Anyone a fan of the Star Wars prequels?

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I actually thoroughly enjoyed the prequels...also I think Jar Jar is cool.

I think the prequels get a bad rap. Nothing can probably beat the epic Battle of Hoth from The Empire Strikes Back, but I mostly enjoyed the prequels, especially episode I and III.

IMO they made 3 major mistakes when making the prequels:

1. Casting Hayden Christensen as Anakin Skywalker in Episode II and III
2. The addition of Jar Jar Binks as a character
3. Killing off Darth Maul too soon

Despite the hatred towards Jar Jar (From myself included), the casting decision of Anakin is likely the most detrimental to the franchise because he is the main character of the prequels. I found his Dark Side boasts in Revenge of the Sith to be exceptionally cringe-worthy.

That being said, there is (again, IMO) a lot more acting talent in the prequels than the original trilogy (I particularly liked Liam Neeson, Christopher Lee and the much greater role for Ian McDiarmid), the battle choreography is infinitely better, the special effects are better, the music is mostly better (the only exception being the legendary Luke v. Vader theme).

... and Samuel L. Jackson has a purple lightsaber. Your counter-arguments are invalid.

I didn't find the casting of Anakin to be a problem. A lot of the issue was the horribly done dialogue. Yes, Star Wars is supposed to have cheesy lines, but they really didn't do a good job with it in the prequels. I also felt one of the biggest issues was casting Natalie Portman as Amidala in part because she has all of the romantic talent of a brain dead chimp writhing on the ground. At least Christensen was able to pull off the creepy, stalkerish obsession of Anakin properly, but Portman only had real romantic chemistry in Black Swan and considering she was banging the dance choreographer we all know why.

Let's settle this, once and for all.

In my humble opinion, i think the prequels get too much hate.I can see how average movie goers with just say "they sucked!" and leave it at that.

But for me I love Star Wars so much, that i can't hate the prequels. I love star wars as a saga.

One problem i notice with critics is they never seem to include the clone wars, despite the series being canon.The series helped fix alot of issiues the prequel trillogy had.

There is definitely a fair bit of band-wagoning going on. I remember when I first got into Star Wars as a teenager and started reading about it online and I was utterly shocked at how hated the prequels were, and at the time I had absolutely no idea why. It is just fashionable to hate on them, it's like how Star Trek fans try to pretend that the JJ Abrams reboots don't exist. I think the key problem in both of these cases is the tonal shift, the hated movies simply don't 'feel' the same as the classic ones.

I did try to watch the Clone Wars, I got through a season and a bit, but I just couldn’t get over the childish cartoony style, I had to minimise it every time someone walked past my room. I would have preferred it was done in a more traditional anime-like style.

I have noticed though that a lot of fans seem to have a new appreciation for the prequels lately, firstly because of the Darth JarJar theory, and secondly because TFA turned out to be a rehash of A New Hope.

I am convinced that prequel hate was the key reason why TFA turned out to be so unoriginal, they were desperate to convince fans that these new movies wouldn’t be like the prequels. For example, if they had gone into more detail about the political situation and what the Republic, Resistance and First Order actually are, of course the fans would hate that and would draw parallels to the Phantom Menace. In fact pretty much any criticism of TFA that I have come across can be easily explained by the simple fact that if they had done it any differently, the fans would have hated it.

I'd be lying if I said TFA wasn't a pure fanservice flick for people disappointed by the prequel trilogy. But again, I don't get why people take Star Wars so seriously. TFA was a fun popcorn flick, a little bit mindless, but still entertaining. Plus, I really think Kylo Ren is a cool villain, even though he's a cliche tortured young man like Anakin was in RotS... though I'll admit that such angsty, over the top characters are a guilty pleasure of mine.

It's hard for me to talk at length about it without really spoiling too much though. I know there are still people out there who want to see it, but can't afford a ticket, and don't want to resort to piracy. That's understandable; as I've only seen a crappy cam-rip, I'm hoping I still have a chance to catch it in a theater myself, but chances aren't that great since it premiered almost a month ago. I dunno, do theaters still do cheaper off-hours showings for movies that have been out for a while? I at least want to actually show my support for the people who made it rather than being a mere freeloader like I usually am with these things.

They arnt perfect films by any stretch of the imagination, but they arnt as terrible as people like to make them out to be.

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