Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones - What Went Wrong? - Wisecrack Edition 

Right lol

Actually makes me want too watch it

​@@marioperanovic9357 how was it?

@@marioperanovic9357its one of my favorites of all times. The book is even better in my opinion

Can this power be learned?

@@Luchingador Not from a Wisecrack video.

Hello there

I know.

Not from a prequel hater

Darth Binks strikes again!

@@ThiefKingofLegend Darths don't use use their names, and there can only be two Sith at once. JarJar would technically be a dark Jedi

@@ezachleewright2309 to be fair the whole point of the rule of two is for it to be broken as apprentices will kill their master and then take on an apprentice of their own often times with apprentices taking on a secret apprentice of their own so that they have an apprentice once they kill their master

Good with the broad strokes, bad if you look at the details.

They were rushed. If George Lucas had taken 10 years to work out the story instead of two, these movies might've actually been good.

Agreed. I can get over the bad dialogue and still very much enjoy the stories of all three of them. No porgs or rose tico.

Bad storytelling*

The sequels: Bad story, good execution

It's treason then.

@@Kaunte its reason then

Its treason then.

Yep, pretty much expected all of these comments. And yes. It's treason then.

Star wars the clone wars: am I a joke to you

Do the prequels have the high ground?

So you can't criticize the prequels just because they have become memes?

@@orbaitv5991 "If you're not with our memes, then you are our enemy!"

@@renewagain6956 Wisecrack: "Only memers deal in absolutes. I will do what I must."

@@orbaitv5991 exactly... you get it

Yes, I have been saying this. Though I believe the that alternate episode 2 would end with Anakin being completely disillusioned with the Jedi and Republic and joining Sidious in secret and the alternate episode 3 him working towards sabotaging the Jedi's efforts, but showing more of conflict towards his loyalties to Sidious and Obi-wan. Ultimately Anakin of course betraying the galaxy and becoming the Vader we know against his duel with Obi-wan.

I could have gone with Episode 1 being our Episode 1 and 2 put in together, with much of Episode 1 abridged without filler.

Or he could've made it a quadrilogy. You don't HAVE to confined to three movies you know.

​@@MatthewLee-fo3meLucas kinda did in this case. He'd already made 4-6, so there was only room for 1-3. That was plenty of time though, he just wasted a lot of it.

I agree, now that I am an adult and more aware of how storytelling works and what makes a good story I see that Attack of The Clones and the other prequel movies are bad movies that failed to meet the amazing potential of their themes and awesome characters from the original trilogy. However when I was a kid watching it with my cousins on a Sunday afternoon at my grandmothers house it was the most epic and incredible thing i’ve ever seen on screen. The lightsaber duels in that battle are amazing, and the Battle of Geonosis is one of my favorite battles in Star Wars, even if the plot leading up to it and the characters involved are infuriatingly shallow. The clone troopers being led by Yoda flying in on the LAATs (one of my favorite vehicles in Scifi), the massive battle between the GAR and the droids, and of course all of the Jedi fighting in the arena still holds up in my opinion, even if the rest of the movie unfortunately doesn’t.

And that's why it's different from Zhivago. This is written for kids.

@@Robin-bk2lm Perhaps but that is no excuse for bad movie making. There are plenty of kids films that are very good movies - including the original Star Wars. Sometime after 1980 GL started to believe that sort of attitude was unnecessary.

And Cornelius Fudge. J.K. Rowling said he was the inspiration for the character.

Guillermo de Baskerville huh? Which character did Rowling write? Chamberlain or jar jar

@@jimmy2k4o Cornelius Fudge, the Minister of Magic in the first Harry Potter books

Meesa Prime minister!

Only now?

I feel the same way about the Care Bears movies.

Couldn't have said it better.

I grew up with a child molester, i could never hate him but he is deeply flawled......

They still have more creativity than the sequels.

@@funofboredom Yeah, those PS2 level graphics have really aged well.

I'm too old for this Sith.

@@FoxUnitNell 👏

Yeah except like Plinkett points out, half the time it's Obi-Wan who randomly does impulsive, reckless crap and Anakin is the voice of reason.

Usually a buddy cop movie works when the two protagonists are on screen together for the majority of the film, and not like AotC where they're only together for like 25 minutes of screen time tops.

I mean, DOWN isn't really the problem here.

Benjamin von Sück wow. That’s evil

Im laughing so hard but maybe thats the exhaustion talking. I havent slept in like 30 hours.

@@omnise We've all been there, man.

@@ThrashRat dont science at me ghost terry crews! i still wont buy your products! and delirium doesnt kick in till day four! haha!!!

the psychotherapy we all need

Hey Bobby b are you in RU-vid too?

