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TV's Frink said:

xhonzi said:

Actually, I'll just go back to: I find in him nothing to like.  Ergo: I do not like him, and I can't explain it further than that.  AND THE DEATH STAR III BLOWS UP!  THE END.

That wasn't much of an ending. :-(

 Better?

IT'S MY TRILOGY, AND I WANT IT NOW!

"[George Lucas] rebooted the franchise in 1997 without telling anyone." -skyjedi2005

"Yeah, well, George says a lot of things..." a young 1997 xhonzi on RASSM

"They're my movies." -George Lucas. 19 people won oscars for their work on Star Wars (1977) and George Lucas wasn't one of them.

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Did you find that by searching for "insincere clapping"?

IT'S MY TRILOGY, AND I WANT IT NOW!

"[George Lucas] rebooted the franchise in 1997 without telling anyone." -skyjedi2005

"Yeah, well, George says a lot of things..." a young 1997 xhonzi on RASSM

"They're my movies." -George Lucas. 19 people won oscars for their work on Star Wars (1977) and George Lucas wasn't one of them.

Rewrite the Prequels!

 

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Wow.  Straight to three strikes...

How did I do that?

IT'S MY TRILOGY, AND I WANT IT NOW!

"[George Lucas] rebooted the franchise in 1997 without telling anyone." -skyjedi2005

"Yeah, well, George says a lot of things..." a young 1997 xhonzi on RASSM

"They're my movies." -George Lucas. 19 people won oscars for their work on Star Wars (1977) and George Lucas wasn't one of them.

Rewrite the Prequels!

 

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xhonzi wrote:

Until jive-talkin' yoda and his ballerina twirling Jedi show up.

yeah all the non-main jedi were awful except for Lucas's son.  He's the only one who showed (besides caring) that you need to be athletic but more importantly coordinated when portraying a jedi in action.

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I just think lightsabre duels should be more about hitting people and things with your lightsabre than they are about pirouettes and zen like finger extensions.

IT'S MY TRILOGY, AND I WANT IT NOW!

"[George Lucas] rebooted the franchise in 1997 without telling anyone." -skyjedi2005

"Yeah, well, George says a lot of things..." a young 1997 xhonzi on RASSM

"They're my movies." -George Lucas. 19 people won oscars for their work on Star Wars (1977) and George Lucas wasn't one of them.

Rewrite the Prequels!

 

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xhonzi said:

After the OT did "Forest Planet, Jungle Planet, Ice Planet, Cloud Planet, and Desert Planet" it left a lot of people thinking, "What's left?!" 

Oops... I forgot Swamp Planet, Metal Moon Planet and Just Got Blowed Up Planet.  And then there's This is no Cave, Sweetheart Planet-oid, but that probably doesn't count.

IT'S MY TRILOGY, AND I WANT IT NOW!

"[George Lucas] rebooted the franchise in 1997 without telling anyone." -skyjedi2005

"Yeah, well, George says a lot of things..." a young 1997 xhonzi on RASSM

"They're my movies." -George Lucas. 19 people won oscars for their work on Star Wars (1977) and George Lucas wasn't one of them.

Rewrite the Prequels!

 

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xhonzi said:

...VIII. It was interesting to see some other locales and planets.  Naboo was nice to look at it.  After the OT did "Forest Planet, Jungle Planet, Ice Planet, Cloud Planet, and Desert Planet" it left a lot of people thinking, "What's left?!"  But of course, "Tuscany Planet, City Planet, Volcano Planet, 50's Diner Planet, Stormy Oil Rig Planet, and Honey We Shrunk the Kids and put them in a Day Glow Mushroom Kingdom Planet" were yet to come.  If only that darn, out of the way, "furthest from the bright center of the galaxy" planet didn't keep coming up so often.

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xhonzi said:



3. Perhaps it's akin to liking the cherries in a Cherry and Poop pie.  I really like cherries...  but the poop, man!  The POOP!


I was just going to write an analogy of someone eating a salad filled with bugs and a few yummy cherry tomatoes, and then being asked if they enjoyed the tomatoes.

But your poop/cherry pie analogy is clearly superior.

There are some marginally-decent moments in the PT, but they would have been a lot better if they had been in different (better) movies.

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Oh stewardess, Mace speaks jive...


Golly.....

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Even many (most?) PT-haters admit that he [Qui Gon] was pretty good.


I like Liam Neeson a lot, and I think he's the reason that I'd have to say that TPM is the least horrible of the Prequels, but like so much else in the Prequels his talent was wasted. He just wasn't given enough to do, and it was like his character was just kind of floating around in a film had no emotional anchor for him to grab onto.

