How to Watch Star Wars, Part One: The Prequels Are Better Movies Than You Deserve 

In that scene Palpetine's personal guards wore similarly styled robes - ableit black - and similar shaped helmets to the Emperor's Imperial Guards in Return of the Jedi.

I KNOW right?! I never noticed that!

If anything, shouldn't John Williams get the credit for this? I really doubt George told him to do this specifically, but you never know.

That also blew my mind I tried to tell my wife who was as excited as I was 😂

@joshuamunn2410 What a stupid thing to be upset about. I'll insinuate whatever I feel like, you'll be fine. So will George.

Thank you, glad you liked it!

Adam Wasiura Alright, please enlighten me on why I’m not a prequel fan, even though the prequels are my favorite trilogy of the Saga, ROTS, is my favorite Star Wars film, and I stated outright that I like the prequels. Also if you’re going to call the prequels “dumb action movies”, please backup you’re claim. As there is an entire sect of the fandom that thinks otherwise and finds these movies are fantastic. And the movies ARE good. Whether you find them enjoyable or not is your opinion. But I would love to hear it. It helps my knowledge of the fan base grow.

Adam Wasiura Wow, this will be interesting. That first statement is false. Nobody’s brainwashing anybody here. Nobody gets to tell me what I can and can’t enjoy. That’s why we have brains, so we can think for ourselves. I love the prequels. Are they flawless? No. Are they bad movies. No. Are they good movies with flaws? Yes. Just like the Original Trilogy. Secondly, I’m not going to “get out of the internet.” Because I have just as much right to it as you do. Thirdly, there’s plenty of things to enjoy in the prequels. For the “1 inch brains” as you call it, there’s lots of action. Well choreographed lightsaber duels, pod racing, and plenty of battles. For people with normal sized brains, there’s the tragedy of Anakin Skywalker, the romance between him and Padme. The relationship between Obi-Wan and his Padawan. The devious schemes of Palpatine. Not to mention the incredible acting of Liam Nesson, Ahmed Best, Jake Lloyd, Ewan McGregor, Natalie Portman, Hayden Christensen, Sir Christopher Lee, Ian Mcdiarmid, Temura Morrison, Samuel L. Jackson, Frank Oz, and many more. Not to mention the Prequel Trilogy use more practical effects than the originals. Especially Episode 1: The Phantom Menace. That’s an irrefutable fact and you can look it up. And this video you linked, so what? Of course Marcia Lucas is one of the biggest factors in the success of the Originals. Nobody denies that. She has incredible talent and was invaluable to production. Lastly, I don’t need you to tell me what I can and cannot like. I’m an adult and I have no clue who the hell you are. I could honestly care less about whether you like them or not. But if you’re going to try and push that the prequels are “objectively bad” then you better actually put in the time and effort to back up your claims otherwise your credibility is going to fly right out the window. Because, like it or not, the prequels are OBJECTIVELY an integral part of STAR WARS and OBJECTIVELY MAKE SENSE, and are GOOD. Whether you can enjoy them or not is up to the individual. And before trying to bash Mr. Lucas, you’d better get on your hands and knees and praise him for giving you your “perfect” Original Trilogy in the first place. George Lucas CREATED STAR WARS. STAR WARS is what it is because of George’s singular vision. It’s HIS story. Now if you want to have an actual intellectual debate, and bring forth some real, ORIGINAL arguments that don’t consist of letting other videos do the talking for you then be my guest. I’ll have a response for every single point you make. Who knows, we may even agree on something. But please, try your best to be intelligent and civil, because your not the ultimate authority on Star Wars. George Lucas is. And he doesn’t give a shit whether you like his films or not. So unless you want to actually add something worthwhile to the debate, go back to sucking on your pacifier that is “opinions”. -VortexFlash

@Adam Wasiura He's the nerd, when you've went out and vomited on every single thread? Please, give us your filmography. I think one thing is clear from this doc; a lot of these RU-vid critics who have tried to tear down the prequels just don't know very much about filmmaking.

Adam Wasiura okay so replaying to your comment after my last one: yes I’m a Star Wars nerd. I’m not a filmmaking expert but sure as hell am a Star Wars lore expert. And making an essay in the comments sections is a sign of effort, something you clearly lack. I’m tempted to let you flounder since you are most likely a troll, but I’m having fun. You say Lucas has ideas but he can’t EXECUTE them. But he did. The prequel trilogy’s existence is evidence that he DID execute his ideas. He completed his mission. That’s an objective fact. Whether or not you like or agree with how he did it is your opinion. But it still doesn’t change that George did what he wanted and had every right to as the CREATOR OF STAR WARS. Now this is where I started laughing. Your “credible source” is Cosmonaut Variety Hour’s prequel review? You’re joking right? There’s no way you’re not a troll. I just don’t think you could possibly be that stupid. But then again you’ve been acting like a sheep. Just following the herd. If you’re going to keep using videos to backup your arguments, then oh buddy I got a treat for you. Allow me to introduce you to a series Called “Revenge of the Prequels” by a wonderful Channel called Anomaly Inc. Cosmonaut is just the latest target on his list of Boba Fett pajama wearing ass-clowns, such as yourself. While Cosmonaut went ahead and made an hour long video made entirely of opinions and baseless claims, Anomaly made a 5 VIDEO RESPONSE SERIES part of “Revenge of the Prequels” called “Dissecting a Dumbass” which is what I’ve been doing to you all day, and is what he does to Cosmonaut for almost five hours. That’s effort, quality, and intelligence. So far your sources have been completely useless and unreliable, and not to mention biased. You claim the prequels are objectively horrible yet don’t show any evidence. What’s even funnier is the creator of your source video, Marcus, has gone on record stating that all art is Subjective, and can’t be objectively judged. Which #1, invalidates your argument, and #2, is utter bullshit. Not to mention Cosmonaut is NOT an expert on filmmaking, whatever he says. I would consider film school graduates “reasonable experts” on filmmaking. However, true experts of filmmaking include people like Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, Tarantino, Cameron, Francis Ford Coppola, Nolan, Peter Jackson (my personal favorite), and George Lucas himself, which are responsible for being the leaders and driving minds behind some of the most successful and widely acclaimed and impactful films of all time. So next time you want to cite a reputable source that criticizes George’s editing choices or filmmaking decisions, use someone with actual film experience and some serious notches on their belt. Nice try buddy. We can play this troll game of yours all day. I’m quite enjoying your pitiful attempts at “attacking” the prequels. But so far you haven’t done anything to legitimize yourself. And here is a link to Anomaly’s response video. Hope you enjoy it and find it enlightening. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-H25-iklgQLs.html

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It's a video essay, not a documentary.

Hello, this is George. May the force be with you.

It’s a good video essay, but the prequels still sucked.

@@RC-qf3mp So, did you watch the entire essay, AND THEN rewatch the prequels with your new knowledge? If you didn’t rewatch the prequels after seeing this, your opinion (in this conversation) is meaningless. The entire point of the essay is to prompt us to reappraise the prequels, but if you’re going off pure memory of past viewing, you haven’t actually reappraised anything.

Thank you! That's really kind of you to say!

Is it?

@@Dragonage2ftw Is it what?

@@darkthorpocomicknight7891 Rick never claimed to be "deep" he just likes old movies, analysed these movies endlessly and dedicated a lot of effort into making this video as good as it could be.

@Adam Wasiura See what I mean? You're foaming at the mouth. You just can't help yourself. And we're supposed to take *_your_* word for it? Oh, please... 🙄

Nonsense. Just because the prequels were inspired by mythological archetypes and other motifs doesn't make them good. They are terribly written and lack any understanding of the language of cinema.

@@edwardelric603 Can you elaborate on 'terribly written' ?. I see people state this many times : unsubstantiated. ;)

@@edwardelric603 By the way, it's the way in which the motifs are used. JJ Abrams can reference the entire plot of ANH but is unable to allow for deeper themes or parallels to study :/

