There are two kinds of people who hate the prequels
1) Fat neckbeards in their early to mid 40s who feel betrayed by based George.
>"That fucking scumbag screwed us over. I'm not buying any more Jedi robes or lightsaber merchandise."
2) Millennials who grew up with them and later decided that they are 2cool for the prequels
>"Yeah, even as a kid, I knew that they were complete garbage. Oh by the way you should watch this RedLetterMedia video."
Which one are you?
Number 2 senpai
>not being both
I liked Batman and Robin as a kid, does that make it a good movie?
There is one kind of person who likes any starwars film
Neckbeards
>>64057133
Actually every kind of person hates the prequels
>>64057133
neither
the prequels were good
they're children's movies, granted, but there's nothing wrong with them
nostalgia fags or hipsters.
People are too hard on George
I was a teenager when rots rolled around and couldnt tell what was going on because every frame was 90 percent cgi
>>64057133
There are two kinds of people who defend things on 4chan
1) The "Everyone who disagrees with me is a fat fedora neckbeard from Reddit"
2) The "I'll just leave this smug anime waifu image to prove my point"
Which one are you?
>>64057232
Because trade embargoes and senate meetings make excellent children's film fare.
>>64057133
I don't watch Star Wars because I'm not a cuck manchild
>>64057422
Hello Reddit
>>64057460
you need to have had a girlfriend to be a cuck
>>64057422
yo reddit
>>64057133
>Millennials who grew up with them and later decided that they are 2cool for the prequels
This is very true. I know a guy who loved them when he was younger. We were at a bar once like two years ago and started talking star wars, and he literally started quoting the RLM videos and kept telling me to watch them.
I'm the third kind: never liked any of the fucking movies to begin with - Empire excepted, of course.
But I have children and they wanted to see it, so I had to go.
>>64057422
Whats good, reddit?
>le prequels are bad meme
Hello reddit!
>>64057133
>Millennials who grew up with them and later decided that they are 2cool for the prequels
People grow up, my man.
>>64057133
I'm #2 but I don't think the prequels suck they are just 6/10 mediocre. But rots is actually rotj level true star wars movie
>>64057592
I was at a bar a few years ago with this pale kid i used to know as a kid, he was tutting and flinching at everything in the bar i didn't really get it, i mentioned these funny internet reviews he might like when he started spluttering about star wars and he had a mental breakdown.
Started screaming and crying about how Jar Jar Binx was creative and bold or something, haven't talked to him much since then
>>64057133
>1) Fat neckbeards in their early to mid 40s who feel betrayed by based George.
But I'm 39.
>>64057133
I just dislike Star Wars in general.
>>64057133
I turn 40 years old in a week.
I am more /fit/ than OP, or anyone else on this board, even though I am married and have a child.
The prequels are garbage compared to the OT.
Only faggoty millenials defend the prequels.
OP is a fag.
>>64057133
The dialogue is a bit shit and I hated the awkward romance subplot, other than that, I really enjoy the prequels, Sheev is too based to hate.
>>64057699
DUDE PLINKETT LMAO
I hate this new love for the prequels and I hate /tv/. Fuck you.
>>64057794
Go back to reddit.
>>64057751
how old is your wife's kid?
The thing about the prequels is that the main focus of them (Anakin) was handled very poorly.
Sheev was 10/10 though.
>>64057831
hello there reddit
The prequels were much better written, they had actual characters and story, not a bunch of memes and one-liners that lack any emotion or coherence. Luke is a cliched everyboy "hero" that goes through an absurdly rapid transformation between the fifth and the sixth episodes. Anakin's emotional instability and his exposure as a psychopath are gripping; and his doomed relationship with Padme is touching. In the "original trilogy" Han, Leia, Darth Vader and Obi Wan are complete meme characters, nothing about them is remotely believable or human. And why doesn't anyone care about deaths in those movies? Leia's planet destruction, Luke's stepparents' death, all of the blown up rebels--the list could go on--all the deaths are forgotten moments later.
As for direction, the movies from the "original trilogy" were mostly incoherent, badly edited and full of logical problems. The prequel trilogy is a work of a "vulgar auteur".
I feel neutral about the series overall, and honestly don't care about trolling or contrarianism. Here are my sincere rankings:
1. "Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones"
2. "Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace"
3. "Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith"
4. "Star Wars"
5. "The Empire Strikes Back"
6. "Return of the Jedi"
7.
8. "The Force Awakens"
Episode 7 isn't even a Star Wars movies. It is a Marvel flick masquerading as one.
