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I thought TDKR bashing stopped after the announcement of the Batman/Superman film? Guess I'm wrong.
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... Or it'll be forgotten cause meh. Take your pick. ![]() |
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Difference is, the prequels are almost universally disliked to meh. Rises, on the other hand, is a lot more well liked. I don't point to ratings usually when it comes to quality (I really only think it's a usually good way of saying good or bad, but not putting them in order) and I do think they are heavily flawed but, looking at rating sites, you can see the difference in people's opinions overall.
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TPM: RT: 57% IMDB: 6.5/10 MC: 51% AOTC: RT: 67% IMDB: 6.7/10 MC: 53% ROTS does seem to have a lot more positive reception, however. I personally thought it was the best of the three but certainly not very good. Maybe it's just me, but the ratings for the first two just come off as a general "meh". |
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Eh, let's just not get into an argument about the prequels here. Last edited by Thoix; 08-13-2013 at 08:11 PM. |
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I only brought in RT and MC because, while I don't think they are always accurate to the exact number or which is better than what, I do think that usually it is a good reflection of good or bad. There are things I highly disagree with (for example, I don't think Avengers is that good, I think MOS is a lot better than that, etc...), of course, but they generally fairly close.
I guess it depends on who you talk to. No one I've ever talked to has ever called them anything better than 'meh'. Actually, thinking on it, one person loved them. But that person also told me that Chernobyl Diaries was the best film of 2012. |
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Joking aside, the prequels are what they are, so whatever. Hell, I have the same opinion as you do about the Avengers and Man of Steel, so it's all good. Now it is time for me to go back into the shadows until I have the sudden urge of posting in these forums again, only to lose it right after my first response. |
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![]() Thing with the prequels is, once you ignore certain annoying elements of either movie which I really think are more or less universally panned (Jar Jar Binks; the childishness of kid Anakin, and then the cheesy romance subplot in Clones; that balcony scene from III, and couple more), they're pretty much enjoyable adventure movies. Characters are kind of stoic, not the best plot development etc., but the "general audience" just looks at it and says "hey, that's pretty, hey that was funny, /like" and gives it favorable reviews. It's only really when you get into the details, discussing storytelling, and how they got the old trilogy wrong, missed opportunities, things that don't make sense, poor character arcs etc., when suddenly the faces start getting longer. It's not an invalid perspective, or more valid for that matter... just a more advanced one; you're more "into" the material and start looking at closer at the "craft of it" and comparing it to more and more alternatives that start coming up, and eventually conclude that yea, what a bunch of strange decisions isn't it. And that, given how it's Star Wars and all, seems to be the general critical crowd you'll encounter in internerd culture. IMDB/RT rating don't just reflect their views, however. Point is, away with the bitterness against the "vocal minority" - first of all it's not that much of a minority when it comes to those panned elements, and secondly they have their good reasons ![]() Event Horizon has a vocal minority that makes it seem like a classic horror movie despite being incomprehensible panned everywhere major, and no one's complaining about that or are they? ![]() |
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Raimi's Spider-Man movies went under heavy fire when the reboot was announced.
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But, unusually, I agree with most of your post in this case. |
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Apparently some people really enjoy debating the minutia of this movie, as in, having circular arguments about the same topics over and over. I don't really understand the appeal of that at all and don't see much of a point. But you know, different strokes I guess.
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That's because he basicly gave the middle finger to fans with his third instalment, Nolan didn't. Whatever you think about TDKR it was not the Batman equvalent to Spider-Man 3.
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TDKR is the new Internet whipping boy.
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![]() Plus, McGregor and Neeson are quite fine I think, and there are several colorful supporting characters along the way. They're not the complete trainwrecks of blandness some people make them out to be imo. |
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Besides Jar Jar's overtly slapstick moments and Jake Lloyds annoying moments, The Phantom Menace is a good film.
Attack of the Clones is another matter. The main story is a love story which Lucas admits he couldn't write, but the beginning of Anakin's descent was handled well (slaughtering the Tusken Raiders). Revenge of the Sith was good in general. The opening half hour captured some of the greatness of the original. It's a very, very vocal minority that try to make out the prequels are the worst thing to ever happen to cinema. It's just the prequels were telling a very different story to the originals. Rather than a story of violent revolution, it was legitimate authority becoming dictatorship, and people didn't like that. |
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Um nah... let's not get carried away there lol.
No, if you really look at them, the way they fail at storytelling and characters in all the ways the originals succeeded with bravura, is quite undeniable. And the fans don't like it for that reason, and not because it's "democracy --> empire", or because it's "more political", or because it's "not as black and white". They're "good" only in the sense of being creative and enjoyable if you don't think too much about it / just settle for more of a spectacle than an actually compelling story. "Vocal minority"? Maybe, but then only due to being a "thinking minority" ![]() |
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Always thought the reaction was "Tobey Maguire 4life <3"
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This turned into a Stars Wars Thread? Did that really just happen?
Well, I am speechless.
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I apologize for adding to that.
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One thing i noticed about the movie is that it requires a lot of attention. A lot of the questions people raise about the movie can be answered with a little of attention. The same goes for the millions of the so called "plot holes".
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I doubt that's Anno, as Anno was a pretty big fan of The Avengers.
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That was my thought as well, but then "Kazuki" had a little different style that threw me off and look what happened there. Kazuki and Kimura both use the same, weird apostrophe too.
I do know that, "Rah, Rah, Bale is the best", "TDKR is the greatest", "your opinion, NEXT", and "meh Iron Man 3" are all Annoisms that I've seen before. Plus the fact that all these new July/August (and I'm sure September) that post in the same three sections never formally greet themselves with an opening end up being banned. If it is him, I wonder why he just doesn't give it up and move on. Last edited by milost; 09-01-2013 at 12:14 PM. |
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