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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
You know its funny, because expectations and memories and some bad choices really didn't serve the Star Wars prequels at all.
I like the phantom menace except for two elements. Jar Jar Binks and Jake Lloyd. Jar Jar Binks was just stupid and it looks like George Lucas realized that when he cut back his time in AOTC's and made him one of the key players in the fall of the republic. Jake Lloyd just couldn't pull the role off. But the action in the movie for the most part was fantastic. Liam Neilson and Ewan Macgregor were excellent, the light sabre fight at the end was really well done. And I really enjoyed the Palpatine moments.
Attack of the Clones wasn't terrible. I didn't like the whiny Anikan, but I think he was a teenager and all teenagers suck errrr whine. There were a lot of good elements in the movie, the battle scenes were well done. Christopher Lloyd was solid as always. Ewan MacGregor was very good as Obi Wan. I liked it.
I really liked attack of the Sith. The sabre fights at the end were amazingly well done. I liked the dialogue and portrayal of Skywalker/Vader in the book a bit better because it made more sense. The battle scene at the start was to me awesome. And Palpatine made the movie.
I just saw them againt the other week, turned off my critical brain and enjoyed them a lot.
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I guess my problem with them is that aside from the music, they don't feel like Star Wars movies at all. Sometimes there is simply too much going on. And personally, I'm sick of huge epic war scenes. I loved Braveheart, and now it seems like every movie needs some huge epic million-man battle.
It wasn't just Jar Jar Binks that ruined Star Wars for me, it was:
- OVER CGI'd to HELL! (Star Trek has real sets, and even this new one has lots of real sets).
- Even more annoying droid voices/banter.
- Massive over-use of the light saber. It stopped being cool.
- Ewan McGregor's innate ability to over-act.
- WTFs his name who played Anikin simply cannot act at all. I thought their apocalyptic light-saber duel looked cheesy and was anti-climactic. Luke's battles with Darth in ESB and ROTJ were 1,000,000-times more satisfying. Especially ESB.
- The space-ships looked like they were made of polished porcelain. The new Trek makes a big deal of showing you how much metal the ship is actually made of.
- The force was cooler before it became a plot-hole. Why is it that sometimes they can blow over entire batallions of troops but others couldn't possibly concentrate enough to pull down a narrowly-missed ascending spaceship?