@@onemoreminute0543 Unsubstantiated? Are you kidding me? Having you been listening for the past 20 years? Ever heard of cognitive dissonance? Ok. Here I go… Anakin is the biggest idiot in the galaxy, easily duped by Palpatine. Palpatine initially told Anakin “I HAVE THE POWER to save the ones you love” ‘Learn to know the dark side of the force and YOU WILL be able to save your wife from certain death…use MY KNOWLEDGE I beg you.” Then after Anakin kills Mace, all of a sudden Palpatine says, “To cheat death is the power ONLY ONE has achieved but I’m sure IF we work together we can discover the secret.” Anakin should have said “I thought YOU HAD THE KNOWLEDGE to save people from death!! What do you mean only one has achieved this power and IF we work together we can discover the secret?!! You lied to me!” Instead stupid Anakin just goes along with it and murders children in a span of 20 minutes, which totally ruins his redemption for me in Return of The Jedi, if I were to watch Revenge of the Sith before it, which I never will. Furthermore, Palpatine insisting the Jedi are traitors and are trying to take over and Anakin believing this and that they are evil, from his point of View, is so stupid. Palpatine ADMITTED HE WAS A SITH LORD! The Jedi’s suspicions are valid! Anakin’s turn makes no sense and was written terribly. In addition, he wants to save Padme but stupid Anakin can’t even realize that Padme would never condone him killing children to save her. Plus, when Obi Wan tell her that he killed children, she says, “He wouldn’t” knowing that he killed the tusken children in Attack of the Clones. Her reaction makes no sense. I hate Revenge of the Sith. It’s the worse Star Wars movie because it ruined Anakin and is written like a 7 year kid wrote it playing with action figures. On top of all that, the continuity error with Padme dying at child birth ruins Leía remembering her mother in Return of the Jedi. And don’t give me that she is using the force to remember her rubbish! Speaking of continuity issues, here are a lot more: R2-D2 knows Yoda and doesn’t tell Luke R2-D2 knows Luke’s father and doesn’t tell Luke R2-D2 knows Luke and Leia’s mother and doesn’t tell them R2-D2 knows Obi Wan left Luke’s father for dead and doesn’t tell him. In Empire Strikes Back Obi Wan says Yoda trained him but in the prequel it was Qui Gong. And don’t even try to tell me that Yoda trained everyone because of that awful scene with Yoda training a group of children in Attack of the Clones. Obi Wan said “THE Jedi master who instructed me” in Empire Strikes Back, not “A Jedi master who instructed me.” This was a retcon/continuity error Lucas didn’t care about. In the Return of the Jedi Obi wan says when he first met Anakin he was “Amazed at how strong the force was with him” and that “he took it upon himself to train him and thought he could train him just as good as Yoda.” This isn’t what happened in the prequels. Obi Wan trained him because it was his master’s dying wish, it had nothing to do with being as good as Yoda. And Obi Wan was not amazed with Anakin. He called him a pathetic life form and thought the boy was too dangerous to train. C-3PO spend a long time with Uncle Owen and Owen fails to recognize him in A New Hope. And don’t give me that “there are many protocol droids in the galaxy”nonsense. He kept the name C-3PO throughout all the movies and acts exactly the same; it’s a continuity error If Qui Gong taught Yoda and Obi Wan to be a force Ghost, how did Anakin learn this? Continuity error. Obi Wan doesn’t remember R2-D2 or C-3PO. And don’t bother with the “he’s pretending in order to fool Luke, so he can go on his journey.” Obi Wan acknowledging R2-D2 and C-3PO from his past has no relevance on whether Luke would go on the journey or not: Knowing that his father is Vader does. This is a continuity error. I rest my case about serious mental gymnastics being required to try to stitch these contradictory elements together. These kinds of continuity errors and retcons suck and are lame. They are obviously not at all what anyone had in mind when the earlier stories were made, and frankly they insult the intelligence of the viewer by expecting us to believe they actually make any kind of sense. Now as far as terrible writing; Anakin admits to Padme that he killed tusken women and children, then Padme, a huge philanthropist and Senator, literally has no reaction other than, “You were mad and you’re just human.” LOL. What a joke. The Jedi blindly use a clone army that was secretly ordered by Syfo Dyas, possibly Tyranus, and rather than deliberating if this is a set up and investigate how this army was paid for they just blindly use the army just to rescue 2 Jedi and 1 senator. The Jedi are so stupid they never question on who actually made this order and how it was paid for. Yoda is so stupid that he can’t conclude that Dooku erased Kamino from the Jedi database, despite Yoda himself saying that only a Jedi can erase those files. Dooku is an ex-Jedi, who is leader of the separatist who are causing trouble for the republic and Padme, who is being targeted for assassination, specifically said she thinks he’s behind it! This script makes Yoda look like a moron. Also the Jedi send Anakin to protect Padme despite him explicitly expressing to Obi Wan that he has feelings for her. Stupid Jedi! Now here is the number one thing that gets my blood boiling and why I HATE the prequels with all my heart: This is a galaxy where the Jedi, who are asexual, unemotional monks, take infants from their parents and forbid them from seeing their families ever again and forbid them from ever getting married and discourage having sexual relationships or having emotions for their entire lives. They make these force sensitive children consent to this bizzare and outright twisted life choice when they are infants! There is no way you can ever get me to believe that any sentient being would ever give their children away to some asexual emotionless weirdo monks and agree to never see them again. This idea is so stupid, it is literally the dumbest thing I have ever seen in story telling. Nothing has topped this George Lucas idea in regards to the magnitude of stupidity that it is. With this dumb idea, why would anyone in their right mind want to ever be a Jedi?! I won’t even get into the Padme and Anakin romance, Jar Jar or the awful droid humor. They speak for themselves. George Lucas is a hack and a con man. He made 3 classic movies (THX, American Graffiti, and Star Wars )and produced some good ones in the 80’s but ever since the special editions he has stopped caring about making good cinema and just churned out stupid commercialized nonsensical cartoons. He parades around like he is a genius and his fans scarf it all up but what made his original trilogy and original Indiana jones movies so good was that he collaborated with other people. Cinema is a collaborative art. Lucas was no longer a film maker when he made the prequels, he was a CEO of a corporation and it shows. I almost admire his con job in a Machiavellian sort of way because he has fooled so many. I was fooled once but no longer. For me, the Return of the Jedi novelization account of what happened is my back story for Vader: Because of Obi Wan’s hubris and Palpatinés seduction Anakin went dark, He was unaware that his wife was pregnant, the Jedi hid his children from him, Obi Wan tried to disuade Anakin from Palpatinés influence but failed, threw him in a molten pit, and Luke and Leia’s mom died when they were 4 years old. I wish I could erase these films from existence like a Thanos snap!

@@edwardelric603 Tldr ? ;)

It's still a powerful moment chronologically. I knew the twist beforehand and watched Star Wars for the first time chronologically. It was still impactful as you see Luke's view of the world and his destiny crumble around him. Plus, saying that Empire is only good for the twist is like saying Sixth Sense is a bad film if you know the twist. There are other qualities to the film that give it the reputation it deserves

@@onemoreminute0543 Exactly. I’ve seen all the Star Wars movies more times than I can count and Empire is still my favorite. Still get something new out of it every time I watch it

@@jasonshaneyfelt1039 For me, Empire and Sith are neck and neck for the title of GOAT Star Wars film. It's honestly quite hard for me to pick which one I think is better than the other. In a sense, I feel that Empire has fewer flaws but Sith has greater strengths

@@onemoreminute0543 I understand that completely. Sith used to be my #3 (after a New Hope), but very recently I've found that it's crept its way into the #2 spot. Who knows? Maybe in a few years it will be #1 lol My ranking (Lucas' films only) right now would have to be 1. Empire Strikes Back 2. Revenge of the Sith 3. A New Hope 4. Return of the Jedi (very similar to Revenge of the Sith in that it has more flaws, but also incredible strengths) 5. The Phantom Menace 6. Attack of the Clones I love all six a ton, though! Don't think me putting Attack of the Clones last means that I don't like it. Not the case at all. It's just that one of them had to be last.

@@jasonshaneyfelt1039 I'd have to rank it (at this moment in time) 6)AOTC 5)TPM 4)ANH 3)ROTJ 2)TESB 1)ROTS

@Adam Wasiura very deep and well thought out take

@Adam Wasiura Lemmy guess cgi Dialogue and racism bla bla bla.

@Adam Wasiura Yeah Shut the hell up about "racist stereo types" Your seeing ghosts. as to the dialogue well thats just realistic and the cgi was definately great then and still looks awesome now.

@Adam Wasiura as someone who doesnt have a dad and also gets f*cked over bye decisions made bye other people who think they know better than you whats good for you i can confirm his constant state off confliction is accurate.

@Adam Wasiura yeah auto correction sucks. anyways you have lost the argument becouse you critizize my spelling so il just go my own way now.

i couldn't agree more

Lucas has said many times... I think I even have a clip of one time in this video... that Darth Vader is meant to be a pathetic character. He's a messed up guy hooked up to life support, and it's mostly his own fault he got that way. Many fans never got past the fact that the suit looked cool to think about what was inside it, so when the prequels made them think about it, they got upset. If Lucas DIDN'T say that Vader was messed up and it was tragic that he was in that suit, he would be saying that evil is cool, which obviously was not his intention. Anakin had all the potential in the world, and he threw it away... for some sympathetic reasons, and in the prequels you see why, but the point was to show that his choices were sometimes understandable, but wrong. Fans just wanted a badass slicing up people with a lightsaber like they got in Rogue One. That's an adolescent first reaction, that being a powerful badass is a great goal, and Lucas had a message designed for adolescents in the movies to show why that's not a good thing to be, but many adult fans haven't advanced far enough to understand it.

Man your stuff on vader is spot on i agree. People just couldn't accept the truth of what darth vader is. Vader is just a scared weak minded slave boy. OT fans just couldn't accept the truth george was giving to them about vader. That why i love what lucas did he made vader way more human.

Very well said!

