Did you like Episode 1 at the time?
>>222738470No. I was seven at the time.
i remember everyone saying it was terrible when it came out, but can't remember my own opinion at the time.
>>222738470Of course. I loved it, just like I do now.
>>222738470this was good, but the opening of revenge was amazing, remains one of my best theater experiences
>>222738470Yes I was 12Duel of the Faiths still is one of the greatest movie tracks ever madeAlso the entire duel with Maul /Obi-Wan, it was last day of filming and George Lucas was not on set and the stunt coordinators just went ham
>>222738470I was ten or eleven when it came out. Saw it three times in theaters. I loved Starwars and liked being wrapped up in the hype, but even then I was very mixed on it. The overall craft and certain individual parts of the movie were masterfully executed, but the overall package was frustratingly uneven. Still my favorite of the prequels, for whatever that's worth.
Oh yeah, definitely. I was 11 years old I think. My parents gifted me a cassette of the soundtrack when I graduated from the 5th grade and played the shit out of that thing. I had been a big Star Wars nerd, absolutely loved Shadows of the Empire and Rogue Squadron on the N64. Battlefront was just a year or two away iirc. Had two separate editions of the original trilogy on VHS. After some time though, I grew up (a little) and lost the connection to the franchise. I still love some aspects of SQW, especially the vehicles, but any time I see some movie or series announcement, I just let it pass me by. I'm not drawn to it so much and even the "good" stuff (like Andor) just hasn't enticed me.
I was 9 when it came out and I remember thinking it was mostly boring outside of the pod race and the lightsaber fight at the end. All of the standing around yapping about politics sucked. Anakin was annoying and I couldn't relate to what a whiner he was. Jar Jar stepping in poop and smelling stinky farts was stuff for babies to laugh at.
Yes and I liked it even more after Episode II came out and it was worse.
RLM are retarded gen x faggots. The prequels were made for millennials
I remember really liking the pod racing scene and the duel of fates song.Everything else? Not so much.
>>222738587same, i don't even remember what the second one was about now.think i liked parts of three too but i haven't seen them since their releases.
>>222738511>lust provoking image
I wasn't even born until like a decade later lol
>>222738511
>>222738470It would have been a great movie if George Lucas had just cut out all the childish shit. I don't even mind Jar Jar acting all goofy during the battle of Naboo, but some of that stuff is so immature that you would think it was left in on accident. It's like a great movie with a bad movie edited in. It's too bad, because I feel like it altered the way people saw the other prequels. If it had just been edited better, it would have easily been on-par with the original trilogy, if not better. When it's on, it's really fucking on. I don't even mind the political stuff, George Lucas was right to include that, and people only hate it because they're told to by people who already hate the movie for other, more damning aspects of it.
>>222738518I thought it was the greatest shit ever at the time. I was five, mind you, but the only thing I didn't like about it was Jar Jar, because I thought that he was going to be a villain based off of how he looked.
My mom's favorite character was Watto and she kept his little toy in her car. I have no idea why.
>>222738470Yes. I loved it when I was 8. Still love it at 35.RLM lost.
>>222739665The math on that made my heart jump.
>>222738470Yes. I seriously did not get the hate. It had Liam Neeson being awesome, Darth Maul being cool and it was fucking Star wars. Jar jar was annoying, but so fucking what? Anakin was an awful kid actor? So was hammil in episode 4.Now, episode 2? That was the worst one. Man that sucked.
>>222738470I was 11 at the time. I liked the podrace and battle at the end. Today I like the podrace (non-extended version)
>>222738470no
>>222738470Sebulba Cup
>>222739700>Now, episode 2? That was the worst one. Man that sucked.This take blows my mind because I think it's the best prequel by a large margin. The space-noir vibe is cool, it has probably the best action sequences in any Star Wars film, and it has none of the problems that episodes I and III had. The worst thing about it is the stiff dialogue, but it makes up for it in other ways. The last hour and a half of that film is peak Star Wars. When the clone wars break out at the end, it feels so ominous. I'll never forget going to see that the day after it came out when I was a few weeks shy of turning eight. I thought it was the greatest shit ever.
>>222739709Yeah, the non-extended, theatrical version of the pod race really is better. I have no idea why George Lucas thought it was suddenly necessary to include absolutely everything, even when it breaks the flow. The man has no quality control.
>at the timeNo, I did not. I went in expecting a film that respected its young audience enough to give it challenging, dark themes. Instead, I received a full-blown children's movie, replete with alien racial stereotypes as comic relief.
>>222738470I was 12 and I remember seeing it a few days after release so only a couple people had costumes. Loved the movie at the time because it finished strong with Maul, but even once it came out on video everyone realized it was way more bad than good. The merch was incredible though.
>>222738470Yes, everyone did
>>222738470I'm an Xer, so like every non-millennial, I was picrel.
