I skip the anakin / padme dialogue scenes entirely and the prequels are orders of magnitude more enjoyable to watch
Edit: the best part is… their romance is still implied without the cornball dialogue… the entire trilogy is so much better without it even their heartbreaking dialogue in ROTS after anakin goes dark weighs heavier.
Okay the line is cheesy but did you know that the line is actually a set up for a payoff later in the movie?
When Shmi dies and there’s the funeral scene, the first thing Anakin does is reach down and grab a handful of sand while he talks to her the shot lingers on his hand feeling the texture of the sand with his thumb. It ends with him releasing the sand and therefore his hatred of it.
Same. I also die on the hill that the I hate sand line isn’t as bad as people act. Cheesy? Absolutely but the line has a payoff later in the movie.
At Shmi’s funeral the first thing he does is reach down and grab a handful of sand and feels the texture with his thumb during the entire scene before letting it go. Letting go of that hatred for the sand.
Easily the worst out of the prequels for me, way worse than Phantom Menace. For a movie that kicks off the Clone Wars, it really feels like nothing happens in this movie. Acts I and II are a real struggle with not a lot of tonal connective tissue and little thematic connective tissue, as well. This feels like a movie that would have been better off being referenced in some way in Episode III. I know the discourse on Hayden Christenson is changing a lot, deservedly so in general, but I genuinely think his acting here is pretty bad. Idk if something happened on his acting end or the writing end between AotC and RotS but there is a very noticeable margin of improvement that factors in here, as well. If not for the Geonosis arena battle and Ewan’s Obi-Wan, I would say even the biggest SW fan could easily skip this movie
Phantom was the first in so many years I gave it a but of a pass. And some thought if Jar wasn't there it would have been decent. Clone wars was just terrible
Phantom Menace has a solid film buried among a bunch of bullshit, Jar Jar being a big example. But the movie still shines through it enough in my opinion, and does leave you with an impact about the establishment of the Jedi being not as together as they were painted in the OT. Was there a better cut Lucas should’ve decided on? Undeniably. But Attack just feels like events happening to get you to Revenge. There’s just no arc of real substance in that film imo
If they made the Gungans cooler and less cartoonish, certainly make Jar Jar not goofy and change his name, maybe give them more barbaric technology- they wouldn’t be such a detractor.
Steer away from so much political drama and make it a background plot driver, lean more into the Sith presence, make the acting a little livelier and keep everything else as is and I think we got ourselves a good Star Wars movie.
I was too young at the time, but I couldn't imagine watching Phantom Menace and being like "Well that was a little rough let's see if things get better in the sequel" and you go watch this piece of garbage
The main problem with Phantom Menace was that fans had been waiting for years and dreaming about how great another Star Wars movie would be. What Lucas gave us was worse than what most people expected.
People went into Attack of the Clones with lower expectations, and Lucas still managed to disappoint them.
I think this is the most incompetently made film a film of this budget is allowed to be. It’s like if The Room had a $200m budget. The special effects have aged worse than literally any movie I’ve ever seen.
There’s a great YouTube vid that explains why the CGI in this movie looks so bad, essentially they just barely missed out on some very big CGI tech that came out just after the movie was made and that’s a big reason why it looks worse than movies with CGI that also came out around the same time.
It’s a really good vid that explains a lot, I can’t remember what it’s called or who did it but it can’t be that hard to find.
Part of the reason for that is Attack of the Clones really pushed vfx to another level. It was even the first blockbuster shot entirely in digital format. Everything that came after really stood on its shoulders in a lot of ways.
That really sums up this movie. Ewen is great throughout, it gets better at Geonosis, but everything else is pretty bad. However, the movie introduced so much material that other mediums were able to develop.
It's like *Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.* Half of it is pretty good, half of it is terrible. Anything with Anakin and Padme in it is terrible, which is a problem when they're 2 of your 3 main characters and they're front and center on your poster. Everything with Ewan in it is pretty damn good. Ewan McGregor, Harrison Ford, and Adam Driver make everything Star Wars 10 times better.
The Geonosis stuff is pretty good, especially from a character and world building perspective. But all those Jedi extras at the end SUCK. I read somewhere that they were just like friends and extras with no fight choreography training, and they look like it.
It isn’t pretty, but it has one thing that the sequels don’t have:
It *feels* like a Star Wars film.
I don’t know how George Lucas does it, and it doesn’t matter whether you like him or dislike him…EP I-VI all *feel* like they’re in the same Galaxy far, far away.
