What's the WORST Star Wars movie?

[MGibster]

That said, I personally am a little ... whatevered ... about all the people who say that Rian Johnson, one of the best modern directors and storytellers we have, is all "visual style" and no plot. I mean ... really? Compared to ...

I'm not looking at his whole body of work, just TLJ. It's possible for good directors, actors, and writers to turn out something that isn't good.

 

[JiffyPopTart]

Heh clone wars probably should have been pt 1. We didn't need to see Vader as a kid and the execution was off anyway.

I've really come around to see the good trilogy that I feel is hidden in the prequel movies.

The base storyline should have been (and kind of was?) the gradual decline of Anakin into the dark side. This decline starts when he left his mom (a slave) at a young age to learn to be a Jedi.

The reason Anakin's decline doesn't feel right is that he was for 2.5 movies, a good guy with a single outburst of anger and an arrogant streak. Then for the last .5 he just flips for no apparent reason.

A better written and paced trilogy would have done a much better job at showing Anakin's decline through the trilogy instead of just a few moments that seemed out of character. The Anakin of most of the trilogy is a friendly companion to ObiWan trading witty barbs and having each other's back. There was no sense of decline on screen.

The overall story of the prequels trilogy is solid, it's just not translated to the screen well.

This is opposed to the sequel trilogy which had no discernable overall story.

 

[Haplo781]

I've really come around to see the good trilogy that I feel is hidden in the prequel movies.

The base storyline should have been (and kind of was?) the gradual decline of Anakin into the dark side. This decline starts when he left his mom (a slave) at a young age to learn to be a Jedi.

The reason Anakin's decline doesn't feel right is that he was for 2.5 movies, a good guy with a single outburst of anger and an arrogant streak. Then for the last .5 he just flips for no apparent reason.

A better written and paced trilogy would have done a much better job at showing Anakin's decline through the trilogy instead of just a few moments that seemed out of character. The Anakin of most of the trilogy is a friendly companion to ObiWan trading witty barbs and having each other's back. There was no sense of decline on screen.

The overall story of the prequels trilogy is solid, it's just not translated to the screen well.

This is opposed to the sequel trilogy which had no discernable overall story.

The Clone Wars show does this, and really well, if you skip the filler.

 

[JiffyPopTart]

The Clone Wars show does this, and really well, if you skip the filler.

Ive tried 3 times. I know there is gold in that pile but the top layer is SO BAD.

 

[Haplo781]

Ive tried 3 times. I know there is gold in that pile but the top layer is SO BAD.

There are lists of which episodes to watch and which ones to skip.

 

[Stalker0]

I'm not looking at his whole body of work, just TLJ. It's possible for good directors, actors, and writers to turn out something that isn't good.

Exactly. I don’t even leave it all on RJs feet. Could have the writers could have been corporate overwrites, whatever. Still doesn’t mean the end product is good

 

[MGibster]

Exactly. I don’t even leave it all on RJs feet. Could have the writers could have been corporate overwrites, whatever. Still doesn’t mean the end product is good

The only people I hold blameless are the actors. All of them did just fine with what they were given with some of them being criminally underused.

 

[Stalker0]

The reason Anakin's decline doesn't feel right is that he was for 2.5 movies, a good guy with a single outburst of anger and an arrogant streak. Then for the last .5 he just flips for no apparent reason.

If by out burst of anger you mean the slaughter of a whole group of people…sure

 

[Ryujin]

Now imagine if they had started the battle like that, only the target was the Death Star and they hadn't needed to knock out the shields first.

 

[Haplo781]

Now imagine if they had started the battle like that, only the target was the Death Star and they hadn't needed to knock out the shields first.

Wow it would have changed exactly nothing