We watched Star Wars: The Phantom Menace recently and it is way worse than I remember. The dialog is VERY BAD.
@sun it's funny that there are now tons of 'reappraisals' on youtube by zoomer kids who saw it on tv when they were like 5
@lain I was already actually offended by zoomers saying it better than the original, now if someone says that I have to assume you’re actually brain damaged
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I went back and rewatched the original trilogy sometime in the 1990s, realized I thought they were all cheesy but the 1976 movie got a pass for being fun, while everything afterwards was comical.
The 2000s movies, first one I saw at the end of it the audience was stunned into silence by how bad it was, then some dude stood up and said "THAT MOVIE SUCKED!" and everyone clapped.
They're just more postmodern recombinant bloat now, but let's face it... this series should have been one movie and quit.
I went back and rewatched the original trilogy sometime in the 1990s, realized I thought they were all cheesy but the 1976 movie got a pass for being fun, while everything afterwards was comical.
The 2000s movies, first one I saw at the end of it the audience was stunned into silence by how bad it was, then some dude stood up and said "THAT MOVIE SUCKED!" and everyone clapped.
They're just more postmodern recombinant bloat now, but let's face it... this series should have been one movie and quit.
@amerika @RedTechEngineer @kura @lain @freepatriot @cell the old movies are not smart they are just well made and fun, phantom menace is plodding and stupid and the dialog is shit, the CGI looks worse than jurassic park six years earlier. jarjar binks sucks as bad as everyone says, the movie has fart and stepping in poop jokes.
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@sun @amerika @RedTechEngineer @kura @lain @freepatriot @cell I'm not a huge star wars fan in general, but I think the action scenes and a good amount of the music in the prequels actually mops the floor with the originals. The CGI is super dated though and some of the dialogue can be pretty cringe. I think it has higher highs and lower lows.
We can at least all agree that they are better than the sequels. Maybe some people will agree with me that the 2d clone wars was the coolest shit ever.
@Hephaestic @amerika @beardalaxy @kura @lain @freepatriot @cell @sun can't we all just get along and agree Disney's fanfic is dogshit?
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Generally speaking, I think Disney is dogshit and probably has been for the last fifty years or so.
Generally speaking, I think Disney is dogshit and probably has been for the last fifty years or so.
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Yes but the movies are incoherent and moronic
Yes but the movies are incoherent and moronic
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If you're seriously saying that about the original trilogy of Star Wars movies then you are a blankface. The first two Star Wars movies are excellent pieces of cinema that have great pacing to every scene, great acting, and great special effects. The Ewoks in RotJ are super cheesy and arguably out of place but that doesn't detract from what the rest of the movie does well.
Of all the things they could be rightly criticized for, "incoherent and moronic" is something a tweenager would say. They're incredibly clear given that words like Jedi and The Force didn't exist prior to the movies releasing in theaters.
If you're seriously saying that about the original trilogy of Star Wars movies then you are a blankface. The first two Star Wars movies are excellent pieces of cinema that have great pacing to every scene, great acting, and great special effects. The Ewoks in RotJ are super cheesy and arguably out of place but that doesn't detract from what the rest of the movie does well.
Of all the things they could be rightly criticized for, "incoherent and moronic" is something a tweenager would say. They're incredibly clear given that words like Jedi and The Force didn't exist prior to the movies releasing in theaters.
>I think the action scenes [...] in the prequels actually mops the floor with the originals
This is genuinely a very low IQ opinion because the actions scenes in the prequels have choreography like martial arts theater, which is a direct contradiction to the single-strike heaviness that underscored the original movies' action.