Jango Fett was the Assassin...

"And then the Jedi just decide not to ask where the army came from and go ahead and use it. "

The Jedi weren't the ones that make that decision. If you remember Palpatine is given emergency powers giving him the authority to use the clones as an army for the republic. The Jedi have no authority.

Apparently everyone in the galaxy is dumber than a pile of bricks. A giant army pops up out of someone's ass and no one bothers to ask where it came from? Obi-Wan doesn't alert anyone to the fact that it's pretty shady? 

But they did ask... The story given was that it was a clone army created on Kamino, ordered by the now dead Jedi Master Sifo Dyas to be created for the Republic without the approval of the Jedi Council.

Regardless, I think they'd overlook some discrepancy's to avoid getting absolutely crushed in a war.

I get that you hate the prequels, and I don't really like them either, but you're saying a lot of things that just don't make any sense. xD

Yea. Almost as dumb as how a large military force, that somehow claimed victory over the Galaxy again, can only come up with the plan of following after a Rebellion ship for hours, waiting for it to run out of gas.

Or how a rebellion, who conquered the last empire and stayed alive this long, can only think to continue on this stupid path, allowing the dumb ass Order to almost completely wipe them out, when they obviously had other ships with hyperdrives.

Where does this weird idea that the prequel-trilogy wasn't actually that bad in hindsight come from? Even at their worst this Disney-trilogy has been nowhere near as insufferable awful as The Phantom Menace or Attack of the Clones were. Revenge of the Sith was at least decent, for the most part, but that doesn't really mean much after the first two movies. Is it just nostalgia towards films people saw when they were kids or something?

Of course Lucas is going to say good things about this dreck, he still gets a small cut of the box office.

The prequels were infinitely better than the hack shit Abrams gave us.
One example is the lightsaber battles. There was zero professional choreography, JJ hack fuck and that sawed-off moon-headed freak gave us battles that came across like two ten year olds banging broomsticks together in the backyard. Absolutely NO technique or skill shown. In the trailer, Kylo leaves his left side open but Rey goes out of her way to swing for his lightsaber instead. The throne room scene in the previous movie was an absolute abomination.
Complete amateur crap.

I don't know how there were ticket sale records broken by this movie, there are still plenty of opening day seats available across the country.
Disney execs are going to be shitting themselves after the second weekend drop-off.

Sums up my thoughts as well. While the new movies are a bit forgettable to me, simply because they're not really anything special, the prequels I actively wanted to forget.

That's what makes Lucas' comments so funny.  Perhaps he would be happy if someone went in later and ruined the new movies further by altering them in asinine ways.

EDIT: Oh, it's a fake! I actually thought that was Lucas, lol.  Ok, it's damn funny now. xD

Somebody tried to kill the Queen. They captured her but before she could tell what happened, her would be assassin was killed by a second individual. He already had the dart. He tried to find where he/it came from. When he did, he uncovered a bigger plot.

Say what you will about the prequels. They may have had bad acting, clunky writing, and overly CG visuals but they did have characters you felt for and a specific goal--Palpatine's rise to power and Anakin's descent into evil.  The new trilogy? Who even knows.

I'm 43. I watched the OG trilogy as a kid and thought Jedi was great, A New Hope was boring, and Empire didn't have a conclusion. Of course, at the time, the idea of a movie that didn't stand alone didn't make sense to me.

In 1999, I actually fell asleep during my first viewing of Phantom Menace and thought it was terrible, thought Clones was fantastic (if you were in that audience when Yoda fought Darth Tyrannous...), and Sith was spectacular. I didn't know the latter two were even considered bad until the internet told me that they were and pointed out all of the problems.

Now I see TPM as "establishing the universe", AotC as raising the stakes/character building, and RotS as tying everything together. I love all three and watch all 6 back to back annually, at least.

With Ep 7, I thought "This is just the original again. It doesn't really add anything but it's kinda fun, though." and with Ep 8, I thought "I don't actually like anyone in this film and I kinda never want to watch it again".

I'm going to be right there on opening day for Ep 9, though. The trailer looks really good and maybe they can finish strong.  

Wasnt that planet removed from the archive and the army was made in secret. Obi-Wan contacted Yoda and Mace Windu and was confused as to why it was made.