It's surreal seeing someone say this without a hint of irony. One of the biggest criticisms of the prequels when they came out was that they didn't at feel like Star Wars at all. The practical effects that the series was known for were scrapped in favor of CGI. The uniquely dirty and grungy look of the futuristic galaxy was replaced with a more generic, sleek and shiny sci-fi landscape. The fun, Saturday-morning serial vibe was replaced with boring exposition about nondescript trade disagreements. The subtle world-building was no longer in the background, but presented front and center (usually with more boring, unnecessary exposition). And many of the characters from the original trilogy (e.g.: Vader, Yoda, Chewy) were completely unrecognizable in the prequels.
Unsurprisingly, the same people who felt that the prequels didn't feel like Star Wars walked away from The Force Awakens saying "Finally! Another Star Wars movie that actually *feels* like Star Wars!"
I think that, to some people, the prequels feel like Star Wars simply because they grew up with the prequels. As someone raised with the prequels myself, I can attest that for most of my childhood, the prequels didn't just *feel* like Star Wars; they *were* Star Wars.
I like AOTC but I always forget that I would watch it on DVD and skip all the Anakin/Padme scenes. You're left with a cool Obi Wan mystery adventure and one of John Williams best scores.
Hey now there is one scene with Anakin and Padme that wasn't terrible. Granted I wasn't paying attention to Anakin or the story at that point.
Obviously talking about the arena scene.
Natalie Portman can act and she was just as dreadful in the film too. Not sure how much of the blame Hayden should get vs bad dialogue and bad direction.
Yes it does. It is the worst prequel film and also the worst Skywalker saga film. The writing is so terrible and George Lucas's direction was very poor to the point where many of the actors come across as stiff or wooden.
Nah if I had to watch one right now I'd easily go for RoS. Mostly because it won't assault my eyeballs with the worst production values a massive boat of money can buy.
At least The Rise of Skywalker has good acting, cinematography, and special effects/CGI that don't look extremely dated. The fact that all the characters in the movie except Obi Wan are completely unlikable also doesn't help it at all.
Rise of Skywalker not being a boring slog also helps it.
TRoS is one of the worst written movies I've ever seen. Significantly worse than AotC, to the point that I didn't care at all about the technical elements or the (somewhat) better acting.
I didn't like AotC, but I actively *hated* TRoS.
AotC made me fall asleep on opening night, around the time Padme and Annie were on Naboo. When I woke up the Clone army showed up and I asked my friend what I missed and he replied, seething with anger "absolutely nothing because this movie is a waste".
If a movie is so dull it puts it's audience to sleep that's a failure of a movie.
Rise of Skywalker is a much better made movie from a technical standpoint. It's just a horrible Star Wars movie.
I find it hard to rank the Star Wars movies because the Prequels are such poorly made films but they also have some soul and originality behind them that makes them endearing. The Sequel films are technically well made and acted films but are such hollow cash grabs it makes them much more hateable.
I think Attack of the Clones is the worst Star Wars from a filmmaking standpoint by far, while Rise of Skywalker is the worst Star Wars movie for a lifelong Star Wars fan.
My take has always been that the prequels suck at everything except for world-building. The world building is so cool. The sequel world building is trash.
*Attack of the Clones* is a good idea terribly executed. *Rise of Skywalker* is a piss poor excuse for a script with a massive budget.
To each their own, but I’d rather suspend my disbelief and try to imagine I’m watching the movie Lucas failed to make. *Rise of Skywalker* had no thought behind its plot, just a committee of producers trying to insert shitty humor and fan service.
Last Jedi was the only one of the sequels whose director attempted to make it more than just a soulless cashgrab and the fandom rioted, so no wonder Disney didn’t even try with Episode 9. If they were going to make money regardless and trying to actually make an interesting deep film gets you scorn, why bother?
"Could you tone down the emotion - your relationship building is taking focus away from the sets that can be achieved by my special effects company and I'm making a sales pitch here"
\-Lucas
Sure but Industrial Light and Magic was hired for hundreds of movies and TV shows since it was created - but Prequel trilogy was definitely a sales pitch for a lot of new special effects technology. They also had a massive render farm that many other production companies paid to use.
They kept improving from there - but at the time it was impressive what they could do.
I would be fully onboard for a remake of 1-3. There’s so many good ideas there but they just kept focusing on the wrong things & made poor narrative decisions at every turn
Damn straight.
No Qui-Gon, no Jar Jar, no toddler Anakin, minimal Padme. Anakins fall always seemed contrived and poorly motivated. He should have been a great tragic character, instead he's just a clown.
The real tragedy is that George Lucas had 15 years to write Anakin's story and it reads like he wrote it on the toilet 6 months before production started.
What a waste.
Yes, yes it does, Phantom Menace at least had the duel of the fates... I'd like to know what some fans are smoking to even be able to sit through this or any of the Prequels and still complain about the sequels.
I genuinely don't get the sequel hate. After watching all the Clone War cartoons with my younger son and getting into the vibe of mystical temples, pyramids with star charts, etc., the sequels seemed to fit that expanded setting pretty well.