>>222739820On second thought, I suppose the dense discussions of intergalactic trade and tax policies were meant to represent the challenging themes. While that's laudable, there is no human drama in it, like there was in Empire Strikes back. My name is actually Luke, and I can't tell you how many times people said "Luke, I am your father" to me growing up.
>>222738470I thought the lightsaber fight at the end was cool. Thought the pod racing part dragged on and was boring til the actual race happened
>>222739749Even by today's standards, I can't believe the level of marketing this movie had. I remember getting picrel with a Pizza Hut order before the movie came out and wondering what a groundbreaking new character this Gunray fellow would be and what part he played in the run-up to the Empire's creation. Holy shit, imagine this guy having your back, or worse, having to face him as a foe...
>>222739787To me, its greatest sin was that it was fucking boring. It's like two and a half hours long, it's got ninja yoda, it's got Dracula and four armed lightsaber wielding robots. How the fuck did you manage to make it boring with politics and dull as shit clone story?
>>222738470Yeah but I was 8 when it came outAs I grew up I can recognize its a terrible movie even if I personally like it and am Nostalgic for it. The same way I liked the 1998 Godzilla movie when it came out.
Not really no, I was like 5
Yes, RLM didn't brainwash me as a 12 year old to hate them until 2007 or whenever that first RLM video came out and then I hated them. Social media didn't exist back then, I was a kid, I thought it was cool, I liked attack of the clones and RotS as well, all of them. Then I discovered RLM and they told me what to think and I was dumb enough to fall for it.I'm not saying these movies are great, fuck no. Even as a 40 year old now there's plenty of criticisms for the prequels many of them very valid, but they are not that bad, there is still some enjoyment to be found with them, and compared to what Star Wars is now, they are far better than the absolute disaster that has been Disney Star Wars outside of Andor.
>>222740003Yeah people still make trips to freaking ep1 pepsi machines https://clevelandvintage.com/blogs/cleveland/making-the-pilgrimage-to-pittsburgh-for-a-phantom-menace-vending-machine
>>222738470Yes.
>>222738470Yes. Jar Jar was my favorite character.
>>222740062>four armed lightsaber wielding robotsThat's Episode III, but I'll never forgive Lucas for wrecking such an awesome character by making Obi-Wan so fucking OP.
>>222738470watch the RLM reviews
>>222738470No, we went back to see it a second time because me and my bro put it down to an urban youth in the audience we were so unwilling to believe that it was possible to not enjoy a star wars film.It wasn't much better the second time around.
>>222738470yes. we were wowed by the CGI and non-geriatric lightsaber fights.
>>222738470as an 8 year old I found it weirdly confusing. I think at the time I assumed I was too dumb to understand the basics of the conflict, but at the end of the day I liked the podrace, I liked the designs of the ships and shit, and the duel of the fates was pretty hype.so yes...?
>>222738470yes. I was 13 I think and loved the OT.Qui Gon was my favorite part of the movie.
>>222738597It's still a mixed bag. I was a teenager throughout the prequels (13 to 18 I think). I liked Menace and Revenge a lot when they came out, but Clones was really disappointing.
>>222739787there are 2 great things in Clones:1) Anakin riding through the desert2) the sound effect of Bubba's thermal detonatorrest of the movie I could do without
I think the fact that this is debated here all the time, while no one questions the OT is telling.
>>222739308I'd just end it all
>>222738496Same except I was nine.
>>222740589I can see why Obi-Wan doesn't seem all that concerned when the bongo breaks down at the bottom of the ocean.
>>222738470I hated young Anakin and Jar Jar. But the rest wasn't horrible, especially the saber fights
>>222742047Make Anakin four or five years older, make Jar Jar funnier and less childish, and remove the part about Anakin creating C-3P0, and then you have a pretty good movie.
>>222738470YeahI liked sci fi in general as a kid so it was pretty coolAlso anakin was a kid too, so that was neatShame about what happened to that guy who played him as a child actor
Yes. It finally showed tons more Jedi action than dumb ship battles.
>>222742226>It finally showed tons more Jedi actionThat was Attack of the Clones. Thanks for giving your opinion on a film that you haven't seen, faggot.
>>222740563watching Return of the Jedi is the best way to fall asleep when you're having insomnia.
>>222738470I did, i just thought of it as more SW. I found the race part kind of boring but the last fight was pretty fun between choreographs and duel of fates. I didn´t read all that much into it at the time but then again there was no need.
>>222738470at the time yeah. as a kid my parents got me into the original star wars movies from their childhood. so when episode 1 was announced it was a huge deal back then. we had not yet been burnt out on companies pumping out so much of something its tiring.
>>222738470Yes, I was 12. It’s also the only Star Wars movie I’ve watched since Solo even through I have Disney+
>>222739308I want to watch it dubbed by Gerald from Clarkson's Farm
I think I was 6 or 7. I thought anakin was annoying but found the podrace and darth maul cool. I was also confused why it was called episode 1 and just came out when episodes 4 and 6 were already around.