@@rickworley9081 I say he's both. Vader is intimidating. He is a badass. He has become a boogieman for the Empire and the Rebels fear him for a reason. And yet he's pathetic in spite of all that. He's a crippled man that squandered everything he had and everything he was and he spends each day of his life in hatred and self-loathing. He has no hope, no future, nothing to aspire to. All he has is the hellish life he created for himself. All of his fearsome fighting skills and power are for naught, because they give him nothing. He has nothing. Not even a will of his own - he's the Emperor's enforcer, his right hand man, his hitman. His slave. As one reporter put it in an interview with George, he's not Satan, he's the guy Satan sends to get his cigarettes. He has nobody to blame for it but himself and he knows it. And he spent a half of his life consumed by this, living purely on autopilot because he has nowhere else to go to. He can't just stop because he has no one to turn to. He believes that it's too late for him, that nobody else will ever accept him. And up until Episode VI, he's right. Anyone wanting to be Darth Vader is laughable because Darth Vader himself doesn't want to be Darth Vader. As for his portrayal in the prequels, I think people just kind of forget just how much a person can change over the course of few years.

Rick Worley You generalize some fan’s legitimate criticisms. It’s not necessary to see Vader slicing up enemies ALL the time. It was nice to see ONCE why he is so feared and the true scope of his mastery of the force. As far as critiques on bad delivery or clunky dialog being purposeful, look at Ewen Mcgregor’s or Portman’s delivery, or anyone else’s for that matter. Same dialog, just more talented and seasoned actors at work. Jake Lloyd and Christensen just needed more coaching. Qualified actors have stated George’s directing style is sometimes lacking, where he’ll say to do another take and he’ll just say “Do it again, but better this time”. The man’s a genius but many ppl need a little more direction to know where to go or get into the mindset of the character. That said, I love the prequels.

That's something I'm going to talk about in my upcoming videos, that the whole CGI vs. practical debate with these movies is completely false. The truth is that TPM actually had more practical models than the entire original trilogy combined, and all three prequels had big location shoots and dozens of gigantic sets. It's particularly galling how Disney plays into this stuff to try to win over prequel haters by going on about all the practical effects in the ST, when the truth is that TFA actually has more effects shots than TPM. Lucas was so far ahead of the game that, 20 years later, armchair critics complaining about this stuff in the prequels still don't understand what they're looking at.

George Lucas founded Pixar.

@@darkthorpocomicknight7891 Because many of George Lucas haters claim that he is a bad person, not just bad director.

One thing that really pissed me off about the production of The Force Awakens and that was the choice to use film instead of digital cameras. Now my dad is not a Star Wars fan, but something he always commended the movies for was how they advanced cinematography and VFX. I remember when seeing Attack of the Clones we saw it with a digital projector. There was even an intermission during the movie to point out the technology. I vividly remember after walking out the theater my dad commending how clean the movie looked. Digital cameras are just so much more practical. One huge benefit was they could review a scene almost immediately after shooting and make a judgement, instead of developing it later and hoping you got the shots you wanted. Star Wars was always about pushing the technological bar to improve and revolutionize cinema and here we had a director taking this franchise and looking backwards. Looking to do what was done before, what was safe and proven.

I first had the VHS tapes for the Star Wars Special Editions, and even at 5 years old, I remember being at my baby sitter's house, she would let me watch the tapes in the bedroom and I never skipped the featurettes before the movie. I was always impressed with the details behind making a movie, it carried into adulthood. I am bummed I never had a friend to share a love of documentaries with, I was always told "how can you watch a 3 hour documentary?" I never had anything ill to say about George, I'm one of the millions of kids, who had sparked synapses from his movies.

@@Floki-D. and what is your definition of 'art' if you don't mind me asking?

@@Floki-D. except Lucas' messages are NOT exactly 'hidden'. They've always been there in plain sight, it's just up to the audience to notice them. And for that you will need to understand Lucas better, know some Shakespeare, and be a bit (or a lot!) more cinema literate. When Lucas explained that 'Star Wars' (the Original Trilogy) was structured according to Joseph Campbell's monomyth, how many of the audience do you think had read Campbell? Have you? I haven't either, I've looked it up to get the gist, and that helped me see the ideas Lucas was using in Luke's 'hero's journey'. I understood better what 'Star Wars' represents and appreciated the art all the more for it. There are often deeper meanings and levels to art. So to fully appreciate art, you firstly need to know what it represents. This video takes us through that, if you paid attention you'll hear Lucas himself explaining his intentions and influences for the artistic choices in his films. Rick is helping us see the references Lucas draws on by presenting the relevant film clips alongside Lucas' commentary. I presume you watched the whole video right? So what 'hidden messages' are you talking about?

@@Floki-D. what did Lucas say afterwards 'just to sell the movie'? I don't understand what you think Lucas had to 'make up' afterwards? Whatever is 'in the movie' is in already 'in the movie'. He couldn't have put it there afterwards. Like I said, nothing is 'hidden', you just need to be able to notice it.

@@Floki-D. do yourself a favour and listen to this detailed video essay on why the Prequels are now more popular than ever: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-RfMDCFf0wEM.html

@@Floki-D. sorry what's your point? And do you know many people who aren't on the Internet? That essay was about how Lucas developed the Star Wars world and created something to parallel Tolkien or Frank Herbert's Dune. It explained how Lucas changed, and moved up several gears when writing the Prequels. The world's he created were considerably more detailed and fleshed out. As were it's characters. Lucas was seeking the approval of the serious Science Fiction writers. The same ones that derided the OT as derivative banality. That's why he made the Prequels story far richer and a far more complex one. And we're now in an age where audiences are far more receptive to that.

What an a**hole

The worst geek stereotype one can offer.

That was fucking infuriating to watch

Timestamps?

True.

To be fair, Rian Johnson makes a lot of references to Kurosawa in his movie, among other things. But he really just puts them in as... references. And the execution of these ideas is still lacking.

I agree, there’s way too much focus on plot in Rian’s film compared to Lucas’s trilogy. I mean, having different writers and directors each time is against the entire personal vision of the saga.

Adam Wasiura you mispelled JJ Abrams

@Adam Wasiura 😕 Just exactly how is Lucas the biggest fraud in Hollywood? I wait, I need a good laugh from an idiot like you.

@Adam Wasiura You didn't watch this How to Watch Star Wars video, did you? People cherrypick the silly things George has said over his 40+ years in the film world to make him look like an idiot without ever trying to understand what he was going for. Every film is "saved in the edit" and FUCK Disney, they're a hyper-commercialized monopoly feeding people slop while manipulating their nostalgia for years.

Thank you!

George would be nothing without Marcia Lucas and Gary Kurtz. He is the Bob Kane to their Bill Finger.

@@davidanderson4748 What are you talking about? Marcia Lucas was only on the editing side of production of A New Hope from August 1976 until Thanksgiving 1976. George meanwhile was in the editing room the entire time and had final say in all the decisions. She suggested some good ideas but like with editing George could say no. Like his telling no to Brian de Palma when he suggested George cut mention of the Force. Gary Kurtz also I'm sure contributed but he isn't the one who wrote the script. He also let Empire go over budget. This forced George to go back to the bank and Howard Kazanjian to take over as uncredited producer on Empire when Gary Kurtz left.

@@zoetropeguardian He only believes in the *secret history of Star Wars* conspiracy nonsense. Basically some odd SW fans feel "betrayed" by whatever GL did after 1980 / 1983 and they do anything, no matter how petty, to discredit the creator from his creation. Meanwhile, when you watch / read interviews with GL, he is clearly a humble person with a self-deprecating sense of humor who has no problem admitting to personal faults and is always praising others for their input and always talks about the influx of creativity in the collaborative team-effort that is filmmaking.

@@StarmanSkywalker Well said. It's funny as if they actually did their research they'd see how honest George is about the developmental phase. Here's a quote from him that shatters the narrative they like to have that he made things up as he went along and had nothing planned. "Back when I was writing Star Wars in 1974. I didn't really flesh out the storyline of the first three episodes. I had a rough of idea of what happened and who the major characters were, but I didn't include a scene-by-scene scenario of what happened in my treatment. That is what made writing the script in 1995 and 1996 more difficult because I had to go back to my sparse treatment of the prequel and greatly flesh it out. Some old ideas that really didn't work anymore were thrown out. And I added a great deal of ideas that have developed in my mind over the years to the script. Over the past 15 years since the release of Jedi, I have been jotting down neat ideas I've come up with in one of my spiral notebooks. I took all the new ideas and the old ones from my original treatment and came up with a character-driven adventure."

@@StarmanSkywalker If he were also such a terrible person he wouldn't be restoring films, starting an art's literacy museum, devoting time to his educational foundation he's had since the 90's, starting a school at NYU in recognition of Marty Scorsese, philanthropy, and countless other things like this. He continues to do good for society. I wish we could say the same with the individuals he trusted to continue his life's work.

Not to antagonize you here but i saw you in the comment section of net alliance's star wars movies ranked video. You commented that you dislike the prequels but now here you compliment the prequels and george lucas. Why? I'm just asking.

@@CC-Cody-di2uq He never said he disliked the prequels. He said he dismissed them. That's not an indication of what he thinks about their quality and he also said that he's always acknowledged that they're underrated.

@@tomnorton4277 I don't think he was talking to you.

@@mitchellwilliam95 I know. That doesn't mean I can't speak up for another commenter though.