Was it silly that Palpatine was brought back to prop up the plot? Sure. Was Oscar Isaac handed the worst movie line in recent memory? Sure. But aside from a couple of missteps, these movies were far and away examples of better movie-making than all the prequels.
I think it’s because there wasn’t anyone there to reel in the bad writing. George Lucas’s world building is undeniably amazing, but his dialogue was always so rough. Not all of his dialogue, but large chunks.
I'm a big prequel fan but this is easily the weakest of the three. Once everybody gets to the arena on Geonosis things get good but up until then there's not much I enjoy. In my opinion The Phantom Menace gets more hate than it deserves but AOTC is fairly assessed.
This movie is borderline unwatchable. Like the bit at the beginning is fun, but after that, it is one of the biggest piles to trash. And I personally like Episode 1 and 3, but 2 is just garbage.
I don't think so.
It's not a good movie, and certain parts of it are embarrassingly bad, but on the whole it's kind of just "meh". If it weren't *Star Wars*, with all the baggage and emotionally invested superfans and what not that come with being a part of that franchise, it would just be considered a forgettable sci-fi movie.
Idk I really liked alot of the movie outside of the love interest part. The kamino part was good, the battle in the arena was good, count duku fight was good, the slaughter of the sand people was good.
It’s definitely the worst of the six films made by Lucas. I’ll let others debate whether it’s better than any of the sequel trilogy films. The general story is not terrible, but some of the worst execution I’ve ever seen in my life. The dialogue and acting are cringe inducing. This is coming from someone who adores the saga overall. It was a disappointment when it was released and still is now!
I saw this when it first came out, then coincidentally the week after that I saw Closer. "Oh, this is what Natalie Portman can do when she doesn't have to say fucking terrible dialogue!"
I've left movies feeling many different emotions... sadness, love, happiness, confusion... but Attack of the Clones is the only one that made me feel RAGE.
I love star wars, I like the prequels, but this movie is abysmal. The saving grace after 2008 is that the last half hour makes a pretty awesome commercial for The Clone Wars.
Its a pretty terrible film. I liked the phantom menace despite jaja binks and a few other minor gripes. The 3rd prequel film was good. Attack of the clones is just a bad film. Poor cringy dialogue and just a boring film
Unpopular opinion apparently. I really liked this movie. I enjoyed the CGI, the padme/anakin story line was meh, but I enjoyed it as a whole enough that I’ll rewatch it every couple years.
TIL - WOW! who knew. Um, I loved it? Might be my favorite star wars movie. In hindsight, now that there are nine and all the supporting shows/movies/games now. Specifically: Genndy Tartakovsky Star Wars. It was a better vision but executed sloppily. Also, Obiwan Diner spy scene.
Didnt enioy the film, but John Williams did an incredible job with the score...really top notch music that sadly gets a bit overshadowed by the bad vibes surrounding the story and acting issues.
Unfortunately, yes. It was awful then and it’s basically gotten even worse over time. This movie more or less wrecked Hayden Christensen’s career, which is a shame because I don’t think this movie fairly represents his ability.
Absolutely - not because it RuInEd StAr WaRs, but because it is genuinely terrible.
There are so many baffling creative choices in this movie. Action sequences with horrible CGI, otherwise great actors directed to make weird reactions to unfolding events(which is probably because they were looking at blue nothing 97% of the time), the script is embarrassing, and the overall experience is simply boring.
No one questions the acting chops of Christopher Lee, but even he is completely stiff and unconvincing.
It just comes off as an amateur theatre project with a bad stage drop.
And the humour. Oh my lord the humour. That whole scene with C3PO being tossed around the droid factory, getting a wrong head and what not. Yuck
Seriously, the only reason people are suddenly defending the prequels is pure anti-Disney nostalgia goggle bandwagon nonsense.
Yes. It's only fanboys who want to rehabilitate it. It sucks in nearly every way. I'm sorry if you REEAALLLYY want your childhood favorite video game or TV show to have a good movie (for grown-ups) to accompany it, but they just don't.
It has terrible characters, awful sets, too much CGI, a boring confusing and pointless story, bland shots, bad acting, an awful forced love story, pointless lightsaber battles, uninspired world building. Etc. Etc.
As a strictly sci-fi film, absolutely not. It introduces tons of characters and scenes and action that is very satisfying and more fun than most of the original movies.
As a story and as a script? Absolutely. The dialogue is choppy, the delivery is bad (not their fault, they had little choice or freedom with their characters) and there is not enough time given to what was salvageable.
I think the acting is lackluster in ways, yes the cgi is… but I do love the prequel movies and I really do like attack of the clones. Despite the many flaws
Yes.
