The prequels were never as CGIed as many (including you in this video) make them out to be. The Phantom Menace especially has several massive practical sets and on location shooting
I think you might be a bit late to the party. This is starting to lose relevance at this point. The prequels are now almost as beloved as the OT. I'd argue that while I don't have stats, it seems that over 50% like them. Plenty of people always loved them and showed them to their kids. I think that's what gets obsessive prequel haters so upset these days, they know that they are a dying breed and the public no longer takes what they say as truth
I like the greyness in prequels - the world is not black and white. The epic opening, perfect pacing and dramatic moments make RotS my favorite SW movie.
I liked the prequels despite the warts. One thing most storytellers get wrong is that they have to include every possible demographic playing key roles in their story--and "kids" are a large demographic. The prequels attempted to woo the "kids" by two means--cute characters such as Jar Jar Binks and having child stars for Anakin and Padme. There's also a merchandising drive--parodied in Space Balls. Movies have to make money. Some people tell stories to make money. A few make money so that they can tell stories. There are many ways to make money in movies other than selling movie tickets, streaming services or videos. Product placement in science fiction is difficult--there was Taco Bell in Demolition Man and that worked, sort of. The fight between the marketing attempting to squeeze every last penny of revenue and the storyteller trying to achieve willing suspension of disbelief can ruin a movie. That's something the Star Wars prequels had in common with westerns--heroes and villains had their signature weapons and replicas of these weapons sell well. Go to Disneyland and build your own light saber! In many westerns a gun was a gun was a gun, but I recall Paladin play sets and the Lone Ranger's twin holster and revolver rigs. Then there's having various foods feature a movie tie-in, boosting the movie while boosting the fast food joint or candy bars or corn flakes. There's also a lot of jealousy in the world and movies make a good target. Hate humanity? Throw the racist card down to bring people grief! It worked with Song of the South and there is a decades-long battle to shove everything connected with that 1946 movie down a memory hole. Have female characters in your movie? Sexism! No females? Sexism! Doesn't matter if there are asexual robots in the movie. Everybody has hot buttons and when pushed, those hot buttons can ruin a weekend. Anthropomorphizing Jar Jar Binks was an injustice--Jar Jar wasn't human, but he was a person! Applying human frameworks to the Gungans is human, but then accusing the Gungans of representing human ethnic minorities was an injustice. That's about like claiming the Wookies were a disadvantaged American human minority--it was that Christmas Special, wasn't it!
"Child stars". Only in The Phantom Menace. And they weren't to apeal to kids. It was to show Anakin leaving his mother at the most vulnerable age possible. One where he's old enough to remember her forever but young enough to not be able to deal with the pain of leaving.
My first thought was that you were a prequel hater making excuses, but then I saw you put them in quotes. Just checking, you are making fun of the prequel haters who say this right?
The prequels were never as CGIed as many (including you in this video) make them out to be. The Phantom Menace especially has several massive practical sets and on location shooting
I think you might be a bit late to the party. This is starting to lose relevance at this point. The prequels are now almost as beloved as the OT. I'd argue that while I don't have stats, it seems that over 50% like them. Plenty of people always loved them and showed them to their kids. I think that's what gets obsessive prequel haters so upset these days, they know that they are a dying breed and the public no longer takes what they say as truth
Misleading thumbnail. You made it look like this was going to be a comparison to the newer titles in the series.
I like the greyness in prequels - the world is not black and white. The epic opening, perfect pacing and dramatic moments make RotS my favorite SW movie.
I liked the prequels despite the warts. One thing most storytellers get wrong is that they have to include every possible demographic playing key roles in their story--and "kids" are a large demographic. The prequels attempted to woo the "kids" by two means--cute characters such as Jar Jar Binks and having child stars for Anakin and Padme. There's also a merchandising drive--parodied in Space Balls.
Movies have to make money. Some people tell stories to make money. A few make money so that they can tell stories. There are many ways to make money in movies other than selling movie tickets, streaming services or videos. Product placement in science fiction is difficult--there was Taco Bell in Demolition Man and that worked, sort of. The fight between the marketing attempting to squeeze every last penny of revenue and the storyteller trying to achieve willing suspension of disbelief can ruin a movie. That's something the Star Wars prequels had in common with westerns--heroes and villains had their signature weapons and replicas of these weapons sell well. Go to Disneyland and build your own light saber! In many westerns a gun was a gun was a gun, but I recall Paladin play sets and the Lone Ranger's twin holster and revolver rigs. Then there's having various foods feature a movie tie-in, boosting the movie while boosting the fast food joint or candy bars or corn flakes.
There's also a lot of jealousy in the world and movies make a good target. Hate humanity? Throw the racist card down to bring people grief! It worked with Song of the South and there is a decades-long battle to shove everything connected with that 1946 movie down a memory hole. Have female characters in your movie? Sexism! No females? Sexism! Doesn't matter if there are asexual robots in the movie. Everybody has hot buttons and when pushed, those hot buttons can ruin a weekend. Anthropomorphizing Jar Jar Binks was an injustice--Jar Jar wasn't human, but he was a person! Applying human frameworks to the Gungans is human, but then accusing the Gungans of representing human ethnic minorities was an injustice. That's about like claiming the Wookies were a disadvantaged American human minority--it was that Christmas Special, wasn't it!
Didn't Lucas trade his ticket percentage shares for merchandising rights?
"Child stars". Only in The Phantom Menace. And they weren't to apeal to kids. It was to show Anakin leaving his mother at the most vulnerable age possible. One where he's old enough to remember her forever but young enough to not be able to deal with the pain of leaving.
Those Who Hate *Prequels* Made Be Jailed.
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"People only like the prequels because of nostalgia"-🤓
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My first thought was that you were a prequel hater making excuses, but then I saw you put them in quotes. Just checking, you are making fun of the prequel haters who say this right?
@@officialmonarchmusic prequels haters are the reason why companies need to tell people not to drink bleach
@@fademiller3874 Ah, yes, I see. They get more desperate every year