| Cobretti2 said: what was so bad about the prequels? i hear lots of people say it but never justify it lol. |
I'm not a huge Star Wars fan, but I thought the prequels were bad for a number of reasons. The excuse they come up with for Anakin to become a bad guy is laughably awful, the dialogue is incredibly cheesy, most of the characters are either bland or extremely unlikeable (Jar Jar being the primary example), they spend way too much time trying to invest us in Star Wars politics or Jedi midichlorian BS, characters make some extremely boneheaded moves for seemingly no other reason than that the plot can be advanced towards us having Darth Vader and a Galactic Empire, and for the amount of time they put into trying to build a romance between Anakin and Padme, it falls far short.
In summary, it just doesn't do anything particularly well, other than some cool CGI fights. While I'm all for explaining things and expanding the universe, every explanation for how things got to be the way they are when episode 4 roles around is so awful I'd rather just have the mystery.
O/T: I'd probably laugh and not be all that surprised. TBH, I think I'd be more surprised if it turned out to be good rather than bad.
