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      All 3 prequels are in the list. I wasn’t expecting that. Maybe “Revenge of the Sith,” but not all three of them.

      I thought “The Force Awakens” might have made it to the top 10.

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        The prequel hate was mostly people upset at the direction Lucas took his own story. The sequels on the other hand might as well belong to an alternate universe.

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          I think the prequel stories had great potential. The execution of it - primarily, the directing - wasn’t great.

          I like them, but I think George needed different people around him behind the scenes and in the director’s chair

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            Also Lucas really wanted to pioneer better CGI. So he bit off a lot more than any one director could chew.

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              Exactly. I think if he had focused on the tech directing and had someone else direct the actors, they would have been much better.

              If Disney had just followed his ideas for the sequel trilogy, I’m sure the movies would have been better.

              I know that Favreau and Filoni are using some of those ideas, so I’m kinda excited to see where it goes from here.

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            FWIW George agrees, he also wanted someone else in the directors chair. He asked a number of different directors including Steven Spielberg but none of them felt they could take on the story.

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    Well, I’m an old coot and saw the original SW in theaters and all kind of VHS/LaserDisc/DVD/BD, and forced myself to see the prequels in theaters too and rewatched them a few times, 25 years later, they are not so bad. But the 3 sequels? I saw them ONCE in theaters, never again. Rogue One is super cool the best Disney area movie.

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      I’m reasonably certain we won’t, at least not in the SW universe. The fact we got Andor at all is mostly a fluke. If Disney really supported it then it would have been longer. They wanted it to be so much more, but Disney said no.

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    That doesn’t surprise me. What does surprise me is that Phantom Menace is somehow above Empire Strikes Back.

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      It makes sense. There’s two places to start watching, which are both at the top (behind Andor). If you keep watching you’ll add numbers to the other movies equally. A lot of people will start and then stop, meaning only the ones they watch will get a view. That’ll either be I or IV. Even if V or VI are your favorite, are you really going to skip straight to those, or are you going to watch IV first?

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    The prequils were hated too, until they were rehabilitated by the audience they were intended for: people who watched it as kids. The sequel trilogy will be the same way.

    There is only like 2 genuinely good movies in the mainline series and “The Last Jedi” is one of them.

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      It won’t.

      The prequels still have a fairly good story under all the bad. Jar Jar is pretty rough, but he at least doesn’t fuck up the story being told.

      Meanwhile, the story of the sequels are garbage. The acting is mostly fine and the CGI is good, but the foundation is shit.

      Theres a big difference between those. If the foundation is solid, you can look past everything on top. If the foundation is weak, everything else gets brought down with it.

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      Nah, the best that can be said about The Last Jedi is it has a few good parts. For a movie where much of the plot involved two giant space ships, it had the most painfully idiotic space combat of in any movie I’ve seen that wasn’t intentionally being silly.

      In the opening, a pilot distracts an entire battleship staff from noticing an incredibly slow moving bombing fleet coming right at them by prank calling the commander. Then the director must have really liked WW2 bombers because he decided to have that bombing fleet slowly move forward and have the bombs somehow act like there is gravity affecting them to have them fall (in space!) onto the battleship.

      The rest doesn’t get any better. The whole freaking chase scene where the chasing ship is arcing shots as if there is gravity to affect them. Hey if you are perfectly even on speed and can’t catch them, stop shooting your ineffective shots since firing something forward is going to push your ship back and slow you down. Oh man I can keep going but that movie was so bad we didn’t bother watching the 3rd.

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      Still can’t believe people think the last Jedi is actually good, when almost none of the story makes any sense and the movie is awfully paced. You can feel free to like the movie of course. But I would say it’s a huge stretch to call it good.