I know we’ve all said our piece about Last Jedi but this is a good summary.
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Yeah the Disney movies were so bad it hypnotized people into thinking the Prequels were actually good. They weren't. They sucked. They ruined Anakin Skywalker from being a noble Jedi into a cringey whiny little creep, they practically character assassinated the Jedi into being a bunch of buffoons, had one of the worst romances this side of Twilight, and the only reason people showed up to the third one was because they believed they'd get to see a good volcano light saber fight with Obi-Wan. Which ended up being okay but the over-reliance on CGI highlighted how it was just two actors dancing at each other and not a real fight.
Now so much time has passed there are idiots who unironically think the Prequels are good. Mostly because they've also had multiple shows and other media to damage control and retroactively make it suck less, but it doesn't change the Prequels were once known as the greatest cinematic disappointment around.
The prequels were bad movies made by a guy who intended to make good movies. The Force Awakens was a mediocre movie made by somebody who intended to make a lot of money. The Last Jedi was a very bad movie made by somebody who explicitly wanted to ruin the franchise and hated the fans. Nothing made after that matters.
I've started to see the opposite too, where people (eg.) try to claim The Matrix (the original; not the sequels) wasn't good presumably because the guys who made it think they're women now and tried to back-port troon themes into it via a fourth movie released 15 years after the last one.
No The Matrix was good, did a whole bunch of shit we'd never seen before in a movie, and culture was referring to themes in that movie for 2 decades after it came out. There was a reason for that, and don't try to pretend that wasn't the case just because those themes are all owned by the right now and Hollywood is very uncomfortable with that fact.
I literally fell asleep during Attack of the Clones. All the obvious green screen backdrops kind of pulled me out of it. The only part I liked was bare midriff Padme.
Still a better movie than TLJ.
Hard disagree. The prequels are far from perfect but there’s definitely a lot there to enjoy