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Manit0u
Poland17683 Posts
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Jockmcplop
United Kingdom9776 Posts
I was always a SW fan, but never a SW nerd. I watched the films and nothing else really. I still think the sequels stand on their own slightly better than the prequels (just because of the number of times i have to stop watching the prequels for a few minutes when Anakin and Padme are in the same room), but all of the supporting content and lore surrounding the prequels is amazing, and makes the films themselves much better if you have the inclination to nerd out on youtube for a few hours before you watch them. I love how you can pick out the different lightsaber fighting styles, and how they support each character and change as they grow. That's just one example though. Obviously there was a concerted effort to move away from this for the sequels, and i think it damages their long term viability. The prequels are much, much better on repeated watching, whereas the sequels make no sense either way. So yeah, the nerds were right, and i was wrong. ps that fan made Darth Maul movie might be the best SW content since Empire. | ||
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LegalLord
United States13779 Posts
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Archeon
3265 Posts
On June 21 2020 21:57 Jockmcplop wrote: I just got done watching a whole shitton of star wars content and I finally understand why people like the prequels more than the sequels and i think i can get on that bandwagon now. I was always a SW fan, but never a SW nerd. I watched the films and nothing else really. I still think the sequels stand on their own slightly better than the prequels (just because of the number of times i have to stop watching the prequels for a few minutes when Anakin and Padme are in the same room), but all of the supporting content and lore surrounding the prequels is amazing, and makes the films themselves much better if you have the inclination to nerd out on youtube for a few hours before you watch them. I love how you can pick out the different lightsaber fighting styles, and how they support each character and change as they grow. That's just one example though. Obviously there was a concerted effort to move away from this for the sequels, and i think it damages their long term viability. The prequels are much, much better on repeated watching, whereas the sequels make no sense either way. So yeah, the nerds were right, and i was wrong. ps that fan made Darth Maul movie might be the best SW content since Empire. Honestly the sequels kinda learned the wrong lessons. People mainly disliked the prequels because of the woody acting, terrible dialogues and slow pacing, not because they didn't like the world that was built. Obviously there was a hardcore fanbase that didn't like anything that wasn't empire, but it feels like JJ mainly tried to satisfy that crowd and that is pretty bound to fail anyways. I think with the communities that liked RotS, clone wars and games like KotoR there definitely was ample opportunity to write a good old republic movie that built on the massive world-building of the prequels. Or try to establish a new scenario like the series about the grandchild of Luke where you have the grey-ish empire, the republic and the sith as factions and a free spirit who gets insight and trouble with all 3 of those if you want a more adult movie about morality like Johnson tried to. But JJ just tried to play it as close to the originals as possible and the result is a bit uninspired and heavily lacks ambition. TLJ has it's own set of problems and I still don't get how you make the call to put two completely different directors on one coherent series and split their work on a move to movie basis. | ||
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Sbrubbles
Brazil5776 Posts
On June 22 2020 00:00 LegalLord wrote: The prequels did an excellent job at world-building and spawned some great spinoff works - books, the Tartakovsky Clone Wars series, some pretty solid games too. The sequels did a terrible job of that and mostly made the world smaller. Plus there was no way to recover from the debacle that was Ep 8, which was honestly worse than any individual prequel movie. Aw man, that was the shit! I remember getting so hyped as a kid when it popped up during commercials. | ||
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