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Posted on 7/25/16 at 9:46 am to
Posted by Thracken13
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Posted on 7/25/16 at 9:46 am to
for the 1st one, the moment the door opens to see Maul looking down, and Duel of Fates music hits. gives me chills everytime i see it.

for the 2nd - Mace decapitating Jango and giving Dooku the look like - Yeah Mutha-fricka what now

3rd one, by far the Obiwan and Anikan fight
Posted by navy
Parts Unknown, LA
Member since Sep 2010
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Posted on 7/25/16 at 9:55 am to
I : Darth Maul

II : uhh ... I got nothin'. Sorry. I will make up for it by putting 2 for III.

III: Natalie Portman looked fine as hell in that little nightgown. Bad-arse light saber battle between Anakin and Obi Wan.
Posted by elprez00
Hammond, LA
Member since Sep 2011
29446 posts
Posted on 7/25/16 at 10:01 am to
After watching Clone Wars, Episode 3 posses me off even more. It's absurd that Disney could provide a way to show Anakins motivation for his distrust in ep3 in a freaking cartoon. And do it well. By the end of Clone Wars, you kinda get his apprehension.

That's armchair QBing to the max, but dammit if Lucas would've paid attention he could've drafted a truly tragic tale.

I really hope Ashoka shows up in one of the live action movies. She's such a good character.
Posted by gjackx
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Member since Jan 2007
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Posted on 7/25/16 at 10:08 am to
1. Not Jar Jar
2. Yoda and his lightsaber fighting abilities at the end
3. Order 66, I've always dug that
Posted by BulldogXero
Member since Oct 2011
9782 posts
Posted on 7/25/16 at 10:10 am to
Episode 1 - Liam Neeson
Episode 2 - Music
Episode 3 - Lightsabers
Posted by HeavyCore
Member since Sep 2012
2552 posts
Posted on 7/25/16 at 10:50 am to
quote:

In all seriousness, those films would have been better with cardboard cutouts of Anakin and Padme. (And we know for a fact that Portman can act, so the blame clearly lies elsewhere - looking real hard at you Mr. Lucas.)


I think it's because Lucas would constantly change shite in post production. Mcgregor has a story of watching the film and seeing himself say lines he never said. He later found out Lucas had combined 3 or 4 different takes, with different dialogue, in one long shot with cgi to cover the edits. Here's a small example
Watch Anakins head morph


Relevant video: LINK Around the 47 minute mark the editor says "well maybe you got what you wanted there you got the george directing in the editing room, which is what he...loves to do...just change the actors performances."
Posted by Baloo
Formerly MDGeaux
Member since Sep 2003
49645 posts
Posted on 7/25/16 at 10:53 am to
1 has lots of good stuff. Darth Maul, the Duel of the Fates, and the podrace are all great elements.

2... God, it's horrible. Ummm... John Williams always brings it. So, the music.

3 has some decent acting from Ewan McGregor, holding the whole ridiculous plot and lack of characterization together. He makes the movie work.
Posted by ladytiger118
Member since Aug 2009
20922 posts
Posted on 7/25/16 at 11:16 am to
Jar Jar and Midichlorians
Posted by Bluefin
The Banana Stand
Member since Apr 2011
13266 posts
Posted on 7/25/16 at 11:22 am to
quote:

Episode 2

Finally, someone shares the same negative feelings about sand as I do. It just gets everywhere!
Posted by AlonsoWDC
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Member since Aug 2014
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Posted on 7/25/16 at 12:12 pm to
Episode III was a good film. Not as good as the OT, but if the prequels had started with Episode III, I think we could have had a good trilogy.
Posted by Napoleon
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Member since Dec 2007
69263 posts
Posted on 7/25/16 at 12:14 pm to
episode 1 - Panda's ship was cool
episode 2 - some neat fight scenes
episode 3 - opening scene was high energy

Posted by SG_Geaux
Beautiful St George
Member since Aug 2004
78097 posts
Posted on 7/25/16 at 12:15 pm to
Episode 1- McGregor as Obi-Wan

Episode 2- McGregor as Obi-Wan

Episode 3- McGregor as Obi-Wan

This post was edited on 7/25/16 at 12:16 pm
Posted by swagsurfin7
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Member since Dec 2009
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Posted on 7/25/16 at 12:29 pm to
Episode 1: Qui Gon/Obi Wan/Maul Lightsaber fight w/Duel of the Fates music. So awesome.

Episode 2: Man this movie really was bad lol. Natalie Portman in that white suit.

Episode 3: Opening scene was cool. Final Anikan/Obi Wan battle.
Posted by CockCommander
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Member since Feb 2014
2897 posts
Posted on 7/25/16 at 12:42 pm to
Episode 1: Duel of the fates.

Episode 2: Count Dooku

Episode 3: Order 66
Posted by AggieDub14
Oil Baron
Member since Oct 2015
14624 posts
Posted on 7/25/16 at 12:57 pm to
Episode 1 - The music? Yeah the music was good.

Episode 2 - Was terrible the first watch, but gets better with each watch. There is a ton of storyline knowledge in this movie that helps connect the dots. I feel like I pick up on something new every time I see it. Episodes 1 and 3 didn't have near the storytelling value that 2 did. The only prequel with rewatch value.

Episode 3 - Was a great movie the first watch. Lightsabre battles were good. Problem is there is absolutely no reason to watch it a 2nd time. There's nothing hidden to find in multiple viewings.
Posted by WPBTiger
Parts Unknown
Member since Nov 2011
31297 posts
Posted on 7/25/16 at 1:05 pm to
quote:

Natalie Portman is hot?
quote:

That was going to be my answer
Posted by thetigerman
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Member since Sep 2006
3630 posts
Posted on 7/25/16 at 1:37 pm to
Makes me think back to Ebert's review of TPM. He said something like "look, its Star Wars so its cool."
Posted by Sasquatch Smash
Member since Nov 2007
24125 posts
Posted on 7/25/16 at 2:19 pm to
Episode I: The Naboo N-1 Starfighter. I just really like it's design.

Episode II: The obvious is Natalie Portman's midriff and the white suit in general as others have mentioned. I didn't like what Lucas did with Jango Fett (pandering to Boba Fett fans and making him the genetic basis for the clones), but I thought the battle between him and Obi Wan on Kamino was nicely done. Plus, the space battle in the asteroids was kinda neat too.

Episode III: The spatula/ice cream scoop handed baby-delivery droid was hilarious! But I'll have to agree with the other posters who said the opening space battle.

Also, I did like the audio effects for the different engine noises throughout the prequels .
Posted by Breesus
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Member since Jan 2010
67023 posts
Posted on 7/25/16 at 5:02 pm to
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Episode 1- Darth Maul


Darth Maul was awesome and anyone who says otherwise wasn't a kid when those movies came out. He was awesome. I saw Phantom Menace 5 times in theaters and I was so excited for Star Wars. Qui Gon was awesome as well.

Every single other aspect of that trilogy sucked dick and every minute of it got worse culminating in the Noooooooooo worst movie scene in history.

But damn, Darth Maul was awesome.
Posted by Sentrius
Fort Rozz
Member since Jun 2011
64757 posts
Posted on 7/25/16 at 5:48 pm to
quote:

Say 1 positive thing about each Star Wars prequel



Coruscant was awesome and seeing the Galactic Republic pre Palpatine and Vader was very interesting.
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