>There is no way its gonna be a disappointment.
Doesn't matter bro, it was the best time to be alive
The prequels made me embarrassed to be a Star Wars fans. Mike was right, nobody should give a shit about Star Wars anymore. it's dead. donezo
>>216954829It wasn't. Fans just wanted the OT all over again. We were warned, but we didn't listen. It's ok now though since they aged like fine wine.
>>216954829I was 9 and it was great. Cope and seethe, you weren't the target audience.
>>216955275This. 1999 was the peak and there's no use pretending otherwise.-t. waited in line all day in Seattle.
>>216955309>>216955315Lel prequels r awesomes, am I right?
>>216954829Episode 1 was SOVL though it had an aura that only the dark forces 2 live action cutscenes could be compared to
>>216954829Darth Maul was cool enough for people to cosplay as him at sporting events for decades. Seen any of that with the sequels? Looooool.
>>216954829It wasnt. I had a great time that night.
I convinced my friend to go instead of seeing The Mummy like we originally planned. I remember looking over at him during the scene in the Gungan city with the boss and he was just staring at me pissed off lol. We never went to the movies again and drifted apart not long after. Worth it
>>216954829It's gonna be great.
Ironic to see just how successfully it is in 2025.
The comic book store my dad went to rented out a whole theater and my dad brought me and my brothers. People dressed up and they gave out figures. It was pretty cool.
Did the black kids in anyone else's school also love Darth Maul? Was it because he was (literally) black? kek
>>216955372Your friend was a faggot. The Mummy 1999 is a great flick regardless.
>>216954829The prequels are unironically peak star wars.Episode 1 had no right having that peak ass fight at the end.
>>216955300Ok bye thanks.
>>216955393KORAHRATTAMAHHHHHH
>26 years later>prequels have more culture relevance than ever and saved Star Wars IP from complete collapse>10 years after sequels>literally a deader than fucking dead "trilogy" with no culture relevance anymore
>>216955315I was 10 and hated it so I guess I was just smarter than you were/less enthralled by cartoon rabbits and poop jokes.
II > I > IV > V > III > VI
>>216955315>>216955423I beat you both, seven and loved it for the politics (unironically) and world building.
>>216955423you were able to parrot reddit letter media at ten? you must be young
>>216955300the man made movies about trade disputes, courtly intrigue and political ideology entertaining to childrenmovies which were simultaneously 1930s serials, shakespearean tragedies, and homages to 100 years of cinemayou not understanding why they're brilliant is what's embarrassingyou just wanted more of the sameand you got that with disney wars, and still you're not happy
III > I > II >>>>>>>>>> BIG GAP >>>>>>> IV > V > VI
>>216955455>>216955436the sequels are superior to both in every way.
>>216955452Well since you brought up the sequels, I would say even Episode 7 was better than all the prequels. That I actually enjoyed.
>>216955408Never had cultural relevance to begin with besides the cultural significance that Star Wars already had
>>216954829Cultural impact of these was insane!
>>216955309Nah, they blew chunks. The first movie literally starts with racist Asian stereotypes discussing tax policies and trade blockades. And it only goes downhill from there.Maybe if it had been made in the late 80s / early 90s when George still gave a shit and cgi still hadn't taken over movies, it could have been good but by that time he was just a rich, fat little man who barely managed to hide his boredom directing in an airconditioned greenscreen studio with every comfort available to him. The energy and creative nous that came from being willing to shit his guts out in the middle of Tunisia to create kino was long gone.
>>216955475>muh wacism!!reddit is that way
>>216955315I was 9 and it was shit. All of my friends hated it. I hadn't met a single person who had anything positive to say about the prequels until a few years ago.
https://youtu.be/7CzbXA53I24The prequels brought us the greatest moment of late night television.
>>216955475>this stereotype that is true is outrageous!>that's why I'm mad!We know.
>>216955488>"all of my nine year old friends hated the prequels"do you have any idea how ridiculous that obvious lie sounds
>>216954829
>>216955496I have this on an official DVD.-t. SW fan that can laugh at himself
>>216955472Name your just butt hurt. The main culture relevance above all it did is droids and clone troopers that entered the cultural zeitgeist. Clones in percituclar, espically with Clone Wars tv show and the bad batch, have become their own characters in it of themselves. I mean look at Captain Rex.
>>216955475It makes the Star Wars universe less of a cartoon that they didn’t always have crazy emperors and death planet guns and had to deal with mundane regular shit like tax issues. It makes the Clone Wars and Empire seem much more grand in scale to know that at the start of it all was a dumb blockade issue for a single planet. Sorry this flew over your head and you needed it to be a children’s bedtime story about da evil bad Empire all the time.
it was too kiddie because anakin was too young but still packed with iconic visuals and kino that mogs any nu capeshit that normies eat up
>>216955321>waited in line all day in Seattle.this is the way.Star Wars Episode 1 - Phantom Menace Trailer by Scorpio (Live)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qc1UQ4AVYrA [Embed]
>>216955391So he wasn't faggot and instead realised that faggot anon cannot recognise true kino.
