Your first indication the prequels would be bad?

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  1. Mr. Sin

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    For me, it was an article in Newsweek I think that stated that Jake Lloyd was the worst miscasting in film history (This was about a year before the film came out). Also around the same time there was a leaked audio clip of Jar-Jar from the underwater scene that didn't bode well for the film either.
     
  2. iguana_tonante

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    When I learned they were going to make them. :vulcan:

    More seriously, when I read that Anakin was to be a little kid instead a young man.
     
  3. Captaindemotion

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    They weren't bad as far as I'm concerned.
     
  4. Admiral James Kirk

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    I never got that indication because they weren't bad.
     
  5. Hermiod

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    As soon as Jar Jar appeared.

    Then it was confirmed when we saw a robot soldier say "Roger, Roger". Why are robots even talking to each other ?
     
  6. HarryM

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    The opening crawl when it said "taxation of trade routes is in dispute"...
     
  7. DWF

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    You didn't ask that question in the first scene of the original Star Wars movie? C-3PO and R2-D2 were always talking to each other.
     
  8. The Evil Dead

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    I didn't realize it until Attack of the Clones. I was hoping Phantom Menace was a fluke.
     
  9. C.E. Evans

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    For me, it was when Darth Maul died. In all the trailers, I thought he was going to make Darth Vader look like a cream-puff. I thought he was the most bad-ass Sith Lord right up until the final moment.

    I remember thinking, "No way did he just go out like that...no way..."

    Other than that, I thought the prequels were really cool.
     
  10. Gojira

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    I actually enjoy the prequels and don't think they're that bad.
     
  11. Caliburn24

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    The moment when it was announced that the movies would be prequels instead of sequels was my first inkling. Not that the prequels are entirely horrible(just mostly).

    I loath the very concept of a prequel. We rarely get a sequel that surpasses the original. We NEVER get a prequel that surpasses the original.

    Unless you're talking Shakespeare, that is the only exception I can think of.
     
  12. Gojira

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    Although I do like the prequels the political problems are a boring plot device for the movies.

    Star Wars movies were supposed to pay homage to the swash-buckling action and adventure movies of the 30s and 40s and were never meant to pay homage to Sunday morning political debates and analysis from C-Span! :rommie:
     
  13. RoJoHen

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    This.

    And this.

    And the fact that the first movie should have just been called "Little Anakin and his Pod Racer."
     
  14. startrekrcks

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    what the hell was George thinking when he introduced Jar Jar :scream::rolleyes:
     
  15. Nardpuncher

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    The 60 Minutes segment in March of 1999.

    I actually told myself that the voice of Jar Jar must've just been a temporary one as it sounded just too silly.
    I didn't hate him as much as many others did though once I saw the movie.

    But in the theater the first 10 minutes of Episode I just felt off. Edited weirdly and the whole prequel trilogy felt like it was filled with first takes.
     
  16. RandyS

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    I don't know. Why did Threepio and Artoo talk to each other?
     
  17. RandyS

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    Lucas' writing handled that.

    I didn't think the last two were that bad. Excluding of course, Jar Jar, and Anakin and Padme's love dialog. Episode one was really the only bad one and that's only because I felt is was a knock-off of Episode 4. And I agree with everybody who was disapointed with Maul. After such a build-up to get us to go see him, he only had two lines in the entire movie.
     
  18. StarshipDefiant

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    I often wonder that to, why does the OT get a pass for this and the PT doesn't? Bah.

    Either way, I enjoyed the movies and didn't have such an issue with Jar Jar the rest of the world did. I did have an issue, however, about Anakin being a whiny bitch, and wondered why Obi-Wan didn't bitch slap him.
     
  19. Corwwyn

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    Hey...the OT even had a droid being tortured by having hot irons applied to the soles of its...erm...feet.
     
  20. Shazam!

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    I was pretty hyped and whilst I still don't think that the prequels are that bad, I remember seeing Yoda from TPM trailer and thinking "has nobody realised that that looks nothing like Yoda?"