>>222738470No because Jar Jar was disgusting. Commercials featuring his ugly mug would air during primetime, and made me afraid to go to sleep.
>>222738470Yes
>>222738470I was 18 and I left the theater in disgust.
>>222739749WOAH SEBULBA MY BIG SEBULBAYOU ARE THE REASON I LIVE SEBULBAEVERYTHING IS SEBULBAI WILL NEVER LEAVE YOU SEBULBAhttps://youtu.be/OCwaMjWnCQ8?si=H5tnCW2YtChCTxIx
I remember my dad recording it on tv so I could rewatch it. I also remember fast forwarding the "good" parts like the Gungan battle and Darth Maul. So judging by that as a kid I only like parts of it
What's not to like?
>>222746361Jar Jar, the farting alien, a lot of the stuff with the Gungans, Anakin building C-3P0. But you're right in that a lot of it, like the clip you posted, is great. It's like watching a great movie and a shitty movie edited together into one shitshow of a film.
>>222738470yes. And I liked eps 2 and 3. I'm a star wars fan. And even I hate the disney trilogy
>>222738470Yes. I was 9 at the time.
>>222745971I was almost five and I didn't go to see it with my dad on the opening weekend because I thought that Jar Jar was nightmare fuel. My dad had preordered the tickets and I chickened out so he took a friend and went without me. It took me about a week to gather up the courage and face that terrifying, hideous monster and finally see it in the theater. It instantly became my favorite movie at the time, but it had nothing to do with Jar Jar. I actually felt let down by the fact that he wasn't supposed to be scary or a villain, after I went through all that.
>>222738470>Qui-Gon & Obi>Battle droids>Droïdekas>Maul>Double bladed lightsaber>Natalie Portman>Pod Racing>Duel of the Fates>Obi vs MaulIt was fucking kino
It was shit. I was 8 years old when it came out. I loved the original trilogy. Basically, I was the exact demographic it should have appealed to. But it was shit. Out of the entire prequel trilogy, only episode 3 was worth the watch.
>>222738470I was 9 when I saw it and I thought the pod race and the fight with Darth Maul were the coolest shit I had seen in my life. I thought Qui-Gon was really cool.I thought Anakin and Jar Jar were lame but I guess I was used to lame children's media trying to shove comedic relief and shitty child actors down my throat, I didn't let it get in the way of my enjoyment.
Yeah but I was also the target demographic age for starwars at the time
>>222746361HOLY FUCKING KINO
>>222738470NopeI remember feeling betrayed somehow leaving the movie theater.
>>222738470Geezeranon who watched the first star wars movies on release and have no idea about what weird podcasters you guys watch.On release I was disappointed, but still thought it was pretty good. Just not up to the legends the first 3 were. . Great parts: PodracingThe Duel of the Fates.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYFIHUJTjMUQui GongObi Wan.Weak parts:Anything with gungans.The trade federation weren't compelling Jar Jar.The marketing carpetbombing. Weird seeing Anakin shit for kids, knowing he's going to go Vader.Parts felt too deriviative.Anakin needed fewer scenes, but with more human factor.Droids weren't really a compelling enemy. Shit I appreciate more now.Padime's outfits.Killing Darth Maul was a mistake. The prequel trillogy could have used more of him.They should have gone with darth Jar Jar. They needed SOME ongoing consistency with the villians, beyond the Emperor.There were some cool droids.I think my expectations were just too high in retrospect.
I thought it was okay, but not as good as the first trilogy or the fifth element. The real deception was the third one, which was "just another movie." It didn't live up to the hype at all.
Its not worth talking about a dead franchise the Last Jedi killed this franchise everything else is worthless
>>222738470No. I liked the racing and sword fights, but everything else was sub-par
>>222740003>>222740218Will we ever have something like this again?`A movie like Star Wars, Lord of the Ring, Harry Potter or some shit that was just the biggest thing ever that had merchs and stuff you couldnt escape?
>>222738496>>222741381Same except I was 34 at the time. I had a melty and shat my pants, it was pretty epic grassroots protest stuff.
It was the last hurrah of my interest when it comes to Star Wars. An amazing movie series that also received far more amazing games than any franchise deserves. All those amazing Lucas Arts games, man, and this one even had an arcade game.
>>222738470I liked it the first time I saw it, because it was a Star War, but when I saw it again I was annoyed.
>>222738470Yes, but I was a kid.I still do like the imagery and don't think it's as bad as people claim, though it's clearly not a good movie.
I was 12, a gigantic Star wars nerd )trivia, card game, read all the books) and had opening night tickets, wearing my ep 1 T-shirtI walked out completely disillusioned and was it was never the same. The movie was trash, bad dialogue, stupid humor, completely incompatible with the original trilogy (oh yeah vader totally made c3po as a kid). what a shit movie. Anyone that thinks it was good or has rose colored glasses on is an idiot.The only thing worse are the sequels, the prequels at least had some heart to them as bad as they were.
