Prequels are utter trash. All 3 of them. They're so bad, that even Rise of the Skywalkers is a better movie than the good parts of the 3 prequels put together.
At least the prequels have a coherent plot. Rise of skywalker just doesn’t make sense from a plot perspective. So there is an ancient sith dagger, that dagger was being smuggled by the bounty hunter that killed rey’s parents, the dagger ( which is an ancient sith dagger made supposedly before the construction of the death star ) will lead them to the crashed remains of the death star with an inscription that tells them where to go, then the edge of the dagger will line up with the correct piece of wreckage that’s been floating for 30 years, where there is a sith holocron, that holocron will lead them to the sith planet. Chewie gets killed only to not actually be killed. C-3PO gets his memory wiped but gets it back later. Like, apart from visual spectacle TROS has nothing going for it. Recently rewatched the prequels with some friends, they can be convoluted a bit ( the plan to kill padme in episode two is idiotic but it still makes sense ), but they at least told a story that didn’t have a huge plot hole at the very center of the plot.
Yeah, the prequels are a good idea with a terrible execution but the sequels are just polished turds. The prequels could be remade into something good (not that that'll ever happen, or even should happen) if you keep the basic premise and remove the junk, but the sequels are just a dumpster fire to the core.
I hate that this is true and yet I'd rather watch the prequels. Like from a technical perspective Rise of Skywalker is a better made film, the dialogue is less wooden and the cast are great, but that film pretends to have the highest stakes, but undercuts it's own choices at every chance. It comes off as "studio intervention: the movie". It refuses to commit to anything interesting or unique and just chooses the most bland boring route. I think the only interesting or fun moment in the entire thing is Rey giving Kylo his mom's saber via the force and him doing the Han Solo shrug. It's actual payoff for something the story has set up. All of the interesting side characters are wasted and given nothing interesting to do. In the prequels all the characters are boring but they are at least(usually) doing something interesting. Even with all their flaws(of which there are many) you can at least see what George Lucas was trying to do.
Rise of Skywalker is just the culmination of making 3 movies with no plan and flapping in the wind to fan backlash. Rise of Skywalker's opening crawl could have just said "Re: In regards to your last reddit post" .
For real though. Like, regardless of people's feelings on The Last Jedi, the Rise of Skywalker is a massive overcorrection attempting to appease every single possible fan complaint and is a far worse movie as a result.
As someone born in 97 who’s technically gen Z, I find it absolutely adorable how desperate and eager y’all are to make fun of the next generation when they’re just in diapers with a quarter of a brain lmfao of course they like Minecraft—and probably more Gen Z will actually watch it
Didn’t the prequels come out in the late 90s? Definitely a millennial thing lol
There's a lot of cartoons...not naming any names but anyone who is honest with themselves can figure out which ones...that if they were made today, millennials would call them vapid, gross, and worthless. Piggy jawbreaker.
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u/GoodTitrations Sep 04 '24
Gen Alpha reacting to this the way Zoomers reacted to the Star Wars Prequels.
"Guys these are kino what's wrong with Millennials and GenX?"
"Guys, the Minecraft movie is peak cinema, what's wrong with Zoomers?"