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the battle of the trilogies

The prequels and anyone who says otherwise is delusional or lying.

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Prequels.

Sequels were shit too but at least they were funny shit. Prequels were just fucking boring and bad.

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The prequels aren't just bad, they're boring which is arguably a much worse sin

The prequels were terrible

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the sequels, and anyone who says otherwise is suffering from recency bias.

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The prequels are basically unwatchable.
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Holiday Special, Caravan of Courage, Battle for Endor.

Phynaster posted...

The prequels and anyone who says otherwise is delusional or lying.

there is no way any of the sequels can be called good.

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Sequels were my least favorite. The Prequels definitely weren't great movies, but Episode 3 was fun at least. They also brought me my favorite time period of Star Wars, so they're higher up than the Sequels for me.

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Smashingpmkns posted...

The prequels are basically unwatchable.

prequuels at least make sense. Episode 9 is borderline unwatchable.

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Ludwig Von 2 posted...

prequuels at least make sense. Episode 9 is borderline unwatchable.

See, that's why I find the sequels funny. They're so nonsensical and disconnected and just reek of "Thing happens for no reason with no lasting consequences" that its kind of fascinatingly stupid.

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Ludwig Von 2 posted...

prequuels at least make sense. Episode 9 is borderline unwatchable.

Not really. Episode 9 is the worst out of the sequels by far and it's still way better than episode 3.
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Ot: sweet cool.villian, sweet cool arc, sweet cool heroes.

Prequel: this emperor fucks the force into creating his demise. Also nanomachines

Sequel: this emperor fucks literally into creating his super real demise. Also fuck hyperspace, did you know you can gather the entire galaxy in about 20 minutes with one dude and they all show up at the exact same second? Also that dude wants to fuck his daughter. Also pay no attention to how we're making all the storm troopers black.

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SevenTenths posted...

Ot: sweet cool.villian, sweet cool arc, sweet cool heroes.

Prequel: this emperor fucks the force into creating his demise. Also nanomachines

Sequel: this emperor fucks literally into creating his super real demise. Also fuck hyperspace, did you know you can gather the entire galaxy in about 20 minutes with one dude and they all show up at the exact same second? Also that dude wants to fuck his daughter. Also pay no attention to how we're making all the storm troopers black.

if we were just going on these biased premise breakdowns sure but there's the matter of the execution

SevenTenths posted...

Also pay no attention to how we're making all the storm troopers black.

Ahhhh there it is.

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Ep 9 is so bad that even if 7 and 8 had been OT level good, the ST would still be the worst trilogy overall.

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The dialogue of the prequels is just so terrible, but at least it had solid characters and a cohesive plot. The sequels are a garbage fire. The only positive takeaway I have from the sequel trilogy is Adam Driver as Kylo Ren.

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The sequels.

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Neckhomachus posted...

if we were just going on these biased premise breakdowns sure but there's the matter of the execution

Both horribly, but one with an actual 3 movie plan?

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SevenTenths posted...

Both horribly, but one with an actual 3 movie plan?

Sure, but the one with the plan was actually like a hundred times more horribly done imo

The prequels are even bad on a technical level. They do absolutely nothing good, or even decent, at any point as movies.

I take that back. Ian McDiarmid was on Raul Julia Street Fighter levels of scenery chewing in RotS. That is the one bright spot.

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Oh wow.... I didn't know CE was this fucked up to have the sequels on a higher pedestal than 1, 2, and 3. Damn... ya'll

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hockeybub89 posted...

The prequels are even bad on a technical level. They do absolutely nothing good, or even decent, at any point as movies.

That's what I'm sayin dog

Neckhomachus posted...

Sure, but the one with the plan was actually like a hundred times more horribly done imo

No, it just had jar jar which was like 3 movies of purple hair lady. Once you learn to tune him out the prequels go from awful to Meh at least theres some cool scenes. Where as the sequels cool scenes all require you to just accept that there is no logic in star wars now. And goes so far that if you do think about it, it makes the other movies even worse. anakin learns reys force heal, padme lives, no more Vader.

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SevenTenths posted...

purple hair lady

Phynaster posted...

Ahhhh there it is.

hockeybub89 posted...

The prequels are even bad on a technical level. They do absolutely nothing good, or even decent, at any point as movies

Maul fight. Big jedi battle in ep3. Purple saber. N64 pod racing. Teaching kids the importance of intergalactic trade relationships.

Plus the cgi aged poorly sure, but those were amazing for their time.

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Ugh, a Geeks and Gamers viewer. The weirdo righties are the reason extremely legitimate criticisms of the Sequels get ignored lmao

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I can appreciate the general lore and mythology happening in the prequels, even if the execution is botched. Its sort of like Dragon Ball Z in a way. You know its trash, but theres just something compelling about watching the myth evolve over time.

The sequels are completely redundant as an arc, bringing nothing new to the table and leaving the universe in the same place it was at the end of RotJ. (Most of this is on Abrams for resetting everything in TFA, but still)

As movies, theyre pretty, but nothing really exciting. The same old familiar set-pieces with shinier graphics and wider shots to make the world seem bigger. Its pretty, just not exciting. the plot keeps working against itself. Between Rian and Abrams it feels like this old fake storytelling meme







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Medussa posted...

the sequels, and anyone who says otherwise is suffering from recency bias.

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At least the prequels had a few entertaining scenes. Every second of the sequels were terrible.

I'm biased and grew up with the prequels, which had a non-negligible effect on my childhood so.

Sequels were worse.

At least the prequels make logical coherent sense, even if like half or so of 1 and most of 2 is boring and relatively poorly executed.