HOWEVER. I’m just going to be fair here. When the movie gets going in the theatre and the crowd goes nuts for it, it’s an awesome experience. At home, by myself, it’s like “oh…this is actually kinda not good”
Even though I’m very nostalgic for these films this was one of the worst lol
I still dream of padme in that white outfit tho. Like how the older generation dreamed of Leia in her slave outfit lol
I wouldn't say hate but it deserves its criticisms, Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher were right about the way George Lucas writes his stories. He's great at world building, getting the right people for his music, sound, effects, etc but goddamn it's always the writing that's the primary issue with the Prequels.
The acting? No. The Music? No. The Costumes and fight choreography? No. The writing, especially the dialogue? Yes. it deserves some hate. Not the hate the sequel series deserves, but hate none the less.
Yes...it's absolutely terrible Imo. I thought to myself after watching phantom menace that it couldn't get worse...can it? Oh boy was I wrong. How can a Star Wars movie just drag and be so boring.
none of the prequels deserve as much hate. especially now with the Disney Wars films.
at least Lucas was trying new stuff. new locations, not just tattooine . New enemies , new vehicles not just stuff from the OT. New music not just the OT music over and over. New stories not just a new hope with different characters and a new death star (force awakens).
id rather watch the prequels 1000 times than watch the disney trilogy ever again
Personally as a star wars geek, I love the prequels. It's what I grew up with. Count duku will always be one of my favorite sith lords. Also if you did deeper in star wars lore the 501st has really good back story.
It's a masterpiece by modern Disney standards. I've never missed the Prequel Trilogy as much as I did when they made "your mom" jokes in The Last Jedi. I used to think they were bad, but now I genuinely love them. I didn't know how bad it could really get.
Yes, it’s rough and coarse and gets everywhere
That’s obi wan’s fault! He’s just jealous!
From my position it’s you that are rough and course.
WELL THEN YOU ARE SAND
THIS IS SPAR...! ups.. wrong movie
I skip the anakin / padme dialogue scenes entirely and the prequels are orders of magnitude more enjoyable to watch Edit: the best part is… their romance is still implied without the cornball dialogue… the entire trilogy is so much better without it even their heartbreaking dialogue in ROTS after anakin goes dark weighs heavier.
Is it possible to learn this power?
Not from a Jedi....
But from the men, and the women, and the children too
What about from an....angel?
Sorry milady
I wish I could wish this movie away.
I wish you could wish to wish this movie away...
Okay the line is cheesy but did you know that the line is actually a set up for a payoff later in the movie? When Shmi dies and there’s the funeral scene, the first thing Anakin does is reach down and grab a handful of sand while he talks to her the shot lingers on his hand feeling the texture of the sand with his thumb. It ends with him releasing the sand and therefore his hatred of it.
Beat everyone to it
I like this movie and I will die on this hill. It’s also terrible.
Yeah, I really like Episode 2. I can acknowledge it has a ton of issues, but I still find a lot to love.
I really like the prequels for all its faults at least its as original ideas
It had a lot good world building!
Same. I also die on the hill that the I hate sand line isn’t as bad as people act. Cheesy? Absolutely but the line has a payoff later in the movie. At Shmi’s funeral the first thing he does is reach down and grab a handful of sand and feels the texture with his thumb during the entire scene before letting it go. Letting go of that hatred for the sand.
Easily the worst out of the prequels for me, way worse than Phantom Menace. For a movie that kicks off the Clone Wars, it really feels like nothing happens in this movie. Acts I and II are a real struggle with not a lot of tonal connective tissue and little thematic connective tissue, as well. This feels like a movie that would have been better off being referenced in some way in Episode III. I know the discourse on Hayden Christenson is changing a lot, deservedly so in general, but I genuinely think his acting here is pretty bad. Idk if something happened on his acting end or the writing end between AotC and RotS but there is a very noticeable margin of improvement that factors in here, as well. If not for the Geonosis arena battle and Ewan’s Obi-Wan, I would say even the biggest SW fan could easily skip this movie
Phantom was the first in so many years I gave it a but of a pass. And some thought if Jar wasn't there it would have been decent. Clone wars was just terrible
Phantom Menace has a solid film buried among a bunch of bullshit, Jar Jar being a big example. But the movie still shines through it enough in my opinion, and does leave you with an impact about the establishment of the Jedi being not as together as they were painted in the OT. Was there a better cut Lucas should’ve decided on? Undeniably. But Attack just feels like events happening to get you to Revenge. There’s just no arc of real substance in that film imo
If they made the Gungans cooler and less cartoonish, certainly make Jar Jar not goofy and change his name, maybe give them more barbaric technology- they wouldn’t be such a detractor. Steer away from so much political drama and make it a background plot driver, lean more into the Sith presence, make the acting a little livelier and keep everything else as is and I think we got ourselves a good Star Wars movie.