>>222738470I like the racing, Darth Maul, the underwater ship, the ending duel, and the ground battle for Naboo. Other than that I thought it was largely a pretty boring movie.
i liked it until jar jar binks showed up and then i hated it
>>222740419Post the animated WEBM one where she's asking about AI, and then it shows her with huge tits.
>>222747689Admittedly, as a kid, I didn't have any problem with Anakin building C3P0. My dumb kid brain just goes, "Well, they were in the originals, they should be here too!"Now as an adult, it is face-palmingly stupid, and one thing that I agree with Disney for softly retconning.
>>222751857How did they retcon it? I haven't seen anything that came out after the Last Jedi.
>>222751961They avoid any mention of it outside of any "canon history" booklets for autists. Marvel’s Star Wars (2015) #26, published in 2016 and part of the new canon. C-3PO is captured by SCAR Squadron and literally brought before Darth Vader. The troopers complain about the droid; Vader dismisses Threepio as useless junk and orders them to dispose of him. Zero mention of him building him, zero reference to the fact, zero dialogue or glaring looks that suggest a passing familiarity.
>>222738470Yeah, but the Tatooine parts felt too long
>>222749739Hard to say. Culture is fracturing into smaller pieces. It's harder to have a big, centralized cultural event. I think we will.
Star Wars was a one-off event, the way that the introduction of motion pictures was disruptive for the still art painting scene. When Star Wars first burst on the scene, people had heretofore never seen anything like it. Imagine is Star Wars were first screened in the age of talkies, or even earlier, in the age of Buster Keaton and silent films. People would have sharted themselves right in the cinema. Just like the introduction of a new technology, it can only be introduced once. The introducer, George Lucas, has been riding his own coattails all along, right to the bank. He fooled megalocorporations like Disney into thinking there was any more value stored within his storied, yet intellectually spent, intellectual property. For having done so, he is truly the greatest genius that has ever lived.
Yeah I enjoyed it, I was 16 at the time, probably first watched the og trilogy at around 11 or 12 and had been reading EU books. I think Lucas did go a bit too far with the silly stuff for children but I still enjoy it overall.
>>222738470I thought it was stupid but had extremely good sound designI continue to think it's stupid but has extremely good sound design
>>222752868i spliced all the first six films into one long movie and made my cousins watch it without bathroom breaks
>>222738470I was 19. Mostly, except Jar Jar. Jake Lloyd's acting was a bit meh and his lines were cringey, but Hayden's effort in the next one proved that probably wasn't his fault.
>>222738470I did not, and no one I'd call a friend did.
>>222738470I remember wanting Jar Jar Binks to fuck me. I still do. Sex with Jar Jar Binks.
>>222746361BRO wtf I thought this place couldn't have videos with sound?How did you did that?
>>222752031Based.
>>222738470no. nobody did
>>222738470Ironically it was the only Prequel I enjoyed, probably because I was still too young and fired up by seeing the SEs the year before to understand the flaws. By the time AoTC and RotS had come out I was capable of grasping why they sucked balls.I still think it's the best of the three visually thanks to not being crippled by Lucas' obsession with forcing digital filming before it was ready.
>>222753567That’s such an odd fantasy that would be offputting to most people. I can’t help but respect it.
>>222738470I saw it when I was like 15 and even at the time I could tell I was a few years too old for it.
No. I was 18 at the time and it was clearly for children. Thought the kid and Jar Jar were awful, and I told the people I was with as we walked out of the theater after. I didn't understand the finer details of the trade blockade plot, and thought only the action and sfx were decent. Now I have more nostalgia for it, although it's heavily flawed.
31 years old here, saw the film for the first time on VHS when i was 4 years old and have watched it roughly 50 times in my life. I still absolutely love it and think it's one of the best sci fi films ever made
>>222739787I 2nd that emotion. I always loved 2 > 1 and saw it multiple times in the theater. The acting and cgi have aged poorly but the rest is great.>the coruscant chase>kamino rain battle>geonosis battle>Across the Stars (love theme from Attack of the Clones)>Padme looking fine as hell
>>222738470No. I realized as I was watching it that I hated it. I hated the kids stupid fucking face. I hated the terrible CGI. I hated the incredibly boring plot. I used to think the only redeeming part of episode 1 (and the entire prequels) was the Darth Maul fight. I watch it again a few years and I realized I hated that most of all. I hated how they turned space monks who had mysterious powers but were still basically 'human' into unstoppable ninjas who could jump 500 feet in the air, run a million miles a second and were just made to twirl around with glowsticks nonstop. Really seemed to sap the mystery out of them and reduce them to generic superheroes.
>>222749463>Killing Darth Maul was a mistake. The prequel trillogy could have used more of him.I honestly thought that he was going to return in episode III as a cyborg. I know that they did that in the Clone Wars series, but they made him so lame in that one. He was way cooler as this silent Sith assassin.
>>222738470It was kino
>>222755702why are people still shilling this crap?
