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FrozenBananas posted...

Phantom Menace is ok. Attack of the Clones is the worst of the entire SW franchise

lol no.

So very, very no.



Blightzkrieg posted...

But Attack of the Clones needs to exist while TPM doesn't

To be fair, neither of them really need to exist. The original trilogy told a self-contained story, and even if it occasionally mentioned things that happened before, we didn't need to go back to SEE those things. We already know that Anakin becomes Vader. We know Palps is evil and turns the Republic into the Empire. We know they hunt down the Jedi. Leaving those things in the past makes them almost mythological - making movies about them brings them down to mundanity, and when those movies wind up being terrible, it makes all of those moments lame.

The Solo comparison was apt - Solo's entire backstory is intriguing because it's a mystery. Seeing a lame telling of what he was like when he was younger, and trying to cram references to all the things we already know about him into one mediocre film robs all of those moments of almost all of their actual appeal. In the same way, we'd have been much better off never seeing anything that happened before Luke began his own story. The Prequels aren't a story that NEEDED to be told.

And if it HAD been a story that needed to be told, it's a story that should have been told much, much better than it was.

The only reason the prequels exist at all is because Lucas ran out of characters and concepts from the original movies to make toys out of, so decided he needed to make a few more movies to expand the line and allow him to make another few billion in merch money.
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