that’s also pretty much how it was in production of the movie. shot during the editing process, no storyboarding, the least amount of physical props/sets.
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it bothered me that she couldn’t climb out of the bowl with lots of footholds and crevices, but then was an expert rock climber when tied to a mostly smooth column in the NEXT SCENE. oh also her fucking someone she said would always be a little boy to her. words have no meaning I guess. it’s hard to resist someone who’s jedi blood is purer than yodas
I have to watch the third one today then I’m done and people can stop telling me to give these fucking awful movies a chance
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i love the prequels, so might be bias, but i think the making of docs for each of them are really interesting and worth checking out. even for seeing how they talk about the stuff that misses. like the conveyer belt scene.
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the docs seem good but both the people I’m watching with have already seen them and are dropping all the relevant facts for me so I’m not gonna get much out of them. I just want to get as far away from these movies as possible and go back to only thinking about the original trilogy on christmas and no other time of the year
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The holiday special and the two ewoks movies?
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I liked the two ewoks movies when I was a kid. they’re not star wars movies to me though. my nostalgia elevates them to real movies that I think about often
christmas specials are only meant to be watched once. I’ve literally never revisited a christmas special in my life
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Ah, but the holiday special celebrates life day not christmas. You cant have an aged wookiee watching vr porn in a christmas special
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I don’t know exactly how prequel revisionism started, it seems like there were two separate threads of it that both gained a lot of steam when the new disney ones came out and sucked so hard, but they’re both wrong. All wrong. The prequels are bad movies and cannot be rehabilitated. They’re bad. We were all right the first time.
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you told me this at the meetup and it echoed through my head a bunch of times while ive been watching, i basically dont want another person to tell me that its good i just havent given it a fair shot. also anytime anyone tells me this in the future when i know i wont like something (why dont people trust that i, who has been living in my body for almost 40 years, doesnt know what ill fucking like? I WATCH MOVIES ALL THE TIME. I HAVE A GRASP OF MY INTERESTS) im going to tell them to eat a pile of shit
but the real REAL reason i wanted to watch the prequels was so i could cut my hair into a padawan braid, but didnt realize that they have that stupid fucking ponytail coming from the back of their skull which is ugly as fuck so im not doing that hairstyle anymore
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i remember reading that “ring theory” thats supposed to show that star wars is actually a secret masterpiece of storytelling and he spends soo much time complaining about mr plinkett it’s hilarious, and all the film analysis is saying stuff like “the opening of the phantom menace and return of the jedi are in sync because in menace a good guy ship lands in a hangar and in jedi a bad guy ship lands in a hangar.” even when i was looking at reviews for attack of the clones on letterboxd, there was another guy who wrote a 50,000 word substack review of it and has multiple paragraphs dedicated to how mr plinkett is a stinky head. do you guys actually like the movie or are you just mad that theres a popular series of videos clowning on them. even if george lucas did do all of this intentional structural stuff it doesnt stop the final products from being nearly unwatchable
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really enjoyed andor when I watched that recently, kind of annoyed to have a star wars thing I enjoy and look forward to now. like people in this thread already mentioned it’s not really paced like a modern drag ass prestige show either, it’s more like a series of 3 or 4 episode long movies. I did think the first batch was a little slow though.
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The prequels are amazing because the story becomes about how Yoda goes from being a pretentious bureaucrat obsessed with the Institution to a hippie swamp goblin who giggles all the time and eats the most disgusting soup you can imagine after he gets his ass kicked in a war
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i was unbelievably insulted that right after yoda says his operator speak backwards he inexplicably starts talking normally until the end of the movie like lucas forgot which character he was writing dialogue for and if your gonna make me sit through 2.5 hours of this bullshit you could at least remember something like that!!
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prequel revisionism largely happened because of the clone wars cartoon with dave filoni et al laboring over a hundred plus episode shonen anime runtime to patch plot holes and retroactively give prequel character arcs pathos
don’t give them an inch
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Oh those cgi cartoons are all ugly as fuck as well. Maybe there’s a cool story in there, I’ll never know because they’re impossible to look at.
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finished the third and that was probably one of the most fascistic trilogies of movies I’ve seen! so glad to be done with it. completely evil experience
disgusting that dead children are called younglings but newborn babies are children. even the way they sanitize the war crimes is evil!!!
american gamer cinema to the core
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it will take me some time to unravel why george lucas made a point of having obi-wan say “Droids can’t think” and then having the first 30 mins of episode 3 be like slapstick shit where all the droids have tons of attitude and are like pushing past people saying EXCUSE ME in the middle of a scene. I can’t come up with any other reason than he was trying to make the glee with which they decapitate every droid begging for its life or running in terror incredibly hitlerian
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it was my favorite out of the three though because of the emperor going full kefka mode and just cackling non stop, and being the first person in the trilogy to show any kind of emotion of body and face
the reason Yoda becomes a giggling hermit like u_u said is because he saw the emperor showing emotion and was like I NEED THAT IN MY LIFE and moved to the swamp
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Yeah my other pet theory about the first six star wars movies is they’re about how the dual opposing forces of fascism and revolutionary spirit allow people to transition from an era of passionless feudal decadence to one of vigorous emotion, and the contrast between anakin and padmes deeply perverse but still virtually sexless tryst and Han and Leia’s volatile but very sexy relationship is the story of the birth of modernity
But no one likes it when I talk about that
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not giving them that much credit, but its something thats fun to think about
like it could be a story about the old jedi order being corrupt and EEEEEVIL, and leaving anakin to be emotionally stunted with no real guidance on purpose cuz they knew hed snap and give the world a real enemy to focus on, but i guess thats what kotor 2 is for. hate agreeing with avellone on this one so much
theres a million things that it could be about but i dont want to fill in these obvious blanks with hope, i have more important things to write fanfiction about, like emet selch and yuri from shadowhearts fucking
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