>>222738511Bravo George
>>222738470Yeah, but my dad made me look away when Darth Maul got sliced
>>222738470yes
>>22273847046 year old here.We were in college and got half drunk and went to a 1:00 a.m. showing one of the first few days it was out. Yeah, it was pretty cool the first time because of the special effects and the fact that Star Wars was BACK. But it was also kind of a letdown compared to the oridge tridge. The tone at times with the senate bullshit and Jar Jar really left a bad taste in your mouth. I had no interest in seeing it again but I was of course going to see the next ones. Lucas just hits you over the head with so much eye candy you don't really think about it until later. You just don't articulate why it sucks. That's why the Plinkett reviews were so cathartic for many of us. He broke down exactly why they were not great and often bad movies. But yeah, I liked Episode one at the time I was in the theater watching it. For sure.
>>222755942This is actually slowed down in the film, they were going too fast in the actual footage.
>>222755802>Really seemed to sap the mystery out of them and reduce them to generic superheroes.Different experience. I grew up with the three box vhs that out before the "enhanced" re-releases, and saw Ep 1 day it came out.Seeing the magic ninja Jedi was an interesting contrast to the old man masters and the ignorant rookie of the classics. It showed Jedi at their peak performance, what they were like in a more elegant age. The performance may not have been the best, and i could even agree to the timeline being wonky (to go from Ep 1 levels to Ep 4 in a single lifetime), but the idea of it was great.>I used to think the only redeeming part of episode 1 (and the entire prequels) was the Darth Maul fight.Naw, best part of Ep 1 was and remains the podracing. Those engines at theater volumes were incredible.
>>222738470yes. I was seven at the time.
>>222740264based
I remember thinking it didn't feel at all like original Star Wars movies, and obiwan was the only one I cared about and wished he had more to do.
>>222738733You got me to laugh out loud at this. Thanks, anon.
i was like 10-14 or so for ep1-2i was confused in 1 but yes i enjoyed both. i didnt really understand people didnt like them until i stumbled uppn the plinkett stuff in like 2010.i recognize the flaws put forth but there is still a lot of creativity, cool action moments, and genuine attempt to make stories for the sake of stories and not propaganda that still is charming and holds up. better than anything disney ever made with the star wars namei thought episode 3 was bad and was always surprised people say its the best when its so clearly the worst of the 3
i never understood peoples obsessive hate with jar jar (or ewoks). i didnt even know that hatred of them was a thing until many years later on the internet.theyre literally nothing wrong with them
>>222738470I fell asleep watching it
>>222738575Big design flaws, the top hatch could be obstructed by the main gun. Secondly there is no egress point for the main gunner which makes it a death trap. If the left side legs were taken out the troops may become trapped as all the egress points would be sealed by the body of the AT-TE.
>>222756986
>>222756986>it's a death trapWho fucking cares, they're clones. They can literally just print more.
>>222757049They're still people.
>>222738470ep. 1 was the biggest "wtf were they thinking" moment in cinema history
>>222738470I could never be bothered with watching Star Wars. It feels like proto-Marvel slop.
>>222738470Was pod racing an original idea or had other scifi done similar things?
>>222738470No, star wars was always garbage for mouthbreathers.
>>222758875It was an homage to the Ben Hur chariot race, which is based imo
>>222738597>>222739665Go back
>>222756695anakin doesn't kill all the jedihe got shit pushed in by a jedi
>>222755702
things I liked/still like:>pod racing>duel of the fates music>coruscantthings I didn't care about/didn't lile:>everything elseapart from the fight against darth maul the rest was underwhelming for me even back then, who the fuck cares about some soulless droids getting destroyed or nameless aliens?it also didn't help that portman already hit the wall in TPM at least somewhat
>>222759005Surely he had to clear out a couple? They just left all the younglings alone in the temple?
>>222758718How old are you that you compare Star Wars to modern capeshit that it preceded?
>>222738557What a dumb post.
>>222758718Well check it out, faggot.
>>222738470This movie will always have a special place with me. Despite its flaws, it's the one that I feel the most nostalgic about.
I was a bit of an elitist 14 year old and thought it did some things really wrong like Jar Jar and Anakin shooting down that space station. But I also thought some of it was really cool like the fight with Maul. I really loved Star Wars and thought the OT was way better but still had fun with the new stuff.
are there any projects similar to the despecialized editions that restores the original puppet yoda? all the torrents are with the CGI one and i fucking despise it.
>>222739308>powers back, powers back powers back...oh shi-
>>222742085> the part about Anakin creating C-3P0What’s wrong with this? Doesn’t anyone actually give a fuck about C-3PO lore?
>>222756948The Ewok hate is complete revisionism. Nobody was complaining about them until around the time the prequels came out, when the myth that people hated them in 1983 was spread. The debate was always whether or not Return of the Jedi was better than the Empire Strikes Back. It's incredible how easy it is to change peoples perception of the past.