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What I liked :

 

Ewan McGregor

Liam Neeson (for the most part)

Ian McDiarmid (until his transformation scene in ROTS, anyway ...)

John William's score

The idea that the Jedi order isn't an order of perfect, pristine monks but an order of corrupt, dogmatic fools.

Darth Maul

Darth Maul's lightsaber

The duel in TPM (though it does get a bit too flashy after Qui-Gon leaves the fray)

Mace Windu's lightsaber (his purple blade almost makes up for the monotony of the other lightsabers)

 

That's about it, unfortunately.   

 

 

 

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TV's Frink said:

You forgot to capitalize the "*" again.

Also, if you hate everything about these movies, then don't post in this thread.

 Is there not already a post somewhere telling you to mind your own business ?. I answered what i like about these movies F*CK ALL. If you dont like my answer hit the ignore button .

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alphabetty spaghetti said:

 Is there not already a post somewhere telling you to mind your own business ?. I answered what i like about these movies F*CK ALL. If you dont like my answer hit the ignore button .( DO YOU REALISE HOW MUCH PEOPLE ON THESE BOARDS DISLIKE YOU AND YOUR STUPID REPLYS TO EVERY QUESTION THAT SOMEONE ASKS ? NOT TO MENTION HOW YOU FILL UP THE OF TOPIC SECTION WITH MINDLESS DRIVEL ).

Feel free to reply with a stupid animated giff.

http://images.cheezburger.com/completestore/2010/9/13/ddcf2dcd-7be2-4f78-abec-403c0c77f3be.gif

Sorry, I know you asked for a giff, but all I have are gifs.

Anyway, what the F*CK* is the "OF TOPIC SECTION?"

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TV's Frink said:

http://images.cheezburger.com/completestore/2010/9/13/ddcf2dcd-7be2-4f78-abec-403c0c77f3be.gif

Anyway, what the F*CK* is the "OF TOPIC SECTION?"

 Ill tell you if you tell me what the extra * is for in the word FU*K !. i ONLY SPELL IT WITH ONE *

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TV's Frink said:

Last edited on September 27, 2010 at 6:59 AM by TV's Frink (Reason: *C'mon, just say "fuck." Try it. Fuck. See, it's fun! Fuck!)

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alphabetty spaghetti said:

...DO YOU REALISE HOW MUCH PEOPLE ON THESE BOARDS DISLIKE YOU AND YOUR STUPID REPLYS TO EVERY QUESTION THAT SOMEONE ASKS ?

Well, certainly not me. And I'm sure I'm not alone. And I'm sure of that, just as much as you are sure of what you rhetorically asked in the above quote.

 NOT TO MENTION HOW YOU FILL UP THE OF TOPIC SECTION WITH MINDLESS DRIVEL ).

Well, as it is the Off Topic section, you're bound to have off topic threads, so anything goes. Well, mostly anything. But the point is, don't flame him just because he wants to be helpful. There's nothing wrong with him answering questions, because this is a public forum. The more answers the better. What if nobody answered?

And furthermore, as a non-native english speaker, I appreciate his grammatical corrections, because I think it's important to use proper grammar. I always try to improve, in fact as I was writing this post I looked up how to spell rhetorical.

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Thanks, Struttin' Leo.  To be fair, I usually only correct grammar and spelling if:

1) The poster is a bud from off-topic who can take a joke
2) The poster is acting like a dick
3) The poster has acted like a dick previously

I have great respect for those who are not posting in their native language and who are doing far better than I could ever hope to do outside of my native language.*

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(I'm not sure what he's mouthing, though. "Thanks Robert", or "I have a toupée" ??)

[and by searching for how to spell toupée on Google, I stumbled upon a Monty Python sketch called "Toupée Department". Man, if the Internet was tangible I could kiss it right now!!! :) ]

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He's saying, "Thank you, Pete," if I recall.  It's from the movie Dodgeball.

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Looks more like "Thank you, Fink!" to me...

IT'S MY TRILOGY, AND I WANT IT NOW!

"[George Lucas] rebooted the franchise in 1997 without telling anyone." -skyjedi2005

"Yeah, well, George says a lot of things..." a young 1997 xhonzi on RASSM

"They're my movies." -George Lucas. 19 people won oscars for their work on Star Wars (1977) and George Lucas wasn't one of them.

Rewrite the Prequels!

 

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It's like EVP, you can make him say almost whatever you want! I think I have discovered a new pasttime...

Saint Tropez

Thank you Bea

Drop the pen

Un lapin...............