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Star Wars: Episode VII **NO SPOILERS**

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The biggest problem with the prequels was Hayden Christensen's awful acting. #2 would be Jar-Jar Binks.

 

I firmly believe Leonardo Dicaprio could have been cast as Anakin and it still wouldn't have changed anyones perception of the prequels.

Hayden sucked in Episode 2 for the most part. He was okay in Episode 3 though after he turned, portraying evil Vader pre mechanics he did well.

Jar Jar sucks no matter how you spin it.

I agree. He acted the way he was told to act.

I don't agree with your earlier assessment that it was a suicide mission or whatever. Lucas decided that he should control every aspect of the movies whereas with episodes 5 and 6 he wasn't the director and didn't write the screenplays. He also completely misunderstood what people liked about the first trilogy. It could have been way better than it was. (Although I liked Ep. III). I've seen him in interviews saying Empire is the worst movie and he doesn't like it. He has a huge ego (for obvious reasons).

Lucas lost the pulse, no question there. But it didn't matter who directed/produced them, they were destined to fail no matter who had the final say on how the stories unfolded.

Don't agree with that at all. They were destined to not live up to the originals. If that's failure, then ya. But they were not destined to "fail" nearly as much as they did.

So much time had passed between Jedi and Menace that making any movie fit the prequel mold fans wanted was nearly impossible. In the end Lucas had a vision and he saw it through. Sure that vision was vhalk full of Jar Jar Binks and cringe worthy love scenes, but a vision none the less.

Another person could have taken the reigns and maybe made better movies, but the reaction still would have been that they underwhelmed. So much hype built around them that nothing was going to meet the impossible standards we as fans had set.

There's probably some truth to that. Particularly in regards to his vision, I was watching a couple of minutes of an hour-long documentary surrounding the making of Episode 1. Even in the storyboard meeting, five months prior to filming, Lucas is going through and color coding every scene that will be CGI or real, and most of the scenes involve some type of CGI. That's what he wanted, but I know personally, the exuberant amount of CGI in the prequels was one of the main reasons I griped against them.

Had he cut back on the CGI and used more older technology the response would have been much better.

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I think a 3-season TV series a la Game of Thrones would have been awesome for the prequels. Wrong time, though. The hardest thing they had to overcome was they weren't quite movie material. At least, Anakin and his 10-minute fall weren't given very good treatments.

 

(Sure, they laid some groundwork here and there, but not very much).

 

I think another thing that could have improved it greatly was if they had started with Anakin as a volatile but strong 18-year old padawan, making his first major marks as a Jedi -- instead of devoting an entire movie to the discovery of a little boy and the decision to train him. That (and a different creative team....) would have allowed for much more exploration of his inner darkness. His fall could have been consummated by the end of the 2nd film, with the 3rd devoted to the interesting question of how the Jedi dealt with all the fallout, and a lot more black-clad Vader.

 

The Anakin we saw was a bit angsty over his lack of prompt promotion, but up until near the end he was still trying to act like a model Jedi. The Jedi fall looks immediate and we get a vast chasm from there to A New Hope -- one that has apparently been filled with cartoons and video games about all these different Jedi that survived and fought dramatic battles with the Empire before Luke comes into play. That's a bit dissatisfying.

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