EyeShotFirst said:
I watched AOTC about 4 times. It doesn't really work, but I can still watch it. Now ROTS is the movie that really churns my stomach. I have watched 3 times. Only 1 out of those 3 was on my own accord. The other times I was at somebody else's house. I was hoping it was going to be good. AOTC really didn't bother me aside from Yoda and Hayden. But I gave ROTS the benefit of the doubt. I thought just from the poster that "Oh hell yeah, This movie can't suck. When the shit hits the fan George Lucas usually delivers."
My hopes had been bent over a counter and raped. I should have seen it coming. Everybody in the theater clapped and cheered. I was sickened. My family, who I thought had good taste even liked it. My mom thought it was the best one ever. I felt like an outsider when I told them at dinner that I hated it. It wasn't until I found this site that I realized that there are people who hate the prequels.
Good avatar, btw.
Thanks, Nien Nunb owns.
You're welcome. :)
I can understand the frustration over people thinking Revenge of the Shit is the best prequel. A whole dose of reviewers thought it was. One even called it the best Star Wars film since ESB, which REALLY pissed me off. ROTS was so bad it beggars belief. I expected it to be bad, based on my experience with AOTC and the trailers which had Hayden's I-frown-therefore-I-am-evil acting and some bullshit about "he is the chosen one". But it was way worse than I expected. The first time I saw it I had trouble staying awake during the earlier part because it was so fucking uninvolving. ROTS is bad in whole new inventive ways. Hayden's performance was like a nightmare. Natalie's performance was like a nightmare. Ian's hamming was horrific. Mace Windu was a pain the butt and so was fake Yoda. Everything about the movie was terrible. But I had to see it again, to understand how it managed to be so terrible and to make sure my first impression was fair. And there are times in my consideration of Star Wars when I have to go back to it to understand something better about what went wrong with Star Wars or the differences between the OT and PT. And by now I can get some amusement out of its moments of maximum lameness (sing "IIIIII have the hiiiigh grouuuund"). And I really do get a kick out of better understanding its fucked-upness. Star Wars being turned into shit is a matter of considerable emotional importance to me, and I like to understand it.
AOTC is pretty damn bad too. It's utterly flat, with zero real feeling, and everybody in it comes off 100% false. And there's so much uninvolving action (Jedi vs droids, clones vs droids, lightsaber battles, zzzz) and the awful Yoda vs Dooku swaggering match, complete with howling bouncing Yoda. And of course the romance, if it can be called that, which must be one of the worst romances ever put on screen. And let's not forget the stupid pointless droid factory obstacle course video game sequence.