imperialscum said:

I think RLM is a pure attention whore (targeting something already unpopular etc.). Why would I waste 2 hours or so listening to someone's opinion when I have my own? I already know why I don't like the prequels.

Sad thing is seeing comments of people after seeing the videos such as: "I didn't realise before how flawed the prequels are" etc. To get your opinion changed by some attention whoring crap is another poof that humans are basically a dumb herd.

I hated the prequels when I first saw them. (Still do, just for the record.)

This hate was primarily an emotional response, as hate tends to be.

Most of the time, our reactions to art and other things start out as an unexamined emotion- and then we use facts and logic to back up that emotion. Especially when someone didn't have the same emotional response and asks, "Why did you hate it?" We come up with some reasons, more logical than emotional, and that is our mental explanation for why our emotional reaction was what it was.

When I came across RLM reviews of the PT, I already knew I didn't like the movies. I had my reasons for why, but I never spent the time to dissect the rotting corpse the way RLM did. I found his analysis to be correct (mostly) and to be educational.

He didn't change my opinion, but he did inform it.