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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Guest&nbsp; 85555" data-source="post: 9644043">It is interesting how this is for different generations I do agree he is a very good visual storyteller. My feelings about the original trilogy are all bound up in the way they use images and music. I remember an interview where Lucas says the star wars films are done like Silent movies and I can totally see that. For me the prequels have some very great moments and had a lot of potential. Something about them just wasn't firing on all cylinders for me This stuff again I think is what makes star wars work. When star wars tries to get specific, that is when it feels like it runs into more problems. But overall I am there for the universal, operatic stuff. The Qui-Gon death scene was fine. That wasn't really a problem for me in the movie. This stuff was totally cool too. My biggest issue though with Revenge of the Sith was the emotional weight just didn't land the way the emotional weight of his redemption in Return. Part of it is I think they miscast Christensen or misused him, but the other part is I think the story got kind of off trying have it be about preventing Padme's death. If they had made it more focused on Anakin's anger and his sense that the Jedi feared him and cut him out, that would have worked better for me. Also the seen where he takes Palpatine as his master, for me, just was undewhelming. But I get that this movie might have played totally differently for a younger generation. One thought I have had, and I think a lot of younger people might not realize this, is from Return of the Jedi on, my generation had been hearing rumors of another sequel coming and that it might be about Anakin. So we had all this time to develop not just a head cannon about it, but our own mythology that began as conversations on the playground. So by the time the prequels came out, that was like 16 years of anticipation.All this stuff I had zero problem with. Trying to mirror things was fine. There were just places where the movies kind of sagged for me and where the emotional payoff or performances didn't land Here I will agree. Even with the prequels, he is a master at taking all of his influences and making them into something completely new (but where you can still make out the contours of what he is drawing from in a way that adds to the experience and doesn't take away from it: you know what genre he is drawing from instantly and he uses it to communicate to the audience).</blockquote>

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