I bet a small minority of Star Wars fans saw themselves as behind George Lucas's back as he was writing the Star Wars prequels saying don't do this don't do that don't do this meanwhile George Lucas is like this screw off let me work. What those fans don't understand is that it was George Lucas's stuff he could do what he wanted with it

The Prequels are like a Stanley Kubrick film that's stretched over three movies. The Shining was ridiculed when it came out and A Clockwork Orange resulted in people sending death threats to Kubrick and his family. Now they're seen as two of the greatest movies of all time. The Prequels will be the same. I think they're actually better than the good but overrated Original Trilogy.

Please don't compare Kubrick to this Lucas twat, that's obscene.

@@lucasoheyze4597 Why ever not? A films reputation is not stuck in time. The comparison was not between the quality of Kubrick and Lucas , but instead between how their works have a garnered a more positive reception over time. :)

Thanks! Obviously, Stuckmann doesn't understand anything about editing or screen geography, so he'd usually never notice something like that. He just bitched about it in TPM because he was looking for things to complain about, because that's what some people do with the prequels.

@@rickworley9081 He's also a member of the Broadcast Film Critics Association?! My God, the state of film criticism is atrocious indeed.

@@KateBond642 You mean Stuckmann? Yeah, sorry state of affairs, isn't it? Remember when film critics used to know something about movies?

@@rickworley9081 Yeah, it's unbelievable. He's not even a journalist (at least). Btw, I'm so glad you're making these videos! I stumbled upon your blog a few years ago, when I was looking for positive reviews of the prequel films. That was the first time I watched Star Wars in full, and I had absolutely no idea what it was actually all about before that. I was blown away by all the six films, and I'm happy I'm in good company. Thank you for making these. And I love your writing on Woody Allen too - great analysis of his themes.

Katherine Tawlu Thanks! I’m working on videos about Woody Allen and others, too. This wasn’t meant to be just a Star Wars channel, I’m just doing those first.

its so crazy to me that this was actually uploaded in 2019, because i only found it last year and im still blown away

I hope so too but he's not Hollywood. He made Star Wars independent of it. Only A New Hope was made inside the system.

yet there are still people who seem to hate the guy for reasons that make no sense yet love the awful writing of the tv shows. Star Wars never was meant to be a MCU type project.

I would consider the prequels as soulless too. Everything thanks to the overuse of CGI looks to clean and fake. Even the things that where full models achieve this sterile computer look too, thanks to that. And not even to mention the things that contradicts to the original but where explained by off sources because the movie where not able to do it

@@ichmich9324 I'd argue the prequels almost have more soul than the originals. You are conflating technological limits with a deficit in soulfulness, by your logic, the mere fact that the sequels came out almost 2 decades where computer graphics had advanced leaps and bounds gives them more soul. That is similar to people complaining that old movies look bad, which is why they won't watch them. You don't know what people mean when they claim a work of art has or lacks soul.

@@ArgentWolf95 You have no idea how many times my friends have tried to get me to watch the tv shows. Whenever I give in, we get one episode in and I have to call it quits. They are horrible money grabs that just leech off of and defile the first 6 movies. There is a reason they haven't attempted any serious show based on the sequels, because there is nothing there for them to leech off of, because the sequels themselves did the exact same.

@@macicoinc9363 that's why I use the term overuse and the sterile computer look and funny enough the things that actually still look good are the ones they also excessively used models in the prequels. Or just make the comparison in the Original trilogy with the old version and the version that will now forever stick (not everything became worse sure the new filters are great and the lightsaber effects, but CGI the puppets and put scene in it back that where not in the Movie theater version had a reason.) ...... But not everything and Alot was CGI a whole set. Technology is a tool and thanks the sequels I finally have a marker how dumb something can be that most star wars fans reject it...... Or when in some years the people that grew up with it come and say "it was not that bad!" which make the hypothesis of child indoctrination as more important

In an ironic way, Lucas selling to Disney probably redeemed the Prequels for many fans. They saw the Sequel Trilogy had no story, no arc, just rehashed ideas of redeeming Ben Solo, The First Order, The Resistance and The Emperor. It showed that the Prequel Trilogy had a real story, a real arc and a real reason to be called 1,2,3. 7,8,9 were just 3 movies made on the fly with no objective. Maybe Lucas was The Phantom Menace selling time Disney and seeing how the fanbase would turn on them? Lol

Please give evidence Rian Johnson or Gareth Edwards are greedy hacks. Are you saying Ron Howard is a greedy hack? Its funny to me that EVERYTHING Rick says about how the prequels are lied about and misconstrued applies as much to the Disney films.

@@examiningkubrickphilosofia1530 ... Ron Howard is a legitimate artist? i wasn't aware it was 1987 again.

@@REDDAWNproject Wow besides an attack on Ron - why do you say this. George thought he was good enough to do episode 1 TPM LOL I believe a certain youtuber thinks George's opinion matters

Yes, he should have left the three originals.

Thanks! I’ll check out your video when I have time!

​@@rickworley9081 Thank you, I greatly appreciate it. I would love to hear your thoughts on it after you've watched it. I think I give the Star Wars movies the rightful examination it deserves but I am ever so happy to have found your video; to not be the only one to properly defend the franchise, including the prequels, is a delight.

@@The.RU-vidr.with.no.Name. Love your Kreia video.

Yes this comment is perfect.

Shilling your own video, that's what I call B A S E D

@Adam Wasiura The nine people who liked my comment would disagree. Also, chill out, dude!

@Adam Wasiura ?

@Adam Wasiura ok

@Adam Wasiura You are a dumbass.

@Adam Wasiura Yeah, you are a dumbass.

Spot on. It's really sad how lacking visual literacy is in our cultures. We really need to do better. I should note you can also find the Roman influence on the costumes worn by the Naboo citizens. Particularly those in audience of Padmé in the throne room at the beginning. Likewise the podrace is very Roman in nature with how chariot races were used to distract the populist. There's so many more I'm sure. The fact that people don't see these things baffles me.

This is true, I say all the time that most people wouldn't just pick up a scalpel and start doing brain surgery (not if the goal was for the patient to live, anyway) because they understand that it's a subject you have to learn about, you aren't born knowing how to do it. And yet any yokel with $10 for a movie ticket thinks they can tell Terrence Malick what he did wrong.

​@@rickworley9081 I understand the sentiment, but there is a saying "you don't need to be a chef to tell the cake is shit". Roger Ebert was one of the most famous critics certainly knew cinema and what he like but he did once try make a film which turned into a mess. Everyone's a critic now with the internet for better or worse.

I think it's because most "film critics" are either Communications, Journalism, or English majors who are just looking for a job that pays the bills. Newspapers and websites hire them because "oh you know how to write" and in the case of English majors it's also "you know how to evaluate plots and characters" Except a film is a sum of so many parts that as far as media goes, only video games can rival it, so if you only judge a film by its acting and script you're missing out on so much of the final result.

Roger Ebert was highly literate about film, listen to his audio commentary for Casablanca, its as interesting as any commentary by a director (maybe even moreson, many directors would probably feel crass dicussing their own work with as much depth). He gave Attack of the Clones 2 stars. You can know a lot about movies and love or hate the prequels. You can know nothing about film and love or hate them. You cultists keep clinging onto your love for these movies like its your Mensa membership card or something. Why is this so personal to you?

I remember the first time I saw American Graffiti and being confused by it, because I only knew Lucas from Star Wars at the time and this just wasn't what I was expecting at all. But looking at it more and seeing how many things they do have in common really helps you understand Star Wars. The superficial stuff that most people notice about Star Wars isn't there, but the filmmaking, the camerawork, the themes of the movie, all have so much in common with what's going on in Star Wars once you get past the superficial parts. Once you realize these movies are two ways the same guy was talking about many of the same things, you start to understand much more about how Lucas thinks as an artist.

@Adam Wasiura Yeah, no it isn't. Actually look in to it, it's 100% narratives circulated by gen X and half truths. No common story surrounding Lucas is complete fact

@Adam Wasiura ​ Literally the biggest piece of misinformation about Lucas. Do you not think Lucas had final cut of his own film? Or have you asked yourself how a film can be "saved in editing" when prior to editing no film exists? The cut this refers to is the John Jympson cut, which was deemed bad by Lucas and he was promptly fired and replaced by Lucas with Marcia Lucas, Paul Hirsch, and Richard Chew. Interviews on this subject are incredibly easy to find, as Paul Hirsch especially has been transparent about this. Every film has massive amounts edited out. Do you ever hear about how "Apocalypse Now" was saved in the edit, and that Ford Coppola was a hack because of it, or morever the same about Lucas in reference to American Graffiti? Of course not, the notion is a ridiculous half truth circulated by Lucas hating gen-X'ers that want to believe so bad he was a hack and a cheat who had nothing to do with the success of any Star Wars film. It's demonstrably false and tarnishes the reputation of a genuinely great, or at least once great filmmaker. It's flat out cultural erasure.

@Adam Wasiura You seem mad Adam. Did YOU check the sources? Manipulative attribution of sources can be used to paint any picture.

​@Adam Wasiura Bad for you, I maintain they have positive qualities, but definitely a dip from the OT imo. The answer is, plenty of reasons. Lucas did a lot (contrary to semi-popular belief) , but wasn't a one man show. Also sometimes creatives just lose "it", no one has the spark forever man. He's pretty open about having young children changing how he felt about creating art and also star wars as a franchise, you can draw a line pretty directly from that to stuff like Greedo shooting first or the Phantom Menace seeking a younger audience. But Lucas was heavily involved in Indiana Jones, and all OT films and all his directorial efforts prior to the contentious prequels are incredible.