>>216955503Lie? Mate it's completely true. Kids did not like those fucking films, at least not here in England.
Any old fags where remember the 1997 re-releases of the original trilogy in theaters?
>>216955486>>216955500>>216955520Imagine taking that bait.
>>216955475>The first movie literally starts with racist Asian stereotype aliens discussing tax policies and trade blockadeswhat's not to like?
>>216955381This pic makes me so sad.
>>216955542>implying it was bait or that legions of soiboys and angrygirls don't think that
>>216955533>Kids did not like those fucking films, at least not here in England.This is bait.
OT + prequels were both great, but everything after that except for Solo and Rogue One was really awful imo. But the best Star Wars IP? Kotor and Kotor II. If you disagree, you are wrong, so don't bother replying to me.
>>216955542>i…i got btfo?? uh better just say I was baiting, that’s a neat trick
>>216955372You should've just snuck into the next showing like my friends and I used to do
>>216955555quints of sadness
>>216954829The prequels are bad, but they’re soulfully bad. They’re pretty much the most creative control that any one filmmaker has ever had and they continued to make the franchise successful, popular and impactful despite their quality. The sequels are soulless and therefore forgotten.
>>216955561>But the best Star Wars IP? Kotor and Kotor II.Pretty much most of the games are fucking amazing, Battlefront II's 501st storyline is amazing. Shadows of the Empire. Star Wars Bounty Hunter with the Bando Gora and dark jedi.
>>216955556>>216955562heres some more attention to your miserable lonely life
>>216955537Yeah. I still remember the ads for the special editions.https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eRgsMKu8oNA&pp=ygUmc3RhciB3YXJzIHNwZWNpYWwgZWRpdGlvbiB0cmFpbGVyIDE5OTc%3D
>>216955381>Jar Jar literally front and centerHe really is the key to all this.
>>216955533what didn't they like about them? they were nine. hard mode: no parroting reddit letter media, that would be anachronistic.
>>216955524I felt something watching that. It was such a halcyon time. I miss my friends from back then.
>>216955580>Star Wars Bounty Hunter with the Bando Gora and dark jedi.Based
>>216955533>at least not here in Englandmaybe not on your estatetoo busy stabbing each otherbut look at the toy sales, the videogame salesfuck, they sold star wars fucking yoghurt for years afterwards—it had popping candy inthey wouldn't stock all that bullshit for years if it wasn't sellingthe films were immensely popular
>>216955561kotor is so fucking boring. SWGB was my favorite.
>>216955537Oh yeah. Saw them repeatedly.The Empire Strikes Back Special Edition was the last film I ever saw with my dad.I need to dust.
>>216955591>SQUAWK (insert reddit letter media line) SQUAWKlearn to think for yourself, bro
>>216955593>nobody noticed the flaws pointed out by Plinkett until the Plinkett reviewsSome of us ITT were old enough to experience the disappointment firsthand zoomie.
>>216954829watch the RLM reviews
>>216955614Lucas said it not RLM zoomer.
>>216955606>kotor is so fucking boringI said don't reply to me, Philistine
>>216955593It was boring. People loved Darth Maul because he looked cool but that wasn't enough to overcome the shittiness of the film. There are no other interesting characters. The original Star Wars films are kids films as well but The Phantom Menace was super fucking childish, it felt like a baby movie, and no kid above the age of 5 likes to feel talked down to. It's like jangling keys levels of retardation, like Teletubbies kind of shit.
>>216954829Nobody makes parodies anymore
>>216955639they aged terriblely after endorsing JJ abrams as director of star wars.
>>216955668I was 14 and saw it 5 times.
>>216955675Yes and they were right, JJ abrams' directing was flawless in TFA and TRoS.
>>216955275This. So much this. Holy fuck we need to go BACK
>>216955475>getting filtered by entry level space opera shitThe outspoken starwars fanbase is irredeemable. If only they were born 20 years later. An adolescence filled with capeshit would have served them perfectly.
>>216954829And they all saw high kino
>>216954829P E A K
>>216955686You were retarded then. Hopefully you grew out of that phase of mongoloidism, anon.
