Again, the fact that Lucas even ever had a wife to save A New Hope in the edit is a modern miracle because I'm not actually sure he understands how to relate to us hoomons and our hoomon emotions
I can attest to seeing plenty of early Flash animations of Jar Jar Binks getting killed in all sorts of ways. And when Episode 3 came along, I remember that Darth Vader "NOOOOOOOOOOO" line at the end being a big meme.
Exactly, the Prequels aren't really movies to flip out over. They're just boring in parts and the executions leave much to be desired, but they're not bad movies like Robocop 3 or Godzilla 98. They still manage to convey the story it was trying to tell.
Fuck it, what's one more post.
And on top of that there wasn't much Sci-fi/fantasies alternatives in in late 90's to 2005 that mattered much. Star Trek was mostly dead. You had the Matrix for sure, but that wasn't 'light sci-fi'. It was all Star Wars from 99-2005 for the genre, and that's ok.
The Matrix is what got me to suspect audience recommendations. The commercials make it look like this fast-paced action movie. So when I fell asleep watching it (I wanted to test out my new DVD player), I thought it wasn't that good. After being forced to watch it in class, I can see why people liked it, but in an arthouse way. The Wachowskis failed to farm that IP out to independent creators like they did with Animatrix and that's why it isn't the juggernaut that it should have been. That's one thing Lucas did pretty well, which is why there's such a thing as an Expanded Universe. It's not his fault Disney trashed the EU and then plagiarize it at will.
The troons sequels all sucked too. The first Matrix is the only thing they really did well. The sequels, Speed Racer, Jupiter Rising, all of it, sucked mostly. That last Matrix was so damn bad, was a struggle to finish. The prequels weren't amazing much except some of ROTS and at least TPM is memorable. The Matrix sequels were not. I'm not much of an EU/expanded universe fan on any IP, just prefer the main usually. But even there, the Star Wars games were incredible from X-wing on, until they flat out wrecked those too lately.
I thoroughly enjoyed Speed Racer. It was a true love letter to the show.
Not everything is generational warfare.
They had no vision for the series beyond the first movie. The plot was basically lifted from Ghost and the Shell including the visuals. And the sets were lifted from Dark City as was a lot of the plot as well. Once the film became a hit they scrambled to write a sequel but the studio wanted it split into two movies and it became a convoluted mess. They had no story ideas and the studio needed two more stories to make a trilogy so you got two back to back jokes of films.
Nah man, Gen X ruined a ton of shit and every time someone starts talking shit about them they blame boomers.
There is some weird fixation here that "I didn't like the film" -> "The film was objectively bad". Maybe decades of RottenTomatoes brainrotted people that mid films can't be divisive. And as far as general audience was concerned, the prequels were perfectly serviceable, with only the first one having some pushback due to Jar Jar and that was dialed down in the sequels.
At least have the intellectual honesty to admit you saw these movies when you were six and the flashing lights and Padme's midriff triggered your lizard brain so you have the movie equivalent of Stockholm's Syndrome for them.
Unironically yes. Ep 1 was first movie i ever saw in cinema and even now i sometimes like "does it really matter if it's bad?". Jar Jar and Nass were too much though.
Matrix was popular until the third movie when everyone said, "WTF?" It as a franchise died there because the Wachowskis held too tightly on it. I keep praising Animatrix because those animators took the premise and ran with it and had they let other creators take over while they took producing duties, Matrix will still be popular today.
RLM wanted to talk about the Acolyte. Don't get mad when people disagree with you.
Part of the problem is Lucas screwed himself by creating a story in backwards fashion, fitting a plot to the facts of the original films. So much of the prequels feels perfunctory. Lots of telling but very little showing/convincing. Amateur storytelling mistakes.
A lot of RLM's commentary is in their editing. It allows them to be cutting in a way that can't be clipped out of context to make them look bad in the Culture Wars. They've always done this. And there's plenty of editing in the Acolyte videos to indicate they think that shit is annoying.
KOTOR is a game. It's not a movie. Being a Jedi is cool. Watching them at length, in the way they've been handled since the OT, is not.
You could see it that way, and I actually agree with you. But some other group interpreting the Force in some other way is not a bad idea. Marxoids frame things intentionally so you'll look like you're complaining about nothing when you notice what they're doing.
Completely agree.
Nah, they're fine. Everyone makes a shitty video every once in a while.
Was the Gamecube really that disliked? I may be biased but I recall it being received pretty favourably (if not able to stand up to the PS2 juggernaut and XBOX's amazing online) and it was a mainstay of "beloved underrated console" discussion for ages alongside the Dreamcast.
actually he was married BEFORE the success. Ironically it was the success of Star Wars that led to his divorce.
I mean... technically movies are "made" in the edit. That's what the point of editing is. Every good movie is saved in editing. It's like saying "eating food saves people."
