Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5111452-20140213032447

This is why I liked the prequel movies and didn't hate them Sorry if this is the wrong place to put this.


 * 1) Clone troopers-50% of why I like Star Wars is because of the clone troopers. They are 2748488484846367377647685349643438534937384789 times better than the stormies in my opinion, and I've always had a interest in warfare, which is why I like them so much.
 * 2) Action-I really liked the action in the prequels. It was awesome seeing the clones destroying all the droids on Utapau, Kashyyyk, Geonosis, and the light saber fights were great. I really liked Ewan McGregor's performance, and the Obi-Wan vs. Anakin fight in III was my favorite light saber fight of all time. The Darth Maul fight was okay, but it wasn't really good. I liked the prequel fights more because the actors actually trained in light saber fighting skills. Seriously, it's in the DVD I have. Hayden and Ewan actually had to train to do the scenes in III. Anakin was at level 9, and Obi-Wan was at level 8. As for the fights in the originals, I felt the light saber action wasn't actually trained, experienced, martial artist action. It was more just people attacking and blocking using the sticks.
 * 3) I never pay attention to the main plot-Okay, when I watch movies, I do try to find out what the main plot is. However, when I found out in the prequels it was Anakin's turn to the dark side, I didn't lay attention to the boring love and bad dialogue scenes. I completely ignored them because I honestly don't care about Darth Vader or Anakin. I liked seeing how the Republic was managing the Clone Wars, and how it showed the frustrating concept of war when you can't find the enemy. I watch and see any stuff that's in the background. For example, when Obi-Wan is talking to Anakin before Kenobi leaves for Utapau, I noticed that 2 clone paratroopers are chatting in the background. I'll bet 5% of audiences noticed that. Now you may be wondering, why don't I care about Anakin and the Force? Isn't that the essence of Star Wars? Well, for me, I took the franchise too literally, taking in the "Wars" part. So when Jedi got introduced, I didn't really care. I just felt that the concept of robed people with powers and melee sword-like weapons is way too overused. I mean, they're kind of like the stereo typical urban ninja. They have robes (ninjas have robe-like clothes), light sabers (like katanas), and people always think ninjas have special stealth powers (The Force...). Also, ninjas don't have smoke bombs. This came up because of the Black Egg. The eggs were basically eggs painted black which were either filled with tiny glass shards or peppers. These eggs were thrown at enemies' eyes to blind them.
 * 4) It was funny!!!!-I know what you all are thinking: JAR JAR BINKS WAS NOT FUNNY AT ALL YOU CRAZY MORON GET GET A LIFE LOSER AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Well, I'm not talking about Jar Jar. I found the overly failed dialogue extremely funny. Like when Anakin says, "From my point of view, the Jedi are evil!" I laughed.
 * 5) Ignore the romance and fail acting-I 100% ignored the cheesy romance, bad acting by Hayden, and the bad dialogue. When those scenes came by, I just took a piece of paper and drew a stick figure drawing of clones blasting droids. (I'm really good at stick figure drawing, I can make stick figures that can kneel, shoot, jump look up, anything possible. Helmets, gear, weapons, everything is covered. I'm sorry if it looks like I'm bragging, it's just one of my talents that no one cares about.) The only scene I actually watched between Natalie and Hayden was when Anakin gets mauled by one of those fat cow-gut kuru animal things on Naboo. Ask yourself this: if the movie took out the cheesy romance, bad dialogue and bad acting, do you think you would have least enjoyed it? Anyways, those are my reasons, and I hope you can understand them. I still am okay with Jedi, they're just not my favorites.  