>>216955668>There are no other interesting characterswell they're interesting enough that you remember their names and faces, even after all these years:qui gon, jar jar, padme, watto, sebulba, boss nass, jango, B1 battle droid, shmi, nute gunray, glup shitto, elan sleazebaggano, coneheadi-mundi, chancellor valorum, samuel l. jacksonnow you tell me the names of random brown crusty aliens from the sequelsbecause I can't think of any
>>216955275True social media ruined everything
>>216955388No it's because he was cool and black people know what's cool. If you can say nothing else positive about black people, that's one thing they do well. I don't think the concept of 'cool' even existed before them.
Apart from Jarjar and Anakin destroying the droid ship its a good movie.
>>216955812>qui gon, jar jar, padmeYeah ok. I remember their names/faces mostly because of memes, but at least I do know who they are.>wattoThe big nose fly thing?>sebulba, boss nass, jango etclmao who the fuck are these?
>>216955790I really enjoyed it. You cant take that away from me.
>>216955441That was what I liked it for too. It added whole new factions. Droid armies were cool as fuck and showing how the jedi operated before they were wiped out was great. I never got the politics complaint, even as a kid. The politics of everything tied it all together. It's a galactic war, how could it not have a bunch of political stuff happening? How does one become emperor of the galaxy without politics? People never heard of the 'show don't tell rule' and hoped it would all be explained in the title crawl.
>>216955812>sequels are bad>that makes the prequels goodEvery single time. They are both shit, just the sequels lean way more towards generic corpo-slop.
>>216955469Why are you bragging about being the exact type of redditard that anon predicted you were?
>>216955849>has severely impaired memory and attention span>consumes prequel memes>doesn't remember watching the movies>claims to be too smart for theminteresting
>>216955315Surely at 9 ja ja would have driven u you up the wall
>>216955910https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7ogSqLwNQ0
>>216955895>People never heard of the 'show don't tell rule' and hoped it would all be explained in the title crawl.They're always like this. Remember how people bitched for years about how Christopher Nolan overexplains everything in his movies and his dialogue is like it was written for retards? Remember how when Tenet came out and there was ONE sequence where he followed the rule "show don't tell" like people had been crying for for over a decade and the immediate response was "WTF I couldn't hear anything anyone was saying during the freeport tour how am I supposed to know what Max was doing without dialogue?" Everyone loves to bleat on and on about "show don't tell" right up until a director actually does it and there isn't a detailed plot synopsis or trivia page or youtube breakdown up to describe what happened. You have to not listen to the overwhelming majority of audience complaints, they're fucking morons.
>>216954829And he was right.
I saw The Phantom Menace at least 20 times in theaters and bought the Japanese Laserdisc(s) and the the VHS pan and scan and the widescreen package with the art book.-t. still the same anon who waited all day in line with his friends in Seattle in 1999I sigh..., man Seattle was safe back then.
>>216955964Lucas is so bassed.
>>216955935He was barely in it. Chewy pissed me off more, at least jar jar learned fucking English. Chewy just interjects with random, pointless grunts. Jar jar at least drives the story forward and is an essential character.
>>216955381my man got a stiffy on the left
>>216956013I don't even understand what racist stereotype Chewbacca is supposed to beLucas hadn't honed his craft at that point
>>216956049Nta, but Chewbacca was based on Lucas's Alaskan malamute.
>>216955300Star Wars was always dorkazoid supreme coded, you should have always been embarrassed of being a fan of that kid shit.
>>216954829Everyone has one good story in them. Very few have two.
>>216956071Star Wars was mainstream AND nerd territory.
>>216956071You hang out on /tv/
>>216955315I was 12 and it was awesome. What a time to be a kid! The prequels will continue to shit all over the Disney trilogy until the end of time, without question.
>>216955555Your quints make me happy
>>216955475Good. Seethe more about racism.Reddit might be more your speed though kiddo.
>>216956108>PREQUELS RUUUULLLEEE!!1!1>why>B...B..BECAUSE SEQUELS DROOOOOL!!1!!!11
>>216956192I'm sorry your dad touched you.But it's ok to enjoy things, anon.
>>216956103Doesn't negate anything I said bitch boy
>>216956062...dog stereotype?that's what I mean, he just didn't have it down pat back thenprequel aliens teach kids something about the group of people they're offensively meant to representor at least something about what George thinks of them:watto is greedy, and engages in human trafficking and chattel slaveryneimoidians make inferior products, and struggle to float a viable bluewater navyjar jar is an unintelligent thief, and possibly evilthese are lessons for young viewers which could only come from an auteur film
>>216956217Tell that to the people who liked the sequels their opinions are also wrong
i dont like star wars
>>216956250Playstation 2 owner detected.
>>216956226It doesnt need to. But seeing as you're here, which is bad enough. But also specifically hanging out in star wars thread about a movie from 25 years ago, youre neck deep in this shit like the rest of us.
