having a star wars marathon with the fam

 
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started with the phantom menace on the twelfth, attack of the clones yesterday, and just finished revenge of the sith

remind me why these movies are bad again

you know, because i just love starting shit


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A flower which blooms on the battlefield
Why are you watching them chronologically? That's like playing MGS chronologically.


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i wasn't a fan of the anakin padamaymay romance, it felt really forced. Apart from that I enjoyed the films.


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They aren't tbh

Just nerds being nerds.


 
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Why are you watching them chronologically? That's like playing MGS chronologically.
*shrug* that's what we do

i tried talking them into machete order, but my mother was like "why, that's dumb"


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hey
I did the same, since they aired on TV, except they went 4, 5, 6, 1, 2, 3

Definitely didn't enjoy the prequels as much


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Literally no likable characters except for Obi Wan
Shit acting except for Obi Wan
Butchering of fan loved characters except for Obi Wan
Pretty shit story, even worse next to the original trilogy

What makes you like them so much because you just seem like a hipster fag


 
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Literally no likable characters except for Obi Wan
anakin (was annoying in TPM, but w/e)
qui-gon
padme
palpatine
jar jar
3PO and R2
dooku
mace windu
yoda
jango
grievous
etc.
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Shit acting except for Obi Wan
acting is the shittiest possible reason to gauge a movie's quality
and it wasn't even that bad
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Butchering of fan loved characters except for Obi Wan
like who
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Pretty shit story, even worse next to the original trilogy
i'll give you that


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A flower which blooms on the battlefield
acting is the shittiest possible reason to gauge a movie's quality
How


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remind me why these movies are bad again



Phantom menace was just eh, nowhere near as bad as everyone makes them out to be, and still enjoyable at points but it still wasn't what i'd consider "good" by any stretch of the imagination. It suffered mainly from lack of focus, mild pacing issues, pretty boring characters, and overuse of CG.

Attack of the Clones was godawful, the CG was on par with Jimmy Neutron Happy Family Happy Hour, the overuse of it was taken to the billionth degree, Anikin was a fucking awful character and an unrelatable tool, the interaction between characters was absolutely atrocious as if George Lucas had never interacted with another human being in his life before, and the story was fucking shite.

Revenge of the Sith was OK. CG was still overused, pacing was still off and the acting was still bad at times, they made Yoda a complete fucking shit-teir fighter....oh and Count Douku...but if you can appreciate it for what it was going for its much more entertaining to watch, plus, I absolutely love Sidious in this movie, and Anikin as nowhere near as shitty as he was in Attack of the Clones and is much more understandable in his actions and not just a whiny bitch.

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(Daily reminder that Jar-Jar wasn't that bad)



 
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acting is the shittiest possible reason to gauge a movie's quality
How
because it doesn't really affect anything in the story

a good story is a good story whether it's badly acted or not
good dialogue is good dialogue regardless of how poorly it's delivered

same goes for the soundtrack, the effects, the cinematography--everything

acting is like, the last thing you should care about


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I love you, son.
The prequels have classic sheev moments.
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Why are you watching them chronologically? That's like playing MGS chronologically.
*shrug* that's what we do

i tried talking them into machete order, but my mother was like "why, that's dumb"
Machete order is a p bad way to watch the movies, as it just misses out an entire movie.


 
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Machete order is a p bad way to watch the movies, as it just misses out an entire movie.
a movie that, in all honesty, holds no bearing on the rest of the general plot
that's why it's skipped

but i mean, i would've watched it anyway--precisely after empire, because i don't like the idea of skipping movies either


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You constantly post about how Star Wars is bad, so you tell us edgelord.


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]anakin (was annoying in TPM, but w/e)
qui-gon
padme
palpatine
jar jar
3PO and R2
dooku
mace windu
yoda
jango
grievous
etc.

Most of those characters are just faces in the background and we didn't get to know them at all
Qui Gon had such potential but then they killed him off in the first movie
And lol Jar Jar

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acting is the shittiest possible reason to gauge a movie's quality
and it wasn't even that bad

Not really
It can really make or break a movie
Especially when you have such a shitty script as the prequels

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like who

C3PO turned into from funny to just annoying and the R2 + C3PO chemistry wasn't there
Yoda did nothing but sit in a counsel
And obviously Anakin
What they did to him was unforgivable 


 
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You constantly post about how Star Wars is bad, so you tell us edgelord.
they were all entertaining movies

i just love anakin's story--i thought it was very well-executed on all fronts

the scenery and atmosphere is all beautiful, the score is amazing, and the characters are likable
and they were all well-acted, with the exception of jake lloyd, but he was just a little kid so whatever


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I think the biggest single problem other than the overused CGi, shoddy acting and pacing issues that muddies most of the Prequel Trilogy is the retarded and illogical bullshit that Anikin gets angsty over, espesialy in Attack of The Clones Next to nothing Anikin whines about in AotK is even a valid complaint, like when he keeps ranting about Obi Wan holding him back; How? When the fuck did anything like that ever take place?

It's mostly gone in Revenge of the Sith, but not completely. Remeber how he gets butthurt that they didn't grant him the title of Jedi Master when they appointed him to the Council, even though he clearly understood that his appointment was purely political and not because he actually earned the place.

All this things heavily detract from the important conflicts with the Jedi Order that turn him to the Dark Side and make him just look like a spoiled crybaby who was always a bad seed.


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uhhh...

- korrie
started with the phantom menace on the twelfth, attack of the clones yesterday, and just finished revenge of the sith

remind me why these movies are bad again

you know, because i just love starting shit
Episode III is sooo good.