@Adam Wasiura Weak bait, mildly admirable dedication to shitting up every thread here. 4/10, don't quit your day job.

@@GentleHeretic for real bro, does he literally just go in every single positive comment post something Wait for a reaction and then delete his thing?

@ truth seeker so if you like Star Wars that was made by the original creator of Star Wars that doesn’t make you a Star Wars fan

Literally the single worst SW movie before TLJ was released. It's only not the worst SW movie because TLJ and RoS exist.

@@Richard_Nickerson Your omission of TFA betrays your bullshit. "Kenobi, PI" will always beat "The Great Galactic Reset Switch."

I agree. But i think most won't survive.

crizzydime 66th like?

@Adam Wasiura lmao ok

Just like Star Wars I'm a fan of the The Man With No Name good Bad and The Ugly I just don't get why these so-called Star Wars fans have never branched out and actually tried to look at the references that George Lucas used in his movies

Those who can't movies complain that's a what a so-called Reviewer is I respect the craft I respect the artist more than the uncreative appropriators

Because none of them have their own opinions, they're all sheep.

I think this comment breaks it down really well. While my journey wasn’t the same as yours, I had much the same reaction when watching the prequels, to the point they’ve become my favorite part of the saga! I love all 6 Star Wars movies but there’s something about those 3 that just does it for me (too long so say here) Ah yes, and “that business with [Disney] doesn’t… doesn’t count”

They're fine. They aren't terrible, the problem mostly stems from the fact that they had to follow the OT, which is a daunting fucking task. Unfortunately, the prequels at their peak never really reached the same heights that the OT did. Also the CGI in ep2 was kinda bad even for the time. It's become more understood that Lucas was trying to pave the road for a new kind of streamlined, efficient, and affordable CGI pipeline, and in that respect, they were successful. They helped to make CGI something that is attainable at significantly lower budgets, and I'm sure ILM/ Lucas Film were able to make buckets of money doing SFX work for other projects. But... that doesn't make ep2 look any better. There IS some gorgeous CGI work in Attack of the Clones, but those moments are relatively sparse and what we got in the end was a movie that repeatedly slips and falls back into the uncanny valley. Revenge of the Sith made MAJOR improvements to the quality of the CGI work and looks pretty good, and I think that Phantom Menace holds up very well, visually, largely because it had to lean the most on practical effects of any of the prequels. Also, also, ep2 is probably the worst movie in all of Lucas Star Wars, just in general. I... "Like" it, but I don't "like like" it...

​@@Kevin-jb2pv I couldn't disagree more. Episode 2 does not deserve the hate it gets, you can deny it all you want, but the arena scene with the Jedi fighting for their lives is a memorable climax. Anakin's stilted dialogue makes a lot of sense when you consider he's lived with monks his entire life who have all learned how to suppress their emotions, but he was unable to detach himself from his emotions and was in an internal battle to suppress them. I could go on, there is some much depth in the prequels that OT fanboys want to ignore and pretend it's bad... it's infuriating. Artistic interpretation is subjective. From a story point of view, the narrative is astonishingly strong. But if your main concern is the CGI then I could see why you may have a strongly different opinion. Episode 3 is the best Star Wars movie.

@ar I also hate how some OT fans say that the fight between Anakin and Obi-Wan is bad because "it goes on for too long", "nothing interesting is happening," "they aren't even trying to kill each other," and how its "all style with no substance," but Nick Gillard, the choreographer of all the prequel trilogy fights, perfectly explained what the fight was about, what Obi-Wan was trying to do, what Anakin was trying to do, both of their mindsets, and the fact that they known each other's moves and counterattacks so well from training and fighting together for so long, etc. Plus, the fact that the novelization itself reaffirms all of that, is what makes the fight so compelling to me, along with John Williams' brilliant score.

Revenge of The Sith is my favorite movie, but One of my biggest Criticisms of ROTS is that Cody's is a CGI trooper with Temuerra Morrisons face slapped on top, would have been cool to have him be the only one with real armor, other than that ROTS is great, I wish they'd make a 3 and a half hour cut with deleted scenes and stuff from the Novelization

This isn't a case of whether Disney WILL ruin Star Wars. They HAVE ruined Star Wars.

@@tomnorton4277 Honestly the haters/critics look really dumb since they weren't able to pick up half of the symbolism and poetry these movies had.

@wespozo YES! Star Wars IS Episodes 1-6. I'll give an honorable mention to Gareth Edwards for Rogue One.

speak for yourself, me and my friends always loved the prequels and actually preferred watching those over the originals.

@@ZugzugZugzugson The Originals are overrated. The Prequels are far more interesting.

Thank you... this stuff in this video is what I would have liked to talk about, not plot minutia. But we never got there.

Oh definitely. The main prequel characters generally come from quite high up positions in society , so it makes sense that the dialogue for them would generally be quite formal. Meanwhile, most of the OG characters come from quite low backgrounds , such as Han being a smuggler and Luke a farmboy. Leia had a bit of that formal dialogue in ANH, but it disappeared over the following films as she integrated more with the lower peoples of the rebellion. Heck , the dialogue makes even MORE sense when you consider the fact that the prequel characters are literally meant to be from the previous generation. Each generation brings their own style to the linguistics table :)

@@onemoreminute0543 Exactly. People from the 50s don't talk like Gen X or Millennials.

@@HolyknightVader999 Precisely 👍

So literally everyone talks in that monotone tone? Like even when they are in danger they dont show emotions at all in epsiode 1, ep 2 and 3 are defintely much better in acting department

@@haveidonethisbefore They do show emotion, but not too much.

Thank you! Many more videos will be coming soon!

@@darkthorpocomicknight7891 Ah The Last Jedi. You mean one of the most poorly written, poorly edited, and poorly structured mega-budget movies of recent times? With a cast of horribly incoherent characters to top it off? Yeah. A cultural masterpiece, for sure.

@@darkthorpocomicknight7891 I really hope you're joking. I'd agree that TLJ was the best of the Sequels, but better trash is still trash.

@@darkthorpocomicknight7891 TLJ's main and fatal flaw is the same for the whole Sequel trilogy. They don't look, feel, or sound like Star Wars. And they are made by people who don't really care about Star Wars as much as they care about profits and popularity. Even TLJ shamelessly copied scenes from the OT, but at least it tried to be kinda original, even though it utterly failed. Sequels are not Star Wars, even though they share the same title with OT and Prequels, they are just casual fan fictional imitations. No George Lucas = No Star Wars.

Thanks, glad you liked it!

Xx_IndiaBladeWolf2009_xX You're a tight-ass idiot

Demitriz sorry :(

Demitriz looks like someone woke up on the wrong side of the bed.

Well you can lead an idiot to knowledge but you can't make them drink

I've always said the first six Star Wars films are art house films for kids that tapped into something with mass appeal. It's becoming more and more apparent how true this is with how mindless the series becomes under Disney.

KwameAdu 007 His name is Mas Amedda. I have two action figures of him. Haha.

@@rickworley9081 Loll I just looked him up

Part 2 coming ASAP!

@@rickworley9081 Great work, this is the kind of video that needs to be made and seen right now!

@@supermot34 Thanks!

I had a conversation with a guy a while ago and he was parroting all the Plinkett-isms about TPM, and when I brought up other things about the movie, it became obvious he didn't have any idea what I was talking about... finally, after a few minutes, he admitted he had never actually seen TPM. Haha. I guess it saves all the hard work of coming up with your own opinion if you just let somebody else do it for you. At least you eventually came around. If you haven't seen TLJ, I would say don't bother... to quote Yoda, "Only pain will you find." But then, don't take my word for it.

