The Prequels.... Star Wars Episode I was released 16 years ago, in which it initially had tons of hype, only to be seen as an ultimately disappointing film. The same could be said about Episode 2. Episode 3 is either a love it or hate it film.  Ever since Force Awakens was released, the prequels have been subject to tons of loathing and ridicule all over the internet. Many Star Wars fans go out of their way to insist the Prequels never happened.... while others are quick to say they actually like them. Personally, I don't like them, but I want to know what you think.
 
Were the Prequels good or bad? Did they have any good things in them at all? Please share. I'd like to know.

I really enjoyed at least a few aspects to each one. In Episode 1, it was cool to see Anakin's childhood, as well as the Pod Racing. Darth Maul was cool, but it was so much hype for such a short fight. In Episode 2 I really liked the coliseum scene and a young obi wan was an amazing character. It was also cool to see the story behind Boba and Jango Fett, and how the clones came to be. Episode 3 (in my opinion) was just ok, but I still liked it more than most. I loved the interaction between Anakin and Obi Wan with the climactic fight scene between them. I don't see why everyone hates on the actor who played Anakin like they do. Obviously that's how George Lucas wanted him portrayed, at least to a good extent. It was cool to see how Anakin became corrupted and Luke and Leia being brought into the world, hidden from their father.

All in all, I was a pretty big fan of the prequels, although I know they weren't received well by many for one reason or another.

The prequels are weird movies for me but

episode 1: not good, but not necessarily awful.
episode 2: awful.
episode 3: good.

Now yeah I am not a big fan of the first 2 films, the forced CG, the political talk (I mean seriously who wants to watch a star wars movie where taxes play a role)

the third one was good, but not amazing either, it was enjoyable, but it did make it difficult for me to take darth vader seriously.

The first two were wierd and had Jar Jar Binks, so they weren't that good.

The third movie killed Jar Jar so it's much better in my eyes.

I don't mind the prequels in general but they are not great movies or great star wars movies. There are so many problems with these movies that have nothing to do with Star Wars itself that make them bad movies.

They are bad movies with a few passable action scenes and they contain the origin story to one of my favorite movie trilogy villains. I really can't say much else that is good.

I loved watching all three of them, Mostly because it was epic all around.



I started watching Star Wars with Episode 3 sometime when I was around 5 in the middle of my childhood,  so I think it had a pretty big influence on me.

Now I understand someone people said that Episode 1 wasn't good,  but
for crying out loud the first episode of any series or franchises in
that perspective are just a starter project,  it's there to give you an
idea of how the series will evolve into.


And the first Episode gave a nice perspective into the whole saga. It teaches you a lot about Anakin skywalker.

- It introduced you to Jar Jar binks,   which from that perspective it really didn't work out too well considering he only lasted the first two episodes before vanishing into Carbonite( Han Solo Reference)


And Lastly I think it set the overall ton of the war that was going on between the darkside and the light side,   With the short but still epic Darth Maul Battle.


Episode 2 was pretty okay Overall,    The only real parts that are worth mentioning is  Count Dooku and General Grevious.


Episode 3 though really set the tone for a lot of stuff because it led into the Luke Skywalker(Episode 4, 5, and 6)
Saga, and ended up teaching you just how Anakin ended up being the Villainous Darth Vader.




geeogree :

The way I see it is there sets of stories like  Each 3 episodes are an entirely different story each with their own different out come.

And I think that's fine, because If you try to tie too much of the stories together it just ruins the series for a lot of people from my perspective.


But everyone has their preference each to their own.




So In conclusion, Besides Episode 2 I think the prequels are overall good.

SuperCrash64 : as standalone movies from the other trilogy they were alright. They still weren't good movies though. Take the name Star Wars off of them and they are still full of problems. A story that doesn't make a whole lot of sense, characters and acting that are absolutely terrible (except for Obi-wan in a few places) and special effects that look really bad now.

If I had been involved in making those movies I would not be proud of them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxKtZmQgxrI&list=PL5919C8DE6F720A2D

starts off an absolutely epic explanation of why these movies are not good. There are versions for each movie. Obviously you may not want to watch them if you love these movies because, based on your age, you grew up watching the new ones but if you want to be objective about them then watch all 3 and be educated a bit about movies

I'd say much of the criticism really is justified.

Episode 1 was an atrocious film. The only cool thing to come out of it was Darth Maul and the double sided lightsaber and even then it's not like he was the most well fleshed out villain. There was a ton of plotholes, annoying characters like the infamous Jar Jar Binks. Aside from the choreography, the actual special effects aren't really that impressive compared to what was to come later.

Episode 2 is probably the most just outright boring movie in the franchise, which is ironic considering how much money was spent on it. I remember when I first tried to watch it as a young kid I literally ended up falling asleep before it was over.Too much focus was put on the effects and too little on making an actual interesting movie that keeps you entertained. It suffers from much the same character problems the first did with the one good thing being that there's less Jar Jar. It does establish some interesting things like how clones came to be and Obi Wan as a character but that doesn't really matter if it fails to keep you entertained. The whole movie essentially feels like exposition being showed down your throat.

Episode 3 I would say is better than the 2 previous ones. I enjoyed it but I will admit it's more of a guilty pleasure movie. Seeing the backstory of Darth Vader and the relationship between Anakin and Obi-Wan was something I genuinely enjoyed. It also has some good and intense fight scenes. Granted, it helps that it's the movie I have the most childhood memories from especially after playing the Xbox game <.< >.>

Really though it wasn't a great movie. Anakin if you get down to it is kind of an annoying character. Cocky, self righteous and completely ignores the advice of pretty much everyone in the movie. Whether or not that was the intention of George Lucas it does not make for a good movie when you're annoyed by what is essentially the main character. I also didn't really get invested into his relationship with Padme which is a big part of the movie. To be honest I always found it to be kind of an awkward pairing. Not to mention at times the dialogue they exchange is really cringe worthy.

Now to clarify while I don't think any of the 3 movies were that good even episode 3 which had some redeeming qualities, they weren't horrible either. They do pale in comparison to the original trilogy though which is really why the series became such a success. I feel like the reason Episode 1 was initially liked was because people bought into the hype and didn't really examine the flaws. Simply put because it was another Star Wars movie which was enough to satisfy people at the time. Once time passed people started to look at it more critically though and the flaws became apparent. I feel like discussing Episode 7 compared to the original trilogy is a lot more interesting.

The only prequel movie I personally can say I hated was Episode 2: Attack of the Clones. I didn't like Episode 1: The Phantom Menace, but I don't think it was as horrible as everyone else says it was. Jar Jar Binks is terrible, we all know that, but Episode 1 featured what I consider to be the best lightsaber duel in the series with Qui Gon and Obi Wan going up against Darth Maul and his duel bladed lightsaber. It also had  pod racing, how can you not like that? Episode 3 was the best overall movie of the prequel trilogy, but still nothing compared to the prequel trilogy and The Force Awakens.

gamerforlifeforever2 : it might be one of the better duels it was also the most meaningless that I can think of. All the other lightsaber fights have more meaning to them than the one with Darth Maul.

Honestly, I think what they should have done was to have Qui Gon die when Maul firsts encounters them and then have Obi-Wan take him on at the end of the movie. That would have made it much more interesting to watch. Sure it was well choreographed but there was no emotion behind it.