me, and III at least was well made, even if the plot was complete and total crap.
II, I loved as a kid, but I've realized that it's just a wreck of pointless angst and whining, with little actual direction until the end.
Phantom Menace has nostalgia for me, and III at least was well made, even if the plot was complete and total crap.
II, I loved as a kid, but I've realized that it's just a wreck of pointless angst and whining, with little actual direction until the end.
Two definitley.
One had Liam Neeson as a Jedi which for me counter-balanced the crap in the movie.
Three had the last fight between Obi and Anakin which I thought was a good sequence.
Two has a scene about sand.
One had Liam Neeson as a Jedi which for me counter-balanced the crap in the movie.
Three had the last fight between Obi and Anakin which I thought was a good sequence.
Two has a scene about sand.
Err... Vader was actually well developed from the original trilogy in just the incidental information you learn about him along the way. And that has nothing to do AT ALL with the general outcry of disgust against the new trilogy. Their is an endless litany of problems with the movies, not the least of which is the schizophrenic tone of the movies, the hole-ridden plots, and the extremely poor script and delivery of said script. It fills me with such sadness that these movies carry the Star Wars name and yet were made with less class and care than your average throw-away popcorn flick meant for a prepubescent audience. This wasn't the fucking Garfield movie. This was Star Wars.Bhaalspawn said:
For shame, George Lucas. For shame.
Oh, and also, for shame "TheDarkEricDraven." I don't argue opinions often, but I am of the opinion that you are NOT ALLOWED to list a prequel ahead of ANY of the originals. There's such a gap in basic, simple film making alone between the quality of the original trilogy as compared to the new prequel trilogy that no amount of anything can justify an opinion like that. It. Does. Not. Compute.
While JarJar and young Anakin were both spectacularly annoying and the Ep. II romance was legitimately abyssmal, I still have to say Ep. III was the worst. Christensen was terrible in both his movies; almost every scene he's in is a chore to watch but in Ep. III the whole plot revolved around his character's internal conflict and there was simply nothing there.
Having watched the Battlestar Galactica reboot I don't think there's any question Grace Park in drag would have hit that role out of the park.
Having watched the Battlestar Galactica reboot I don't think there's any question Grace Park in drag would have hit that role out of the park.
Episode 1 by far is the worst of the prequels so much political talk about taxes and territories. Let's not forget about Jar Jar, the boring as shit pod races, and the worst child actor in history playing Anakin.
That's a tough call.
Episode 1 introduces some of the most hated characters in modern cinema (baby Anakin, and racist caricatures Watto and f*cking JarJar) and gets bogged down because George Lucas thought that we needed to spend the entire second act explaining what the force is, while the climax of the first act is that dreadful pod race. It only gets interesting in the third act with the fight scene between Darth Maul, Qui-Gon Jin and Obi Wan, which is actually really well choreographed and lots of fun to watch.
Episode 2 starts off pretty ok with the assassination plotline, but that is quickly dropped in favor of a nigh unwatchable love story and Anakin's constant whining. The fight scene at the end was pretty good, but would have been improved if the jedi were actually fighting other people instead of the CGI abominations that dominate all of the prequels.
Episode 3 has many of the same problems as 2. Romance between two characters who are never fully developed, played by two actors who have zero on-screen chemistry, and the constant bitching "oh wah, I had a vision of my secret wife dying, but I can't tell anyone because I could be expelled from the Jedi, which is clearly far more important to me than my wife's life." Characters act like idiots for no purpose other than to move the plot forward.
I guess I'd have to go with Episode 1. It has the best fight scene of any of the movies, but the egregious lack of Kit Fisto puts it behind the others.
Episode 1 introduces some of the most hated characters in modern cinema (baby Anakin, and racist caricatures Watto and f*cking JarJar) and gets bogged down because George Lucas thought that we needed to spend the entire second act explaining what the force is, while the climax of the first act is that dreadful pod race. It only gets interesting in the third act with the fight scene between Darth Maul, Qui-Gon Jin and Obi Wan, which is actually really well choreographed and lots of fun to watch.