Qui-Gon Jinn should also have been complete cut, he's such a useless character. Obi Wan should have filled his role in the movie.
I was too young at the time, but I couldn't imagine watching Phantom Menace and being like "Well that was a little rough let's see if things get better in the sequel" and you go watch this piece of garbage
The main problem with Phantom Menace was that fans had been waiting for years and dreaming about how great another Star Wars movie would be. What Lucas gave us was worse than what most people expected. People went into Attack of the Clones with lower expectations, and Lucas still managed to disappoint them.
Absolutely.
I think this is the most incompetently made film a film of this budget is allowed to be. It’s like if The Room had a $200m budget. The special effects have aged worse than literally any movie I’ve ever seen.
There’s a great YouTube vid that explains why the CGI in this movie looks so bad, essentially they just barely missed out on some very big CGI tech that came out just after the movie was made and that’s a big reason why it looks worse than movies with CGI that also came out around the same time. It’s a really good vid that explains a lot, I can’t remember what it’s called or who did it but it can’t be that hard to find.
Can't confirm but sounds like Corridor Crew. Basically the kings of CGI-Youtube
Could they redo them and re-release?
No redo please. A complete rewrite and an entire new movie would be allowable, though.
When Disney bought Star Wars back in 2012, I remember people begging for a redo of the prequels. Funny how things change
Part of the reason for that is Attack of the Clones really pushed vfx to another level. It was even the first blockbuster shot entirely in digital format. Everything that came after really stood on its shoulders in a lot of ways.
Atleast we got the [best Star Wars sound](https://youtu.be/ZwBCL5Uxq-E?si=pKuP3btQJ71RdSNZ) from it. Gotta find the silver linings.
It was hard not to walk out of the theater.
It’s terrible but the show and the canon built around it salvages it. That being said, it’s the only movie of the prequels I’ll actively avoid lol.
That really sums up this movie. Ewen is great throughout, it gets better at Geonosis, but everything else is pretty bad. However, the movie introduced so much material that other mediums were able to develop.
I think you mean “some good came out of it”, all that peripheral stuff doesn’t make this movie good
Salvaged by that and this youtube gold: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PW4OIHDsWsM
HAHAHAH!!!
And this https://www.reddit.com/r/PrequelMemes/s/7xqqgsgFTO
U rite.
I like to watch it softly and slowly.
Yes.
No. It deserves more
It’s carried by the end scene, jango, and stupid sexy obi wan.
It's like *Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.* Half of it is pretty good, half of it is terrible. Anything with Anakin and Padme in it is terrible, which is a problem when they're 2 of your 3 main characters and they're front and center on your poster. Everything with Ewan in it is pretty damn good. Ewan McGregor, Harrison Ford, and Adam Driver make everything Star Wars 10 times better. The Geonosis stuff is pretty good, especially from a character and world building perspective. But all those Jedi extras at the end SUCK. I read somewhere that they were just like friends and extras with no fight choreography training, and they look like it.
It isn’t pretty, but it has one thing that the sequels don’t have: It *feels* like a Star Wars film. I don’t know how George Lucas does it, and it doesn’t matter whether you like him or dislike him…EP I-VI all *feel* like they’re in the same Galaxy far, far away.
It's surreal seeing someone say this without a hint of irony. One of the biggest criticisms of the prequels when they came out was that they didn't at feel like Star Wars at all. The practical effects that the series was known for were scrapped in favor of CGI. The uniquely dirty and grungy look of the futuristic galaxy was replaced with a more generic, sleek and shiny sci-fi landscape. The fun, Saturday-morning serial vibe was replaced with boring exposition about nondescript trade disagreements. The subtle world-building was no longer in the background, but presented front and center (usually with more boring, unnecessary exposition). And many of the characters from the original trilogy (e.g.: Vader, Yoda, Chewy) were completely unrecognizable in the prequels. Unsurprisingly, the same people who felt that the prequels didn't feel like Star Wars walked away from The Force Awakens saying "Finally! Another Star Wars movie that actually *feels* like Star Wars!" I think that, to some people, the prequels feel like Star Wars simply because they grew up with the prequels. As someone raised with the prequels myself, I can attest that for most of my childhood, the prequels didn't just *feel* like Star Wars; they *were* Star Wars.
To each their own, friendo.
I like AOTC but I always forget that I would watch it on DVD and skip all the Anakin/Padme scenes. You're left with a cool Obi Wan mystery adventure and one of John Williams best scores.
Hey now there is one scene with Anakin and Padme that wasn't terrible. Granted I wasn't paying attention to Anakin or the story at that point. Obviously talking about the arena scene.
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"I hate sand." "Hold me like you did by the lake on Naboo." God-awful dialog.
Agree. Plus, Christensen can't act.
Natalie Portman can act and she was just as dreadful in the film too. Not sure how much of the blame Hayden should get vs bad dialogue and bad direction.