Christus Regnet i feel like i’m the only one who grew hating the prequels yet loving the originals. i’m only 16 but back when i saw all the movies when i was about 7, i remember thinking that. i wasn’t influenced by anything, i didn’t really watch youtube, since it was kinda new at the time. hell, I’M the one who discovered Star Wars myself. my parents didn’t introduce it to me. i’m an American kid growing up with a Latino family. but yeah, i just happened to agree with the popular opinion as a kid. now, i don’t hate any Star Wars movies anymore. i don’t necessarily like the prequels, but they’re not godawful. Return of the Jedi isn’t great, but i don’t hate it. and The Rise of Skywalker, while bland, isn’t something i passionately go out of my way to hate on. episodes IV, V, VII, and VIII are my favorites and i know i might get a lot of hate for that but, eh, whatever. and i think it is totally fine to like the prequels. there is plenty to appreciate in those movies. just not really my thing

ZacTheFirst hard agree with everything you’ve said

@@ZacTheFirst please point out exactly what you think sounds "exaggerated as hell." I gave a simple narrative of my experience. Where did I even have the opportunity to exaggerate? That's my exact experience. I honestly never heard a negative word about the Prequels from either friends or family, or acquaintance, or girlfriends, etc for a quite a few years after they came out. I never claimed criticism didn't exist, I just claimed I never heard any. It's possible I just don't remember, but then that would mean it was probably insignificant enough to not create an impression on me. Now perhaps you got into some intense Star Wars complaining on some obscure message board in the dark corners of the early 2000s internet, but I would never have been exposed to anything like that at the time. I had to find out ex post facto that the Prequels sinned, along with an always increasing list of other movies that I saw when I was younger that I'm finding out were actually "awful." I've also heard many similar stories to mine. People are easily persuaded by what seems to popular opinion. It's been shown in a plethora of studies and experiments that people experience a negative cognitive reaction and moment of unpleasant confusion when they find out that "popular opinion" on a given subject doesn't conform with their own, and experience a release of endorphins when they change and adapt their opinion to fit what is perceived to be socially acceptable, which can happen instantly, even if just by being told "everyone loves this" or "everyone hates that." If a view is ingrained enough, it may then cause a cognitive dissonance. There was nothing like a major popular narrative of "Prequels bad" during the early 2000s. There was certainly nothing remotely close to what is going on with the Sequels, where we're exposed to incessant whining and lamenting about them without having to seek it out. Even searching online, or online archives for Prequel articles or content from the early 2000s, there's relatively little, almost nothing. You can find a few articles that are negative, film critic reviews, etc, but they read *nothing like* your modern day hyperbolic Prequel complainer. The worst complaints about the Prequels back then seem to involve Jar Jar, little Anakin, or monotone Hayden Christensen. From what I have seen, critics from the time were somewhat mixed for the first one, more positive for the second, and pretty unanimously praising the third. Even the most negative critic of the Phantom Menace was still praising the visuals of the film, or the podrace or other sequences, or the story, or the music. And then there's a lot of positive critics for ep1 & 2. Looking back at RU-vid contents from the early 2000s regarding the prequels, there's was an endless supply of "tribute videos" to "Anakin and Padme," and other such content. We are not objective creatures, and what is more subjective than art or taste in film? What kind of impression were general audiences(of which I certainly was at the time) supposed to have when they go to see the Prequels in theaters and the whole room is obnoxiously cheering and clapping through each film? That most people hated them or thought they were awful? I think probably not.

@@ZacTheFirst which 'people' are you referring to when you say 'people disliking the films'? This video shows in detail how RLM and the Plinkett reviews specifically, used invalid criticism of the Prequels to get views. It doesn't claim ALL criticism is invalid. Rather it goes to great lengths to explain why Plinkett is wrong in saying that TPM was 'bad' due to having 'poor structure', and by not having a 'clear protagonist' etc. To make a valid criticism of any art, you DO need to fully understand it. But these amateur internet 'reviewers' need to first have a good understanding of film making in general. That's sound logic, how does that excuse or 'shut down' legitimate reviewers complaints? If you really want Plinkett picked apart point by point just read this: writerdisease.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/red-letter-media-episode-i-review-a-study-in-fanboy-stupidity.pdf

Chan Thorpe In-universe it’s about the Jedi.

No he’s not. He’s a terrible actor the entire casting was unforgivable.

Chris Jenkins ... Make an actual argument please.

Darth Sonic 413 - There is no argument to make. The writing was terrible and the story was cut-n-paste lackluster. Other than Ewen McGregor as Obi-wan, the casting was pretty awful. It’s a tragedy on every level and a hubristic waste of talent.

Chris Jenkins Incorrect :)

When they said "What do the Trade Federation want?" and I said "Money" and an hour later we were still just repeating that, I started to guess that the conversation wasn't going to go very far...

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Adam Wasiura nah the sequels didn’t have any moments I can rewatch unlike the prequels which did

Adam Wasiura uh prequels had duel of the fates, battle of geonosis,battle over coruscant, Anakin v Obi wan/Birth of Vader, I can go on. Yea the sequels are an actual adventure that was unoriginal

Adam Wasiura i don’t think any of those moments beats the prequels ones and also the prequels felt like Star Wars just with new things to look at

Bwahahaha. No.

@Stark1gaming they have no soul that's the problem. They feel cold and sterile. Name one meaningful interaction between two characters in the prequels that actually felt real and had warmth and emotion

@@yousquiddingme well we might as well use that logic on the overall argument then, no one can say which trilogy is better because it's all based in personal opinion.

@WaddleSenpai In that case we'll have to do with the wisdom of crowds. Original trilogy are rated higher by every aggregate site on the internet.

@@CDStoner They weren't at release.

Thanks, I'm glad you enjoyed it!

@@rickworley9081 i wanted to add to your great anaylsis, that lightsabers lighting up fights was also in empire strikes back (luke vs vader in the bespin carbonite freezing contaiment room) and luke vs vader in return of the jedi but yes that guy was being intellectual dishonest about it not only showing up in tfa but its the first time....there was many japanese films decades ago that had the samurai fighting someone else in the dark with their swords in the moonlight showing their faces for split seconds

Thanks, i'm glad you liked it!

Can't say that I ever loved Jar Jar, but I never disliked him, either. He was simply another interesting character in a broad galaxy. I think C-3PO was a more annoying character... but he's an interesting part of the galaxy as well.

Very soon. The release of the 4k versions created another new version of the movies to talk about and that changed up my plans, but now I've done the research and most of the script and I'll finish soon.

@@rickworley9081 By soon, you mean at least a month later... (Love you by the way, just saying)

@@rickworley9081 you can't rush art. Please take your time Rick. What you're doing is bigger and more important than just for the Star Wars 'Prequels'. This extends to all of modern 'blockbuster' cinema. It's a whole new conversation about where modern pop culture is going, and where it came from. Most of us here wish they had even half of your film exposure, and talent, or this fluid way of blending and expressing ideas through video. RU-vid needs this. Any future aspiring 'George Lucas' needs this. But most people don't even know it yet. Fight the good fight. And best of luck.

@@rickworley9081 Are you going to do a video on the sequels?

@@rickworley9081 what is the music that starts at about 52:30, absolutely amazing.

That's the case for many fandoms, some 'fans' dislike something, because they don't understand it. And some of them don't think: 'hey, maybe it's my fault for not understanding it, maybe I missed something?' I was in a similar situation with reading the Warrior Cats books. I had to read the first 3 books twice to fully understand the story, I just couldn't understand the little details the first time.

Thank god he didn´t try to play it to the fans. Which didn´t prevent him from making some adjustments, like cutting down Jar Jar´s role in episode 2. But he stuck to his overall vision, which was great.

"Death of the author" was a mistake.

@Astronaut Diversity Hour are you adam?

I understand what Lucas was trying to do and it doesn't matter because he did a terrible job. The prequels are horribly written and directed

I seem to recall Mr. Plinkett making remarks about the importance of underdogs during his spiel about having a singular protagonist.

With your last point, I've often thought the same. A 1977 TPM would make the same cultural impact as ANH and the ensuing trilogy would be received like the OT. Though, there would be a stark tonal difference by the end (a darker ending by ROTS than in ROTJ) For as much as people ridicule praisers of the prequels as just being 'blinded by nostalgia', the exact same response can be thrown at them concerning their own personal connection to the OT (what, did Star Wars only mean something to them when they were 23, not 8? Lol). As such, it's a rather unproductive accusation in the discourse surrounding these movies. In some ways, I'd actually argue that TPM is closer to the OT in other aspects, such as still being filmed on film rather than digital and I'd say fully embracing the Flash Gordon camp that inspired ANH in the first place.

The Phantom Menace was my favorite of the movies for a long time, only recently superseded by Revenge of the Sith. I love the Prequels!

The best part is when people watch it and realise at the end of 2.

@@REDDAWNproject The first time watching TPM I kinda thought Palpatine COULD BE Sidious, but when AOTC confirmed it I was like: oh no what's gonna happen next

Its just as well that he didnt. The only reason he was doing a sequel trilogy anyway was to maintain the profitability of Lucasfilm and protect his employees. He really didnt want Star Wars to become like Star Trek. The Disney sequels are so horrid it is very easy to keep them out of my head canon.

Why RLM are extremely sloppy, nebulous and contradictory in their analysis, I don't see how this video works as a "rebuttal" of either them, their takes on the PT taking visuals from other works, or the general notion that they were very uneven in their acting and dialogue etc. and had a terrible awkward dating lovestory, while the OT had none of these issues?

1:54:25 His point there is wrong - he knows his references, but doesn't think everything through: For 1, the question is also what the Neimoidians are thinking there - unless they're complete idiot pawns? And there's no evidence that what happened in Tpm was Palpatine's sole A plan - it's just as possible that his main plan was whatever he was trying with that Naboo invasion and taking over the entire planet incl. the Goongas? And also this has nothing to do with the "forge signature" point. RLM also get all this mystery plan wrong lol, bug this guy isn't the one to set things straight here. Then he brings up kids' commercials for OT? But the movies had no 12 year olds? What a sloppy point lol. Excuses for supposedly bad dialogue? But the OT didn't need such excuses lol The "dark" contradictions are quite spot on lol, I could expand on that with more contradictory quotes. Anyway this guy isn't Jesus either - we need some other "voice of reason".

He did get to finish it. He never intended for there to be an Episode VII. Part of the agreement with Disney was that if they bought they'd have to use his ideas for Episodes VII-IX because he knew that's what Disney wanted to make. Unfortunately for him Disney reneged because he didn't get it in the contract but they did get it in the contract that he's not allowed to talk shit about them.

