Oh hey prequel bash time, LET'S DO IT.
No seriously, if all you care about is lightsaber dances and very clean environments ala green screen, then sure, the prequels are enjoyable. When I first saw them I was the appropriate age to enjoy all the special effects that the movies were made for. But after growing up and actually developing some standards, I see the special effects for what they are. And that's fake. It's all fake. There is no hint of realism to anything happening in these travesty ass movies. Unlike the originals, which had REAL special effects (I know that doesn't actually make sense, but it's true). Of course I mean, back when George Lucas actually cared, he made for real efforts to make his movies seem real. And oddly enough all those trick shots and camera movements made the movies seem way more real than any computer generated effects could.
Then you have the lightsaber battles. Which at first seem really good. Then you watch them a few times and you just... you SEE all the stupid crap. You see a thousand useless attacks. You see them aim for the lightsaber and not the actual person they're supposed to be attacking. In the OT you actually get the feeling that Luke and Vader are trying to attack each other but are effectively being blocked.
It's just too f***ing fake. And then you get all the boring crap in between all the stupid special effects. I honestly wish George Lucas had taken more of a Michael Bay approach. More explosions. More over the top action. Less dialogue. Much much less dialogue.
And the reason most Star Wars fans hate the prequels to begin with is because the reason we loved Star Wars in the first place was because of the god damn STORY. Yeah the special effects and space battles and lightsaber fights were cool, but there was still a really great story to be told. The prequel trilogy also has a great story to be told, but it was done inconceivably wrong in every possible way.
I swear that is the main bottom of the line reason that we f***ing hate the prequels. Immense potential squandered by a sell-out who used to believe that special effects were just a means of telling a story, and now believes that a story is how you tell special effects.
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~Halo You're not the brightest.
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