• kameecoding@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    The difference between the prequels and the sequels is that while a bit cheesy and having some cringe/dogshit dialogue in places the prequels have a solid storyline an arc.

    The sequels are just shit with only the Last Jedi trying to do anything, then when they made episode 9 they tried to backpedal and made a completely unwatchable piece of shit that makes no sense

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        11 hours ago

        So true!

        And I’ll also grant that the emperor’s guard fight and the force projection fight both count to redeem the sequels, a bit.

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            8 hours ago

            Wait you turn to attack the protagonist. A nice orderly line for one attack and one counter.

            Then there was the guy who straight up dropped his weapon before his turn, but pretended he didn’t.

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        I also argue the world building alone makes them worth it. While the dialogue and plot had some issues, all the new worlds/aliens/the actual sith/etc. heralded in a new age for star wars.

        The world in the sequel trilogy is so small in comparison to either of the other trilogys.

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        2 days ago

        Revenge of the Sith has the best and most gratuitous action in the entire mainline series.

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      17 hours ago

      I hated TLJ. I grew up on the OG and saw the awful prequels in theatres despite knowing they were bad.

      Too much bad writing. Too many plot holes. Too many monumental changes to how the universe works.

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      1 day ago

      What did Last Jedi actually do?

      I always feel like I saw a different movie than everyone else, both the people that liked it and the people that disliked it. What I saw was the plotlines of both ESB and ROTJ thrown into a blender, with the entire point of those plotlines removed. There was absolutely nothing in that movie that was original. It was the most misogynistic movie in all of Star Wars, Rey doesn’t actually do anything, so I don’t know why the incels hate it. I felt like Disney gave in to those idiots and relegated Rey to a support role in that movie.

      Sure they probably tried to cram in too much action adventure into RoS to compensate for the fact that TLJ had no meaningful action in it. Or do you think they backpedalled by making Rey the main character again? That was obviously the intent at the end of TFA, so it was TLJ that screwed that up by making women at best an afterthought and at worst an obstacle for the men to overcome. Most misogynistic portrayal of women in Star Wars, they had to do a big marketing campaign to convince everyone the women in the movie were strong before it was released. I guess it worked.

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        it was TLJ that screwed that up by making women at best an afterthought and at worst an obstacle for the men to overcome.

        TLJ introduced Rose and had her go on a mission, the next one had her stay back at base and operate a radio off-screen.