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Topic	'The prequels are worse than the Disney trilogy!!!"
ParanoidObsessive 11/30/19 11:23:39 AM #39:	Mead posted... 7 was very entertaining imo and left a lot of unanswered things to build on 8 answered all of those questions in boring, unsatisfying, and conclusive ways to such a point that I really dont care how the trilogy wraps up Anything I found even mildly interesting from The Force Awakens got either killed off or ruined in TLJ I agree with most of this. Even at the time, when some people were complaining that TFA was just a rehash of the original trilogy meant to exploit nostalgia, my response was "If this sets up better things in the next two movies that fan service was used effectively, but if it doesn't pay off effectively then it kind of makes TFA worse retroactively." The nostalgia and fan service was necessary to win back good will after the prequels burned off a lot of it, but then Episode VIII and IX needed to build from that base and do something new and interesting. Then TLJ basically came along, slit TFA's throat, and then raped the corpse. Which sort of ruins the entire trilogy no matter what happens in Episode IX. Just in terms of each film standing alone, I'd say TFA is easily better than all of the prequels, but TLJ is easily worse than all of them. But as collected trilogies I'm tempted to say that TLJ makes the sequel trilogy unavoidably worse no matter what TRoS does, because I don't see how it can even remotely salvage everything that's broken now (and none of the advance talk seems to inspire confidence). What sucks is that Disney is clearly capable of making Star Wars content that isn't 100% terrible. Rogue One was interesting in its own way, and it seems like everyone loves The Mandalorian. But for some reason they decided to completely half-ass production on the most important movies they'll ever make in a franchise they paid billions for. That's almost criminally negligent, especially when in their own company you've got the Marvel movies as an example of how to properly organize and produce multi-film epics in an expansive universe. Star Wars basically needed a Kevin Feige, and instead it got a Kathleen Kennedy. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family <cite>ParanoidObsessive posted [p:930907949] in 'The prequ... [t:78206278]...</cite> <quote><cite>Mead posted...</cite> <quote>7 was very entertaining imo and left a lot of unanswered things to build on 8 answered all of those questions in boring, unsatisfying, and conclusive ways to such a point that I really dont care how the trilogy wraps up Anything I found even mildly interesting from The Force Awakens got either killed off or ruined in TLJ</quote> I agree with most of this. Even at the time, when some people were complaining that TFA was just a rehash of the original trilogy meant to exploit nostalgia, my response was "If this sets up better things in the next two movies that fan service was used effectively, but if it doesn't pay off effectively then it kind of makes TFA worse retroactively." The nostalgia and fan service was necessary to win back good will after the prequels burned off a lot of it, but then Episode VIII and IX needed to build from that base and do something new and interesting. Then TLJ basically came along, slit TFA's throat, and then raped the corpse. Which sort of ruins the entire trilogy no matter what happens in Episode IX. Just in terms of each film standing alone, I'd say TFA is easily better than all of the prequels, but TLJ is easily worse than all of them. But as collected trilogies I'm tempted to say that TLJ makes the sequel trilogy unavoidably worse no matter what TRoS does, because I don't see how it can even remotely salvage everything that's broken now (and none of the advance talk seems to inspire confidence). What sucks is that Disney is clearly capable of making Star Wars content that isn't 100% terrible. Rogue One was interesting in its own way, and it seems like everyone loves The Mandalorian. But for some reason they decided to completely half-ass production on the most important movies they'll ever make in a franchise they paid billions for. That's almost criminally negligent, especially when in their own company you've got the Marvel movies as an example of how to properly organize and produce multi-film epics in an expansive universe. Star Wars basically needed a Kevin Feige, and instead it got a Kathleen Kennedy. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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