Someone put Jar Jar into a spoof of Iran's multiple missile launch, and the official Iranian news mistakenly used the spoof instead of their own photoshop. Mesa thinks someone lost at least his freedom and not just his job over that.
Posted on 08/31/2016 6:56:03 AM PDT by C19fan
A new documentary is challenging Star Wars fans to unlearn what they have learned about the awful prequels that ruined our childhoods and stole our innocence about future Star Wars films.
Not that I’m bitter.
Anyway, a handful of prequels fans decided a few years ago to crowdfund The Prequels Strike Back, a documentary that is supposed to give people a fresh new perspective on The Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith, based on scholarly commentary from no less than arts expert Camille Paglia and Jonathan Young, a Joseph Campbell scholar.
(Excerpt) Read more at heatst.com ...
The first Star Wars was good. It went downhill from there. Sort of like Jaws.
I have to mute or skip over the Anakin parts
The kids watched them for laughs. I saw three minutes of one. It was memorably painfully boring.
The Star Wars Holiday Special was the best of all.
Firefly and Sereneiy are much better space spaghetti westerns.
Serenity
Someone put Jar Jar into a spoof of Iran's multiple missile launch, and the official Iranian news mistakenly used the spoof instead of their own photoshop. Mesa thinks someone lost at least his freedom and not just his job over that.
1. Empire Strikes Back
2. A New Hope
3. The Force Awakens (the new one)
4. Return of the Jedi
5. Revenge of the Sith
6. The Clone Wars
7. The Phantom Menace
LOL. That is EPIC bad dialog!
“ALL the Star Wars movies are bad....”
Here here.
I’ll still watch them because it’s neat to see all the CGI junk flying into each other. And I’m entertained. My brain isn’t stretched and worked by plots. It’s just eye candy.
But at this point, all of the movies are like this. Some of our brainy sci-fi movies run for a single movie and that’s it. Although I, like everyone, totally love Firefly.
Serenity. Definitely as good as it gets.
The Virgin Birth angle was disgusting.
And changing The Force from a metaphysical manisfestation and into alien parasites was also junk.
I ended up liking the first prequel. Lots of new characters many of whom worked. My daughter was little and was astounded by it. The next one was garbage except for the ending battle. The last one a deep disappointment.
I ended up liking the first prequel. Lots of new characters many of whom worked. My daughter was little and was astounded by it. The next one was garbage except for the ending battle. The last one a deep disappointment.
The prequels only make sense if Jar Jar is the prime villain, Darth Sidious in disguise.
He has way too much stupid luck for it to be otherwise.
of all, the prequels, I liked the third one because it showed Anakin slipping further over to the Dark Side.
It also explained how and why he fell into the Dark Side as well as what happened to Anakin’s/Padme’s kids as well as the destruction of the Jedi.
The first 3 released were good, solid racist neo-fascist propaganda targeting teenage boys. The next 3 released were unwatchable garbage targeting pre-teens. I’m still waiting for the 7th one to show up at the dollar theater.
Do you remember the moment when you first watched one of the George Lucas movies from the original trilogy and said, “Yeah, you just put that in there so you could sell a toy.” I don’t remember the specific scene, but I know it was in ROTJ.
THey are horribly bad, but, I did rewatch them recently with my daughter, since I was introducing her to Star Wars... so I sat through them all, even the prequels...
Yes, the dialogue is terrible, the chemistry is non existent in the main “love story”, and all sorts of other problems exist.. but being removed from the initial disappointment of them by nearly 20 years now.. and being a good bit older, I am able to see the story that Lucas was trying to tell within it, he just wasn’t able to get it on film. He should have hired writers, instead of insisting he write the whole thing himself, he just can’t write dialogue to save his life... While the boring bureaucratic maneuvering in the Senate is relevant to the larger story plot, far too much screen time seems to be dedicated to it... and the ridiculous scene forced in there just to take a shot at Bush was pointless.
THe actor who played Skywalker was not capable of the emotional range that was required for the role (or he was directed improperly)... His move to complete rage and hatred when he turned was not believable... Lucas never really appropriately foreshadowed the evil within him appropriately.... I assume that was what he was trying to do when he had him slaughter those that killed his mother.. but someone who’s battling for his eternal soul, would probably be having more problems than this one incident... He tried to play his angst and being held back as this angle I guess as well, but reality, the guys an obedient little toadie for the most part, without any real flashes of hate until his mother is killed... Could have played him with darker influences and issues throughout his life.. instead of a few things.
The problem with Prequels in general is, we all know how they have to end... So there is no real shock... everyone knows that Skywalker must turn, we know he will become Vader... so you have to focus on the journey there, rather than simply the culminating scene, and I think Lucas missed that among other things... but I can see the story he was trying to tell and its not great, but its not the worst either.
Again the prequels are BAD... make no mistake, but there actually was a reasonable concept there, just blown in execution.
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