ITT: We list things the prequels did right

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Cover art where everyone looks like they have sunstroke?

Everything

Prequels looking better with each new star wars film.

The highly choreographed fights, and Yoda jumping all over the place.

>Worldbuilding
>Obi Wan, Sheev, Mace Windu, Qui Gon, Darth Maul, Grievous
>Obi Wan and Anakin's friendship. Despite some awful acting on Hayden's part (due to George's shitty directions), there friendship is believable and tragic when Anakin turns.
>Setting up a Shakespearian tragedy, despite it's flaws, it ultimately is tragic with ROTS' realization of Anakin's turn to the darkside
>ROTS
>The music, which the sequels for some reason don't have any notable tracks aside from Rey's
>The lightsaber duels are much more energetic and exciting to watch, if at times a bit too much, but this doesn't happen often so it's kino mostly

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Character development.
Action scenes.
Music.
Lore.
Answering questions from the previous movies.

Casting Ewan McGregor and Ian McDiarmid.
A few visually stunning (at the time) fight sequences.
Not much else.

>Politics

>Mace Windu
>Darth Maul
>Grievous
Completely wasted characters.

>there friendship is believable and tragic when Anakin turn
Only because they talk about being friends. Nowhere in the films they act like real friends.

>Setting up a Shakespearian tragedy
We know about Vader and him betraying the Jedi from the OT. George fucked up a perfect setting for a very good character study and tragedy.

>the music
I agree.

>The lightsaber duels
They are either too long (Maul vs Obi-Wan and Qui Gon, Anakin vs Obi-Wan) or too goody (Yoda vs Palpatine).

>Premise
>A plot outline for the trilogy existing at all.
>Music
>Some acting, mostly Palpatine
>Themes it tried to explore.
>Not being a shot for shot remake of the OT

That's all I got.

I like that Clone Troopers were like a mixture of Boba Fett's mask and a regular Stormtrooper mask.

A lot of good things lore-wise. The Sith, the Jedi Order, the Republic, Coruscant, etc.
As movies, I and II were meh, but that is because Lucas was a hack director

too goofy*

For me:

-ship designs
-planets
-music
-palpatine

Darth Maul was kinda cool. Dude was fighting agile and was using his body too by kicking and shoving, had a dual-lightsaber and barely spoke and also looks evil as fuck.

The music
The memes
Darth Maul
The Ep I lightsaber du.. um, triel?
Star Wars Episode I Racer for N64
The power politics
Anakin's inner conflict and Faustian deal in III
The pottery

spbp

OP provided complete list, good job, OP!

Obi Wan
The score
The designs
Podracing
Sheev

Always feels weird when I remember he was played by Peter Serafinowics.

Does anything really important happen in ep 2? I feel like you can probably just watch 1 & 3 and get the full story.

Good cgi and visual. Brilliant sound design. Lightseber fight choreography. Extended universe to the new level, Sheev and Obi Wan cast.

People like to shit on Maul for being a flat character, but really, he's a mook. A James Bond henchman. His job is to look interesting and put up a good fight.

Palpatine having someone like him as a pawn is way better than him fighting with a lightsaber.

Didn't contradict the original trilogy.
Didn't shit on the characterization of characters from the original trilogy
Didn't undermine the events of the original trilogy.

this fight, i remember roleplaying that with a few kids in elementary school over and over again

I remember some drum and bass edit that someone put on youtube where they edited funny subtitles in that me and my friends quoted endlessly

>Casting Ian McDiarmid.
Yeah, brilliant casting. That guy looked and sounded just like the Emperor from ROTJ

Jar Jar Binks. He was key to all that.

Anakin loses his hand and loses against Dokuu, which leads to him killing Dokuu due to palpatine manipulating him.
That's all.

We also get to see tge origins of the storm troopers and Boba Fett but it could've been better. I wish the second movie had more Dokuu and General Griveous.

Reprising. Casting. You know what I mean.

actually the prequels are great and have deep lore and story, unforunately they are badly put together put if you can go over the bad thing the prequels are the best star wars

Wrong.

>Obi Wan and Anakin did not act like friends

In chad world, men can get along just fine despite butting heads and interjecting where we disagree. Its called a friendly rivalry, dingus.

>Maul wasted

Bullshit. He does exactly what he is intended to. He sets the tone for the Sith, and kills a highly skilled Jedi Master.

>Windu wasted

He literally carries the Jedi through three films.

>Darth Maul
>wasted
Why do people meme this? He had just enough presence to not become boring.

This. To a t.

I liked the costuming, even though the Jedi were a bit bland Anakin's final costume looked good.

