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Sorry to go back to this, but the prequels not being very good is a common pop-cultural theme. They are often used as an example of a bad movie. Take this for example, In one episode of house M.D. House wondered how deep was the awareness of a man who has been in a vegetative state for ten years and asks him, "Pick up scraps of conversations? You have the vague sense that the hospital administrator dresses like a trollop? Or that the new 'Star Wars' movies were a disappointment?"

 

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^ House M.D. S03E07 "Son of a Coma Guy" ~09:40

Harmy wrote: but the prequels not being very good is a common pop-cultural theme. They are often used as an example of a bad movie

'How I Met Your Mother' recently did a highly ironic reverse negative TPM joke. 

The response to this line of questioning is that the media is currently controlled by OT aged people, in the next 5-10 years there might be a shift away from negative PT references.  The cartoons and kid shows often lift visual stuff from the PT, comedies lean negative, the pro-PT references tend to be Palpatine/Sidious related.  I've got a list of 5k SW references, TPM shows up 58 times, Jar-Jar 38.  Most references still go back to SW.

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Alexrd said:

It doesn't normally require proving except to prequel fans, because its in a category called "common knowledge", exemplified by all of the previously-mentioned sources and examples which anyone who was alive in 1999 witnessed firsthand. Maybe one could question how negative that perception is, because I will agree that is hard to precisely measure, and I would also argue that it is not as negative as some may think, but as far as most reasonable people are concerned there is little doubt that the perception is negative overall to one degree or another. It has a bad reputation. Period.

Yes, that's the word. Bad reputation. I don't deny it. However, and as I said before, if the negative press was the majority, it wouldn't pass the 50% average rating. On any website.

Is a grade of 52% any better than 50? It it didn't have a majority of bad reviews it wouldn't score so severely low. A grade of 65% or whatever it is on IMDB, improvement, but still mediocre.

The film received mediocre reviews and was slaughtered by the major press.

No, it wasn't.

 

Yes it was:

http://www.secrethistoryofstarwars.com/episodeirelease.html

The major press gave it the worst ratings of all, in the early wave of reviews.

And how many were those who saw the pre-release? An handful if that much. I wouldn't call it the major press, only part of it.

This is what I mean by major press. The pre-eminant publications in the country. Rolling Stone, etc. The top 10 publications with the most clout and the most readership in the country. Probably more readers than over 50% of the remaining press. These guys tore the film to pieces. The newspapers and second tier magazines, etc. that reviewed it a week later were much kinder.

I didn't make this up. That's what happened. And overall, its critical ratings are mediocre, at best--5.2 or something by both RT and Metacritic, and confirmed by a brief perusal of major media sources.

That's the average rating. Negative reviews are in both cases the very minority, with mixed and positive reviews tied.

See, I think this is where you aren't thinking it through. Yes, that's the average.

If the average is 5.2 it CANNOT be overall liked. There are positive reviews, negative reviews, lukewarm reviews--and together, there is more negative ones if it is averaging at 5.2. The case closes here. Do you get this?

But with all the other bad press, bad reviews, and the majority of reviews which are mediocre (take a look yourself),

Once again, the majority are mixed and positive.

This simply isn't true, otherwise the film could not have scored so lowly. Are you getting this? You seem to simply see positive reviews and then take that as proof that there are more positive ones. Maybe you just don't pay attention to the negative ones. But if the film scores a tomatometer from critics of 38%--a ratio of fresh to rotten reviews--then clearly the vast, vast majority rated it rotten. And if the film averages a 5.2 rating from critics, then this means there were more who were rating the film low than there were who were rating the film high. If it scored mostly mixed and positive reviews it would have 75% tomatometer and a 7.5 rating.

the scale tips to the negative, hence this is irrelavant as far as "disproving" its negative overall reception. As far as consensus it matter little if there are numbers of fans that think the film is great when most people don't, because consensus, or overall impression, or basic public reputation, or however you want to describe it, depends on what the overall balance is. Few people would believe anyone who said the overall balance of TPM's rep is positive. The evidence backs this up.

From your site:

The best legitimate example (as opposed to web ranting) of this camp comes from Jonathan Bowen, who self-published Anticipation: The Real Life Story of Episode I  (and later Revenge: The Real Life Story of Episode III ). The book tracked the hype, release and reaction of Episode I, offering a sympathetic view that the film was initially liked but then began to cultivate a snow-balling negative reaction that encouraged a negative slant.

That is my opinion. Nobody should confuse overall reception with vocal negative slant.

I was actually quoting him to prove how he was wrong. The research I have on that very page shows that it was the opposite. Read the reviews yourself there, I didn't make it up. You are cherry picking an out of context quote while literally ignoring every single fact on the page itself. The worst reviews were the earliest. The second waves of reviews were much better. So its critical reception actually got much better through May.

Anyway, as we can see on IMDB, the negativity is the minority:

The overall impression then, is one of negativity.

See above.

On IMDB, yes, sort of. Let's not apply IMDB as a representation of the planet Earth. But actually, on IMDB, the positive and negative votes are close to being equal even though there are more on the positive side, with the majority opinion of 6 and 7 being lukewarm. No one denied that, I can see it on the average rating. So are we talking about critics or audiences now? Or if we are talking about overall rep (i.e. everybody) then the poor overall reviews, jarjarbinksmustdie.com, Phantom Edit, etc., doesn't just go away because IMDB voted it mediocre to lukewarm overall. If its the big picture you have to balance this against all that stuff. You also have to balance it against the fact that its badness has become a cultural meme.

