Okay I will say this much about episode 1, that fight choreography was pretty good and I do have some nostalgia over the first movie and star wars galaxies the mmorpg taking place on naboo. Outside of that, idk I guess it had some good sets back before Lucas found out it was cheaper and easier to do everything in post with a green screen.

Kind of sucks these movies got rehabilitated through the memes and Disney fucking up early on in it's reboot of the franchise that now SW dorks see the prequels as good.

I don't know if this comment is serious or not, I don't realy think George was that competent and able to "metagame" like that. He probably just wanted to appeal to kids because he knew the OG fans were too old and likely poor and if SW is to survive in the long term it would need a bigger multimedia platform and a much younger audience. He just failed for many reasons.

But in case this is serious, this also isn't entirely wrong, perhaps it is true because sadly this is exactly the same attitude from CBS wrt Star Trek. It is known at every opportunity that despite JJ/Kurtzman paying modest lipservice to the old Trek the fact is the writing room and producers all absolutely hate and loathed old Trek and the old fans.

They constantly pat themselves on the back for being the science show, the rainbow inclusiveness hope BS show etc. All while completely ignoring that old Trek did that 30-50 years ago and they demand you praise them for it. "Oh no people don't like nuTrek? Must be MAGA chuds!". Basicaly r/startrek is how the producers see themselves.

So yeah, maybe George did have that sort of contempt for old fans, I don't doubt it.

making suggestions to put weird ass things in for shits and giggles.

In fairness to Lucas, that habit predated his apathy.

Attack of the Clones is absolutely my favorite of the prequels, it's objectively the worst but that's what makes it the best. it always kills me how Natalie Portman's skintight outfit gets torn just to reveal her perfect abs

the Geonosis execution scene is unironically good though and you gotta love all the yonic symbols in that arena

yeah the romance between Anakin and Padme is hard to watch but it's also a brilliant metaphor for how easily liberal democracy is courted by fascism

lol I just saw that pop up in my recommendations after making this post sigh

people will say 12 hours is way too long to spend talking about The Phantom Menace but they are wrong. you could spend 12 hours on each frame of the film and still not run out of things to criticize

Straight into my veins

I want to sincerely love the movie but it's honestly just really boring lol, I find it impossible to care about a single thing the characters are saying and I kinda zone out every time. The battle of Naboo sucks too, who wants to see a bunch of frogs fight a bunch of droids? It's a mess. At this point I just enjoy breaking down what went wrong with all the terrible choices Lucas made. And to be clear I'm not hate-watching it or enjoying it "ironically", I find it genuinely fascinating from a filmmaking perspective, to study how not to make a movie.

I do unashamedly enjoy Attack of the Clones though, even though it has all the same problems as the first one, at least the action scenes are fun in that one, and Natalie Portman wears some pretty dresses. I'm certainly not gonna go around claiming it's a good movie though.

yeah it's great, every single performance is better than those in the actual film, across the board. and half of these actors have clearly never seen a Star Wars movie

I love how Qui-Gon (Tony Hale) and Obi-Wan (Vic Michaelis) start out playing it completely straight and just get progressively sillier as the script goes on

In the words of Jar Jar Binks, "Dissen berry berry bad. Oh! Ick icky goo!"