>>222738518I was like 12 when it came out and everyone in my age group generally enjoyed it. That's despite the fact that it was obviously not on the same level as the original trilogy. The jar jar shit was too corny even for middle schoolers but the epic moments more than made up for it. It was just really cool being a kid into Star Wars who missed the original trilogy in theories and getting to experience some of the hype and cultural phenomenon. I am guessing adults at the time would have generally thought it was shit though, and would have been correct. I think I liked it better than attack of the clones a few years later. By then I was old enough to not be easily swayed by the vibes and the soullessness of the CGI really came through in a big way in the follow up.
>>222738470I was 6 when it came out and i didn't understand any of the political trade stuff. Now the same thing is happening in real life
>>222763165How the fuck do you not see the problem with Darth Vader having built C-3P0? It's fucking absurd. It creates a massive plot point that is in no way alluded to or resolved.
>>222763305C-3PO's memory is wiped at the end of episode 3
>>222738470I was ten and I loved it.
>>222763326what needs to be resolved, exactly?
>>222763376It needs some kind of resolution or payoff so that it doesn't look as retarded as it is. Vader and C-3P0 are in the same room in the Empire Strikes Back and there's no acknowledgement of it. I can't believe I have to explain this to you. You seem like someone would eat his own shit without someone explaining why you shouldn't.
>>222763327That only proves that the idea was retarded. It was so dumb that George Lucas had to make the decision to have his memory wiped because otherwise it wouldn't make sense, so now it's just this massive plot point that leads nowhere and was ridiculous from the start.
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>>222738470No
>>222755905Darth Maul would have made a come back in Lucas' sequels and be the big bad replacing the Emperor, before Disney sidelined him.
>>222763926But it creates a massive plot point that is never concluded. If you're going to include something as drastic as one main character having created another main character, there has to be some acknowledgement of it so that it doesn't look fucking retarded. C-3P0 and Vader have nothing to do with each other so making Vader essentially C-3P0's father is completely idiotic,
>>222755684>Left to right!>Left. To. Right!
>>222740085I can relate. I liked Phantom Menace and Godzilla 1998 as a kid. Though I would never call Godzilla a bad movie. It had it's charm and originality.
I guess I did like it. Kid me loved the action scenes and even though it wasn’t full of battle of hoth tier coolness it still had action. was rewatching the other day and the space battle at the end barely has any screen time which is pretty lame. anyone think they could’ve extended the naboo star fighter kino and made it work?
>>222763741there are just coincidences sometimes. i was at the mall and then i went to costco right after and saw the same asian chick once. didn’t talk to her but just noticed it and went huh neat and moved on
>>222764342was she your daughter?
I was a kid so pod race and submarine car were very cool, darth maul looked very cool too. The rest of the movie was just boring and confusing.
>>222738470I watched it when I was a kid and thought it was mostly boring and the kiddie stuff was lame Maul was cool
I was 5. Yes
>>222738597I am a millennial and episode 2 is still the only movie I ever slept through in theaters.
>>222768283>in theatersHow many theaters were you in while you slept through one movie?Why do people say "in theaters" when it's a single theater. >I saw it in theaters.See how fucking stupid that is?Stop it.
>>222768388OH I'm sorry,"IN THE THEATER"you happy you pedantic cocksucker?
>>222738470I was 6 and it instantly became my favorite movie of all time. it was my Ben Hur, it was my Citizen Kane, it was my Avatar, all at once.
>>222740589crash directly into the sea rocks at full speed
>>222740563The original trilogy is unmitigated dogshit. Every actor is trash, the costumes and alien designs are trash, the little bear fags (wookies?) fighting and winning against the empire was beyond retarded. When George Lucas brought back Han Solo because he didn't want to lose the toy merch revenue you knew that shit was cooked. Ep 1 and 2 are the best star wars movies ever, Ep 3 is dog shit.
Notice how everyone saying that they liked it was a child when they saw itTells you everything you need to know about Star Wars
>>222749739No. Kids don't care about the merch anymore. Ep 1 and Jurassic Park are probably the 2 biggest merch events of my life (I was like 6 or 7 when JP came out and then 12-13 when EP1 came out.) The only thing I could ever compare it to was the first Power Rangers run on network TV. The merch from that show was EVERYWHERE in like 93 or 94. As far as what was biggest though, it had to be Star Wars because their merch footprint was already massive. The toy and model pipelines were saturated, the costume market was tapped, they were flooding every video game medium (including early PC), and those plastic lightsabers were everywhere. Everyone back then had some type of SW merch, mine was the podracing video game which to this day is my favorite racing game.
>>222769298>Did you like the movie when it came outYou'd have to be pushing 50+ to not have been a kid when it came out.
>Anakin blows up the trade federation ship>"OOPS!"See? His descent to the dark side had already begun.
It went a little too far in places but overall it was awesome. It showed me what I wanted, more locations in the star wars universe and cool jedi fights. By showing more locations it opened up the setting in ways the originals couldn't, love it.
>>222768388It actually does make sense if he's been to more than one theater.