>>216956285*26 years 4 months 3 weeks and some odd days
>>216956285And yet star wars is still dork coded, glad we can agree on something here.
>>216954829If you've had sex you love the prequels. If you haven't you hate the prequels. Shrimple as
>>216956325Nta, but do you honestly think anyone cares if someone likes a now mediocre inoffensive sci-fi/fantasy romp when people openly spout the virtues of licking other people's buttholes?
>>216955475Asian stereotypes are very, very funny thoughhttps://drawntogether.fandom.com/wiki/Ling-Ling#Stereotypes
IV>V>VI>>>>>>BIG BRAP>>>>BELCH>>>>>>SHART
>>216955537I remember going to one of the late late showings for ESB in highschool and falling asleep in the theater.
>>216956405>>>Full underwear deposit>>>>>>>Disgusting German fetishes>>>>>>>
>>216955381>Ironic to see just how successfully it isHello sars
>>216956325>codedThis guy must be a faggoty zoomer
>>216956545So a zoomer then.
>>216956345Zoomers are the only people who love the prequels and also the generation that’s having the least sex so it’s not tracking here
>>216954829Regular people liked the Phantom Menace on release. It was just critics who crapped on it.Clone Wars was a stinker though. But Revenge of The Sith won people back. Which is why the Prequels remain 100x better than any of the Disney slop.More people worldwide recognize Darth Maul than Rey Palpatine.
>>216954829It was not. Loved it as a kid.
>>216954829And it wasn't.
>>216957203We could have saved him bros.
>>216954829boy was he dead wrong
>>216956355>whataboutismI honest to God hate it all
>>216957203My theory on why he picked Jake was because he resembled Leo the most.
I bet what hurt George the most was seeing The Matrix and LOTR steal the spotlight from Star Wars, especially when Gollum got all the praise despite Jar Jar being the first major mocap cg character.
>>216954829>watches the movie>as expected, it wasn't a disappointment>urge to rewatch it intensifies>goes back to the end of the line for the next session
Prequelshitters are literally incapable of defending their movies without invoking the sequels. It's pathetic really.
>>216954829The prequels are good. Only 40 year old neckbeard faggot nerd fanatics think otherwise
>>216955315I was a brat too and thought they were fucking dogshit.>Rent cool space adventure made by George Lucas>Expect actual wars in the stars>Mfw the first words muttered are about trade routes and taxation
>>216954829lmao dude looks like darth mauled
>>216956345>If you've had sex, you love the sexless trilogy where no one is married or has sex outside of plot convenience and it's all offscreen anywayZoomer logic at work. Just admit a 50 year old youtuber mindbroke you for the rest of your life.
>>216954829the way he looks reminds me of the guy who cut off his nose
>>216955315I was 10, my dad had showed me the originals and i was hyped to see the movie with him. We both walked out extremely disappointed
>>216958405Kek, still my favorite part of the reviews.
>>216955275The world really did feel like it ended in 2001.
>>216954829I saw them as a kid and I was pretty disappointed Really George should have made the movies because he had some good ideas and not just because he got full control of the toy rights back from Kenner
>>216956108To be fair Disney was a whole lot better back then too
>>216954829I only care for TPM. The 35mm theatrical cut that is, not the DNR riddled official releaseshttps://youtu.be/afNeeuPoueM?si=cW-RtDyNi2c-15aQ
>>216955275na, early to mid 1990's was still better than late 1990's
>>216955315I was 4 and had watched all of TOS, TNG and DS9 (except the finale which was a week later). I walked out thinking Lucas is a hack and nothing compares to Star Trek for philosophical stories, tense action and character development.
>>216955275This, it was fun. I like fun.
>>216957983/thread
IV > V >>> VI >>>>>> I > II = III
>>216955813> True social media ruined everythingAIM was incredibly popular by 1999. My entire college used it to communicate instead of the landline phones provided
>>216959604you know exactly what he meant nigger don't be a disingenuous smartass
>>216959635AIM was proto social media for normies in an age where webrings and geocities also existed. You could post links, update your status and fill out a bio. That’s social media dude.
>>216955895Droid armies were a cop out to make things kid friendly in 21st century
This was basically old man yells at cloud, all the older Star Wars fans were seething because it was "fun'. I remember the seethe, and my I had my queen amadala life size cutout and it was dope.
>>216955381What's ironic? How is it successful, Mr. ESL?
Mesa think da boomers no like JarJar? Dis unpossible!
>>216959690it wasnt ubiquitous thoughever. the internet was a place you went to, now it's breathing down your fucking neck everywhere you go
>>216954829He has risen!
>>216955472People love referencing palpatines baddie plan
>>216959766>look for job>have to go home to put in application online>follow our x, discord, bluesky, etc pleaseWe made this hell. We deserve it.
