Originally posted by: Major fatal Moebius
Well, I don't know about you guys, but over the years, now being a little older, wiser, I've learned to appreciate the prequel trilogy a whole lot more than I used to. There's just too much greatness in it to blatantly ignore or scoff at. The OT and PT are two totally different creations (yet, with similar themes and interesting philosophical ideas), accept that and you'll find there's plenty of great stuff to be found in the prequels.
That said, while I'm very fond of The phantom menace and Revenge of the sith now I still can't totally get into Attack of the clones.
Well, I don't know about you guys, but over the years, now being a little older, wiser, I've learned to appreciate the prequel trilogy a whole lot more than I used to. There's just too much greatness in it to blatantly ignore or scoff at. The OT and PT are two totally different creations (yet, with similar themes and interesting philosophical ideas), accept that and you'll find there's plenty of great stuff to be found in the prequels.
That said, while I'm very fond of The phantom menace and Revenge of the sith now I still can't totally get into Attack of the clones.
See I will never appreciate the PT, mainly because it is designed to tie in with the OT, and that forces the viewer to see them as 'one' story. You can't see it 1-6 as one story, when you have essentially two different trilogies, one filmed in the late 70's/80's and the other at the turn of the century. They are too different in terms of CGI to models, CG landscapes filmed in front of bluescreen to real landscapes, and Lucas himself changed over 20 years as he is just a different director, as most from his profession when they get older.
What Lucas should have done is left the OT untouched, and kept that as the OT story, and make the PT a true backstory, not a hamfisted continuous story that is supposed to be shoehorned 'now the beginning' to all the fans, like we watched a half finished story all these years!!!
The PT could have been filled with 21st century CG, 21st Century CG Landscapes, etc, and the viewer could essentially watch that story on its own, but still not screwing with the OT story. The PT shouldn't have been the beginning of the 'Tragedy of Anakin Skywalker', it should have just been a 3 movie trilogy about Anakin, Kenobi, and Padme, and The Emperor the same way the OT was the story about Luke, Leia, and Han, and Darth Vader.
Anakins turn should have been a plot point, not THE main point of the PT, as that would give more time for the Clone Wars, the birth of the Rebellion, the Force Ghost, etc. Instead you have this PT about the rise/fall of Anakin that is suppose to shoehorn in with redemption of Anakin now in 4-6, and it just doesn't work, cause they literally look like TWO different sets of movies, and the OT was never the redemption of Darth Vader, that was just a plot point in ROTJ!
I think many fans wouldn't be as hard on the PT, especially OOT fans, if the OT was left untouched, and you could essentially watch that 4-6 and enjoy that for the story arc it has in it. And if you want more SW, there is this backstory that is suppose to be watched AFTER the OT, that has an arc in itself about the main players and how they got there, and you could watch that in a different light cause essentially it was made 20 years after. 1-6 just doesn't work, the story, the visuals, the tone, I have tried it a zillion times, and I have yet to watch 1,2,3,4,5,6 consecutively(within weeks) in that order, and get through it with any enjoyment. I always start with TPM, and then realize I have to sludge through these 2 movies to get to something interesting in ROTS, plus realizing I have to get to the 4th movie to get to anything great.