I'd say the prequels are the blue shaded horse butt. The sequel trilogy is bad but in a normal way. I couldn't ever call myself a prequel fan I'm the traditional sense, but I am deeply deeply fascinated by them. Not cause of anything done well, but the sheer auteurship of heat was done badly and how it changed films for the worse in almost an inverse manner to the originals, Lucas's brain and his relationship to the franchise while making them and a bunch of other stuff. I don't like them but it's thebthre movies I've thought about bmthe most by a wiiiiiide margin over the last 20 years because they are just absolutely fascinating as insaid before and can't come up with a better word.
I still don't understand how the company whose other studio has been planning out their vast interconnected franchise 10+ years in advance couldn't think that maybe they should write out the general plot of a whole trilogy beforehand.
Yeah, but in a boring corporate way, which the prequels for sure had some of but they seems down level more from the movies, George just knew he had to include toyetic things, the relationship between marketing and films wasn't alllll the way to the point of merchandise dictating the entirety of the movies and George Lucas had unfair amounts of clout. It was the artistic vision of a very boring madman and I salute that at the least.
If I had to choose between watching prequels and watching the Disney trilogy, I'd choose the prequels without hesitation, even as bad movies, because there's something there to observe that stands out. As you say, the Disney trilogy is boring and corporate with puffed up auteur slapfight characteristics explaining the whiplash between each of the three movies.
I have like, an academic interst in the prequels if anything. The content, politics, philosophy and all that and how weirdly bad it was all handled is just an endless source of interest to me. They're just so fucking weird
I'd say the prequels are the blue shaded horse butt. The sequel trilogy is bad but in a normal way. I couldn't ever call myself a prequel fan I'm the traditional sense, but I am deeply deeply fascinated by them. Not cause of anything done well, but the sheer auteurship of heat was done badly and how it changed films for the worse in almost an inverse manner to the originals, Lucas's brain and his relationship to the franchise while making them and a bunch of other stuff. I don't like them but it's thebthre movies I've thought about bmthe most by a wiiiiiide margin over the last 20 years because they are just absolutely fascinating as insaid before and can't come up with a better word.
Rise of Skywalker was special levels of chimeric patchwork bad, overcorrecting for everything that Rian Johnson did in the movie before it.
I still don't understand how the company whose other studio has been planning out their vast interconnected franchise 10+ years in advance couldn't think that maybe they should write out the general plot of a whole trilogy beforehand.
The sheer gravitas of the incompetence really pisses me off
Yeah, but in a boring corporate way, which the prequels for sure had some of but they seems down level more from the movies, George just knew he had to include toyetic things, the relationship between marketing and films wasn't alllll the way to the point of merchandise dictating the entirety of the movies and George Lucas had unfair amounts of clout. It was the artistic vision of a very boring madman and I salute that at the least.
If I had to choose between watching prequels and watching the Disney trilogy, I'd choose the prequels without hesitation, even as bad movies, because there's something there to observe that stands out. As you say, the Disney trilogy is boring and corporate with puffed up auteur slapfight characteristics explaining the whiplash between each of the three movies.
I have like, an academic interst in the prequels if anything. The content, politics, philosophy and all that and how weirdly bad it was all handled is just an endless source of interest to me. They're just so fucking weird
I feel the same about Star Citizen as an ongoing 10+ year old accidental performance art piece of bad management and scope creep.
It also deflects from how big of a trek and Babylon 5 nerd I am
i don't think there's a better way to describe him
Episode IX's plot is so bad I feel I could write something better, and I'm not even overestimating my abilities - just insulting the writer team's.