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darkknight109 posted...

For what problems the sequels had - and they had plenty of them (the last one in particular) - they were all watchable movies, which is more than I can say about Episodes II and III.

Ehh.

As bad as II and III are, I'd still be willing to watch them again if I was with someone who wanted to watch them. For all their faults, I could still throw one of them on if I was stuck somewhere with nothing to do, no Internet, no DVDs, and there was literally nothing else to do other than watch one.

But if I was with someone who wanted to watch the sequels again (specifically VIII and IX), I'd categorically refuse. And then seriously reconsider whatever sort of friendship I had with that person. For the rest of my life, the only way I will ever see one of those films again is if someone pays me a significant amount of money to do so. Their very existence offends me waaay more than the prequels ever did (and I absolutely hated the prequels at the time). They're not watchable, they're an open sore in the fabric of the universe. They are tales told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

Sure, I'd be willing to watch Force Awakens again before I'd ever want to watch Phantom Menace again, but that's about the only thing the sequels have going for them. And if you put a gun to my head I'd still choose to watch even Phantom Menace over either of the last two sequels.

Granted, it's still my plan to travel back in time and bludgeon George Lucas to death in 1990 if I ever gt my hands on a time machine, but Disney still fucked the franchise up worse than he ever did.