Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)

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Gavinmad

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Jive Turkey_sl said:
A friend recommended this to me the other day. Might give it a shot even though going from the best (5) to worst (2) might make the terribleness of 2 stand out all that much more.

One thing that kills me about Palpatine in Episode 1 is that everyone knew who he was, but when Lucas would talk about it, he'd always say "well... I can just say that things aren't what they seem. that's kind of the overarching theme of the prequel trilogy"... turns out things were what they seemed. He also mentioned that he would explain more about Force Ghosts and that Qui Gon would return as one... which I don't think he ever did. It just ended up seeming like Lucas had no idea where he was going with the prequels. I suppose that could be said about the original trilogy too, but at least I was too young at the time to hear anything he may or may not have said between episodes back then
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They went into the Qui Gon stuff in the final season of Clone Wars.

Qui Gon didn't master the ability, but he was still able to talk to Yoda and guide him to the beings that could teach the ability to him
 
chaos

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Man, at this point, I'd jsut as soon not watch the prequels. TPM is fucking awful. Clone Wars feels disjointed because it relies on so much outside info from the jump. And the last one just doesn't make any sense from a story perspective and completely undercuts the tragedy in Vader's character that the original 3 set up. I don't see how watching them in a different order would fix the problems with Anakin's suddenly slaughtering a temple full of babies, or the entire motivation for his dark side switch in the first place, or the painfully awful romance, or the impossible to follow space battles, or the yoda fight (UGH), or Mace's entire existence, Count DOOKU, or any of a hundred other things. Bros, they just aren't good movies and I want to spend my time watching good movies, not being bored as fuck while I wait for it to end so I can watch a good one.
 
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I'm confused , people actually hated the pod racing? I thought that was one of the more likable parts of prequels and something I can see people doing on a planet like Tatooine. And by podracing I mean the actual pod races, not the kid actor's performance.
 
Slaythe

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Yes, the fact that I like something you do not makes me a contrarian. Brilliant observation.

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It's more your vitriol in face of universal opposition.
 
Slaythe

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The only moment in the prequels that I think has any redeeming qualities whatsoever is Ewan Mcgregor at the very end near the lava. But it's kind of counter balanced by the "I have the higher ground" bullshit so even that gets ruined.
 
Frenzied Wombat

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Gavinmad_sl said:
Yeah that was by far the absolute worst fight scene out of all 6 movies.
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Whaa? Imho the worst was the stupid "I've got the high ground" showdown between Obi and Anakin, followed by the Boba Fett fight with Obi at that clone base..



I mean it's subjective of course, but worst???
 
Hoss

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Gavinmad_sl said:
Yeah that was by far the absolute worst fight scene out of all 6 movies.
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You must have stepped out when obiwan fought grievous and started spinning the lightsabers like buzzsaws.

Jive Turkey_sl said:
One thing that kills me about Palpatine in Episode 1 is that everyone knew who he was, but when Lucas would talk about it, he'd always say "well... I can just say that things aren't what they seem.
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Did anyone know who palpatine was other than people who were into the EU? I purposely wasn't mentioning it to anyone back at the time. If you did know without reading the EU, then how? I don't remember them ever using the name palpatine in the original trilogy.
 
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Hoss_sl said:
You must have stepped out when obiwan fought grievous and started spinning the lightsabers like buzzsaws.



Did anyone know who palpatine was other than people who were into the EU? I purposely wasn't mentioning it to anyone back at the time. If you did know without reading the EU, then how? I don't remember them ever using the name palpatine in the original trilogy.
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The Emperor had to be somebody and he was the only creepy old white dude in the movies. Also, it was obvious it was the same actor doing the hooded scenes.
 
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Hoss_sl said:
You must have stepped out when obiwan fought grievous and started spinning the lightsabers like buzzsaws.



Did anyone know who palpatine was other than people who were into the EU? I purposely wasn't mentioning it to anyone back at the time. If you did know without reading the EU, then how? I don't remember them ever using the name palpatine in the original trilogy.
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If you watched episode 1 it was painfully obvious who Palpatine was because the actor was the same. Thats why cutting out all those scenes actually makes it more enjoyable.
 
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I'm confused , people actually hated the pod racing? I thought that was one of the more likable parts of prequels and something I can see people doing on a planet like Tatooine. And by podracing I mean the actual pod races, not the kid actor's performance.
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No, I didn't like it. It's like a 20-30 minute scene, completely takes you out of the action, to watch some kid race CGI muppets for what? So Qui Gon can win a slave off of the absurd middle eastern charicature? Of course, in this case the "action" is a trade dispute between some ridiculous Asian/Jewish hybrid aliens so I can see how people could use the break.
 
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If you watched episode 1 it was painfully obvious who Palpatine was because the actor was the same. Thats why cutting out all those scenes actually makes it more enjoyable.
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I knew that Palpatine was the emperor...didn't they call him emperor palpatine? in the orig? I didn't read any EU books, and only played a few games here and there...so I picked it up somewhere /shrug - in my mind I always had that info from the OG 3.
 
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I intend to watch the original trilogy again in the Despecialized version before seeing the new one because it has probably been over a decade since I actually watched all 3. There is no way I'm taking away valuable jerking time (or even mouth breathing and butt scratching time honestly) to watch those shitty prequels again though. I don't need them to watch the new movie, and I don't feel like trudging through them just to say I did it. I don't understand why someone would even consider it.
 
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