Agree with your comment mostly, but I think the prequel apologia is catalyzed by all the kids who watched when they were less than 10 years old becoming adults a decade ago, and remembering them through the rose-tinted lens of nostalgia.
In the prequel heyday Lucasfilm absolutely deluged the world with toys and cross-marketed products, those kids were surrounded by it and of course watched the films, saw the cool parts, and didn’t understand enough to see that the films were very flawed from an adult perspective.
As a late millennial who was less than 10 when the (first two) prequels came out, and has now been an adult for roughly decade, I still maintain that the prequels are completely okay and I will die on that hill.
Yeah, Anakin was a whiny kid. So was Luke, so that’s another thing they share in common. And his emotional instability set the stage for his turn to the dark side.
Could some things have been done better? Sure. But the prequels were still a really good political thriller/tragedy. Arguably even a masterpiece.
I’ve always loved the third prequel, it’s such a great film, easily best out of all the star wars movies. I know that always makes a lot of people scream, but the whole thing is so perfectly tacky and has so many unnecessary little details visually and plotwise and I just love aaaall of it. It’s absolutely hilarious, a lot better than purposefully made comedies. The acting fits amazingly well with the tone constantly and randomly switching between comedy and tragedy, and almost every single line and scene in there has such meme potential, 10/10.
As a bonus treat it even has visually the best space flight and lightsaber fighting scenes out of all the movies! What’s there not to love? I don’t understand why would anyone ever apologize for liking it lmao
edit// oh, and if I called it “revenge of the sith” nobody would even know which movie I’m talking about, since you have to go through hoops to even link the name to the plot. That’s like the cherry on the cake!
I agree, and i think it’s more than just nostaliga. All the additional media/shows added so much extra context, which makes the movies seem better then they actually are, because it tends to get blended together in people’s minds growing up.
Characters like Anakin or Darth Maul, who are wrtten absolutely terribly in the movies are much more liked because of shows like Clone Wars, which influenced the way people remember the movies additionally to the nostalgia.
Yeah that’s a great point. Genndy Tartakovsky’s Clone Wars did an amazing job expanding and legitimizing the plots and characters introduced in the prequels.
I’ve not seen the clone wars, but I found the prequel to be more engaging. Tho I didn’t really watch much star wars growing up. I caught up as an adult.
I’d always thought it was catalyzed by the widespread shitposts which were then seen by kids who’d never watched or been exposed to the prequels before. The kids, in my interpretation, took the tongue-in-cheek love for the prequels and the way the meme community would twist the prequels’ flaws into strengths (under 7 layers of irony) and adopted it as an unironic love for them.
Agree with your comment mostly, but I think the prequel apologia is catalyzed by all the kids who watched when they were less than 10 years old becoming adults a decade ago, and remembering them through the rose-tinted lens of nostalgia.
In the prequel heyday Lucasfilm absolutely deluged the world with toys and cross-marketed products, those kids were surrounded by it and of course watched the films, saw the cool parts, and didn’t understand enough to see that the films were very flawed from an adult perspective.
As a late millennial who was less than 10 when the (first two) prequels came out, and has now been an adult for roughly decade, I still maintain that the prequels are completely okay and I will die on that hill.
Yeah, Anakin was a whiny kid. So was Luke, so that’s another thing they share in common. And his emotional instability set the stage for his turn to the dark side.
Could some things have been done better? Sure. But the prequels were still a really good political thriller/tragedy. Arguably even a masterpiece.
I blame Weird Al, personally. I can’t listen to The Saga Begins without legitimately wanting to watch that movie at least a little.
I’ve always loved the third prequel, it’s such a great film, easily best out of all the star wars movies. I know that always makes a lot of people scream, but the whole thing is so perfectly tacky and has so many unnecessary little details visually and plotwise and I just love aaaall of it. It’s absolutely hilarious, a lot better than purposefully made comedies. The acting fits amazingly well with the tone constantly and randomly switching between comedy and tragedy, and almost every single line and scene in there has such meme potential, 10/10.
As a bonus treat it even has visually the best space flight and lightsaber fighting scenes out of all the movies! What’s there not to love? I don’t understand why would anyone ever apologize for liking it lmao
edit// oh, and if I called it “revenge of the sith” nobody would even know which movie I’m talking about, since you have to go through hoops to even link the name to the plot. That’s like the cherry on the cake!
I agree, and i think it’s more than just nostaliga. All the additional media/shows added so much extra context, which makes the movies seem better then they actually are, because it tends to get blended together in people’s minds growing up.
Characters like Anakin or Darth Maul, who are wrtten absolutely terribly in the movies are much more liked because of shows like Clone Wars, which influenced the way people remember the movies additionally to the nostalgia.
Yeah that’s a great point. Genndy Tartakovsky’s Clone Wars did an amazing job expanding and legitimizing the plots and characters introduced in the prequels.
I’ve not seen the clone wars, but I found the prequel to be more engaging. Tho I didn’t really watch much star wars growing up. I caught up as an adult.
I’d always thought it was catalyzed by the widespread shitposts which were then seen by kids who’d never watched or been exposed to the prequels before. The kids, in my interpretation, took the tongue-in-cheek love for the prequels and the way the meme community would twist the prequels’ flaws into strengths (under 7 layers of irony) and adopted it as an unironic love for them.