Episode 2 starts off pretty ok with the assassination plotline, but that is quickly dropped in favor of a nigh unwatchable love story and Anakin's constant whining. The fight scene at the end was pretty good, but would have been improved if the jedi were actually fighting other people instead of the CGI abominations that dominate all of the prequels.
Episode 3 has many of the same problems as 2. Romance between two characters who are never fully developed, played by two actors who have zero on-screen chemistry, and the constant bitching "oh wah, I had a vision of my secret wife dying, but I can't tell anyone because I could be expelled from the Jedi, which is clearly far more important to me than my wife's life." Characters act like idiots for no purpose other than to move the plot forward.
I guess I'd have to go with Episode 1. It has the best fight scene of any of the movies, but the egregious lack of Kit Fisto puts it behind the others.
I misunderstood the question thinking you were talking about the old trilogy and clicked one. In terms of what you really asked though I thought that the 3rd was the worst because of the lame way Mace Windu's friends died, yoda being beaten and I just didn't like the film in general.
I'll agree with that assessment in the fact that the Phantom Menace was little more than an overly long toy commercial if ever I've seen one.Delsana said:
Strangely enough, the acting and character depth that the 3 prequels lacked seems to actually have been included for more in the Clone Wars CGI series.
All that said, I'll have to say that the first one really disgusts me. The toy commercial complaint is further reinforced by the presence of Jar Jar. Featuring him less and less in the other two helped me to kind of stomach them (like bad Mexican food from a chain that I shall not name due to my loathing of them. Let's just say "Run for the Border" is a euphemism for running to . . . . another place.)
Kids like violence, sci fi, space, and killing, and things that make it seem cooler like politics getting shafted makes it even better.Lionsfan said:
I know what kids like, I talk to them pretty often.
They are in no way stupid either. Kids just don't like lovey-dovey drama.
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Attack of the Clones had a Yoda fight.
Episode 2, check out Redletter media's review, seriously google it now, but 90 minutes you could spend doing anything related to the movie. Attack of the Clones stands as the only SW movie that I've only seen once. Once was enough, I'm just sad I remeber it clearly, wish i could have repressed it like the end of season 4 of Dr. Who.
Either Deus Ex or Witcher 2 had the quality for it. Portal 2 as well had that fun, but no real repetitive replay value after a few playthroughs.Kahunaburger said:
Skyrim? Bug galore, issues, and a very slow sense as well as lack of significance in choices.
A game that's been out for just a few weeks suddenly getting the Game of the Year compared to games that did a lot more and had just the same hype when they first came out...
Stupid in my opinion.
I too concur with that analysis, Ep 4-6 > Ep1-3kcjerith said:
Ok well it can't be Ep1 because Liam Neeson is in it, so that's just ruled out.
And while Ep3 didn't really connect AT ALL well to Ep4, that's the fault (as usual) of Ep2.
In Ep2, Anakin turns from a cool little kid into a dickwad teenager - the worst Darth Vader has ever looked on screen - and the story effort to connect up to the original trilogy moved very little, so it has to be Ep2.
BTW, Do you have a preference?
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Episode 3, no doubt about it, that piece of shit was horribly cut together, I swear no scene lasts longer then 5 minutes before they rush off to something else, that is probably exploding. There is no sense of time, it seems like who whole movie takes place over an hour, the worst is when the sith lord says he senses danger for annie and then we see him burning and suddenly the emperors ship shows up, like he was 5 minutes away. But the worst thing about the 3rd movie is that it tries to tie itself into the original movies stylistically at the end of it, with episodes one and two you could just assume that it was just some crappy big budget fanfic but at the end of 3 you suddenly see the old star destroyer style and it makes the old starwars movies worse.
And that is why prequel 3 is the worst shit of the star wars movies.
And that is why prequel 3 is the worst shit of the star wars movies.