Say something nice about the Star Wars Prequel. If you can.

[gorfias]

1. Seeing that Anakin was actually the cause to his own descent into Vader more than being 'seduced' by the darkside..

I thought him seduced by what he thought would be the power to save his wife, and the power to be something greater than what he thought the Jedi council had in mind for him.

I can barely watch Clone Wars, but any scene that Jango Fett is in, I'm loving.

 

[Tar Palantir]

The Clone Troopers are competent, but they are on "our side" almost the entire time, and only turn "evil" in time to deliver the doom we are all expecting, based on what we know of the Original Trilogy. No, basically nothing has changed, the Original Stormtroopers fill the same role of the Battle Droids, useless enemies (only the Battle Droids never met the Ewoks).....that really kills the tension.

That and the fact that the battles involve Droids and Clones.....they are not real people, no1 is going to mourn then when they die, so why should I care about the battle sequences? Couldn't Stormtroopers just be normal people enrolled in the army? The whole Clones subplot has no importance anyway, so they might have just skipped it.

Well, the whole clone subplot only shows how stupid and incompetent the jedi actually were. Lets reflect:

When they use the clone army they know the following facts:

- The political council is controlled by a Sith (Dookus exposition towards Obi Wan).
- All recordings about this planet were deleted, most possible by someone with enough knowledge and control of the force so that he could infiltrate the archives.
- They were ordered by a fallen jedi in the name of the jedi council. But the jedi council never knew about that.

Despite knowing all this obvious hints at the clone army beeing a tool in the hands of enemies they use this army without a full check of all the things they were trained to do. I just recall the events in Episode 3 where "suddenly" they all turn on the jedi.

And they had the right to do it. Since the army was ordered in the name of the jedi council the clone producers would've granted them all things they would have wanted to know.

Well, the jedi of the prequels deserved to die. All those plots against them were so obvious that it hurts.

Also the Clone Army was commissioned 10 years earlier.....around the time when Palpatine won his election.....they also suspect the Sith Lord might control the Senate but they don't do a blood test to check for Midiclorians (that sounds really stupid by the way). ALSO, why didn't any Jedi go with Obi and Jin to capture Darth Maul alive and find out who his master was? They are all like "don't worry, we will discover the identity of your attacker". 10 minutes later "Go to Naboo alone and do it yourself". DERP.

The characters are so stupid and illogical I CANNOT LIKE THEM!! The Original Trilogy was by no means a deep masterpiece, but I liked those characters.

 

[ACman]

Darth Maul was pretty cool if criminally underused.

 

[NinjaTigerXIII]

I love the prequel movies just as much as the original trilogy, so...I think that they were good?

Okay okay,

1.I thought that Darth Maul was one of the greatest villians of all time, also that lightsaber fight was better then any fight in the original trilogy,

2.Samuel L Jackson as Mace Windu was bad ass

3.The improved CGI made the space sections come alive.

 

[malestrithe]

A great study in making a movie's worth of material and padding it out to three movies.

There were only enough plot points for each of the movies for barely a 45 minute script, But Lucas padded the movies with a lot of pointless battles, races and travel montages, a lot of unnecessary things to the movies.

 

[MorganL4]

I actually did enjoy Liam Neeson's stint as a Jedi Master. Yeah overall the film did not live up to the name, but I still think that he did a pretty good job.

I still don't understand why the viceroy didn't wait a little longer with the poison gas in the first scene...... but that's not Neeson's fault.

 

[AsbestosMoth]

The music. All the humour that came from the hatred of the movies. The Emperor was pretty funny.

I've read others saying how the Lightsaber fights were cool. Normally I'd just say I disagree, but you are wrong. Sorry but, no. They're self indulgent, pointless, over-choreographed.

Sam Jackson was cool in this? What movie were you watching? You could've cast a slice of bread as Mass Window and get an equally good performance. And that's not a stab at Sam Jackson, he's a great actor, but that character...nothing could save that.

And off I go into hate again, I'll just stop.

 

[thelonewolf266]

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I would wait until Battlefront 3 is released before diving into all the lore that game will be worth taking the risk assuming you enjoy third person shooters though to be honest you can enjoy the games with none of the lore or some of it or all of it.The people that get upset because one thing deviates slightly from anther thing set in the same universe just need to learn to deal with it instead of letting it spoil things for them.

 

[rayen020]

They had a much fuller universe. This led to faster more dialog packed movies but where the OT failed to give us anything but brief glimpses outside Lukes POV, The Prequels embraced (for better or Worse) what had been filled in between Return and Phantom while still holding on to the original story as it was written.

I would further say that the prequels are just as well written as the OT. I think the disparity rather lies in the acting. Hayden christiansen and Natalie Portman are really talented actors (V for Vendetta anyone?) but had little chemistry onscreen and as the story focused on those two the movie fell apart because it sidelined their better characters (ewan mcgreggor as obi and Ian McDiarmid as Mr. Palpatine).

The Action was better.
CGI effects were 20 years better.
Music was as good as the OT.
Coruscant was beautifully realized.
Yoda lightsaber fight. Twice.
Liam Neeson, always a fun guy to watch.
Christopher Lee also always fun to watch.

 

[Lunar Templar]

>.>

you want us to lie to you?

how odd ...

 

[malkavianmadman]

I definitly think watch anakins rise onto the hero's journey and inevetible fall from it was well done, yes he is a whiny um female dog. But it was still well done, the slow corruption of episode 2 through to the full blown imma mess everyone up for what i want of ep 3 was just well done.

As much as I hate him the evolution of Jar Jar is also interesting starting off as in essence an annoying childlike character and then watching his rise and growth to being something much more adult.

Finally emporer palpatine and how he uses the laws of the republic to become the emporer.

EDIT: oh and of course Yoda flipping out like a ninja in every lightsaber fight scene he is in.

 

[Tzekelkan]

They spawned this Weird Al song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEcjgJSqSRU&feature=related

 

[ishist]

Yoda bouncing around like a crazy lightsaber wielding ninja monkey. That's all I can think of.

 

[Olas]

Seeing R2D2 kick droid ass in Revenge of the Sith whereas he was pretty much just a plot element in the original trilogy.

Also some genuinely good and memorable music.

 

[Suicidejim]

Most of the lightsaber fights. Episodes 4-6 just had 'old man stumbling after kids with his cane' syndrome. I couldn't understand how they could move their lightsabers fast enough to deflect lasers, but ridiculously slow when actually in combat. At least the Jedi in the prequels actually felt like a force to be reckoned with.

Oh, and Jango Fett was pretty cool, and didn't die like a wuss.

 

[joecool5000]

I came awfully close to falling dead asleep on all three of the movies (yes, even during the mostly pointless lightsaber fights), but really the only thing that kept me awake for an extended period of time was the extremely long, drawn-out, especially pointless first scene in Episode 3 (beginning to the first scene at Coruscant). Why, you ask? Mostly because I watched it more as if I was spectating a video game. No real reason or explanation for anything happening, but tons of random colorful crap flying at your face and humor that will produce a few dumb chuckles. Then I dozed off again for the whole movie until I woke up laughing at the Darth Vader transformation NOOO scene. That was the most hilarious scene in movie history.