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Post #345989

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Vaderisnothayden
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The Prequels: I seriously cannot watch Star Wars anymore.
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Date created
19-Feb-2009, 12:33 PM
Akwat Kbrana said:

...or "every single solitary thing about it blew..."

Lol! Yeah. I think the fight between Kenobi and Jango was actually good and I suppose the aircar chase wasn't bad, but mostly the film was total and utter shite and so much of it was so uninvolving just when it should have been involving, like in the big battle at the end. Kenobi wasn't bad mostly (though he was a far cry from the genuine quality of the real Kenobi in the OT), but Anakin was... how can I put it... one  of the worst portrayals of a character in film history? Padme was a disappointing turn from a quality actress whose talents seemed to be getting muzzled. Jango Fett was annoying, as was Darth Saruman. Villains should be fun or interesting, not annoying eejits. Yoda was crap, as usual in the prequels. The whole feel of the thing was dead and barren and shallow (though not as far that way as ROTS).

And the romance, god help us, the romance. As far as I can tell, Lucas intentionally made the romance awful. Not that he'd put it in those words, but there's a quote in The Secret History of Star Wars in which he says something like he knows he's portraying the romance in a way that men and people with cynicism won't like, which I read as men or intelligent women. And I think he's not giving women enough credit, because I don't see how too many women would be any more enthusisatic about that tripe than men. Feelingless artificial dogshit.