Me and my wife ex husband are number one
A lot of them are people who are unable to form their own opinions so they just jumped on the bandwagon. It's very cool to hate the prequels so they hate the prequels.
in a few years this entire board will devolve into people saying reddit back and forth with no actual conversation.
Used to be number 2 until I decieded I was gonna hate tfa and started cutting the prequls slack and started retroactively dislking rlm
>>64057939
Good evening reddit!
>>64057751
Nobody gives a fuck about your dad bod you fuck. Clearly your life is so interesting if you browse /tv/of all places. Have fun taking your wife's son to the movies and enjoying her strapon.
As someone who watched all of the Star Wars movies for the first time when i was 20 i think the prequels are shit simply because they are shit tbqfhwyrnfam
>>64058057
So we have finally met reddit.
>>64058001
>>64057972
>>64057883
hello reddit, welcome to 4chan
>>64057883
Empire is the only film in the series that is unarguably a great movie - the series peaked with the "I am your father scene"
>>64057857
This.
If Anakin's character was better casted and his transition to the dark side were handled better the prequels might have been redeemed.
>>64057133
A lot of millennials were adults when the second 2 came out retard. And guess what, we hated them.
>>64057133
I remember getting star wars: episode Ii on DVD as a kid, tried to watch it like 3 times but fell asleep or just turned it off everytime. I don't think I have seen the full movie once, I just remember it to be so boring and hard to follow
>>64057939
bonjour reddit!
>>64057133
the prequels are watchable when re-edited, but the main problem with them is the miscasting of the lead. He feels so lightweight.
>Episode 7 comes out, is pretty good but not amazing
>Suddenly a resurgence of love and praise for the prequels
The story is fine, but the characters are boring, and every scene is executed and delivered in the most boring way. It never feels real because there is too much fake looking CGI and it's obvious the actors are in a small space in front of a bluescreen. They are shit movies, filled with problems both large (characters, tone, engaging the audience, looking like a videogame) and small (plot holes and other nitpicks).
The only one with any real emotion is Ep 3, but that movie is just a huge boring CGI fest that completely shits all over the lore and feel of the original trilogy, in that Yoda and Palpatine use lightsabres when it was clear in the OT that they both didn't have any interest in them and thought of them as like a childish weapon or something. Yoda never even trains Luke with a lightsabre!
Anyway they suck balls and the new movie is a 7/10. Not anywhere near as good as the OT, but about 100x better than the prequels.
>>64057751
Happy birthday gramps
>Fat neckbeards in their early to mid 40s
These are typically the people that DEFEND the Prequel Trilogy, nigger.
Star Wars fanboys who eat up everything Star Wars-related that drops out of LucasFilm's collective corporate anus.
Neckbeards like you, OP.
>>64058151
I wasn't sure what to make of them at first tbqh. They just didn't leave any impact on me like the original trilogy.
>>64058186
Holy shit reddit has truly arrived.
>>64058288
Sup reddit!
>plinkett
DUDE EXAGGERATING AND OVER ANALYZING EVERY SINGLE DETAIL IN A KIDS MOVIE IN A WACKY VOICE LMAO
>>64058249
>not liking the prequels means I'm from reddit
>implying reddit isn't full of EU and prequel loving retards
i watched star wars for first time the past month
the original was good, the prequels no
>>64058398
>ALL CAPS I AM SILLY
You're nitpicking his nitpicking. He does over analyze small details for humor value, but the fact is he covers the the larger overarching problems with the movies as well.
>>64058398
DUDE BEING A DRONE AND CANNOT THINK FOR MYSELF LMAO
>>64058465
>lying on the internet
Hello reddit!
>>64058485
Yo reddit!!
>>64058412
>I am not from reddit but I know exactly what happens there!
>>64057794
the prequel hating meme is old
you have to let go
>>64058480
Ah I see now, I have been baited, good work my friend.
>>64058513
hello reddit
>discussing star wars with someone
>ask whats so bad about the prequels
>he says just watch the plinkett reviews
I loved the Phantom Menace as a kid but I just skipped the bullshit until the pod race and then to the Darth Maul fight, never understood Jar Jar so I didn't hate nor loved him, Attack o fthe Clones was just ok and I saw Revenge of the Sith on the cinema but I don't remember jack-shit
anyone notice jar jar was in revenge of the sith but didn't have any lines? he was a fun character i wonder what he got up to after the empire took over and ani became vader
oh god will you fucking newfags stop with the reddit shit
If you honest to god are over the age of 18 enjoy the prequels fucking kill yourself
>incoherent nonsense politics
>annoying bipolar characters
>anakin fucking made a protocol droid to help cook and clean, where the hell did the forms of communication even come from
>cgi war scenes with the clones in episode 2 are pretty much visual cancer
>fucking ridiculous flip ninja anime shit for kids with adhd
>the way sheev kills the other three jedi in sith is just pure retardation
>just...this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGFK2KLrfb0
>>64058855
Nice regurgitated indoctrination there family.
