I don't think this movie tried to give anyone what they wanted and was a genuine artistic statement even if it was a little silly and autistic. The lightsaber dance shit with darth maul was pretty awesome and john williams completely matched his previous work

>>585 Hard to believe how one fat dude can alter perception this much to make people hate a move as good as TPM.

The parts that were good were eggcellent. The parts that were shit were shit. >gif unrelated

>>585 I thought it was ok, not great but not bad. It's sort of like reading The Hobbit after you've read LotR and more like a prologue to the main acts of the later movies. The pod racing was great though.

>>585 >>601 Back when I first watched the Plinkett reviews, I laughed at the jokes and even agreed with some of the points he made, but I continued loving the prequels all the same. It never changed my perception of them and still enjoy them to this day. I honestly just took the reviews as satire; not a serious analysis. From what I remember, even one of the jokes alludes to that by having Plinkett calling it an 'ANALysis' or something. It wasn't until later that I found out that people were actually using the Plinkett videos to critique the movies, and I just thought that was retarded. Like if someone used classic SNL skits of popular movies as arguments against said movies. They completely missed the point that they were just supposed to be funny.

Yeah. I think maybe Clone Wars is the weakest, but it's still good. Episode 1 just seems more fleshed out than the other two which take place back to back. Episode 1 just feels solid. Yeah Jar Jar can feel a bit too wacky but we need that in an otherwise extremely dark and serious movie. It's all about politics, espionage, assassination, shadow governments, slavery, military industrial complex, banking, and doing the right thing when everything seems to be falling apart. Also as much as I love Dooku, Death Maul just served a higher purpose as a mysterious villain. You don't know anything about him yet you understand that he isn't Plapatine or Vader and it makes you think "Did the Jedi of the past really have to fight weird powerful Sith like this? That's horrific". I love watching RLM but the Plinkett shit has really fucked people's perspective of the prequels. Kinda like how Angry Video Game Nerd convinced people that the Virtual Boy is a terrible console and will cause blindness. It's just a simple early stereoscopic machine that basically paved the path to today's VR sets. I get that the RLM guys are entitled to their opinion. They are guys that grew up watching Star Wars in theaters and I understand how different the prequels are. But I grew up watching Star Wars on VHS and when the prequels hit they just made sense to me. Maybe if Lucas got someone to script and write episode 2 and 3 like Empire and RotJ it might have changed the landscape. I do think that focusing so much on the Clone Wars with the 3D cartoons kinda killed the franchise, because clones were bever meant to be important characters and it allowed plothole stuff like Ashoka to be a thing.

Citizen Kane is also a "masterpiece"; just like how everyone was "kind, caring, and filled with life" after they're interred.

>>585 It’s decent, there are some cool sequences and moments with a lot ambition but also a lot of drawn out pointless scenes. I think people just expected too much from it, separate the hype and you’re left with something good, EP 2 is worse and EP 3 is genuinely great

>>585 Kid me appreciated the politics stuff Didn't understand any of it but "Trade Federation Blockade" sounds cool, and the betrayal opening shows you they're sleazy and ruthless with weapons that the space monks with laser swords can't easily kill Sometimes the choreography and designs got a bit ridiculous but never too much that it detracted, except maybe naboo having ugly designs The dialogue was fucked tho not sure why it's so stilted with awkward deliveries everywhere

>>585 Of course. Always was, always will be.

>>652 >They completely missed the point that they were just supposed to be funny You're oblivious if you continued to watch RLM over the years and still don't believe ((Plinkett))'s opinions of the prequels align 1:1 with Mike's. Hell's sake there's a section he just interviews people (all Mike's personal friends who both share his opinion and would also wanna give the kind of reply Mike expects, obviously) and asks them to describe Han Solo and Qui-Gon Jinn without using physical appearence. It's a section that doesn't feature jokes and is meant to prove a genuine critique point (also please ignore the chick he interviews actually does describe Han physically). Mike said as much, that he created the character of Plinkett because he thought people would get bored with a regular review so he did one but sprinkled in rape jokes, which were meant as key jingling not to imply the opinions in the video regarding the movie didn't try to be sincere. You think the Half in the Bag where they invited the director of "The People vs George Lucas feat. "the George Lucas raped our childhood music video"" was also meant to be comedic? Stop coping, fren. https://youtu.be/OkW035f_hZ8

>>780 Well like I said, Anon. I considered the Plinkett reviews to be satire and never gave it more thought than what I already mentioned. I don't really follow RLM either. If RLM's Mike intended them to be taken seriously then I guess it utterly failed with me since it had the opposite effect. I'll always love the prequels in spite of their flaws. On a related note, I'm actually grateful that Disney's glorified fanfiction was so fucking awful that there was a newfound appreciation for the prequels even amongst those that hated them back then. I did notice that RLM also did reviews for Disney's slop, but never cared enough to give those a watch.

>>585 I've never seen it besides once when I was very very young so can't remember it at all but I have seen the original trilogy, everything I have heard about episode 1 and the rest of the prequels makes them sound really shit