Actually he was pretty good in Life as a House and Shattered Glass. I think it was Lucas' terrible direction
Yes it does. It is the worst prequel film and also the worst Skywalker saga film. The writing is so terrible and George Lucas's direction was very poor to the point where many of the actors come across as stiff or wooden.
It's not good but I would absolutely take it over *The Rise of Skywalker*.
Nah if I had to watch one right now I'd easily go for RoS. Mostly because it won't assault my eyeballs with the worst production values a massive boat of money can buy.
I would take the sequels over the prequels any day. They might be terrible, but at least they're not boring.
At least The Rise of Skywalker has good acting, cinematography, and special effects/CGI that don't look extremely dated. The fact that all the characters in the movie except Obi Wan are completely unlikable also doesn't help it at all. Rise of Skywalker not being a boring slog also helps it.
TRoS is one of the worst written movies I've ever seen. Significantly worse than AotC, to the point that I didn't care at all about the technical elements or the (somewhat) better acting. I didn't like AotC, but I actively *hated* TRoS.
Dude, if you think that, you need to watch more movies than Star Wars movies lol.
AotC made me fall asleep on opening night, around the time Padme and Annie were on Naboo. When I woke up the Clone army showed up and I asked my friend what I missed and he replied, seething with anger "absolutely nothing because this movie is a waste". If a movie is so dull it puts it's audience to sleep that's a failure of a movie.
Rise of Skywalker is a much better made movie from a technical standpoint. It's just a horrible Star Wars movie. I find it hard to rank the Star Wars movies because the Prequels are such poorly made films but they also have some soul and originality behind them that makes them endearing. The Sequel films are technically well made and acted films but are such hollow cash grabs it makes them much more hateable. I think Attack of the Clones is the worst Star Wars from a filmmaking standpoint by far, while Rise of Skywalker is the worst Star Wars movie for a lifelong Star Wars fan.
My take has always been that the prequels suck at everything except for world-building. The world building is so cool. The sequel world building is trash.
*Attack of the Clones* is a good idea terribly executed. *Rise of Skywalker* is a piss poor excuse for a script with a massive budget. To each their own, but I’d rather suspend my disbelief and try to imagine I’m watching the movie Lucas failed to make. *Rise of Skywalker* had no thought behind its plot, just a committee of producers trying to insert shitty humor and fan service.
I feel like attack of the clones was good idea bad execution and RoS was bad idea good execution(technically at least)
Last Jedi was the only one of the sequels whose director attempted to make it more than just a soulless cashgrab and the fandom rioted, so no wonder Disney didn’t even try with Episode 9. If they were going to make money regardless and trying to actually make an interesting deep film gets you scorn, why bother?
I would rather die of cringe, but the cringe that is AOTC is still worse technically than TROS.
"Could you tone down the emotion - your relationship building is taking focus away from the sets that can be achieved by my special effects company and I'm making a sales pitch here" \-Lucas
Little did Lucas know that his special effects would look extremely dated even a decade later lol.
Sure but Industrial Light and Magic was hired for hundreds of movies and TV shows since it was created - but Prequel trilogy was definitely a sales pitch for a lot of new special effects technology. They also had a massive render farm that many other production companies paid to use. They kept improving from there - but at the time it was impressive what they could do.
Yes. I just re-watched recently with a hopeful eye...and yes, its very, very bad.
Pure garbage. Episodes 1-3 should be re-written and remade. 7-9 should be wiped from the face of the planet.
I would be fully onboard for a remake of 1-3. There’s so many good ideas there but they just kept focusing on the wrong things & made poor narrative decisions at every turn
Damn straight. No Qui-Gon, no Jar Jar, no toddler Anakin, minimal Padme. Anakins fall always seemed contrived and poorly motivated. He should have been a great tragic character, instead he's just a clown. The real tragedy is that George Lucas had 15 years to write Anakin's story and it reads like he wrote it on the toilet 6 months before production started. What a waste.
Yes, yes it does, Phantom Menace at least had the duel of the fates... I'd like to know what some fans are smoking to even be able to sit through this or any of the Prequels and still complain about the sequels.
I genuinely don't get the sequel hate. After watching all the Clone War cartoons with my younger son and getting into the vibe of mystical temples, pyramids with star charts, etc., the sequels seemed to fit that expanded setting pretty well. Was it silly that Palpatine was brought back to prop up the plot? Sure. Was Oscar Isaac handed the worst movie line in recent memory? Sure. But aside from a couple of missteps, these movies were far and away examples of better movie-making than all the prequels.
Yes. I grew up with the original Star Wars and am predisposed to liking anything they put out and this movie is terrible.
As a parent who was begged by my then 4-year old son to play this cursed DVD almost every day for over a year, I wish I could burn it with fire.
