theprequelsrule said:
I watched TPM for the first time in over a decade a couple of years ago. I was truly astonished at how bad the dialogue was and/or how badly delivered it was.And why don’t you think the same with regards to the original trilogy?
Dialogue has always been cheesy as hell in Star Wars movies. It’s often badly delivered because the lines themselves are quite ridiculous, and attempts at humor are simply a failure.
I would argue that it has not been such a big issue with the sequels and the spin-offs (which have other issues for the most part), but the OT HANDS DOWN has the worst dialogue out of all SW content.
I, for one, love the prequels more than the OT, because I really enjoy the political subplots that are scattered throughout, something that was sorely lacking in the OT for obvious reasons. It enlarges the scope of the story beyond our main characters.
Yeah, there’s also bad CGI of course…but the OT is nigh unwatchable because of how dated it looks now. I don’t love PM, but I ADORE AOTC (besides the phoned in romance scenes) and really love ROTS as well. All of it was made better by TCW series, in retrospect, but I love the prequels nonetheless.
I’m in my late twenties, and all my friends were very excited when the sequels came out because of how much we loved the prequels. It might be a generational thing, but I feel like people who grew up with the OT are, for the most part, the ones who generally dislike the prequels, and vice-versa. All SW movies have their flaws, but some people are really looking at the originals with rose-tinted glasses. And I do have my gripes with the prequels as well, but some people here genuinely seem to hate them just for the sake of hating them, sometimes for reasons that should make them hate the originals as well.
Looking at the rating data on imdb, which gives you the option to look at age groups, reveals the generational effect you argue explains the difference in perception of the OT and PT are overstated. The 18-29 group rates the OT an 8.5, 8.7 and an 8.2, while the 45+ crowd gives the OT an 8.8, 8.8, and an 8.3. The 18-29 group rates the PT an 6.5, 6.5, and a 7.8, while the 45+ crowd gives the PT an 6.3, 6.5, and a 7.3. So the perception for both generations is pretty similar with both clearly preferring the OT. Neither generation hates the PT on average, though the slightly higher preference for the OT for the 45+ generation likely means there are slightly more who dislike the PT among that generation.