To be honest, I never saw Clone Wars or Phantom Menace and still shit on them anyway.
>>64058855
hello reddit!
2. But I think prequels are the best out of them all. OT was really great but the prequels had more depth and story.
>>64059024
not liking bad movies means your indoctrinated
I really hope this faggot meme shit dies
If you hate the prequels you're not a Star Wars fan.
Simple as that
>>64057133
can i like the prequels but still believe they're bad films?
>>64058855
I see you hate fun.
What happened in your life that took enjoyment out of things?
>>64057751
>I am more /fit/ than OP, or anyone else on this board,
>>64059211
You can if you like - I never thought they were bad enough to be funny, just bad.
>>64057848
>>64057982
>wife's son
Projecting your inevitable, sad future on to me.
My daughter is my own.
>>64058190
Thanks. Feels good not to be part of a generation of faggots.
>>64057133
Overrated post
>>64059293
Stay triggered, you flabby tumblrina.
Or maybe the prequels are actually bad to mediocre and the main criticism against them actually has some validity. If you disagree I think you should address the criticism and not just attack those behind it. That is how an intelligent person does it, which I'm sure you are.
>>64059388
buzzwords: the post
>>64059344
>Implying our generation was anything special
I turned 40 a month ago - are we really any better than any other generation? The late 90s were pretty whiny with muh mcjobs and plaid flannel angst.
This kind of idiotic shitpost thread would (rightfully) be completely ignored on reddit. Fuck this place.
>>64059540
Well, bye then
itt: if you dont fit in, you're reddit
>>64059344
>My daughter is my own.
how do you know
3) People who can distinguish good writing from shitty writing.
>>64058855
It's treason, then.
Ayyy hol up reddit
>>64059534
plaid flannel angst was early/mid nineties
>>64060648
I suppose you're right. What was the late 90s? I sort of missed it - I was buried in UNIX admin books and being a friendless geek
>>64057133
There is a problem in star wars fandom (or hardcore fandom in most cases) basically called "prequel/lucas haters" or "fanboys" it feeds itself by perpetuating the elitist idea that basically half of the whole thing that these so-called fans claim to like is bad and should be boycotted and constantly attacked. It is made up of a lot less actual fans than they would like to have you believe and it has become something of a forced meme in the star wars fan community. DO NOT BE FOOLED BY THESE INDIVIDUALS IF YOU ARE AT ALL NEW TO STAR WARS!
They spend ridiculous amounts of time and energy creating all out manifestos to defend their tired argument that (basically) every star wars film besides the very first two made is somehow/someway bad and wrong and unholy. This small amount of hard core fans is primarily made up of Gen X'ers who have a sad sense of ownership over what they call "their movies", plus pretentious college age hipsters/self proclaimed film experts who enjoy the thrill of being a part of something (in this case an anti-star wars complex).
Haters get to feel smart around other people by "letting them in on the secret" that anyone who enjoys star wars as a saga is foolish and somehow "buying into" some kind of money scheme by the creator George Lucas, who in reality is a hippy philanthropist who has donated more than half his money to charity, education and liberal causes while putting the other half of his money back into the film industry by creating many innovations and trends which go on to be used by almost every other filmmaker in hollywood.
>>64062268
These fanboys (or whatever you wish to call them) have been so obsessive and persistent since 1999 that a lot of reviewers and bloggers for certain websites have fed into it in order to gain hits for their websites and blow up their comment sections. Since the Saga as a whole has been released on blu-ray this trend has finally started to die down because of the fact that the Saga box set sold incredibly well (over one million copy's the first week not counting x-mas sales) despite boycott attempts by the fanboys which were embarrassingly proven by this fact to be in the extreme minority.
These people (and the Trolls who help them) will use a large (and tellingly always different) variety of arguments and basically propaganda to get you to join in with them. They look at people just like you who are new to star wars as practice for them to hone their skills in converting people almost like some kind of cult or gang rather. DO NOT TAKE THEM SERIOUSLY!