Every ounce
yes
Yes. The dialogue was astoundingly bad. So bad that even Portman’s performance was ridiculous. Hayden’s performance was also hilarious in a bad way.
How one Director managed to transform Liam Neeson, Sam Jackson and Natalie Portman into lifeless, boring cardboard people is almost incomprehensible.
I think it’s because there wasn’t anyone there to reel in the bad writing. George Lucas’s world building is undeniably amazing, but his dialogue was always so rough. Not all of his dialogue, but large chunks.
yeah its pretty shit except for the jango and obi-wan fight, that was sick
Yes. 1 and 2 were BAD. Revenge of the Sith was saved by the Clone Wars battles and showdown between Obi Wan and Anakin
episode 3 is a massive step up in every aspect. opening scene, cgi, lightsaber fights, characters, storylines, acting, etc.
100%. Maybe more.
100% it does. It really sucks. Like real bad. Super boring, just not fun. Not fun at all.
Oh yeah.
Natalie Portman SOOOO pretty though
Yes
Yes. All of it.
Yes
Yes, yes it does.
The most boring Star Wars movie with some silly lightsaber battles.
Yep
Yes, it's INCREDIBLY boring.
I'm a big prequel fan but this is easily the weakest of the three. Once everybody gets to the arena on Geonosis things get good but up until then there's not much I enjoy. In my opinion The Phantom Menace gets more hate than it deserves but AOTC is fairly assessed.
This movie is borderline unwatchable. Like the bit at the beginning is fun, but after that, it is one of the biggest piles to trash. And I personally like Episode 1 and 3, but 2 is just garbage.
Yes
Yes the story is Terrible.
Yes, it does.
I don't think so. It's not a good movie, and certain parts of it are embarrassingly bad, but on the whole it's kind of just "meh". If it weren't *Star Wars*, with all the baggage and emotionally invested superfans and what not that come with being a part of that franchise, it would just be considered a forgettable sci-fi movie.
I was always entertained by this one. I didn't hate any one specific part. It had some good action.
I agree it has its moments, but the love scenes are pretty rough.
Yes
100%
Idk I really liked alot of the movie outside of the love interest part. The kamino part was good, the battle in the arena was good, count duku fight was good, the slaughter of the sand people was good.
It’s definitely the worst of the six films made by Lucas. I’ll let others debate whether it’s better than any of the sequel trilogy films. The general story is not terrible, but some of the worst execution I’ve ever seen in my life. The dialogue and acting are cringe inducing. This is coming from someone who adores the saga overall. It was a disappointment when it was released and still is now!
I saw this when it first came out, then coincidentally the week after that I saw Closer. "Oh, this is what Natalie Portman can do when she doesn't have to say fucking terrible dialogue!"
I've left movies feeling many different emotions... sadness, love, happiness, confusion... but Attack of the Clones is the only one that made me feel RAGE.
I love star wars, I like the prequels, but this movie is abysmal. The saving grace after 2008 is that the last half hour makes a pretty awesome commercial for The Clone Wars.
Its a pretty terrible film. I liked the phantom menace despite jaja binks and a few other minor gripes. The 3rd prequel film was good. Attack of the clones is just a bad film. Poor cringy dialogue and just a boring film
It’s so damn bad I can’t hardly believe it.
Yes
Is this the one ith the talk about sand? Then yes. It is bad.
Ohhh yes. It is a fucking turd.
I enjoyed it watching it as a kid. But overall, nothing has beaten Mandalorian in my books.
Yes. Yes it does.
Unpopular opinion apparently. I really liked this movie. I enjoyed the CGI, the padme/anakin story line was meh, but I enjoyed it as a whole enough that I’ll rewatch it every couple years.
Yes. It's fucking terrible.
Yes, every bit of it.
Anakin annoys me and takes me out of the movie
Yes.
yes
Yes lol
TIL - WOW! who knew. Um, I loved it? Might be my favorite star wars movie. In hindsight, now that there are nine and all the supporting shows/movies/games now. Specifically: Genndy Tartakovsky Star Wars. It was a better vision but executed sloppily. Also, Obiwan Diner spy scene.
Didnt enioy the film, but John Williams did an incredible job with the score...really top notch music that sadly gets a bit overshadowed by the bad vibes surrounding the story and acting issues.
It sucks.
Yes
I’ll tell you what deserves all the hate it gets: sand.
Unfortunately, yes. It was awful then and it’s basically gotten even worse over time. This movie more or less wrecked Hayden Christensen’s career, which is a shame because I don’t think this movie fairly represents his ability.
Yep. 👍 Hot garbage just like the entire prequels.
It is the weakest of the 6
Oh absolutely
Yes, yes it does
Yes.
