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        10 months ago

        TLJ is flawed but great and would be higher if TROS weren’t such a cowardly backtracking shitshow of a movie.

        ROTS is very nearly as hard to watch as AOTC, though it has some higher highs. I will personally never forgive it for forcing the most brain-twisting mental gymnastics ever to retcon ROTJ’s Luke-Leia “real mother” scene in the Ewok village.

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        10 months ago

        Imagine thinking 3 is worse than whatever fucking mess phantom menace was.

        Want to know why Qui Gon dies from a stab when no one else ever does? The man was fucking exhausted from carrying the entire film. Liam Neeson single-handedly elevates TPM above the other two prequels.

        7 was 4 but worse.

        You’re not wrong, but four was that good

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        10 months ago

        Everything that’s annoying about AOTC is there in spades in ROTS.

        ROTS just had few better parts.

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          10 months ago

          The immersion breaking total lack of chemistry in 2 between Anikin and Padme, which is my biggest complaint, is hidden by his anxiety in 3. Add some of the best action sequences in SW that are found in 3, and I will have to agree to disagree with you good sir.

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            10 months ago

            Are we allowed to politely disagree and move on??!! I am happy to go into my thoughts as to why ROTS can’t overcome its shortcomings, but a lot of comes down to what hit me as a kid watching the OT and how the PT was such a drastic departure. Certain of those choices were rolled back in the ST, so I’m fonder of it than most, though I’ve been holding a torch for TLJ so long…