How Mr Plinkett Misrepresented Me To Slam The STAR WARS Prequels

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The prequels are plainly bad movies they just are. If you like them good for you everyone has movies they like that are bad there is nothing wrong with that. Now saying that the prequels aren't the worst movies ever made in fact the lowest grade I give any of those movies is a 4. I give Ep.1 a 4, Ep.2 a 5, and Ep.6 a 6 so again none of them are the worst movies ever made. The dialogue in the prequels is terrible, I find the writing to be pretty sub par, it does feel like Lucas first draft scripts were used, he was clearly surrounded by yes men, the movies really don't understand the phrase "show don't tell", the villains are all pretty terrible yes even Darth Maul because even though he looked threatening he was completely wasted by killing him. The only thing Count Dooku had going for him was he was played by Christopher Lee besides that I felt nothing for him with his fight with Yoda was goofy as hell and his pitiful death in Ep. 3. General Grievous I was actually furious with because they took this amazing villain that struck fear in the hearts of Jedi Masters in Gendy Tartakovsky's great Clone Wars cartoon into a wheezing coughing joke of a character in the movie. Then Emperor Palpetine looked hilarious when he was trying to fight with a lightsaber which in turn kind of insults the character much like Yoda which leads into my last point.

Lightsabers are one of the biggest problems with the prequels which sounds crazy. Who doesn't love lightsabers because I sure do and as a kid I wanted nothing more then to have a real life lightsaber. Looking back at both the prequels and the original trilogy you see why the prequel fails with lightsabers and the original trilogy succeeds with them. In the original trilogy when the characters faced off with lightsabers it meant something and had emotional heft to it hence why there were only 3 actual lightsaber duels. Especially the two matches between Luke and Darth Vader. Their first match in Cloud City where Vader toys with Luke truly showcasing a master taking on a clear novice and the battle upon the Death Star where Luke has become a master and meets Vader on equal footing all the while fighting for both of their souls. Even Vader vs Obi Wan in Ep IV. while the weakest knowing their history together makes it much more of an impactful fight. Compare that to the prequels and only one fight has any damn actual heft or real emotion to it when Anakin fights Obi Wan and it gets ruined by the fight going on forever and a terrible ending, "I have the high ground Anakin" HA! The rest are pure spectacle just a lot of glowsticks bouncing off each other. Even the fight between Qui Gon, Obi Wan, and Maul while seemingly cool it is overblown and too choreographed.

Like I said earlier lightsabers insult the characters of Palpatine and Yoda because neither of those characters would use a lightsaber. Palpatine actually looked down on lightsabers calling them a "Jedi weapon" in Ep.VI. He was so powerful in the force that a lightsaber was no more useful against him then a single blaster. Then much like Palpatine Yoda was a sage a true believer and user of the force. The ebbs and flow truly understanding the force that he would never use a lightsaber. Yet Lucas decided to give them both lightsabers even Yoda with a little lightsaber perfect for his little body to use and it was hilariously stupid especially their fight in the senate halls.

Now to finish off I do want to give Lucas credit for one thing. He actually went somewhere new with the prequels. We saw new worlds, new cultures, new technologies, we had new plots, new villains, etc... In Ep. VII we got pretty much everything from the original trilogy with a new name slapped on it. We got Tatooine, Endor, Hoth, the cantina, the Death Star, the Rebels, the Empire, Darth Vader, Boba Fett, and Emperor Palpetine all over again just with different names. This time they were called Jakku, Takodana, Star Killer Base, Maz Kanata's castle, Kylo Ren, Captain Phasma, and Supreme Leader Snoke. I am here praying that they go somewhere new for Ep. VIII because Ep. VII was really nothing more then nostalgia pure unadulterated nostalgia.

The prequels sucked, Mr. Plinkett is God, you shot first.

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