- Amazing lore, world building, brought more life into Lucas' original trilogy

-well developed, fleshed out characters that were interesting and realistic (to an extent)

- beautiful visuals,say all you want about the CGI, but the scenes were absolutely wonderful

-political development to further expand upon the world beyond just "hurr jedi sith", paid homage to classics such as Plato's Republic and many other great works

-choreographed and fluid fight sequences, changed the jedi from being aspie LARPERS swinging around swords to trained warriors

Every single prequel hater is an emotionally turbulent teenager who wants to make their anonymous posts seem cool and "mature" by attacking the prequels needlessly.
Nobody who is above the age of 18 actually hates the prequels.

>Duel of the Fates

>anakin was such a good guy was willing to become evil to help others

>wife dies he is not angry evil

The end credits

ROTS was still cash as fuck

exactly, the prequels are actually amazing in every aspect, but star wars fans wanted to see space and laser sabre battles instead, so they ruined these movies by themselves

Casting Ewan Mcgregor
SHEEV
Trying new ideas
Good art design
SHEEV
Space Maori chur
Portman in that White outfit that gets the midriff battle damage.
Jake the Muss
Purple Light Saber
Christopher Lee's voice
Clone Wars cartoons
$THE MERCHANDISE$
Using John Williams when he still had the goods
George making the films cause he could

Jango Fett. He has enough presence and action in Attack of The Clones to be an exceptional hired gun, but he doesn't consume so much space in the narrative that he eclipsed the more important characters. He can stand on his own against Obi Wan, traps Anakin and Padme, kills a few Jedi in the arena, fucks up a rhino thing after it breaks his ribs, and still has the balls to stand up and go all out against Windu to die an honorable death against the best lightsaber dueler in the galaxy.

No wonder why they made millions of clones out of this motherfucker.

Captured the feel of old serials that inspired the OT. Something the new stuff is desperately missing.

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>Music
>Sheev
>Ewan McGregor as Obiwan
>While badly told the story was atleast original and didn't harp off the original trilogy
>cool world building and designs most of the time
>spawned some really great spinoff stuff like the games and Clone Wars cartoon

>pic related

>Always feels weird when I remember he was played by Peter Serafinowics.


Too bad he didn't then. Peter was the voice. The actor is the famous martial arts specialist Ray Park.

How and why are you even allowed to post on Sup Forums? Sad!

It tried new things and didn't rehash everything.

>that second pic

muuh dick desu

Honest to god, Ki Adi Mundis death eas better than both TFA, Rogue one, and TLJ

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>Felucia movie
>"It ain't vode an" starts playing

> Execute Order 66

>> Execute Order 66

muuh dick desu

>tfw the third star wars trilogy is so bad it makes the prequel trilogy look good

> inb4 third movie reaches Attack of the clones tier
> inb4 fourth triology is barely recognizeable as star wars, has room-tier acting, makes less sense than flying leia and sjw/tranny-pandering

>OT will go down in history as genuinely good movies
>Prequels will go down in history as a meme filled, so bad it's good cult classics
>Sequels will go down in history as soulless corporate products with nothing interesting or memorable about them
For something to be memorable and stick in people's minds you need someone with a vision at the helm, and a reason for existence that is not just make a gazillion dollars out of nostalgia-filled 30 somethings.

>We also get to see tge origins of the storm troopers and Boba Fett but it could've been better.
You mean by not showing it at all since they both made them worse?
Re-dubbing Boba in ROTJ with fucking ozzie accent was probably the most offensive change Lucas made to the originals, and fuck me that's a hard list to top.

i wished they could have used the original emperor actor from ROTJ but damn he looked so old in that movie he was probably dead or locked up in elderly home by the time prequels were being made

imagine being this retarded.

Actual War. It was a breath of fresh air to see two super powers fucking eachother up on equal ground not terrorists allah akbaring government facilities and running away every time they got caught. The CIS had more at stake than some piece of shit generator on a frozen shithole.

The miracle of CGI

It's not just that they dubbed the voice, but that they changed the tone to make him sound like a total pussy.

Anakin was constantly crying about how much he hates Obi-wan.

I unironically like the setting.

The backdrop for the Star Wars universe reflects the toil of war and chaos after a decades long dark-age, not unlike the fall of Rome in our timeline.

Prequels
>Baroque as fuck
>Everything looks like Space Shakespeare
>Fancy clothes and everything's gilded and shit
>Shiny tech
>Lots of bright, fascinating colors
>Impressive infrastructure
>Everywhere you go, even in the seediest parts of Tatooine, it seems like there's some level of order and maintenance over there, like they've found their own little pace and have settled in to a nice niche.
>Coruscant temple is the most interesting place of all time
>Analogous to the height of Rome

Sequels
>Everything's fucked
>No more big buildings
>No more crazy tech
>Backwards savages living under the ruins of great temples and buildings, staking out a living in makeshift sand igloos and shit
>Force techniques all lost and forgotten
>No more fanciness, everything's completely utilitarian and function
>It seems like everyone's living in some Post-Apocalypse, because the fall of the Republic essentially WAS the beginning of a new Dark Age, just like the fall of Rome leading to the surrounding areas turning into a dog-eat-dog free for all

I mean, just look at this picture. Anakin is all fancy and shit with all these luxuries to enjoy, and in star contrast, Luke has none of that. I literally can't think of any place in the Original Trilogy that would have held a candle to Coruscant, except for maybe the cloud city of Bespin, and even then, Coruscant just blows that place out of the water.