>>222768388>Why do people say "in theaters" when it's a single theater.Because "in theaters" is the phrase that we hear on all the advertisements.>IN THEATERS AUGUST 28TH>IN THEATERS THIS WEEKEND!>IN THEATERS TOMORROW!So people absorb that and start saying "I saw X movie in theaters" because "in theaters" is the key phrase that seeped into everyone's subconscious mind through constant exposure.
>>222738470I loved it. I was 9 or 10 and saw it in theatres and to this day I fondly remember the experience.Episode 2 and 3 sucked ass tho.
>>222738470Saw it when I was 10 and loved it ep1 is still my favorite star wars to this day. I get genx geeks hated it and why but its pathetic they even bothered with it and could not comprehend it was made for kids not them like the og trilogy was for them.
>>222738470Still do.
>>222770903>Episode 2 and 3 sucked ass tho.My niggaReally wish George stuck to more practical effects in 2-3
>getting to see vader before he fell>anakin is a kid so easy to relate to>funny jarjar>funny robots>cool battle>gorgeous costumes>amazing music>obi wan before he got old>fucking darth maul and his double lightsaber>duel of the fates>podracing holy shit>c3po>flying jew>just the droids in general with the droidekas, the weird troop carriers, floating tanks and the ships being robots themselves walking around and switching to flying mode>pretty decent licensed videogames>prime natalie portman
>>222738470I was 14 years old (I had seen the original trilogy).Podracing and Darth Maul were neat.
>>222768388Saying "I saw ___ in theaters" wouldn't make sense because you probably only saw it in one theater, but "___ is the only movie I fell asleep to in theaters" makes sense because you've been to theaters.
>>222740003Newt Gonorrhea
>>222738470i was 10 when i saw it.i remember leaving the theater so giddy and excited that i was practically floating. i made a beeline for the arcade and played hydro thunder while loudly humming the duel of fates song.
>>222771286I don't even disagree with you on some of this stuff but you seem easily entertained. I was five when it came out and even I never found Jar Jar funny. People say that kids who were my age at the time were the target demographic for Jar Jar, but I really think that you'd have to be a toddler in order to actually find him funny. Five year olds are above that for the most part. Pandering to children never works because adults are too old to have their finger on the pulse of what kids of certain age groups are actually attracted to. They can't remember how cynical five year olds really are. I see adults talking to kids as if they're babies all the time. They're in the dark when it comes to appealing to kids. Case in point, Jar Jar.
>>222772231>They can't remember how cynical five year olds really are.uhhh i think that's a you problem
The only good and interesting thing in AOTC.
>>222772268Five year olds aren't babies. It's around that age kids start getting cynical, granted they had smart parents who didn't treat them like babies. You may have been dumb at that age, but that's probably because your parents allowed you to be dumb and you gravitated towards other dumb kids. So really, it's not my problem.
>>222772280I loved TPM as a kid but AOTC sucked so bad Disney had to buy Star Wars to make an even worse Star Wars movie
>>222772178You didn’t have time crisis? Sad
>>222772280No... there is another.
>>222772367The tummy made my brain go wild
>>222738470I'm confident that these threads only exist to ensure any future Star Wars media is just as bad and awful as this trash, by trying to gaslight people into believing this absolute garbage was well liked and people want more
>>222772336No, it's the best prequel and was hugely underrated. George Lucas obviously listened to the criticism that the Phantom Menace got and took it into consideration in order to make a gritty, moody, mature space noir with great action scenes, and the audience shat on it because they were mad about the Phantom Menace still. The audience is totally in the wrong when it comes to Attack of the Clones.
>>222772386We just want something that was made by people who care about what they're doing and are interested in creating something new and intriguing even if failing is a risk of that. The prequels were like watching a skateboarder try a crazy stunt and scrape themselves up really badly in the process. That's better than watching someone wobble around on the board and then snap it in half on their knee in frustration like the sequels did.
>>222772418Okay, Anakin
>>222772280I fucking loved that thing when I was eight.I had a song about it.>Spider crab, spider crab>Evil, horrible spider crab>Pokes a hole in your head>As it's walking across your bead>Watch out, here comes the spider crab
I was 10 in 1999, so I definitely was a big fan. Not specifically because of Anakin, I was mostly ambivalent about the kid himself, and I don't seem to remember being all that interested in basically any of the plot. But I do really, really remember being super into the pod racers, to the point where I was drawing different ones from the movie and designs for them all the time (I also played the pod racing arcade game at the big...arcade place) and am fairly sure I had the Playstation game. I also liked Darth Maul a lot. But I think every kid was into picking up a stick and swinging it around like a lightsaber.
>>222772484I think you're a shill and you don't actually mean what you say. You just want to make sure that Star Wars stays as lame and gay as possible. And your only purpose for posting this constant stream of dog shit threads is to promote demoralizing communist narratives of a once beloved piece of western media by trying to brainwash people into believing the worst entries are the most beloved
>>222772577Is it schizo hour already?