I think we all know what went wrong. But let us honor the serie with a philosophic video from one of the best youtubers

Because all character growth and agency were gone? Because of course were going to make Jainie's entire story worthless, of course Jon will never advocate for the well being of northerners, of course Dany goes nuts in two episodes. Character choices didn't matter anymore. Foreshadowing, symbolism, who cares?

Game of thrones in general was a failure

True, but the film should hold on it's own.

@Final Incept yes. People keep justifying the flaws of the sequels saying it is explained in some novelizations. I tell them that's no excuse for poor film making. But some people are blinded by their love for something.

The TV series and all of the EU stuff is what the prequels were meant to be

Alita Skywalker like prequel fanatics?

@@AnjanaBSubba So you're saying love has blinded you?

There’s some scrapped concept art where Parme is actually sent to kill Anakin in episode 3. In addition, there are several deleted scenes from episodes 2 & 3 including padme addressing the senate, padme and bail sowing the seeds of the rebellion, an overview of padme’s humanitarian work, and a small bit with padme’s family. Shame it was all cut.

Yeah, originally Padme was going to have a knife on her on Mustafar to attack Anakin with

​@@adamsz6667 For me it was better if she went full Chris Redfield by using a knife and a gun

Shrapnel82 I think the core of the issue is that Lucas is pretty bad at dialogue. Hasn’t he even admitted that? Idk where I heard that, but I swear someone said he’s admitted that dialogue is a weak spot for him in writing. Maybe they were bullshitting, idfk

@@gingergamergirl98 Lucas said it, he said he hated it. It's why the script were finished like 1 weeks before shooting. Lucas has real difficulties with it. But in my country, we are lucky, our translation made the dialogues really correct and the movie is really enjoyable with it. It actually let play Christensen nicely... Because this guy plays well in prequels... When he doesn't speak.

Helmred Oh, interesting. Where are you from? And yeah, I agree. I think he’s a good actor, he just got stuck with horrible dialogue and probably didn’t know what to do with it haha

@@gingergamergirl98 France ! I hope he can have a redemtpion in the Rise of Skywalker

Hit the fuckin nail on the head. Completely agree.

That said most of the love it gets today admits the faults. Not saying everyone, but I like the world building in the prequels while also fully admitting they are not good films. So overall I'd say the films are a mixed bag. Cool worlds, great universe building, awful writing, and a bunch silly scenes which are supposed to be taken seriously.

​@@David-kd4qr Also, I think that there is more depth to them than most people give them credit, particularly where the Jedi are concerned. The more time passes, the more I'm convinced Lucas DID realize that the Prequel Jedi were kinda assholes, whose many many bad choices ultimately did almost as much as Palpatine to bring about the Empire. In that regard, it does actually do a good job at depicting a once-great society in steep decline. In particular, you could practically rename Episode 2 as "The Increasingly Poor Decisions Of Master Yoda." The problem is that this is very difficult to discern, since there's never been a direct depiction of earlier better times, at least not outside of expanded materials of dubious canonicity. Without a good reference point, it's easy to take the Jedi's presentation at face value and see the movies as mostly endorsing their actions. Not to mention, Lucas still needed to deliver a story that at least SEEMED to be about good guys vs bad guys, so he couldn't be too overt in criticizing them. But either way, the Prequels get quite a bit more interesting if you go in assuming that Lucas intended the viewer to understand that the late-era Jedi had become a bunch of ineffective schmucks.

Yep I feel ya bro..

Haven’t you seen the Plinkett review?

It's treason then.

@@SkyStrider99 *360 Spinning Dive* AAAAAAAUUUUUUGGGGGHHHHHHH1!!!!

What is a meme? A miserable little pile of secrets!

I can't breathe

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Yeah, Anakin should fuck her because she's wearing leather 🙄

Dresses seductively in a dark romantic lounge.

If you're being really generous to Lucas, it was to show her inner conflict(I don't think that why he had her dress up like that tho lmao). She reeeaaaally wants to, but knows she shouldn't. She dresses up to look her best when with him, yet constantly shoots him down

She's allowed to be conflicted mate. They both are at that point. And she's been meant to be more mature as the elder.

A dress designed by Lucas himself

Hotel? Trivago

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BUAHAHAHAHA! XD

[robotic & monotone] Lets pray that day never comes.

True. Watch any Trump rally

@@1ManNamedDan better yet, research how people spoke about Barrack Obama before he was elected.

@@isheetfromaswhole3657 LOL yea because Obama totally abused his power right? Give me a break, guy.

@todd johnson I understand where your coming from. Conservative minds don't like change and a progressive well spoken black man, a professor of constitutional law, riding a wave of populism must have been very hard to swallow. My brother and his wife are wealthy white conservatives and I recall them constantly saying how arrogant they thought Obama was when I think the word they were looking for was "uppity". I'm curious do you find Trump the least bit arrogant?

@Lee You've turn her against me!