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The scenes aren't even that cool in the prequels. The visuals aged like milk and the flippy fighting is goofy as shit. The sequels aren't great, but they are passable movies that became victim to poor decision making.

But George Lucas managed to not get in a disagreement with himself, so he gets a gold star and the actual movies he made can be ignored. He had an idea!

I can see why they were so cool when we were kids, but it is all nostalgia and some weird overselling of the Star Wars film franchise.

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AlisLandale posted...

I can appreciate the general lore and mythology happening in the prequels, even if the execution is botched. Its sort of like Dragon Ball Z in a way. You know its trash, but theres just something compelling about watching the myth evolve over time.

The sequels are completely redundant as an arc, bringing nothing new to the table and leaving the universe in the same place it was at the end of RotJ. (Most of this is on Abrams for resetting everything in TFA, but still)

As movies, theyre pretty, but nothing really exciting. The same old familiar set-pieces with shinier graphics and wider shots to make the world seem bigger. Its pretty, just not exciting. the plot keeps working against itself. Between Rian and Abrams it feels like this old fake storytelling meme

Lmao that's gold.

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The prequels are garbage but some good stuff like the Clone Wars cartoon came from them. I don't think the sequel trilogy is bad however now that it's over and a decent bit of time has passed, the story that was told in those movies was not particularly memorable or really worth telling.

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thrashmetal14 posted...

At least the prequels had a few entertaining scenes. Every second of the sequels were terrible.

Nah , hyperspace attack is the single most gorgeous scene in all 9 movies. And kylo freezing the bolt in tfa is awesome. And the red room fight is awesome until YouTube ruins it for you. But that's the problem with the sequels, there is always something to ruin it. kylo helmet temper tantrum, Mary Poppins, poor background choreography.

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AlisLandale posted...

Between Rian and Abrams it feels like this old fake storytelling meme

I'm not sure what lesson I was supposed to learn, but that was a fun read.

The only cool scene from the prequels was the Maul fight and even that was pretty not that great other than the music lol people complain about the TLJ saber scene as being nonsense choreographed dancing while thats 100% of the saber fights from the prequels.
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SevenTenths posted...

Maul fight. Big jedi battle in ep3. Purple saber. N64 pod racing. Teaching kids the importance of intergalactic trade relationships.

Plus the cgi aged poorly sure, but those were amazing for their time.

Little of that is cool and none of it is executed. The only reason RotS even looks good is because the first two movies were so boring. That entire movie is a meme because all of those scenes are so fucking awful, not because they are cool.

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hockeybub89 posted...

The sequels aren't great, but they are passable movies that became victim to poor decision making.

TFA is a boring retread of the original trilogy with all the interesting content relegated to mystery box plot hooks for the next movie.

TLJ unceremoniously drops literally every single one of those plot hooks, and still doesnt movie the story forward with its new direction, because being anti-climactic is high art.Then it tries to make a bunch of statements on war and the human condition but manages to be hypocritical about every one of those as well. >_>

RoS is the only barely watchable film, and thats only if youre holding an X-Box Controller and pretending to watch the worlds longest video game cutscene <_<

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AlisLandale posted...

TFA is a boring retread of the original trilogy with all the interesting content relegated to mystery box plot hooks for the next movie.

TLJ unceremoniously drops literally every single one of those plot hooks, and still doesnt movie the story forward with its new direction, because being anti-climactic is high art.Then it tries to make a bunch of statements on war and the human condition but manages to be hypocritical about every one of those as well. >_>

RoS is the only barely watchable film, and thats only if youre holding an X-Box Controller and pretending to watch the worlds longest video game cutscene <_<

I didn't say the sequels were a good trilogy. I think they are better at being movies. George Lucas having an idea is not an accomplishment when the idea and the execution are both awful. I am more likely to leave a prequel movie on TV, but that means little. The Room is interestingly bad, but I'm not going to say that makes it a better film than some paint-by-numbers period piece that you forget after you watch it. I'd rather be forgotten than laughed at for eternity.

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AlisLandale posted...

TLJ unceremoniously drops literally every single one of those plot hooks, and still doesnt movie the story forward with its new direction,

Literally sets up kylo as the main villain, sets up the spark of the resistance, and breaks star wars from being about one dude. And setting up rey to start her order of jedi. Because Disney didn't have the balls to run with it doesn't mean it didn't do it.

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The sequel trilogy for being nothing but a nonsensical cash grab from Disney. Prequel trilogy is the best and some people liked the original trilogy I guess so that takes the middle spot.

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the prequels were bad but they set up a pretty great universe with lots of lore that fit into the already-awesome star wars universe.

think about all the games and things that have spun-off from the prequels that were awesome. bounty hunter. podracing. "the mandalorian" show wouldn't be what it is without the development of jango (as terrible of a character as he is, on his own, in the movies). the whole concept of the darths, and just the addition of the force and the overall universe, really added a lot to star wars and made a cool world to set things in.

what do the sequels do? what do they add to the lore, or to the world? what kind of games would spin-off from the sequels...superman space flying? space horse riding? shoot the flying stormtrooper games? space casino? the lore and universe it added to star wars was uninteresting and lacked any sense of familiarity, coolness, or style. everything was just being pushed solely on the plot, which itself was a piece of shit in every movie.

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I'm probs in the minority but idt the prequels should get credit for good games or shows that cover that era

Guerrilla Soldier posted...

what kind of games would spin-off from the sequels

uh... starkiller base railshooter?

There has been rumors for a few years that there would be a new star wars mmo set after episode 9. But who knows

Sequels.

I think only on CE is this a viable argument.

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The sequels were unwatchable horse shit

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