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#1 User is offline   Deucaon Icon

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Posted 29 April 2008 - 03:41 AM

How do you prequels stand on their own without the original trilogy? Do they have a good storyline and plot? Are the characters convincing? Or do the logical fallacies (in a sci-fi fantasy no less) that are unconnected to the original trilogy ruin the prequels?
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Posted 06 May 2008 - 05:27 PM

QUOTE (Deucaon @ Apr 29 2008, 04:41 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
How do you prequels stand on their own without the original trilogy? Do they have a good storyline and plot? Are the characters convincing? Or do the logical fallacies (in a sci-fi fantasy no less) that are unconnected to the original trilogy ruin the prequels?


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They don't stand as it is. But I'm gonna go ahead and say "no" on all counts.
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Posted 07 May 2008 - 11:39 AM

Couldn't tell ya. I only saw the first one, and it was horrible. I didn't like any of the characters, not even R2D2. So I didn't bother with the others. There were things in the forst one, though, that failed to connect properly with the original trilogy. There were also a few things that failed to connect on their own.

A lot of this has been covered at length in these forums already; you may find that the most vociferous here are loathe to start it up again. You can get a lot of answers by mining the archives.
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Posted 07 May 2008 - 01:16 PM

Only new Star Wars I watched was the last one. I was never a huge fan, but I did enjoy Empire Strikes Back. While watching Episode 6(?) I couldn't help but notice how boring the acting played out. I was never a fan boy, so when the film ended with the birth of Vader, it didn't impact me in the slightest.

Hayden Christensen is a terrible actor. The rest of the acting was just as stale which suprised me since the film had a handful of stars. I heard laughter in the cinema during the scene where princess leia died of a broken heart. It was embarrassing for me to see it happen, I must admit, but she must have really, really, really loved that guy.

There were too many over the top antics during the film and I found it difficult to suspend disbelief in many of the battle scenes. (becoming more common with todays films). While watching Iron Man last Sunday; I noticed Tony starks should have died from a broken body on at least 3 occasions (two of which consisted of him slamming against a concrete surface without his suit). The use of Special Effects is allowing all sorts of tomfoolery to seep into films.

So perhaps the prequels are good if you watch the entire series and are really into the story, but as a stand alone film episode 6 was a lame duck. There were so many characters that I can't remember any of them with exception to the 3 main actors. Yoda, Darth Vader, and Obe-1 Kenobi.

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Posted 15 May 2008 - 04:41 PM

None of them made any real sense. I still vividly remember the day I watched Episode II at the movies and I couldn't comprehend what I was seeing. Don't get me wrong, I love well made special effects just like the next person, but this movie was nothing BUT special effects and having more to do with making Boba Fett fans go 'aww cool' whilst drooling uncontrolably. The dialouge was aweful, the acting was ridicules, and the story non-existant. When the movie was over and I stood up to leave the cinema, my very first thoughts were 'George Lucas is gonna have a hard time making the final movie', and he pretty much killed the fan in me there and then, though I still considered myself a devote fan to the very last, when I watched Episode III at home when it came on DVD in Nov 2005.

BTW, you remind me, there's this thread I wanted to start that was similiar to this.
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