Neither. I was a teen when the prequels were being released, so I was lacking in enough taste to think I liked them at the time. That’s more than I can say of the sequels, I guess? I disliked TFA right off the bat and never finished TLJ. I want to live in a world where neither trilogy exists.
Is it unpopular to pretty much hate everything that happened after Vision of the Future. I like Luke and Mara settling down together maybe they have one or more children based on Vision of the Future, I even like Ben. But all the grimdark stuff from the Vong, to killing Anakin Solo, making Jacen Hayden Skywalker and killing him, and killing Mara I despise.
I share the same opinion, for what it’s worth.
“You know, if you weren’t so intensely self-absorbed, you’d realize that all of life is a balance between the emptiness of eternity and the need to make art … to remind ourselves we were here.”
“I had an epiphany like that once. Then I mercilessly beat someone until it went away.”
Heh. I’ve long thought that Adrian Paul would’ve made a pretty good Exar Kun in a TOTJ film, but never considered him as Anakin, though I can imagine him easily pulling it off. He also had black hair, which is what I imagined Anakin’s hair colour to be prior to TPM’s release.
“I was so gay, but I couldn’t tell anyone.”
the main characters are given arbitrary leadership roles that don’t suit their previous story-arcs
Lando being promoted to General in no time sticks out like a sore thumb.
Yeah. Though there was some precedent for this in TESB with Luke having the rank of commander only three years after joining the Rebels with no military training beforehand. Like, him blowing up the Death Star doubtless was cause enough to bump him up a rank or three, but still, realistically, he shouldn’t have a rank higher than petty officer.
“Earl, did we just catch ourselves some kind of beautiful man-fish?”
“Let’s feast on his flesh!”
My apparently unpopular opinion judging by past reactions:
I think they should have used Kyle Katarn and Jan Ors in Shadows of the Empire instead of creating Dash Rendar and Leebo. Kyle and Jan were already mercenaries working for the Rebellion with big accomplishments under their belts and they were active during that period. Instead we got a Han Solo wannabe that was as interesting as a slice of bread.
I think that’s an unfair analogy. A slice of bread can be quite interesting depending on the type.
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“Are you wearing mascara?”
“Uh, it’s eye paint for men!”
The Water of Life makes terrible lube for triple anal.
This is getting out of hand! Now there are two of them!
“That’s never going to heal if you don’t stop picking.”
That trailer is a nice showcase of everything I dislike about Force-based characters and modern fight choreography/cinematography. Hard pass.
The Ewoks in ROTJ were descended from the survivors of a ship that crashed on Endor millenia ago, hence why they speak a “primitive dialect” of an existing language. They’ve been there so long that the story of how they got to Endor has become mythology, rather than history, to them; for example, the ship had a protocol droid onboard which survived but later “died”, who has been glorified as a kind of god.
Shut up and take my credits.
Didn’t Kershner go on record disparaging the philosophy of TESB, though? Saying words to the effect of “it seems deeper than it really is”?
Part of me wants to object, but I never even finished TLJ, so who am I to claim otherwise?
I certainly agree ROTJ’s weak. I don’t even enjoy watching it anymore. Everything between the sail barge showdown and the lightsaber duel cures me of insomnia.
Apparently the theatrical poster for A Nightmare on Elm Street 3 used in Ghana:
“Is that you, John Wayne? Is this me?”
I like the silliness/cheesiness of the old Marvel comics. Like you said, it’s a big galaxy; lots of room for different styles and sensibilities.
I used to be lukewarm towards Star Trek IV, though my appreciation’s definitely grown in recent years. Thank you, Kurtzman, for unwittingly providing some perspective.
Definitely the first three films, though I pretend Temple is set in 1937 instead of '35, as it doesn’t work at all as a prequel to Raiders (Indy’s a skeptic in the first film, which makes no sense if just the year before he experienced first-hand the magic of Mola Ram and the Sankara Stones). I also include most of the comics. That’s about it.