Anonus Watches Star Wars: The Prequel Trilogy

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  • kill living beings
    the rolly droids and stuff were way better
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat

    the rolly droids and stuff were way better

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    the gungans are at war now

    with a bunch of battle droids

    they look a lot like the "Instant Martians"

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  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    Darth Maul has a double-edged lightsaber

    Between this and Kylo Ren's cross-shaped one, why do the villains get cooler lightsabers than the heroes?
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    here we are calling back to Empire
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    Jesus why does Jar Jar have to be acting all clumsy and comical during a battle scene?
  • MetaFour said:

    As far as a biological component to the Force... the OT allowed that foot in the door in the first place. "The Force is strong in my family"—implying the connection can be passed down, so there's some biological/genetic component.
    I mean that's a common enough fantasy trope, being a wizard is (mostly) genetic in Harry Potter too.

    I don't have incedibly strong opinions on midichlorians in particular, but the original trilogy was pretty okay at avoiding technobabble and just letting things be mystical. The idea that they can study the Force in a precise scientific way at all feels slightly wrong to me.

    On the other hand, the idea that in the ancient glory days of the Jedi they had all this scientific knowledge which is now lost and that's why it's just mysticism...kinda seems reasonable? It kinda just feeds into one of the biggest problems with the prequels storywise which is that the old movies just make a lot more sense if the ancient glory days of the jedi were more than like 20 years ago.
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    I'm thinking now of how we go from the ancient world of Avatar: The Last Airbender to the Roaring Twenties world of The Legend of Korra in only 70 years
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    Force jump?
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    what is it with these red forcefields
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    RIP Qui-gon
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    I think Obi-wan broke one side of Maul's lightsaber
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    He knocked him into a pit, where he's hanging by this knob

    He kicked Obi-wan's lightsaber into the pit
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    the big spaceship blew up, and the battle droids are shutting down
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    Obi-wan Force jumped out, summoned Qui-gon's lightsaber, and knocked Darth Maul into the pit

    With his dying words, Qui-gon tells Obi-wan to train Anakin, because he is 'the chosen one" and will bring balance to the Force
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    There's a parade, which feels like a call-back to how the original movie ended with a big celebration of the destruction of the Death Star
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    And with that, Episode I is over

    The credits theme feels so out of place here
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    THX was still part of Lucasfilm in 1999
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    My mother tells me that Attack of the Clones is one of the worst movies she's ever seen.
  • Anonus said:

    My mother tells me that Attack of the Clones is one of the worst movies she's ever seen.

    I thought it was the least bad of the prequels tbh
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    well I haven't watched it yet so I don't have an opinion on it yet

    also, you know what one of the big problems with the prequels is? They all have minor variations on the same logo
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    And that logo is a very obvious product of computer-aided, quick design
  • For once, or maybe twice, I was in my prime.
    Anonus said:

    Darth Maul has a double-edged lightsaber


    Between this and Kylo Ren's cross-shaped one, why do the villains get cooler lightsabers than the heroes?
    The double-bladed saber looks cool, but one wrong move and you'd gut yourself. It’s flashy and impractical, and you'd need a dangerous disregard for your own safety just to get good at it. So it's the perfect Sith weapon!
  • For once, or maybe twice, I was in my prime.
    Anonus said:

    Obi-wan Force jumped out, summoned Qui-gon's lightsaber, and knocked Darth Maul into the pit


    The next day:

    "Master Yoda, I need more lightsaber training."
    "More training you require, Master Kenobi? Defeated the Sith yesterday, did you not?"
    "That's just it, though. I won because I got lucky. I Force-jumped over his head, and he just stood there like an idiot and let me bisect him."
    "Hrrmmm..."
    "Master Yoda, I need to know how I can avoid that same mistake."
    "If the high ground you have, how to disarm a leaping opponent, you wish to know?"
    "Yes, exactly. Thank you, Master Yoda."
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    Time to watch Attack of the Clones
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    more space politics
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    more shiny retro-future spaceships
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    There's more CGI this time! Coruscant is so shiny this time around
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    Somebody is dead already
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    Is it me or is Frank Oz's Yoda voice more gravelly
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    Star Wars has always had goofy names like "Greedo" but somehow "Count Dooku" sounds really silly to me
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    Here's Jar Jar
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    He sounds like someone doing a bad Elmo impression
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    Jesus, Teen Heartthrob Vader

    "You're more beautiful, I mean. For-for a senator, I mean."

    oh god
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    seriously Anakin looks and acts like he got lost on the way to The WB, or a boy band audition
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    "You're focusing on the negative, Anakin, be mindful of your thoughts"

    telegraphing
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    jesus, this movie seems to get to the meat faster than the last one, and it's somehow even more boring

    now they're trying to tug at the heartstrings

    Anakin has been dreaming about his mother and he'd rather dream about Padme, who is a politician and "they're not to be trusted"

    and here come poisonous centipede things
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    i know it's not very far in but there is no sense of wonder, or fun, or adventure, or humanity here
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    Is this Sebulba again?
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    I can't get invested in these action scenes if the characters are boring
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    This space car scene feels like more ILM demo reel material
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    It makes me yearn for Jake Lloyd and "now this is podracing"
  • edited 2016-12-21 02:51:10
    I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    Okay this orange area is cool-looking but god damn this scene is not FUN
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    "Master, if we keep this chase going any longer, that creep is gonna end up deep-fried"

    this line does not work at all
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    Anakin is a deeply unappealing character
  • My dreams exceed my real life
    Anakin's performance is pretty clearly based on James Dean's in Rebel Without A Cause 
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    James Dean is way better in that role than Hayden Christiansen in this one
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    A changeling?
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    Calling cigarettes "deathsticks" sounds like it should be more effective than it is
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    this hired goon's face turned to rubber

    this is far goofier and less frightening than any of the torturous deaths in Indiana Jones
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