The intended way to watch the Star Wars Saga is in numerical order, 1-2-3-4-5-6. No cutting out Episode I or anything like that
You will find that Star Wars, as a whole, a visually and artistically beautiful and cleverly-crafted fantasy series. Something that is as timeless and family friendly as The Wizard of Oz. But if you buy into the foolish prequel hate all you will be is another angry, elitist fanboy with a pretentious vendetta. I know this may all sound silly and believe me it is but I am dead serious when I tell you that you have been warned.
>>64057133
Prequels are patrician art
>>64057432
>Because trade embargoes and senate meetings make excellent children's film fare.
Yeah. George was trying to confront children with adults world. Literally based.
Confront them with the real world and dont pamper them. What a hero
>>64060700
Exactly, prepping for grown up jobs and personal responsibility.
Millenial faggots are entitled, retarded pussies who think the prequels are worth defending.
>>64062396
If you say so, bud.
>>64057133
my father is a man's man, not a nerd in any aspect and he thought the prequels were gay as fuck
>>64062722
>gay as an adjective to describe the quality of a film
your father is a pleb's pleb
>>64062297
1 gets a lot of undeserved hate.
1 is bearable if you just treat it like a fun kids movie. Don't look into it too much.
>>64057133
Neither because I'm not a redditor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yy3q9f84EA
YOU ANIMALS! LOOK WHAT YOUVE FORSAKEN
>>64062268
>and liberal causes
Stopped reading there. Yeah we know how ROTS was full of barely-concealed Bush-bashing.
>>64062268
>They spend ridiculous amounts of time and energy creating all out manifestos to defend their tired argument that (basically) every star wars film besides the very first two made is somehow/someway bad and wrong and unholy. This small amount of hard core fans is primarily made up of Gen X'ers who have a sad sense of ownership over what they call "their movies"
You think that's bad? Wait until 25 year old manbabbies throw a bitchfit over that upcoming Hey Arnold movie. They wanted the series to be resolved for the longest time and it's finally happening, but they'll still find a way to complain.
>>64064008
>They spend ridiculous amounts of time and energy creating all out manifestos to defend their tired argument that (basically) every star wars film besides the very first two made is somehow/someway bad and wrong and unholy. This small amount of hard core fans is primarily made up of Gen X'ers who have a sad sense of ownership over what they call "their movies"
Give the poor guys a break. The 70s wasn't a kid-friendly decade and they don't have too much other than SW to nostalgia wank over. Let's be honest, Millenials had it a lot better.
>>64063933
But the prequels were written in the mid-late 90s, before Bush ever came into the spotlight
>>64062396
This.
The prequels were bold, stylistic, and made for the appreciation of only their creator and the lucky few among us patricians who can appreciate his genius. Star Wars is a good series overall, V is still the GOAT, but the prequels in particular are /tv/ as fuck.
>>64062768
Honestly it's my favorite of the prequel trilogy
>>64064220
>Let's be honest, Millenials had it a lot better.
I agree, there's a reason Buzzfeed wanks the 90s and 2000-2005.
I just feel sorry for the 12-15 year olds (post-millennials) who grew up with Flash, CGI, remake garbage from the 2006-2010 era and don't know better. Anyone both before and after them had/has good stuff to remember.
>>64064252
I'm pretty sure scripts can be edited especially given that ROTS came out well into his administration.
>>64057133
The prequels were garbage get over it.
>>64064317
Lucas is like a lot of directors; when he was a young unknown, he just wanted to make fun, engaging movies. When he was old and rich, he wanted to make pretentious art stuff that only he and his close friends could appreciate.
>>64057133
>2 kinds of people who hate the prequels
>people over 40
>people under 40
What did he mean by this?
>>64057133
There is one type of person that likes the prequels.
>Drooling idiots that like light sabers but don't really like or understand sci-fi.
>>64064396
>I'M RIGHT YOU'RE WRONG NYEH
Compelling argument
>>64064548
>sci-fi
I just don't like Star Wars. Any of them. I think they're ridiculous.
>>64064220
>Give the poor guys a break. The 70s wasn't a kid-friendly decade and they don't have too much other than SW to nostalgia wank over
Schoolhouse Rock and early Sesame Street mebbe.
How fucking contrarian is this place? You've gone from hating to liking the prequels in a fucking month.
>>64057623
Post pics of your kids.
>>64064833
>implying
Speak for yourself, redditor
>>64064945
On 4chan? No fucking way in hell.
I actually re-watched the prequels this week and they're not that bad
What if you like the prequels for the ideas and characters involved, but just think the execution was shit?
I put it this way. Late night comedy shows barbecued the prequels over a spit for a reason.
>>64067653
DUDE I CAN'T THINK FOR MYSELF LMAO
