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Topic	What's the most disappointing trilogy out of these movies?
darkknight109 06/19/18 10:06:14 AM #26:	Zeus posted... darkknight109 posted... The prequels were not just tremendously awful movies (Episodes II and III in particular), but they were supposed to be - and easily could have been - incredible. There really is no other choice here. You can say have the opinion that other movies were worse, but objectively there really is no topping the prequels for how hyped they were and how badly they fell short of the mark. I'm a little surprised that you put more emphasis on II and III, given that I squandered so much of its run time. No argument that TPM was a complete waste of time - you could skip Episode I altogether and you wouldn't have missed any important plot points - but of the three it was, in my opinion, the most enjoyable of the bunch (not that that's a particularly high standard to reach). Liam Neeson anchored the cast and provided a much stronger central character than Hayden Christiensen could manage in the two sequels (Neeson's acting chops showed here, as he managed to take a completely flat and uninteresting character and still pull a half-decent performance out of bad writing). The plot is nonsensical and logically inconsistent, but not nearly to the degree of Episode II, and its pacing isn't mangled to all hell like Episode III. It lacks the downright putrescent cringey-romance scenes that took up far too much time in its successors and the final battle is more coherent than anything the other two movies could manage. And while I know this is not a widely shared opinion, I think that Jar Jar Binks and the podracing sequence aren't nearly as bad as people make them out to be. Of the three prequels, Episode I is the only one that I would ever bother watching again. I don't think I would ever willingly pick it as my movie of the evening, but if someone else wanted to watch it (my Dad has a soft spot for the movie, so when I'm visiting he occasionally decides he's in the mood for a viewing) I'll watch it. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! <cite>darkknight109 posted [p:903557941] in What's the... [t:76723550]...</cite> <quote><cite>Zeus posted...</cite> <quote><cite>darkknight109 posted...</cite> <quote>The prequels were not just tremendously awful movies (Episodes II and III in particular), but they were supposed to be - and easily could have been - incredible. There really is no other choice here. You can say have the opinion that other movies were worse, but objectively there really is no topping the prequels for how hyped they were and how badly they fell short of the mark.</quote> I'm a little surprised that you put more emphasis on II and III, given that I squandered so much of its run time.</quote> No argument that TPM was a complete waste of time - you could skip Episode I altogether and you wouldn't have missed any important plot points - but of the three it was, in my opinion, the most enjoyable of the bunch (not that that's a particularly high standard to reach). Liam Neeson anchored the cast and provided a much stronger central character than Hayden Christiensen could manage in the two sequels (Neeson's acting chops showed here, as he managed to take a completely flat and uninteresting character and still pull a half-decent performance out of bad writing). The plot is nonsensical and logically inconsistent, but not nearly to the degree of Episode II, and its pacing isn't mangled to all hell like Episode III. It lacks the downright putrescent cringey-romance scenes that took up far too much time in its successors and the final battle is more coherent than anything the other two movies could manage. And while I know this is not a widely shared opinion, I think that Jar Jar Binks and the podracing sequence aren't nearly as bad as people make them out to be. Of the three prequels, Episode I is the only one that I would ever bother watching again. I don't think I would ever willingly pick it as my movie of the evening, but if someone else wanted to watch it (my Dad has a soft spot for the movie, so when I'm visiting he occasionally decides he's in the mood for a viewing) I'll watch it. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror!</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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