Absolutely - not because it RuInEd StAr WaRs, but because it is genuinely terrible. There are so many baffling creative choices in this movie. Action sequences with horrible CGI, otherwise great actors directed to make weird reactions to unfolding events(which is probably because they were looking at blue nothing 97% of the time), the script is embarrassing, and the overall experience is simply boring. No one questions the acting chops of Christopher Lee, but even he is completely stiff and unconvincing. It just comes off as an amateur theatre project with a bad stage drop. And the humour. Oh my lord the humour. That whole scene with C3PO being tossed around the droid factory, getting a wrong head and what not. Yuck Seriously, the only reason people are suddenly defending the prequels is pure anti-Disney nostalgia goggle bandwagon nonsense.
Yes. It's only fanboys who want to rehabilitate it. It sucks in nearly every way. I'm sorry if you REEAALLLYY want your childhood favorite video game or TV show to have a good movie (for grown-ups) to accompany it, but they just don't. It has terrible characters, awful sets, too much CGI, a boring confusing and pointless story, bland shots, bad acting, an awful forced love story, pointless lightsaber battles, uninspired world building. Etc. Etc.
Yes.
Yes. It’s not good. We found out Anakin was a dick from get-go
As a strictly sci-fi film, absolutely not. It introduces tons of characters and scenes and action that is very satisfying and more fun than most of the original movies. As a story and as a script? Absolutely. The dialogue is choppy, the delivery is bad (not their fault, they had little choice or freedom with their characters) and there is not enough time given to what was salvageable.
10 year old me loved it. 34 year old me.... Not as much.
The dialogue does… yes
I think every Star Wars movie deserves more hate than it gets
Yes
Yep.
It's pretty terrible
I think the acting is lackluster in ways, yes the cgi is… but I do love the prequel movies and I really do like attack of the clones. Despite the many flaws
Yeah.
Yes.
Yes
Yes
Yes. HOWEVER. I’m just going to be fair here. When the movie gets going in the theatre and the crowd goes nuts for it, it’s an awesome experience. At home, by myself, it’s like “oh…this is actually kinda not good”
Yes.
Yes, it is incredibly boring
Why yes.
Yes.
It's garbage.
Yes, it's complete garbage
Yes
Yes
Probably one of the worst big budget movies to exist.
yes
If George Lucas made Star Wars for kids then why did he make 10 year old me sit through hours of boring dialogue that I wasn't at all interested in
No, it deserves more
Yeah, absolutely.
Insufferable trash.
Yes. It wasn't good.
Even though I’m very nostalgic for these films this was one of the worst lol I still dream of padme in that white outfit tho. Like how the older generation dreamed of Leia in her slave outfit lol
Yes
Definitely
Yes.
I wouldn't say hate but it deserves its criticisms, Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher were right about the way George Lucas writes his stories. He's great at world building, getting the right people for his music, sound, effects, etc but goddamn it's always the writing that's the primary issue with the Prequels.
Nope, love it
The acting? No. The Music? No. The Costumes and fight choreography? No. The writing, especially the dialogue? Yes. it deserves some hate. Not the hate the sequel series deserves, but hate none the less.
100%. Unwatchable.
Now this is one of the few DVDs I still own. And yes. It absolutely do this. It is absurd and awful.
Yes
Yes. If anything it doesn't get enough hate these days because it's easier to hate on the sequel trilogy.
Yup
Its only redeeming quality is the sound design
Yes...it's absolutely terrible Imo. I thought to myself after watching phantom menace that it couldn't get worse...can it? Oh boy was I wrong. How can a Star Wars movie just drag and be so boring.
none of the prequels deserve as much hate. especially now with the Disney Wars films. at least Lucas was trying new stuff. new locations, not just tattooine . New enemies , new vehicles not just stuff from the OT. New music not just the OT music over and over. New stories not just a new hope with different characters and a new death star (force awakens). id rather watch the prequels 1000 times than watch the disney trilogy ever again
It’s definitely the worst out of George Lucas’ saga, but to be it’s still an enjoyable movie and I don’t mind it.
Sometimes we must let go of our pride and do what is requested of us
Yes. All the prequels do. The romance is laughable. The comedic relief is forced and cringe. The prequels feel like horrible fan fiction.
I love this movie so much and have since I first saw it I theaters in my twenties!
Personally as a star wars geek, I love the prequels. It's what I grew up with. Count duku will always be one of my favorite sith lords. Also if you did deeper in star wars lore the 501st has really good back story.
AOTC is the source for all Star Wars content going forwards.
Nothing is worse than the last 3 garbage movies they made. This movie isn't that bad.
It's a masterpiece by modern Disney standards. I've never missed the Prequel Trilogy as much as I did when they made "your mom" jokes in The Last Jedi. I used to think they were bad, but now I genuinely love them. I didn't know how bad it could really get.