C3PX said:
I think the prequel "flaw" everybody always talks about, it hardly as much of a flaw as some would have you think. Like, has already been said, it isn't the destination, it is the ride. Sure, we knew Anakin would be Darth Vader, and we knew Obi-Wan would survive and Mace Windu would die. Some people use this as a arguement "well of course the SW PT couldn't be good, you already knew what would happen!" Of course you did, but the ride could have still been enjoyable.

Have you ever been to a James Bond movie and honestly felt that Bond was in any real danger? You knew he would escape, you just never knew how. And yet those scenes still had a lot of tension to them. Still everytime I see Goldfinger's lazer heading toward Bond's crotch I squirm in my chair, just a little.

See, I would have rather seen Episodes 7,8,9 instead of the Prequels any day of the week. Lucas could have done anything with the story after Jedi, he could have gone anyway with the characters, and I actually think it would have been a better trilogy, even with Lucas's negatives as a director these days.

The problem with these prequel shows/movies is that you get locked into the story, and hurts the storytelling end. The only way to throw a twist in there is to usually hurt the continuity with the existing story. So I was in shock that Padme died at childbirth, only because Leia said she died while very young in Jedi!

Now flashbacks always works in movies, cause you are essentially glossing over anything specific and just giving a general backround of where that characters came from, as Godfather II flashbacks work perfect with the present-time storytelling that Pacino is going through as Crime Boss now.

As for James Bond movies, I have never been interested in them, and the reason I do hate them is that you know that the character will survive, as it is always a ridiculous story too. I will take a movie like Rocky, where he loses at the end, anyday of the week over some action adventure movie that you know what is going to happen the minute the movie starts.