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Post #1500685

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Vladius
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Re-evaluating Revenge of the Sith
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Date created
17-Aug-2022, 3:22 PM

Yeah. A lot of people loving the prequels now comes from:
playing video games with Clone Wars stuff in it
watching the Clone Wars show
laughing at funny lines of dialogue and memes
contrarian hot takes from people about how they’re “secretly genius”

It’s not because of the movies themselves, it’s because they like the shared experience of talking about them, talking about how they watched them as kids, or reading/playing/watching extra material surrounding them. Even then, most of their positive memories are about the ROTS payoff and not the first two.

With that said I do have a lot of fun with Revenge of the Sith and I like watching it. There are lots of little things I would adjust, which have been largely addressed with fan edits like on this site. But it’s not unsalvageable like Attack of the Clones or the sequel trilogy. It has some really good things in it, especially Obi Wan and Palpatine.

I actually prefer watching it as a standalone movie ignoring the other two, because then all the issues I have with AotC go away as well.