You seem to be under the impression that those average critic ratings don't matter because you can point to positive reviews. But that average rating accounts for those positive reviews, you realize, it's part of the score. Hence, if two seperate critical measurements--plus, you know, most people's impression of the same reviews from being alive at the time--as well as the tomatomer "positivity" measurement, all say the film scored lousy OVERALL, then the argument ends there. Critics, overall, gave the film a rather lousy rating. If that wasn't the case, it would not score 5.2 at both Metacritic and RT, and get a lowly 38% tomatometer rating.

With audiences, the film scores higher. 6.5 on IMDB, and a 68% tomatometer or something like that when accounting for non-professional critics as well. So then if you want to include audience polls in the mix let's average the two sets. I'll give the higher score of 68 for audiences and 52 for critics. Between them you get 60. Not terrible, but still rather poor. Ergo, the total balance of both audiences and critics rate the film as poor. Not god-awful, mind you, but certainly not positive.

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^ House M.D. S03E07 "Son of a Coma Guy" ~09:40

Harmy wrote: but the prequels not being very good is a common pop-cultural theme. They are often used as an example of a bad movie

'How I Met Your Mother' recently did a highly ironic reverse negative TPM joke. 

That's funny, How I Met Your Moth3r recently did a highly ironic reverse negative TPM thread.

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TV's Frink wrote: That's funny, How I Met Your Moth3r recently did a highly ironic reverse negative TPM thread.

If only I could lay them up like that on purpose...

Here's some files from the maythe4th.starwars.com site not currently being used:

Something about a screensaver...

 

this is odd:

HIS WEBSITE IS OPERATED BY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT. IT IS NOT HOSTED OR OPERATED BY LUCASFILM LTD. OR ANY OF ITS AFFILIATES.

yet it's on .starwars.com. 

and in the code but not showing is this funny named-thing "facebook_like" and it points towards:

/afs/foxfilm.com/content2/maythe4th.starwars.com/html/global/html_footer.php

but not sure of the origin domain...

 

*EDIT*

things seem to be pointing back to foxmovies.com.  which is hosted by amazon.

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Weird.

But I guess Fox Home Entertainment is the division that distributes the star wars videos, so it does make some sense that they host the website. Usually Lucasfilm takes care of this, especially if its on the starwars.com site. Maybe they are letting Fox have a bigger hand in the home video production line.

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What the hell is that? And why would anyone want a bigger version of it? Am I missing something here?

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Harmy said:

What the hell is that? And why would anyone want a bigger version of it? Am I missing something here?

Where's Ric when you need him?!


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Harmy said:

What the hell is that? And why would anyone want a bigger version of it? Am I missing something here?

Pssst.........it's a joke. It's just some sort of background for something.

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TV's Frink said:

Darth Cracker said:

may the BARF! be with you.

http://25.media.tumblr.com/Hn4CZClkqpmtv4ofkMarNuN0o1_400.jpg

 

 

Maybe the bonus disc will be Spaceballs!

 

I'd take it. I miss John Candy.

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TV's Frink said:

none said:

^ House M.D. S03E07 "Son of a Coma Guy" ~09:40

Harmy wrote: but the prequels not being very good is a common pop-cultural theme. They are often used as an example of a bad movie

'How I Met Your Mother' recently did a highly ironic reverse negative TPM joke. 

That's funny, How I Met Your Moth3r recently did a highly ironic reverse negative TPM thread.

Fucking win.

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Darth Hade said:

Back in the very early days of prequel hype, I subscribed to the Homing Beacon that was/is sent out by the official site: starwars.com

Subscribing to the Homing Beacon seemed to always get one e-mail updates to all things Star Wars. I didn't have a Homing Beacon in my inbox today, but I did have this...

BR

Thanks for that.

In my world it's been the 4th of May* for 14 hours now and while I knew the announcement would be centred around California time it's nice to know when to expect it.

*Star Wars puns don't work when you put the day before the month.

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Davnes007 said:

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Does anyone have a HD version of this?

Triple post. Also win.

 

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All three of those posts were totally deserving of their own post.


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I know it's a month late, but I don't think The Digital Bits' on topic April Fool's gag ever got mentioned here...

http://www.digitalbits.com/analogbits.html

Only people of a certain age are going to get even half of the jokes. ;)

 

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Darth Hade said:

Back in the very early days of prequel hype, I subscribed to the Homing Beacon that was/is sent out by the official site: starwars.com

Subscribing to the Homing Beacon seemed to always get one e-mail updates to all things Star Wars. I didn't have a Homing Beacon in my inbox today, but I did have this...

BR

Very mysterious.  Saw it on facebook.  Let's hope for double good news this week in both the world of politics and the world of OT fan politics, right?

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Less than a hour left until the Sagapocalypse...

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adywan said:


Well just under 15 minutes to go until i become massively excited or hugely disappointed.
I'll go with B. Well, for your edits, I'm sure it will be good news.

Here's hoping for "newly remastered films and the original versions"

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The Doom and Gloom is SO cool here, maybe you guys should start another online petition or something, maybe that will help.