| Soundwave said: You could have replaced Natalie Portman with a cardboard cut out in the prequels and it wouldn't have made no difference. She wasn't bad. Padme was A TERRIBLE, HORRIBLE character. George Lucas had no idea what he was doing with that character whatsoever. I'm not even joking when I say literally Megan Fox's character was better in the Transformers movies. Finn's the "regular joe" character, him being nervous or not superpowered doesn't make him a "bad character" ... his character is written that way on purpose to serve a need. This is called STORY ... TELLING. See this type of character allows "JOE PUBLIC who doesn't give a fuck about spaceships and lightsabers" to also be engaged in the movie because there's a normal person in the movie that they can relate to. Unlike having a movie filled with Jedi who have the personality of a rock and aren't relatable to any human being. The prequels were cartoons. And not even well done cartoon as the cartoon Clone Wars series outdoes it in every way. TFA returns Star Wars to its HUMAN, live action roots. Star Wars was always more of a Western with very human characters not CGI buffonary, Lucas completely forgot about this. To be honest I wonder if Lucas just fluked out with A New Hope, because Empire and Jedi were colloborations with other writers/directors that likely kept a lot of Lucas awful ideas at bay. Look at the new Indiana Jones too ... it SUCKED, because Lucas insisted on a script that was garbage and that Harrison Ford and Steven Spielberg didn't even like. They just agreed on it because Harrison Ford would've been freaking dead by the time they could roll on another Indiana Jones movie if they didn't all agree. |
I already agree that Padme was a terrible character. Its only purpose was to help understand why Anakin turned to the dark side. Their scenes were easily the worst part of the prequels.
The prequels aren't cartoon, they are scifi movies with really impressive special effetcts and some really really cool moments. The story was tied to explain the rise of the empire and Anakin becoming Vador.
For The Force Awakens, thet had no limitations, and what is the results?
It's basically a remake of a New Hope, but where everything new is bad and underwhelming while the only strong points are things from the past. (droids, stormtroopers, Han Solo, the new deathstar).
But the new characters are a huge letdowns:
I don't care about JOE PUBLIC, that's the kind of worries that only Disney marketing teams should have. I see that the films has been made by people who wanted to cash in and make the most money. The film should have costed less to make and will bring higher revenues. Star Wars isn't at the cutting edge of the technology anymore, because maketers are the one calling the shot now.
That's why we have to endure a bland and completely useless character like Finn, aka Rey boyfriend, and why we have to endure an emo teenagers as the main villain. Kylo Ren will appeal to the one direction crowd.
Overall it's still a decent movie, but only because it copy so much from the past movies. Everything new inside is meh at best.
By the way, the prequels introduced some cool characters in the first movie like: Qui Gon, Darth Maul and Mace Windu. All characters introduces here are shit like Snoke and Kylo Ren, useless like Fynn or average like Rey.