As long as he's alive I still hold out hope that somehow he will.

Grow some balls.

weez says the guy who doesn’t have any smh.

@@DumpsterFire2048 grow an opinion then

@@thegoodgeneral1174 Letting other people influence your opinion on anything every is a pathetic trait. Decide for yourself. especially when it comes to stupid useless shit like star trek

the RLM reviews are pretty cringe looking back with all the kidnapping and rape skits in them. His opinion is invalid with that

100% agree

Anomaly Inc is just a toxic angry fan of the prequels I don't know how you enjoy that shit he's literally not objective or well researched at all and his only defence is that he's smarter than everyone. This video is way better than anything that joke of a person ever did and comparing the two creators is straight-up disrespectful.

@@adamjanek3511 sounds to me you didn’t actually watch/listen to his videos. He’s defending the Prequels from shit arguments and showing due respect to George Lucas and his creative team when appropriate. He doesn’t claim to be smarter than anyone; he’s letting dumb Arguments speak for themselves. (Personally I don’t know why you’re so against him)

@@LordWyatt It's not what he does, it's how he does it. He literally titled his video "Dissecting a dumbass" and that just straight up tells me he's not a very intelligent individual. Also his arguments are no better than those which he tries to refute so idk what you tryna say here.

@@adamjanek3511 Red Letter Media also did insults on his pseudo reviews.

@@adamjanek3511 so you’re judging his intelligence by the title of the video rather than his arguments… And on the ‘no better’ part, that is definitely not true: cosmonaut and the others that AnomalyInc has covered use the same bs arguments to back up their points (vague hatred to George Lucas, CGI, subjective story choices). Nomz on the other hand has done a ton of research on Lucasfilm, George Lucas, the bullshit with Disney, and the long arduous process of making the six Star Wars films. It’s ok not to like AnomalyInc, just don’t watch his videos…but to insult his intelligence when you don’t even know the man and refuse to listen to what he has to say is not cool.

See... the thing I don't get about that is if you want those 3 things, which trilogy is actually better than the prequels? For space battles you have Naboo and Coruscant, ground battles you have Naboo, Geonosis, and for duels you have The Duel of the Fates, fighting Jango on Kamino, three iterations of a duel with Dooku on Geonosis, Palps kicking council ass, and then you get both the Battle of Heroes along with Yoda fighting the Senate in the Senate! Whereas OT: Space Death star 1 & 2, Ground Hoth and Endor, Duel Death star 1, Cloud City, Death Star 2, maybe the cave if you count that. And the ST? Space: I guess I have to count SK base but honestly, the movie itself can't even focus on it and then Exegol, where the movie again really likes those space horses. Ground: Maz's place, Crait aka "Hoth but we've forgotten that defense in depth exists and there is no actual plan" and lets charitably count the space horses again. The duels: Rey and Finn v Kylo, that... thing with the guards, and Rey v Kylo 2 electric boogaloo. And of course Palpy lightening someone: End of every trilogy. If you want mindless action just watch the goddamn prequels and skip the stuff you find boring

@@Darkfyreofthezenith dang, it’s like the Prequels have what they wanted.

These are the same people who want context in the ST.

There was politics in the OT, there was silly aliens in the OT (silly is not an insult), there were interruptions to the epic battles in the OT, there were ‘annoying’ comic side characters in the OT everything they complain about was in the OT and no5ing in that list makes a movie terrible or even bad I think they were distracted by nostalgia and just wanted the same thing to be shown with different backgrounds and felt entitled to that.

@@sunsetsky9885 “there was politics in the OT.” “The regional governors now have direct control..”

No doubt! Aesthetic wise too I think as there's a lot of cultural influence from around the world. I think it gives us a sense of familiarity subconsciously with what we see around us or has been part of our culture's past.

Who cares?

I for one doubt zoomers even care about those movies or that they will leave any sort of imprint on them.

They do look very much alike... I stopped short of speculating that it was an intentional reference, because Peter Cushing looks a lot like Alfred Abel to begin with. Lucas might have had the resemblance in mind when he was casting, but it's not like they did makeup on Cushing to make him resemble Abel or anything. But Lucas references nearly every other part of Metropolis, so he certainly could have been thinking about this.

Thanks!

​@Nathan Cox I guess it comes down to the idiotic statement from Cosmonaut Variety Hour that "Star Wars should be simple". An elaborate plot to assassinate a politician is too boring for these people. They wanted big explosions and chase scenes and jokes... wait, that's exactly what happened next, only with far more logic and story structure behind it, and they complained it was stupid. I was a teenager when I saw ATOTC, having watched all the other movies by that point, and the story was amazingly easy to follow and engaging, so their complaints are simply false. Don't get me wrong, Attack of the Clones is probably my least favourite of the real Star Wars films, but only because it had far more potential than what was realized. It's simply a personal preference. Some story bits felt rushed, but what we got was great. There was lots of great stuff and tons of brilliant filmmaking, it just left me wanting even more. I was left hungry for more of the world and the interactions between characters, particularly Dooku. I really wish the extended cut would get released one day.

@@UncleJoeNeonCherry I recently realised that Attack of the Clones is my second favourite Star Wars movie, after Revenge of the Sith. A good chunk of this is because of Christopher Lee who stole the show in the second half of the movie and, being a master of less is more, made Dooku far more interesting than he was in either of the Clone Wars shows, despite his limited screen time. The only time Dooku showed his softer side in The Clone Wars was when he protested when Sidious ordered him to kill Asajj Ventress, even straight up admitting that she was important to him. Outside of that, he was just a generic villain in both the 2003 and 2008 Clone Wars. However, Attack of the Clones had Dooku showing his softer side several times, most notably when he spoke wistfully about Qui-Gon, flinched after Jango was beheaded, apologised to Mace Windu, and shut off his lightsaber after defeating Anakin and Obi-Wan with an expression of either regret, fatigue or both. It's amazing that Dooku had more depth in half a movie than he did in two TV series, one of which lasted for 7 seasons. In addition to Dooku, I also have a soft spot for corny romances because they have a sincerity that is rare these days. For example, watch Anakin and Padme's body language in the fireplace scene. If you take out the dialogue, it's still crystal clear that they're into each other so anybody who thinks their romance was forced is full of shit. I suspect that many of the haters are reminded of how awkward THEY were around their first love and because they don't like being reminded of that, they lash out at the movie. I also feel that characters who say dialogue that was intentionally corny are basically saying "I know this sounds lame, uncool and maybe even creepy but I don't care. This is how I feel." I think the seeds of this realisation were planted when I was watching Victoria, or possibly in Doctor Who when Clara Oswald told Danny Pink that she loved him and frowned when she added "those words from me are yours now", showing that she was fully aware of how corny she sounded but was speaking from the heart. Some of Queen Victoria's scenes with Albert had corny dialogue too - she even called him "my angel" - and it was partially BECAUSE it was corny that it came across as sincere. Alita: Battle Angel also had a corny romance - at the end of the "I'd give you my heart scene", Alita acknowledged the corny moment by saying "That was pretty intense, huh?" and giggling which served the double purpose of both breaking the tension and showing that the corniness was intentional - and the seeds that Victoria and/or Doctor Who planted began to grow. The trick to handling corny dialogue is KNOWING that it's corny dialogue and I eventually realised that it feels more real because it shows that the character cares about their lover so much that they're willing to allow themselves to be vulnerable and sound uncool. They aren't beating around the bush and hiding their feelings and because of this, I'll take Anakin and Padme over Han and Leia any day of the week.

pAlPaTiNe sEnDs A mAn, wHo sEnDs A mAn, wHo sEnDs A sHaPeShIfTeR, wHo sEnDs A rObOt, wHo sEnDs bUgS *TO GO KILL PADMEEEEEE!!!!!!*

@@CC-Cody-di2uq I tried to sit through that video of Cosmonaut, it had a million views or something so I thought: this will be good. I wanted to kill myself when I heard him say that ;-;

I have seen very few salty comments

@@poppag8281 There first was someone who commented on almost every comment (but those reactions dissappeared). He said stuff like CGI=bad, Prequel fans are child idiots, etc.

@@VibingMeike Well, the CGI in those movies was bad. It doesn't hold up today, and it was very over used. There's nothing wrong with it as a tool but so many scenes in those movies are just some actor standing in front of a completely cgi background, talking to cgi characters. It just feels and looks weird in the end. They honestly would have been better off going full clone wars and just animating it all. At least then there wouldn't have been dissonance.