 
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Most of those characters are just faces in the background and we didn't get to know them at all
Qui Gon had such potential but then they killed him off in the first movie
And lol Jar Jar
We don't need to know everything about them.
Qui-Gon should've at least come back as a force ghost or something, sure, I agree.
Jar Jar was great.

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Not really
It can really make or break a movie
Especially when you have such a shitty script as the prequels
Never once has my opinion of a movie came down to its acting--ever. It doesn't matter.

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C3PO turned into from funny to just annoying and the R2 + C3PO chemistry wasn't there
Yoda did nothing but sit in a counsel
And obviously Anakin
What they did to him was unforgivable
C3PO was always pretty annoying, really, but in an endearing way.
That's just not true.
Anakin was portrayed very well.


 
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fuck you
Obi wan is my hero


 
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I think the biggest single problem other than the overused CGi, shoddy acting and pacing issues that muddies most of the Prequel Trilogy is the retarded and illogical bullshit that Anikin gets angsty over, espesialy in Attack of The Clones Next to nothing Anikin whines about in AotK is even a valid complaint, like when he keeps ranting about Obi Wan holding him back; How? When the fuck did anything like that ever take place?
have you watched the movie

i mean, it's pretty clear
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It's mostly gone in Revenge of the Sith, but not completely. Remeber how he gets butthurt that they didn't grant him the title of Jedi Master when they appointed him to the Council, even though he clearly understood that his appointment was purely political and not because he actually earned the place.
so because anakin is a flawed character instead of a mary sue, he's bad

all right


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And you know what? If the romance in Episode II wasnt so damn forced and was actualy handled well, that would have been such a major issue with the Prequels's narrative gone, and Anikin's fall to the Dark Side because of it would have been so much more fondly remembered.


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so because anakin is a flawed character instead of a mary sue, he's bad

all right

Way to ignore everything I said and put words in my mouth.
 
No I don't want a Mary Sue, Anikin can have flaws, but the probem is that he was horribly portrayed. He had no redeeming qualiies at all in Attack on the Clones, he was a socially awkward asshole, and he constantly bitched about shit that didn't even happen, and the romance with Padme was completely forced and totaly awkward and those where his defining characteristics.

They were trying to go for someone who's personality was completely incomparable with the Jedi Code, and have the pressure of that lifestyle and the prophesy eating away at him, a great concept in on paper and they did give him some very workable personality traits that complemented this role and could have made for a verry likable and relatable character, but they failed completely.


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We don't need to know everything about them.
Qui-Gon should've at least come back as a force ghost or something, sure, I agree.
Jar Jar was great.

We don't need to know them but they were more interesting than the protagonists who we had to sit through all three movies with

How was Jar Jar great?
In the sense that you weren't laughing at his character the whole movie

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Never once has my opinion of a movie came down to its acting--ever. It doesn't matter.

Not even in drama?

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Anakin was portrayed very well.

The only point in which Anakin became interesting was the second half of Episode III

The rest of the time, he was literally a teenager going through puberty
Failed to deliver on any potential set up in the original trilogy
And it doesn't help that he was played by the worst actor in the franchise   


 
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He had no redeeming qualiies at all in Attack on the Clones
why does he need any

his redeeming quality is that he's entertaining to watch--it's fun in a tragic way to watch someone lose himself

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he was a socially awkward asshole, and he constantly bitched about shit that didn't even happen, and the romance with Padme was completely forced and totaly awkward and those where his defining characteristics.
i can't think of a romance that was executed well
it's all awkward and unnecessary

well, it was necessary in this case, because luke and leia had to be born
so i don't know, i consider that a necessary evil

also, being a socially-awkward asshole character doesn't make him a bad character
he's still likable because we can relate to him

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They were trying to go for someone who's personality was completely incomparable with the Jedi Code, and have the pressure of that lifestyle and the prophesy eating away at him, a great concept in on paper and they did give him some very workable personality traits that complemented this role and could have made for a verry likable and relatable character, but they failed completely.
they didn't though
they pulled it off rather well, if you ask me


 
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We don't need to know them but they were more interesting than the protagonists who we had to sit through all three movies with

How was Jar Jar great?
In the sense that you weren't laughing at his character the whole movie
maybe, but i still like that

and jar jar was great because you were laughing at him the whole movie
he's comic relief--that's his whole purpose, and he fulfilled that purpose reasonably well

he's the lovable idiot

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Not even in drama?
not even in drama

i can appreciate good acting, don't get me wrong, but
it's not going to make or a break a movie for me, as you say

it's just not
there are other aspects of the film to focus on

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The only point in which Anakin became interesting was the second half of Episode III

The rest of the time, he was literally a teenager going through puberty
Failed to deliver on any potential set up in the original trilogy
And it doesn't help that he was played by the worst actor in the franchise
hayden christensen did a fine job
he's my favorite actor in the series, actually

he was interesting the whole way through


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I don't hate the prequels because they don't live up to the OG trilogy (they don't btw), I hate them because they are just straight up mediocre movies. Bad writing, acting, story. They are straight up boring to watch. Attack of the Clones is a complete snore-fest.


 
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I don't hate the prequels because they don't live up to the OG trilogy (they don't btw), I hate them because they are just straight up mediocre movies. Bad writing, acting, story. They are straight up boring to watch. Attack of the Clones is a complete snore-fest.
funny, i feel the exact same way about the original trilogy

which i am not looking forward to watching over the next three days


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and jar jar was great because you were laughing at him the whole movie
he's comic relief--that's his whole purpose, and he fulfilled that purpose reasonably well

he's the lovable idiot

But only after rewatching it
When you still took it seriously, each joke was painful
The gags were boring and cliche

He was only funny in the same way you watch bad movies to laugh

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hayden christensen did a fine job
he's my favorite actor in the series, actually

he was interesting the whole way through

Dude
What was so interesting about him