Sorry for my rambling, but I hope I'm getting my point across somehow.

tl;dr
>Prequels all shiny and pre-war
>Sequels all grimy and post-war depression
>Very interesting juxtaposition, very nice detail

The prequels are like the The Silmarillion for LOTR.

Very interesting worldbuilding but poor narrative.

Gave rise to Mr. Plinkett:

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>short arms that she can barely wipe her butt with
Dude...

TPM
>The effects
>The world-building
>Maul
>Duel of the Fates
>Ian McDiarmid
>The final lightsaber duel

AotC
>The slow and quiet version of The Imperial March weaved throughout the movie
>Across the Stars
>That one part of the Anakin/Dooku fight in the darkness where their lightsabers are the only source of light
>You don't want to sell me death sticks
>Dooku

RotS
>Battle of the Heroes
>The scene where Palpatine tells Anakin the story of Darth Plagueis the Wise
>Vader v Obi-Wan (except for the rope swing)
>James Earl Jones (except for the NOOOOO)

Think those are all the redeeming points. Happy to argue.

That's fair.

>tfw based Plo Koon didn't make it.
I got to give props to the original Lucasarts lore team for keeping all jedi killed during the order 66 scene actually dead.

>that zoom in on the clone troopers' boots
>the look on his face
>the music

This space Jew

How did Lucas get away with this

the prequels are "shit", but ep 3 still stands up for me
it felt like the movie that Lucas poured all his passion into
seeing the Jedi die during order 66 felt sad because I had grown up with all of them
I was 9 years old when ep 1 came out and 15 (I think) when ep3 came out

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The Music was great, i'll give them that.

>it felt like the movie that Lucas poured all his passion into
That was TPM hand down for me, utterly misguided for sure but you could clearly tell all the passion that went into it. It's basically RotJ with the bad being pushed more and the good being lessened. 2&3 felt like he was butthurt about people reaction to 1 so he just shat up whatever to tie loose ends plus the occasional flashy stuff he comes up with on a whim.

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>>the look on his face

This kills the Jedi

PT music > OT music
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i think he put all he had into each one but just didnt have what it took to execute his vision. he knew it and tried to get other people to direct/write/etc like spielberg and a few others but they all said no because it was too much pressure. although spielberg did direct some of the mustafar battle scenes.

>Suddenly, we realised the Jedi could be fooled. And if they could be fooled, they could be killed

>they all said no because it was too much pressure
I'm sure they said no because they didn't want to bother in the first place.

>although spielberg did direct some of the mustafar battle scenes
Didn't he work on the Sheev/Yoda fight?

>Actual War
>Battles between two armies of mindless drones
Riveting

The way the story degenerates into the tone of the sequels is pretty cool.

>Actual War
>proceed to post some disco party

FOLLOW MA TRACERS!

You don't understand user, it's all about the amount of pewpewpew you can fit on the screen.

Clone Wars >>> PT

>>When the 501st was finally rotated out of Felucia, Aayla Secura made a point of seeing us off personally, calling us the bravest soldiers she had ever seen. It's a good thing we were wearing helmets, because none of us could bear to look her in the eye.

Secretly made jedi vulnerable to grunt fire.

>We all knew what was about to happen, what we were about to do. Did we have any doubts? Any private, traitorous thoughts? Perhaps, but no one said a word. Not on the flight to Coruscant, not when Order 66 came down, and not when we marched into the Jedi Temple. Not a word.

Nothing. Good ideas, terrible execution.

>politics
>drama
>characters
>worldbuilding
>war that barely feels like a war
Nothing really works in these films. Less is more as they say.

i complete forgot the scenes i barely know what happened except litte vader was found and big vader was the last scene.

I guess thats whats that was all about

WRONG
Anaking was whining about the stric Jedi code that forbade him from doing things he desired. In his mind he traded one alvery for another, and that feeling was what allowed Sheev to corrupt him. In Ep II the strict Jedi rules were peronified to him by Obi Wan and he was directing his disappointment at him, and even there they acted friendly towards each other most of the time. hell, Anakin literally said that Obi is the closest he has to a father. and thats what teenagers do towards their parents, they wine about them being strict.
but in EpIII, when there is no longer a Master - Student dynamic between them, they were acting truy friendly, even brotherly towards each other.
Prequels are literally made for children, it's not hard to get them.

>In his mind he traded one slavery for another*