(December 6, 2015 at 8:06 pm)Aractus Wrote: Well there's no "right" or "wrong" when it comes to entertainment. I remember Episode II was really entertaining in the cinema, sure it may not be the best movie ever, but as far as entertainment value in the cinema at midnight on 16 May 2002 it nailed it. I found Episode III much less entertaining, but others really liked it.
The biggest problem with the "prequels" is they're just not designed well for younger audiences. As I mentioned, Episode III isn't really suitable for 8-9 year-olds and younger, and Episodes I and II are far too complicated for kids to follow. I was in High School when Episode I came out, and I didn't see it right away, but the kids that had seen it were really confused with the plot. Most of them thought that Natalie Portman's character was a double-decoy (partly because we never got to know the character of her actual decoy I suppose, and also because she doesn't even let her Jedi protectors know who she is), they didn't understand why Naboo was under attack by the trade federation, or how a Queen can be "elected" (or why a 14-year old would be elected Queen), or what the Jedi actually do. It's interesting the Galactic Republic is a democracy, but the Jedi movement is not in anyway democratic. And why is the Jedi patriarchal, when women serve equally in other areas of power? Unless you know there are women on the Jedi council, it's impossible to spot them - especially for kids - they just sit quietly and contribute nothing and let the men do all the talking, and there are no female Jedi Knights that play a significant role in the series (they're there but they just fight in battles, and cook in the kitchen).
Episold 2 is entertaining only because I laughed at the movie, not with the movie.
Who could but fail to laugh at the scene where the little green hand puppet with a stubby little light saber bounces around the walls and floor of a hanger like a demented gerbil as the movie somehow manage to reduce even a respectable real live actor like Christopher Lee to such drivel as "clearly this contest can not be settle by our knowledge of the the force, but our skills with the light saber!"
