Anon watches star wars

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• OctopusNemeses@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Yeah. I didn’t get the hate for the movies. It’s Anakin when he was an angsty teenager. The neckbeards saw their own reflection and couldn’t handle it. They reacted in the same way too.

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  • Velypso@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    You dont get the hate for the movies?

    Poorly acted main character - yes child version and adult version, shit ass villian in 2 and partially 3, racist caricature of bojangles in 1 and 2, padme dies of “sadness”, the “objectively good” jedi gamble a childs life, fucking star wipes for every damn scene change, poorly fleshed out bad guys in 1, lame justification for senate take over.

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    • criss_cross@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      There’s a weird subset of people that got introduced to these films through the memes that didn’t watch the films without that. So when it’s not The Room level bad they think it’s okay. Not realizing these were major blockbusters at the time with insane marketing. Expectations are a bit different lol.

      After watching the sequels I personally appreciate the attempt at telling a different story and if some of the motifs were fleshed out they could have been real cool (like the Jedi being more of the bad guys in the beginning). But they didn’t and the execution, for all of the reasons you mentioned, is atrocious.

      And yeah the amount of racist caricatures in the films is absurd.

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    • nomecks@lemmy.wtf ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      You forgot Jarjar was actually a sith and Lucas pussied out due to fan backlash

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    • Lawnman23@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Please, tell us how you really feel about the prequels.

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    • SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Exactly the prequels and the originals are shit. The new trilogy is where it’s at! Great writing, amazing actors, better CGI.

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  • GreenShimada@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The re-release and Special Editions of the Original Trilogy raised the bar very high for everyone only a few years before Ep 1 came out. The OT was all about action and iconic moments and explosions. Stuff Lucas wrote when he was in his 20s and made as a younger adult.

    Then Episode 1 shows up after years of anticipation and it’s about a child with some very child-focused moments (because Lucas did make this a more kid-friendly movie because of his kids and being in his 50s). So it just feels very jerky and segmented, with mixed focus about establishing a big plot and then…what, blood flukes cause The Force? Jar Jar was too distracting, and most of the acting was very wooden except for a few good moments for Portman, Neson and MacGregor. Product tie-ins were on par with Stranger Things - everywhere and everything. I see more parallels to the movie Hook in Ep. 1 than I do with other Star Wars IP at this point. It’s like a highly-produced stylized caricature of itself.

    Fans were in shock a bit because it wasn’t a particularly amazing movie, and when making comparisons that were inevitable, other than visual likeness, it just felt a universe away (no pun intended).

    And it’s basic story-centered aspects. This guy did a series of videos where he made basic changes to the Prequel Trilogy, and yeah, he’s right. His concept is a better story.

    Important note - this guy 100% called 50% robo-Darth Maul years before Dave Filioni did it in Clone Wars.

    By that point, it was too late. Fan hate set the tone and Ep. 2 was years away to balance things out. And Ep. 2 isn’t terrible IMO, it just didn’t capture anyone. I actually like Ep 3. because it starts to bring in more starfighter action and some fun moments with a serious end.

    Watching all 3 movies in a row completely negates all of the feels at the time, the huge lull between movies, and the comparison to the OT as the standard.

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  • Godric@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    There are child actors that don’t make you cringe each time they open their mouth. I love the universe of Star Wars, but 1 and 2 are admittedly poorly scripted with worse acting.

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    • FerretyFever0@fedia.io ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I like to think of the plots as canon, but I ignore the writing, it's just too shit. The plots are mostly decent, besides Anakin blowing up the Trade Federation ship for some inconceivable reason, and Jar Jar Binks existing.

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    • Tonava@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Hating any child actor is incredibly mean though, I don’t understand it. The damn kids don’t know any better and don’t even have the mental capacity to be responsible yet. If there must be hate it should be aimed towards the directors and whoever chose that kid

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  • anotherspinelessdem@lemmy.ml ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    My problem with the prequels is that I’ve known way too many people like that in real life and once is enough.

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    • Honytawk@feddit.nl ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Then you should go to the beach more often

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    • Rekorse@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I HATE YOU!

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• Hupf@feddit.org ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Simping leads to gooning, gooning leads to incel, incel is the path to the dank side.

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• FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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  George Lucas, you have done it again

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  • JetpackJackson@feddit.org ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Hold up is that Salieri? I haven’t watched that movie in ages

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    • FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yeah it’s pretty popular reaction gif now. Good to see the Mozart movie getting the recognition it deserves

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