TLJ making the prequels better?

yes

I hate the prequels

But Maul alone is better than anything Disney has come up with

Still pissed Maul didn't survive until III and him and Anakin have a show down. That character had so much potential.

I generally like the prequels, they're entertaining despite all of their obvious flaws. The prequels also felt like real star wars movies.

TLJ felt like a bunch of emo kids in a college film class were forced to make a star wars movie.

Should have gone through with death jar jar

Just wanted to top this thread to say, "frick the Last Jedi" one more time.

The prequels would have been perfectly fine if had used the same formula that he had with The Clone Wars series. Come up with an idea and let other writers and directors craft the finished product while he oversees everything.

TLJ, and lets not kid ourselves here, is a legitimate billion dollar movie. And a lot of Star Wars fans hate it.

Instead of accepting that there are some legitimate gripes to be had about the movie the fan base has been labelled sexist and racist bigots. Congratulations on winning the battle but losing the war.

Gosh, nothing makes me more want to go see the next movie in a series then hearing that pointing out the Rose and Finn story in the movie was basically 45 minutes of filler makes me a bigot.

I am sure the next Star Wars movie will make a lot of money. It will do so without me buying a ticket to see it though.

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But I can never get over the acting in the prequels.

The stilted dialogue never goes away despite TFA being meh and and TLJ sucking.

It's like a Commadore 64 wrote the dialgoue for the prequels. There's no life to them. I don't blame the actors...apparently they were given crap scripts by Lucas and told to act separetly in front of green screens.

That's not cinema.

And there's way too much going on...apart from Episode I. Never liked the idea that prequels will have way better technology than the so-called later episodes and massive CGI fights that never occured in the original trilogy.

Lucas should have gone more Ridley Scott and gummed up the prequels and slowed them down and enough with the damn toys.

It's just all CGI nonsense...overly-complicated plots and horrible dialogue that wouldn't pass muster for a high school play...but hey he's George, so nobody is going to question him.

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Agree with all of that. I enjoy the prequels more than most do, most likely. But they are not "good" SW films for the most part. It was mainly just cool to see Vader become Vader, and how that happened. Most of the other things are filler nonsense, and the dialogue and acting are just plain atrocious like you said. The acting is distractingly bad.

I will say though, I finally saw TLJ a week or so ago, and I liked it WAY more than I thought I would. It wasn't overly great, and there were a lot of things in it that had me scratching my head (and some of the decisions in the movie just mad at in general). But after hearing nothing but negative after negative thing about it, I went it with VERY low expectations, and came out actually enjoying it a good bit. I'd love to trek into the TLJ threads to see why people hated it so much, but there are hundreds of them and tons of pages of bullshite to sift through, so I don't want to.

Even with whiney, cringy Anakin in Atc, jar jar and some cringy dialogue, the prequels are a thousand times better than tlj, which is total garbage as a movie, and a total shite show for a star wars movie.

I mean seriously how hard is it to write a decent Star Wars movie? I've read too many start wars stories written by fans that would have been incredible to see on film. Also some really terrible ones. But you'd think with something like start wars you make sure the story is the best that it can be before you put it to film. Seems to me the TLJ was rushed to meet this 2 year cycle that Disney has put in place for each movie of this trilogy. Just a terrible decision. Why rush these movies?