Okay, who actually HATES the Prequels

Hates:

• SkyJedi
• xhonzi
• RLM
• theprequelsrule
• Simon Pegg
• JJ Abrams
• Murry Sparkles
• Ziggy Stardust
• Chewtobacca
• ray_afraid
• canofhumdingers
• LexX
• greenpenguino
• Cuchulainn
• EFU
• Akwat Kbrana
• Scruffy
• Hoth-Nudist
• Marty.McFly

Thinks they're okay, enjoys them from time to time, "resents" them, meh, doesn't really care or just plain indifferently ignores them:

• twooffour
• MRebo
• LeeThorogood
• Puggo - Jar Jar's Yoda
• Gaffer Tape
• Bingowingo
• Anchorhead
• Roger Ebert
• CO
• TheBoost
• DuracellEnergizer
• Mielr
• Adium
• doubleKO
• TV's Frink
• walking_carpet
• WhatsMyName
• Slugoo
• Zero
• Master Syfo-Dias
• mostly eveybody else*

* Apparently, there are some people who "like" them.  But this thread isn't about them**

** Only likes them in Dolby Digital:

• Jedi Temple 34

twooffour said:

I agree with RLM that they fail as movies, but only hate certain segments of it (mostly the usual suspects from I and II).

Okay, so I'm putting you down in the 'meh' category.

Except for the Mickey Mouse Droids and the Droid Stooges.

Is there a 'likes' category? If yes, count me in, if not, just ignore my post.

I hate them! I wanted more, and I know I shouldn't...

Good thread. I think PT Yoda might have had it backward when he said "hate leads to suffering."

I think back to May 19, 1999, I skipped school (my only absence of the year) with two classmates to see a midday showing. I sat there excited to see the new Star Wars. I walked out wanting to not feel disappointed, trying to process what I just saw. It just wouldn't make sense. I became more disillusioned after II, III, and the passage of time. I certainly hate Jar Jar. I resent what they did to Star Wars. I want to ignore them, wish they never happened that way. But they're still there. Over the years I thought maybe they could be salvaged by a fan edit but have come around to thinking that is a lost cause.

Still I can't say that I hate them. Not in the sense of feeling angry if I see them on TV or burning Jar Jar in effigy.

Alexrd said:

Is there a 'likes' category? If yes, count me in, if not, just ignore my post.

No.  There is another thread for you.  This isn't it.

MRebo and theprequelsrule, tell me if I've misjudged your comments.

I wouldn't say I hate them as a complete package or individual movies (only TMP can be called a film ;)). I certainly don't like them as much as the OT. What I do HATE is Hayden Christiansen especially when he starts to whine and moan like a cry baby toddler!

If I had to pick I would guess I fit in the meh category.

Bingowings said:

I find it impossible to hate them for what they are (almost comically muddled and mediocre toy adverts).

I do loathe the missed opportunity they represent (the chance to revisit the Star Wars universe in a cinematic context).

As the official episodes 1 to 3 they were a long hungry wait for an unappetising and expensive meal, the service was lousy too.

I only watch the footage now to see what other chefs and cooks can rustle up with some of the same ingredients. 

Um... I'll put you down as 'meh'?

*phew*

Put Captain Solo in the Cargo Hold said:

Simon Pegg and JJ Abrams hate them too.

They do?

Put Captain Solo in the Cargo Hold said:

Roger Ebert is a very strange case.

Well, Ebert IS an idiot...

Episode 1 is sort of okay as a disney kids movie but not a star wars film, Jake is annoying in the film as Anakin but at least his portrayal does not ruin Anakin/Vader in the oot at least for me.  And his portrayal in the novel by terry Brooks as a dreaming youth is much more similar to Luke in Star Wars.

Hayden not a bad kid but horribly miscast as Skywalker, and Lucas emo whiny Anakin completely ruined Vader as a awesome villain.

Again Hayden's lack of depth and experience as an actor, not his fault he was chosen.  Not his fault Lucas wrote and filmed the single thread that would either save or break the prequels the turn to the darkside.

It was done in a completely nonsencial way and did not even make sense in that owns films continuity, Anakin willing to kill all the Jedi to save padme, but then chokes her, and she dies of a broken heart i nearly left the theater i was so incensed.

No film has made me want to yell at the screen like Sith since, except Crystal Skull.

Mrebo said:

Good thread. I think PT Yoda might have had it backward when he said "hate leads to suffering."

I think back to May 19, 1999, I skipped school (my only absence of the year) with two classmates to see a midday showing. I sat there excited to see the new Star Wars. I walked out wanting to not feel disappointed, trying to process what I just saw. It just wouldn't make sense. I became more disillusioned after II, III, and the passage of time. I certainly hate Jar Jar. I resent what they did to Star Wars. I want to ignore them, wish they never happened that way. But they're still there.

I'm very much in line with this. But..

Ziggy Stardust said:

I hate them, but I'm sick of talking about it.

This very much also.

And a whole bunch of this...

Anchorhead said:

Completely ignore, with just a vague recollection of the only one I've seen.

Only I did watch all three.

So I dunno where that puts me. I hated 'em and I'm sad at the missed opportunity, but *lowers sunglasses* I deal with it.

ray_afraid said:

[indecision]

So I dunno where that puts me. I hated 'em and I'm sad at the missed opportunity, but *lowers sunglasses* I deal with it.

 I flipped a coin for you (http://www.random.org/coins/?num=1&cur=60-usd.0100c-adams) and it came up heads.  So I put you down as a h8r.

TPM is okay. AOTC is less okay. I hate ROTS. None are bad, all are the biggest pile of mediocre ever devised.

captainsolo said:

TPM is okay. AOTC is less okay. I hate ROTS. None are bad, all are the biggest pile of mediocre ever devised.

 

 I disagree.  I think all three merit the "bad" label.  But that's my opinion and I will allow you to keep your own.

As a trilogy, do I count you down as a "mostly don't care/they're sort of good"?