zzzonkers said:
SparkySywer said:
Not sure which of the prequels is the best/least-bad. RotS is the easiest to swallow, but TPM has the actual story. And as for AotC, well, it’s cringier than TPM and only barely has more of a story than RotS, but it has some cool action scenes and the Obi-Wan part of the movie is kind of cool.
I’d argue that RotS is just as “cringe” as the other two, but hides it well behind slightly more competent direction and more lively acting.
Yeah, I’d agree. I’d say it’s more that all three prequels have the same amount of cheese, but for TPM and AotC, it rears its head as cringe, but for RotS, it’s camp. Or at least, it’s cringe more often in TPM and AotC, but camp more often in RotS. All three have both.
zzzonkers said:
NeverarGreat said:
AOTC actually tries to have a mystery plot, which is a new and interesting direction for a Star Wars movie. Even if it doesn’t ultimately work, it at least tries. In comparison, TPM and ROTS are much more straightforward.
In my opinion RotS felt too fan service focused
Yeah, honestly, Revenge of the Sith doesn’t have much of a leg to stand on outside the forced OT fan service at the end. Had it ended with the characters and the galaxy a little further from the exact same state as they are at the beginning of ANH, like a better Episode 3 might have, it would have had nothing left.
I rewatched Revenge of the Sith the other day for, reasons, but genuinely I think the only way anyone can be so much of a fan of this movie that they call it a masterpiece, like some people do nowadays, is just out of nostalgia, and because of the forced connection to the OT at the end. That’s it.
The movie feels like a bunch of skits barely strung together by any plot, if even. Sometimes shit just happens for no reason. It feels like behind the scenes, they just kinda gave up on trying to write a story and just thought up a few lightsaber fights first and foremost and figured they’d just figure out how to justify them with context as they went, if even, since the lightsaber fights were the only thing people responded well to in the last two movies.
The pacing’s horrible. Every scene goes on forever and ever, every single time I feel like a scene’s over, it keeps going. Like, George, dude, the message was already sent. The point got across. Move on. The editing looks like the kind of shit I would’ve done when I was 14. The movie feels like George Lucas just stopped giving a shit after the last two didn’t do well, finished this movie as a formality because, well, you already signed the actors for one last movie.
Because of this, there’s absolutely no tension. George Lucas couldn’t bring himself to give a shit about this movie, and so I can’t either. Stuff just kinda happens, and then stops happening, scenes just kinda move on. Everyone’s super monotone the whole time, and so it’s a hard sell that this is a galaxy defining catastrophe.
This is why parodies of the prequels, or even stuff like the Lego Holiday Special are a hundred times better than the prequels themselves, even just following the story, not even as parodies. The people parodying the prequels give a shit, so the characters give a shit, so I give a shit.
This movie never really does anything praiseworthy, the best it ever really gets is not incompetent. Like, prequel fans gush over the political message, but that’s like, the bare minimum for a movie about how the Republic fell and the Empire was born. It’s not even a very interesting political message. Democracies can turn into dictatorships through their own mechanisms? Wow, I learned that when I was in sixth grade history class when I was eleven. Not exactly the political thriller of the century.
Sorry for the wall of text, but I wanted to share the thoughts I was having the other day with the world. This probably isn’t well organized at all though, so who knows how well it’ll convey them.