Poll: Will You Stop Me From Destroying the Star Wars Prequels?

[Polarity27]

Ngarlghh... I hate myself for this, but yes, I'd stop you.

The prequels revivified SW fandom. The two SW-related things I've enjoyed most (that being KOTOR and the NJO series) probably wouldn't have existed if the prequels didn't happen, the EU would still be stuck in those godawful repetitious-ass "Luke and the Gang fight the 9,347,556th incarnation of the Empire" books where there's never any risk and nothing interesting ever happens. (Yes, if you're about to say "like 'and Luke and the Gang fight the 9,347,556th version of the Sith' is any better?", I agree with that too. But for a while there we had some genuine creativity and stuff we haven't seen a hundred times before, and that was nice!)

Also, TPM fandom was a lot of fun to be in and I met some wonderful people there. Best of all, the prequels generally brought most SW fans to the "the idea is wonderful but really, George Lucas sucks donkey dick" table and put a big hole in the whole idea that the Jedi are actual good guys. And the Darth Maul saber fights were fucking awesome.

 

[Mr.Squishy]

Destroy ALL the movies!
And extend ALL the posts to avoid low post content warnings!

 

[Ixnay1111]

The movies were awesome hater.

 

[uncanny474]

Would you mind just shooting Lucas after Return of the Jedi? Just killing him dead? Because then we wouldn't have to deal with the remakes, OR the prequels. Think about it. No "Han Shot First", no "crappy CGI Jabba", no "little orphan Annie", no NOTHING.

Just the brilliant original movies... bliss...

I don't mind remastering, but actually CHANGING the films is a step too far. You're ruining perfectly good movies with your meddling!

Yes, because brutally murdering the man that brought you those wonderful films because he exercises his right to change HIS material.... That's really mature. Maybe you should shank JRR Tolkean w/ a shiv before he wrote The Similarian (spelling?)....

The only real mistakes from the remakes is the Han shot first and the NOO! Other then that, the enhance visuals looked better, and add things he couldn't do on a shoe sting budget in the 1970s.

What about the crappy singing bit in Jabba's palace? What about adding Hayden Christensen to the end of Ep 6? What about Luke's pathetic little scream as he fell down the bottomless pit in Ep 5?

All of these are meddling with the final product. And all of them remove some of the tension and drama that made the first three movies such masterpieces. He hasn't made one addition to the movies that has done anything except make the fans facepalm at the stupidity of the decision.

As for JRR Tolkien, that's a poor analogy. The Silmarillion was published after his death, so it wasn't finished--it was his children trying to squeeze some pennies out of their fathers' corpse. Also, it was actually GOOD, unlike the prequels. And to be honest, Tolkien may not have meant it to see the light of day--it may have just been his notes on his world--but we'll never know due to him dying before we could find out.

 

[uncanny474]

Ngarlghh... I hate myself for this, but yes, I'd stop you.

The prequels revivified SW fandom. The two SW-related things I've enjoyed most (that being KOTOR and the NJO series) probably wouldn't have existed if the prequels didn't happen, the EU would still be stuck in those godawful repetitious-ass "Luke and the Gang fight the 9,347,556th incarnation of the Empire" books where there's never any risk and nothing interesting ever happens. (Yes, if you're about to say "like 'and Luke and the Gang fight the 9,347,556th version of the Sith' is any better?", I agree with that too. But for a while there we had some genuine creativity and stuff we haven't seen a hundred times before, and that was nice!)

Also, TPM fandom was a lot of fun to be in and I met some wonderful people there. Best of all, the prequels generally brought most SW fans to the "the idea is wonderful but really, George Lucas sucks donkey dick" table and put a big hole in the whole idea that the Jedi are actual good guys. And the Darth Maul saber fights were fucking awesome.

I like what you're saying, and I almost agree. It was almost worth the prequels to have R. A. Salvatore troll the entire fandom by killing off Chewbacca in what was probably supposed to be a one-off. That book was awesome, especially since Lucas made sure that none of 'his' writers ever killed off one of his oh-so-precious brainchildren again. Emasculating Darth Vader doesn't count.

But if they throw in a stop to all that revision nonsense, It's worth it. Sorry, but if Han gets to shoot first again, it's worth losing the entire EU. The only really good bit was KotOR, anyway.

 

[badgersprite]

Can you erase the 'special edition' releases of the originals while you're at it? Damn it, Lucas, stop getting your crappy CGI in my classic films.

 

[Vault101]

no destroy them

because when somone thinks of starwars they probably thinj of the prequel fuck up and not how good the originals were

Yep. Just because some cry baby fan boys don't like something doesn't mean it shouldn't exist. The world doesn't revolve around you or what you like, and just because you don't like it doesn't mean there aren't people out there that do enjoy them, and nothing gives you the right to take that away.

mabye but to be honest Im not a starward fan but I think this is one of htose rare times when the cry-baby fan-boys are RIGHT

I was in a store the other day, one of the prequels was on a TV..no Idea which one or what was going on

but it was the worst fucking thing I had ever seen/heard..dialogue acting everything

 

[similar.squirrel]

No, because it's a fucking movie franchise. You are under no obligation to watch, or even acknowledge the newer films. Anybody who gets antsy about Star Wars needs to get laid.

 

[Vault101]

when comparing the old trilogy to the new prequel trilogy...

i think these might apply here...

hype backlash [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HypeBacklash]
nostalgia filter [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NostalgiaFilter]
unpleasable fanbase [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/UnpleasableFanbase]
ruined FOREVER!!!!! [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RuinedFOREVER]

seriously they are just BAD movies, why do peopel keep making excuses for them?

as somone who never watched any of it when I was a kid..and seeing the comparison..the prequels fucking suck and I agree with the whiney fan boys

 

[Stilkon]

Well, Patton Oswalt would've done it.

