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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WhiteChocolate" data-source="post: 190718" data-attributes="member: 4374">i'm afraid i've reached the point in life where i've already watched the orig tril so many times, "i don't know if i ever need to watch them again"... the prequels less so. but what i -did- absolutely love about the prequels - other than the overall graphic designs for a "pre-sw" universe, the spaceships, larger (hell, big-ass!) cities and worlds - was the SOUND FX, omg... the new sound tracks (minus j.will's mostly overly-redundant music scores ;0) was PHENOMENAL and really made me feel i was back in the same universe as the old ones. supreme-o... if i "watch" the prequels, it's usually more like "listening" to them, in the background while i type/code away at something!the bad fanboy feelings, at least for me, comes down to the fact that uncle george had -three movies- to create something intriguing with (and even with the "we know how this ends" bit, he -could- have created something really interesting to watch, and i don't mean just show off his computer fx!) it could have been possible to make a more interesting story, or at least more interesting characters (which would usually have naturally created a more interesting story).he assumed -everyone- walking into the theater already knew that anakin skywalker would become darth vader, when (i don't recall) anakin ever being mentioned by name in the original tril... and even if you -did- know, you kinda really wanted to see a set of movies where, you see this kid really have potential to come out good (maybe potential for a surprise ending?) - but then, in the end, feel disappointed that he fell so far. instead, we just kinda got to see a "pbs" kid suddenly turn into a self-centered, surly teenager... then realize we have to sit through -two- movies worth of that! kind of a continuous downslope, insteada starting good, and going up and up (with some downs along the way) - then "the fall".the prequels seriously deserved to be "epic" like the orig tril... instead i think unca george was instead more concerned thinking "how cool the lego videogame versions" would be... ;0p.s. i rather enjoyed "prometheus" too, if only because at that time there still hadn't been too many big "space" movies in 3d, plus the revisiting a parallel "alien" universe (i didn't mind the coming back full-circle to the exomorph at the end myself; was just a fun little dessert to finish with, i thought!) since it was originally supposed to be, i guess, a direct sequel, but then got a bit of rehash to it... still wasn't a ridley best, and lately his track record's getting spottier... :\ i put it in a bit with "tron legacy", being perhaps a bit more of an "easy cash-in" prop to update and do in 3D. i have mixed feelings about whatever the "blade runner sequel" he and harrison had chatted about the past year or two... still if it's decently done, i'd do like "legacy" and "prom" - go see it, just to revisit that world, in 3d! (as long as the reviews don't suck -too- much!)</blockquote>

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