@@Audiodump Well, you're talking to the right person! Because I've done my research on the CGI and practical effects of the Prequels. This comment will be long, so I won't have to reply a second time. Let's see what practical effects the Prequels have. TPM (this one has more practical effects than the three Original Trilogy movies combined, TPM also has more practical effects than TFA, and possibly more than TLJ and TROS) Real models were built for: Battle droids, podracers, droidekas, Naboo's castle and many many other buildings on Naboo, like for the ending scene there was built a massive model (the inside of the castle was also actually built). The kind of tanks from the Trade Federation on the battle of Naboo, big parts of Coruscant, like the landing platform, Naboo Starfighters. There was a real forest and a real desert, big parts of Mos Espa, the Jedi Councel room, the entire slave city and big parts of the underwater city of Naboo were built, many explosions in the podrace and the final battle were done with models, many aliens were made with practical effects. Backgrounds were a mix of practical effects and CGI. AOTC Things that were built: Palpatine's office, Lars' homestead, again, the Jedi Councel room, big parts from the inside and outside from the buildings on Naboo (like the fireplace scene, the foreground of the 'stolen kiss' and picknick scene), Kamino and Geonosis were built and models were made. The Tuskan Raider camp, Anakin's yellow car in the chase scene at the beginning of the movie. There is again a real desert, filmed in Tunesia and they went to Italy and/ or Spain to film parts of Naboo. ROTS The last shot was already filmed during the filming of AOTC (Lars' homestead). There were models for: the battle droids again, big parts of Utapau, Kashyyyck, Mustafar, Coruscant, Jedi Starfighters and other ships, other planets in the order 66 scene. Palpatine's office, the Jedi Councel room, Padmé's apartment, even the lava you see on Mustafar is real lava, but put into the shots digitally, that's why it has aged so well. And a little fun fact: the waterfalls on Naboo were made with salt, so it would look a bit more realistic. Just search: Star Wars Prequels practical effects, and you'll find even more stuff than I already mentioned. Also a few links: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-p0cpRamEur4.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-jhpFsO8wUoI.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-VgS3pt0yMvs.html boards.theforce.net/threads/practical-effects-in-the-prequels-sets-pictures-models-etc.50017310/ www.quora.com/Is-it-true-that-The-Phantom-Menace-used-more-practical-effects-than-all-the-other-Star-Wars-films The Prequels pioneered the CGI technology, they didn't overuse it.

@@VibingMeike So your entire argument is "Look, they had lots of practical effects too! Therefore the CGI is fine!"

@Adam Wasiura They copied the ancient greek tragedies in flash gordon?

@Adam Wasiura Uhuh.....thats not copying thats just encorporating something i mean in my projects i take elements from stuff i like all the time its not at all unusual or wrong to do so.

Kino?? More like Keyed 🔑🔑🔑

@@gandalfgrey91 What does that mean? Edit: English isn't my native language lol

@@gandalfgrey91 Sneed

🤣

Originally it wasn’t Hayden. It was someone else. But after 1 2 and 3 they edited Hayden in as a force ghost.

@@jonathanking9954 LOL, what? I'm 43 years old. I know Hayden wasn't always Anakin at the end of ROTJ lol

@@chungkingexpress94 it’s literally just a fun fact. Also how tf am I supposed to know how old you are

@@jonathanking9954dawg have you never seen the an older related from like 97?

I was 19 in 1999, I remember seeing that video at the time and wondered if Michael Bay would ever apologize for Armageddon or if Roland Emmerich ever apologized for the 1998 Godzilla movie or Independence Day. Even when the prequels came out, Hollywood was mostly producing junk.

@Nathan Cox I think they expect Poison gas or some kind of Laser shot but I always just assumed that there was some kind of countermeasure to it which led to the worms. I always thought they were pretty cool and they definitely build tension in the scene despite these near omnipotent protectors being only a room away

@Nathan Cox Agreed. They just move the goal posts. Things that they complain about in TPM or AOTC often end up being different in the later movies and they then complain about the changes. I think the worst complaint is the "YoDa FiGhTiNg WiTh A lIgHtSaBeR bAd" tho

i agree , one thing the prequel haters and americans in general do is criticize any genre that speaks on empires/dictatorships taking over because the people wanted it...but thats how it happens and lucas shows this in the prequels, and its not just palpatine by himself he has thousands of collaborators....showing it just doesnt "show up" out of nowhere...that black and white type of thinking gets you trapped in being extremely arrogant and gullible , even when the empire fell it took 26 years of the rebellion with thousands of collaborating groups to defeat it...anyone who claims luke or the ewoks did fall into that black and white type of thinking...luke really had nothing to do with the death star being blow up..lucas clearly shows it was the rebellion and many ships including the millenium falcon to take it out youre spot on...ill always say its very dangerous to act like empires or dictatorships cant rise now because "we evolved" thats exactly how many empires rise up to begin with.....something luke himself tells rey that the jedi lost their way even lucas shows this in tpm where jedi order arrogantly basically say "if the sith has come back we would of leanred of their presence"

@@Chuck_EL I must say I was rather surprised tp learn that George is a student of the cyclical nature of History. Which I think is why the line which is now a meme that he said when filming episode 1 of "it's like poetry it rhymes" is SO......impactful. and we've seen history prove George right in recent years about that cyclical nature. And I think one of the more disturbing scenes that I witnessed within more recent years was someone who a certain sect of the population of my country elected for a period of 10 years, actually paraphrased Palpatine's First Galactic empire speech. Or a number of Publications using padme's quote from that same speech, in 2016. And I think one of the main problems with the more recent Trilogy is that it was constantly at war with itself(another RU-vidr refers to it as an ANTI trilogy)

Marcia Lucas saved the first Star Wars. Without her, GL would be a forgotten footnote.

@@davidanderson4748 Marcia Lucas was only on the editing side of production of A New Hope from August 1976 until Thanksgiving 1976. George meanwhile was in the editing room the entire time and had final say in all decisions. She suggested some good ideas but like with editing George could say no. Like his telling no to Brian de Palma when he suggested George cut mention of the Force.

@@davidanderson4748 thats a false narrative

I don't think it's silly at all. I played the Lego Indiana Jones game long before I had seen the movies and honestly didn't understand anything that was going on. As for Lego Star Wars I understood it right away. Granted I knew the movies forwards and backwards first but I think it speaks to the difference. George's six films have a greater focus on linear narrative and telling things visually. You can understand what is happening through the visual storytelling through character subtleties like how they turn their head or look at someone. Plus the environments really reflected each part of the story and what was happening with the characters. I think that translated to the Lego game.

One barman, to be precise ;)

@Adam Wasiura lol how did i know this comment had something to do with star wars?

@Adam Wasiura i love the last jedi you dingus

@Adam Wasiura ok? I really don't care.

@Adam Wasiura Well you're autistic or a teenager or something. I don't know what to tell you.

@@sharifmansour9678 He's replying to every comment just insulting everyone. He's definitely autistic.

Same here. To some people, SW was just the original 3 films or , in more extreme cases, just the first film. The whole sextalogy was about the moving tragedy about the rise, fall, and redemption of Darth Vader :)

They are better.

@@Atheismo9760 NAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH still okay but NAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Because the prequels are badly written and shot movies. It's genuinely surprising how bad they are.

@@Valoe7 "From a certain point of view"

I love every minute of the REAL Star Wars: ep1-6

@@VibingMeike yes

Same

​@@VibingMeikesame

Agreed, absolutely!

That's a good point, too. I think of new things I could have added all the time, and I am considering doing a Special Edition of this video with added material... thanks for the suggestion!

@@rickworley9081 I'm watching the video in chunks, so here's some more praise- I always wondered why Lucas chose to face Anakin as he's looking at the sunset. I aspire to make the same kind of non narrative stuff that Lucas always talks about, and this video is like literally me. But in a much more real sense, it's literally you, since you made it. Bravo again.

Add to that that as a race audience, you would only see the cars move from one side to the other. I thought that was the point of the podrace scene always going in one direction.

I know absolutely nothing about filmmaking ( I didn't know about the 180 rule for example), but even I knew what the answer was going to be before the video gave it.

Thank you!

Rob Greive Thanks! I was kind of bitter nobody invited me to be part of that Prequels Strike Back documentary. Haha. I’m kidding about being bitter over it since I’m sure they didn’t know who I was, but I would have liked to have been involved.

For some reason the Star Wars clips seem to have the dialog mostly from the left channel. When I was editing it, on the speakers and headphones I used it wasn't noticeable, and then when I went in to do a final edit I noticed it on the headphones I was using, but to be honest I had no idea how to fix it, and at that point I had cut up hundreds of Star Wars clips into the video so it would have been so much work to change each of them... I just hoped that since it wasn't noticeable on most of the equipment I used, it wouldn't be that big of a problem and maybe people wouldn't notice it. So thanks for noticing it. Haha. But you're right. Of course after I posted it I noticed many small things I'd like to change, so maybe I'll do a Special Edition of the video at some point.

sounds fine to me

Thank you!

@@rickworley9081 another artist who got similar treatment was michael jackson especially after his history album.... they think "he went off the edge" with these paranoid type songs...where even with his brothers the jacksons he has songs about women stalkers and his paranoia with it such as "things i do for you" "find me a girl" "destiny" "this place hotel" and "your ways" and "wanna be starting something" was originally written by him when he was a teenager and he made a demo tape with his brother randy and sister janet when he was 18 and was gonna be in his "off the wall" album.... one thing about michael was his strength in able to tell us how he felt about being a sex symbol, put in a box due to it, having women issues due to him stardom from his childhood until his death and having anthems about all of us being united as one people and that started with "shake you body" to "can you feel it" "we are the world" and "heal the world" like george and dylan, they never changed, the fans stopped caring why these artists did what they did and now say "why wont you do what i love in my way?"