 

[Trippy Turtle]

Because I don't want you somehow fucking up my life when you mess with time.
My captcha had a face in it. :O

 

[Zarmi]

Yes, I would. Because no matter how bad the movies were, if they were destroyed in the past, we would never know how Vader came to be, what Obi-Wan's life was like, and how it all came to be as it was in episode 4, 5 and 6. Even though they are bad, I believe we all still like knowing the story, and having seen it for ourselves, instead of just imagining a possible past for Star Wars.

 

[Leadfinger]

Would you mind just shooting Lucas after Return of the Jedi? Just killing him dead? Because then we wouldn't have to deal with the remakes, OR the prequels. Think about it. No "Han Shot First", no "crappy CGI Jabba", no "little orphan Annie", no NOTHING.

Just the brilliant original movies... bliss...

I don't mind remastering, but actually CHANGING the films is a step too far. You're ruining perfectly good movies with your meddling!

Yes, go back and hit him in the head with a shovel.

 

[Sexy Devil]

I have recently created a one-way time machine, allowing me to travel to a particular time in the past, but lacking the ability return me to my own time period.

I intend to use this time machine so that I may travel back in time and stop George Lucas from creating the Star Wars prequels (personally, my most hated movie trilogy).

My question to you, the Escapist Community. Which among you will also take a one-way trip in time in an attempt to stop me from erasing these films from the time line forever?

Give me a good reason why too. Not just a "Because I like those movies!" Or a "Oh c'mon! The movies aren't that bad!" I want legitimate, detailed reasons for you wanting to stop me at the risk of being stuck in the early 90's.

Yes, out of fear that he originally had all 3 created years before for a timely release in the 2000s. At which point you come in and destroy them, so with release dates to conform to, he throws the crap we know and hate together.

Just think about if that's true, you'd never be able to forgive yourself. Doing you a service bro.

 

[BanicRhys]

No, because then we'd be rid of the endless bitching about those three perfectly watchable movies.

On the other hand, I wouldn't mind going back to the 90s, getting rich and killing an annoying prequel hater.

 

[Gennaroc]

I would stop you. Why?
For this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2A4fN7FEzjc

The Darth Maul battle. It has some of my favourite battle choreography ever, and is generally an awe-inspiring fight, music, scenery and action.


And you know what, I really find the absolute band-wagon jumping of everyone hating the prequels so narrow minded, yes there is alot wrong with them, but there is so much right aswell. The expansion of the galaxy with so many worlds and politics broadened the universe into something living, breathing, and it became so much more expansive, so much more beautiful.
There were also no fucking ewoks. I will take a thousand Jar-Jar Binks's over the ewoks. That is the ultimate slap in the face to the original trilogy and something that tends to get virtually no hate in comparison to a lot of (often unfounded) criticism of the prequels. Lucas started screwing up a lot earlier than phantom menace.

Not to mention that return of the Jedi is probably my second favourite in the saga, behind empire... And if anyone says I word against the clone wars tv series I will not stop ranting for the next billion years. Honestly just watch the Mortis trilogy. It is mind-bendingly good, and the clone centric episodes are fantastic.


So yes, I would try to murder you ahead of killing the prequels. What I would let you do however is make sure lucas realised the worst of his mistakes (starting with the ewoks) before-hand, and destroyed them before final scripting.




Also Anakin and Padme's relationship was so believable and sweet.

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Bahahahahah Ok couldn't say with a straight face

 

[Nikolaz72]

Well by destroying the prequels you destroy KOTR and Unleashed and Battlefront and Empire at War, and so on and so forth. So NO!

 

[K_Dub]

I have recently created a one-way time machine, allowing me to travel to a particular time in the past, but lacking the ability return me to my own time period.

I intend to use this time machine so that I may travel back in time and stop George Lucas from creating the Star Wars prequels (personally, my most hated movie trilogy).

My question to you, the Escapist Community. Which among you will also take a one-way trip in time in an attempt to stop me from erasing these films from the time line forever?

Give me a good reason why too. Not just a "Because I like those movies!" Or a "Oh c'mon! The movies aren't that bad!" I want legitimate, detailed reasons for you wanting to stop me at the risk of being stuck in the early 90's.

No. Let Patton Oswalt do it. With a shovel.

I'm takin' him with me as a backup plan actually!

 

[wolf thing]

yes because then we wouldnt have kotor or kotor2 or battlefront or republic commando or star wars clone wars

and there not really bad like at all

 

[TheDarkestDerp]

Screw "the butterfly effect". This is time travel we're talking about, it's all theoretical anyways.

Screw "time paradoxes". See the first point. We're talking comic-book rubber science here, children. Wesley Crusher territory...

Screw "they weren't that bad". Yes they were. Otherwise, broman here wouldn't be using his time machine to eliminate them rather than the black plague , Stalin or Michael Bay.

Screw "but the action was great!" No it wasn't. It was dry, over-choreographed crap on a green screen with some style and no substance or depth whatsoever.

Screw "But they make some people happy". Ethnic cleansing makes some people happy too, you all wanna keep that in our continuity?

If you got the power to make it happen, I am behind you 100% chief. Fire that time machine up and do what you gotta do. And while you're at it, off whoever the hell has been the driving force behind this goddawful My Little Pony garbage being puked all over the internet, if at all possible. I will bake you the biggest batch of cookies for that, love.