So a few days ago, I was telling a friend of mine about the "Backstroke of the West" bootleg, which he'd never heard of, and we decided to watch it last night. I was looking forward to this for two reasons: 1) I mean come on, those subtitles are hysterical, and 2) I'd never been able to sit through the entire Revenge of the Sith movie since I'd seen it in theatres 5 years ago, and I was going to make it this time, dammit.
We sat down, pressed play, and the laughs start coming. Engrish is one of those things that will always be funny to me. After about half an hour though, I started losing focus on the subtitles because I was distracted by how bad the actual movie was. Seriously, this movie is even worse than I remembered. I actually remember liking it in the theatres (when I was 16 and therefore my taste in everything sucked by definition), but for the love of christ, I could not get over how much of a shitpile this movie is. It's like the people responsible for writing the Twilight movies decided to shit out a Star Wars script. Even with the amusing subtitles I only made it about half-way through this abortion of a movie. It just made me really angry because I know that at some point I actually paid money to see this fucking movie.
So dear fellow forum members, I ask you: when was the last time you actually watched a prequel? And, now that they've had several years to settle and the hype is all but dead, do they suck as bad as you remember?