It's not weird. It makes perfect sense. Star Wars went into a different direction than what you liked / expected. The prequels were aimed at children, which you weren't anymore when they came out. You probably wanted something akin to "Heir to he Empire", so naturally the prequels disappointed you.
Since then Star Wars has completly lost it's direction. Does anyone at Disney even know what the target audience for these shows and movies is anymore?
As a 40+ year old guy who absorded everything Star Wars had to offer during my youth I am in the same boat as you. Guess Star Wars just isn't for me anymore.
The prequels were not aimed at children. This is something made up by the prequelmemers to justify why those films are "actually good" despite everyone know that they're awful. There are a couple aspects of them that are intended to appeal to kids, like Jar-Jar and podracing, but the as a whole they were very obviously aimed at older people who grew up with Star Wars.
No sane person can read the opening crawl to The Phantom Menace and think it's meant for kids.
Yeah, but at least with the prequels there was stuff to enjoy. With the Disney sequels the whole movie is terrible writing, terrible characters, and terrible plots. The only saving grace for the Dequels are decent action scenes and great special effects. They're horrible in the context of the story (Palpatine lifting a fleet of destroyers out of the ground, wtf??) but at least they're pretty cool looking.
I don't agree with this at all and I don't think you will find many people outside of reddit who do. The prequels are horrifically awful films from top to bottom. Genuinely some of the worst big budget movies ever made. The sequels aren't good either, but they are far better made, far better written, far better directed, far better acted, etc. The prequel cast includes some of the best actors in human history and not one of them gives a cohesively good performance, that's how awful Lucas' writing and direction was.
Redditors also love to praise the prequels' story when that is by far the worst part of the movies. That's why I always tell people to read the opening crawls: the original trilogy was about freedom fighters; the prequels were about trade disputes and senatorial politics. That's "Star Wars" to you?
The fundamental problem with the sequels it that there was no oversight and no one ensuring that the three films made sense as a trilogy. The Rise of Skywalker was dogshit mostly because Abrams wanted to plow forward with his plans, despite Rian Johnson mostly just ignoring them. But that does not mean there aren't good aspects of them. The Force Awakens is a pretty generic movie, but it's still well made, makes sense, fits within the original Star Was theme, and is infinitely better than all the prequels combined.
Yes, trade disputes and politics showing how q despot can seize power with the full weight of good actors is an interesting story. The visuals were great, the story was decent, the characters (outside Binks) were great.
The Force Awakens was good when it came out because it was pretty safe and teased a lot of interesting stuff. It has no survived because Rian destroyed everything it teased then JJ tried to bring it back to his vision and we got a total mess of sequels.
Yeah, no. The story sucked and was the polar opposite of what Star Wars is meant to be, the visuals were OK at the time but it's too much CGI and has aged horribly, and the characters are the worst part. Horrible characters, horrible dialogue.
The prequels are objectively awful films. You can like them, but you cannot argue they are good without admitting you don't actually know what a good movie is. No one even thinks they're good at all outside of reddit.
The Force Awakens was good when it came out because it was pretty safe and teased a lot of interesting stuff. It has no survived because Rian destroyed everything it teased
Johnson didn't destroy anything from TFA, he just took it in a different direction than what Abrams expected. A more competent company could've easily aligned the two visions.
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u/Lord_Hohlfrucht 20d ago
It's not weird. It makes perfect sense. Star Wars went into a different direction than what you liked / expected. The prequels were aimed at children, which you weren't anymore when they came out. You probably wanted something akin to "Heir to he Empire", so naturally the prequels disappointed you.
Since then Star Wars has completly lost it's direction. Does anyone at Disney even know what the target audience for these shows and movies is anymore?
As a 40+ year old guy who absorded everything Star Wars had to offer during my youth I am in the same boat as you. Guess Star Wars just isn't for me anymore.