[AProducer'sWetDream]

I've never seen the prequel trilogy but I've watched the originals, so the flashback order intrigues me. Are the prequels really as bad as they're made out to be by some people?

[Locke.]

Originally Posted by AProducer'sWetDream

I've never seen the prequel trilogy but I've watched the originals, so the flashback order intrigues me. Are the prequels really as bad as they're made out to be by some people?

The third film is pretty good. The other 2 have their good points like Toy Soldier pointed out (the action sequences, Darth Maul, Liam Neeson, etc), but they're quite bad on the whole. Worth watching though if you liked the original trilogy.

[user104658]

Originally Posted by AProducer'sWetDream

I've never seen the prequel trilogy but I've watched the originals, so the flashback order intrigues me. Are the prequels really as bad as they're made out to be by some people?

They're enjoyable enough popcorn flicks really, perfectly watchable, the action is decent but the characters... Well... A lot of them are just straight up annoying. A major issue for me is that Anakin in the first two is just a brat. A bratty kid in the first one and a bratty teenager in the second one. He's somewhat better in the third one when he's actually going dark-side. The third film in general is much higher quality. My only serious gripes with it are, as a I said in the other post, an over-reliance on CGI more than true stunts in the final Obi Wan / Anakin showdown, and also, inexplicably, just as Anakin gets less annoying... Queen Amidala out of nowhere becomes unbearably whiney. What's that all about? She'd have turned me Sith too. That's what actually happened I think. She moaned at him so much that he was like "**** this I can't take it any more! I'm off to murder everyone."