JCC Embrace The FU - Formerly the STAR WARS IS BAD thread

I only managed 13 seconds. I win?

 

I got as far as 'rocks'

 

I watched the whole thing, you weak minded fools!

 

That thing needs a Triumph

 

I muted it at okey dokey. It seemed fine after that.

 

I got through the whole video on the 1st viewing.

 

I just realized something about the prequels after all those years: making Palpatine the baddie was a dumb move.

I used to think it was nifty. The secret schemer. But The Phantom Menace turns out to be the phantom menace of the prequels. Not Jar-Jar, not kid Ani, not kid Boba, not Grievous: Palpatine ruins it.

It's already risky to make prequels, because we'll know the result. But Palpatine's steady rise to power makes it all the more predictable. Yawn-inducing, actually. It's like all is set in stone from the outset. It was so obvious that, at the time, people here speculated that he might not be Darth Sidious. But no surprises; he just turned into the guy we knew in linear fashion.
As opposed to a truly new evil, unknown, its force unknown, its ambitions unknown.
What's worse: the pivotal moment of the prequels is Anakin's turn, and the fact that Palpatine is behind the Clone Wars ruins it. It makes Anakin into a dumbass. His turn could have been handled well, less heavy-handedly, more understandably, if he'd had to protect Amidala against an outside villain, one all heroes would unite against.

But alas. I guess that, even with the new baddies and the plethora of new planets, Lucas still kept it too conscise.

 

I don't know if watching someone's rise to power is "ruined" because we already know they rose to power. It's pretty interesting reading/watching/learning about the specifics of the rise of people we already know exist in history.

 

Palpatine could still have been a Senator, this could still have made him Chancellor. He could still have declared himself Emperor. But making him the man behind the Separatists was too much.

That's true. But they didn't have a double identity that would at some point be revealed.

 

Man it's almost like everything surrounding the Clone Wars in the prequels was handled really poorly.

 

It's stylistically designed to be that way and you can't undo that.

 

No, I agree that having the clone wars be this engineering thing with the same guy running both sides was pretty terrible. Totally took away from the conflict.

 

Obviously the execution left a lot to be desired, but the "war" in the Star Wars prequels being an absolute fraud designed to put a guy in power? That was great.

 

I guess it works if you keep it a surprise, but that's pretty hard to do with prequels.
He wanted too much.

 

the main thing i thought was really lame about the war in the prequels was how stupid it made the jedi look. i mean these great jedi masters can't see how futile it is to fight a war against an endless army of robots. not only that but they're going to get out there on the front lines and actually battle robots? like there's nothing better they could be doing? no quicker way to end the war? just go to various planets and fight robots for years and years?

 

It's not a war. The future empire has two potential contractors to provide the empire with military technology. His competitive bidding process is messy and involves a lot of testing in battlefield conditions. At heart, it's a riveting three-part story about maximizing efficiency in defense contracting.

 

That's been done.



1966.
In which our hero Spirou uncovers the devious plan of one country's general (depicted on the boat with arms raised), who gathered his fortune by posing as the other country's dictator - both fawning for war and racking up arms.
The difference with the prequels was that the weapons were all fake and the general made money twice. Smarter than Sidious, that guy.

 

sidious did 9/11

 

The issue is Palps went from A to B to C.

Anakin went from A to are you ****ing Kidding me?

 

Famous blogger Mike Corba worries about the new movies

 

tom So the personalities for protocol droids are synced-up to match their creators or a product of whatever personality chip said creator has at his or her disposal?

 

I thought the article was unfunny, but not as unfunny as the Holocaust.