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<blockquote data-quote="briggart" data-source="post: 9441970" data-attributes="member: 6805135">My issue with prequels is that they don't usually have a lot of maneuvering space. We often already know a lot of what happens to the characters or how main events will be resolved, so the stakes feel lower. Rogue One (definitely the best Disney SW movie) is the perfect prequel: the main characters were all brand new, leaving open lots of interesting possibility. Granted, we had known the main plot points for 40+ years, but then again it's not that in RotJ I ever felt the Empire would win in the end. It's more about the small scale stuff, rather than the broad scale narrative.&nbsp; I've been trying to convince myself to watch Furiosa for a while now, but I never get around to it. I would have watched a Furiosa sequel on premiere, but a prequel leaves me a bit cold. It would feel like nothing is really at stake there. The weird thing is that I'm perfectly fine with historical movies like JFK, Frost-Nixon, Oppenheimer,... The amount of details I already knew about those events was way more than everything we knew about Furiosa from Fury Road, and yet I gladly went to watch Oppenheimer, but Furiosa ... I'm happy to wait for it to come to Netflix, and then will see.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="briggart, post: 9441970, member: 6805135"] My issue with prequels is that they don't usually have a lot of maneuvering space. We often already know a lot of what happens to the characters or how main events will be resolved, so the stakes feel lower. Rogue One (definitely the best Disney SW movie) is the perfect prequel: the main characters were all brand new, leaving open lots of interesting possibility. Granted, we had known the main plot points for 40+ years, but then again it's not that in RotJ I ever felt the Empire would win in the end. It's more about the small scale stuff, rather than the broad scale narrative. I've been trying to convince myself to watch Furiosa for a while now, but I never get around to it. I would have watched a Furiosa sequel on premiere, but a prequel leaves me a bit cold. It would feel like nothing is really at stake there. The weird thing is that I'm perfectly fine with historical movies like JFK, Frost-Nixon, Oppenheimer,... The amount of details I already knew about those events was way more than everything we knew about Furiosa from Fury Road, and yet I gladly went to watch Oppenheimer, but Furiosa ... I'm happy to wait for it to come to Netflix, and then will see. [/QUOTE]

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