>>222772599Ad hom
>>222772599Look, you like and defend something I hate, therefore you are a demon who wants all good things to be destroyed.
I did but I was like 11. By episode 2 I was old enough to realize they were bad and only like the original trilogy and the Ewok movies.
>>222738470no, except the pod racing and a few other scenes.
I was a little jimmy when it released, I had previously watched the OT on VHS then the special editions in theaters. I enjoyed it immensely and never really understood the hate.
>>222772650Yeah, that's what you get when you have a schizophrenic episode.
>>222772779you've been making these demoralizing star wars threads daily for years, you're either a literal paid shill or a schizo and you should never be allowed to call anyone that without being laughed at for projecting, you operate exactly like a bot with the threads you cycle through and spam on the board
>>222738470Yes, I loved it. I was 11.
>>222772940Welcome to 4chan, where every single subject and thing has at least one dedicated schizo attached to it.
>>222772855>"you're either a literal paid shill or a schizo and you should never be allowed to call anyone that without being laughed at for projecting">Clearly in the midst of having a classic schizophrenic episodeIncredible.
YEAHI GUESS YOU COULD SAYI'M PRETTY INTO STAR WARS
Darth Maul scared me too much from the commercials and I stayed with my aunt and uncle for the afternoon when my family went to see it
>>222738470I was a huge SW fan, played the games and would read any EU book I could getmy grubby hands on at the time. I was really excited, but watching it felt kind of weird. I was like why did it seem so different? I got the same feeling when I would watch Robotech and going from the Macross Saga to the Masters. This was before I realized they were two different shows spliced together. Kinda similar, back in the day. I was watching YuYu Hakusho, and I stumbled onto a fan fiction site. I was retarded and thought this was genuine info, and it was about how Kurama and Hiei are gay with eachother. I went years with thinking that. Idk how people will ever understand what it was like back then. There was so much misinformation being spread in fandoms.
>>222773066You make the same troll prequel good threads every single fucking day for years, please blow your brains out
>>222773102such a gorgeous movie
>>222738555Kek has abandoned this world.
>>222773473I never make prequel threads. I hate how you schizos always seem to latch onto me for some reason. You're the worst, rudest, most annoying people on earth and I wish that you would all die excruciating deaths. Fuck off. Your presence is a rock in the shoe of everyone you come in contact with. All your misplaced rage should be directed at yourself. You ruin every thread you enter and make people miserable and annoyed everywhere you go. Nobody wants you around. Eat shit and die the most painful death you can possibly imagine. I'm fucking sick of you.
>>222774306Ad hom
>>222773871you cannot be serious
>>222776541DON'T CALL ME SHIRLEY
>>222774306anon you cant be sincere here. sincere posting just makes you a target for trolls.
>>222763223Dark Forces (1995) had several "EWOKS SUCK" messages. It also had a hidden Ewok character easter egg you could shoot at, similar to the Keen easter egg in Doom.
>>222776759>>222763223
>>222738470Yes but I was disappointed. The podrace was okay but most of the movie was boring and badly edited. The lightsaber finale saved it.
>>222776759maybe im blind but wtf am i looking at here
>>222776815Better screenshot
>>222769298correct, star wars is meant for children and teenagers. the majority of the hate the prequels get are from Gen X'ers mad that the story didn't just follow Luke as he got older like they were.
>>222776896i still dont see shit>>222776804this is pretty obvious though. lol.
>>222775107>Ad homYou just learned that term and don't fully understand "argumentum ad hominem." You're like an early millennial jewtuber atheist cringelord from 2007. This, also, was not an argumentum ad hominem, it was just an insult as you're laughed at for being such a cringe fedoralord faggot.
>>222738470Nah, it was lame.
>>222773102>>222773871>>222776541Nah, he right. All that shit taken out of context looks interesting. It looks like there's something actually there to explore, like random screenies of LotR movies. It still looks extremely professional for a 1999 movie. The problems arise when you try to actually watch it.
>>222777008thats what i mean. the movie itself isn't great looking. it has some colorful shots than when taken out of context and collaged might give the impression of a well-shot movie, but it was a mess. so much of it is early CGI, just whole cloth invented crap and it doesnt look great. it has not aged well. and much of the movie looks boring and pedestrian.this isn't Barry Lyndon.
I wanted to like it so much and initially lied to myself and others that I had and while I appreciated many parts of it, I came to the acknowledge that I'd never seen such care and attention put into such a fucking awful movie. I held out such hope that with the child anakin stuff out of the road it would surely only get better... fuck how naive I was.
>>222738470I was a little kid at the time so I liked it. Yes, I even liked Jar Jar but wouldn't say he was the highlight of the movie.A few years later and I was old enough to to watch AOTC. And I thought it was all over the place with a poorly-written romance.
>>222738470>at the timeStop the cap. Fr I wasn't even born when this movie was made. Is /tv/ mainly filled with uncs ong? Crazy ahh site, bro