@@user-DullardBones You have done that yourself!

Lucas isn't good at that in the prequels. Script writing was never really his great strength, unfortunately. I wish someone closr to him could have made him see that.

It's your problem if you need everything drawn to you.This line is perfect for a bit smarter members of the audience to introduce Count Dooku.

It s not about being smart or not, it s about emotional connection. Seeing a character behave in a certain way, or being told by a third character (or a narrator) that a character behave in a certain way, you connect in a different way

@@giacomobandini969 The sentence was a short introduction to a character so you dont get surprised by his behaviour and appearance later in the movie, a lot or great movies use this method of storytelling, and that person you are refering to should only be viewed as an entertainer and not serious movie critic

Kevin Thomas yeah, but it also kind of undermines the whole “democracy is good” thing Lucas was going for, if the person who has been shown to be the most dedicated to peace and the preservation of democracy is revealed to be a separatist.

Just not captain america civil war

What red blooded male wouldn't want to dock his canoe in Natalie's port, man?

@SwenglishGamer because she read the script. What's that on the ground, is that the script? I can see no other reason.

@SwenglishGamer Because he is a fucking Jedi. She must have been thinking "wow I got kissed by a super wizard warrior-monk who wields the coolest weapon in the galaxy"

Padme: Anni, you've grown. Anni: Yes I have. I whine more now.

Padmé: Anni? My goodness you've grown. Anni: Yes I have. So has my little Anni.

@@HMMadsen 🤮

Jordan Loux what do you think your credit score is?

@@hillomate I'd rather not make a game of this. Too dark.

@@jordanloux3883 Your score just increased by 7 points for choosing not to play.

@@jordanloux3883 It isn't a game, China's no darker than any other county.

@@hillomate You mean the China with the concentration/re-education camps for muslims?

This

Or just a dumb sith lord...

@@adamestrada7610 but listen to what he says to the things the jedi say, and watch how the droids act when shooting at him, and he's off screen.

@Cognitive ape exactly what happened

Even though I love this theory, I doubt it tbh. The way the prequel films are written (in a general sense) does not indicate to me that Lucas has the craft to sew in a twist that brilliant. Even if you account for course-correcting after the response

He's a nerd who was surrounded by very talented people, he's good with coming up with ideas but not the execution

It was rushed. It's that simple. Trust me, when George spreads the main points out over a longer period of time, it'll make much more sense.

Arc? More like daenerys breaking bad 30 seconds

The thing is I think most people had a hunch she’d go mad pretty early on. It just can’t be justified by comparing her killing slave owners with innocent women and children

Damian Salcedo More like what didn’t go wrong with GoT.

They already did a GoT S8 video....

It was WW1

Obi Wan is bae

@@denisenova7494 Obae Wan

So uncivilized

Unfortunately his love for Padme is what drives his turn to the Dark Side. A necessary plot point for the whole prequels. Don't disagree with you. But "love" is the only acceptable reason for Anakin to become Darth Vader in reality. What else is "powerful" enough? *See Revenge of the Sith.

Hello there

Well the signatories of the Munich agreement had good intentions in mind. The Nazis thought they were acting for the benefit of their people. The Allies thought this would buy them some time. And the Czechs thought ... it would have been nice to be invited.

@@Jimba93 They didn't even bother to "Czech" it out!

Ghost Shadow PLEAAAASE!

Dumb & Dumber were rushing to ruin Star Wars harder than Lucas. The end.

Look ma i did a metoo

They needed 10 episodes per season.

Andrew Davis only from the main roles, but the good side is the books will sell like hot cakes

That's because Ford and Fisher was really in love and that chemistry shone through in the originals. Also, neither of them were entitled brats who did whatever they wanted and got away with it because of their positions. Anakin wasn't a romantic archetype like scoundrel with a heart of gold. He was a bratty prodigy who feels like he's being held back with a creepy infatuation for an older woman. And that is NEVER attractive.

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ZarodGaming Cant believe it doesn’t get a mention in this or the Episode 1 analysis

I beleive George initially planned for jarjar to be a sith but changed his role after the overwhelming hate for the character

This is full bs. The prequel fans only made that theory so that Jar Jar isn't shit but no, that won't make sense. If George wanted to make him a sith lord he wouldn't have make him a comedy relief. if you are going to tell me that this is a perfect twist then no it isn't as it would be the most hilarious and bizzare thing in star wars. People would have laughed at him being this big vilian when he was a goof ball in the last two movies and would have be stupid. So stop with this bs

@@deadshot5007 don't kink shame me .-. but serioulsy, might not make sense but jar jar as the gullible plebean that rises the ranks of power by reccomendations and becomes a liability in the form of Palpatine's manipulation (either knowing and becoming a sith or not seeing he's being manipulated) is amazing to even imagine happening in the background i agree though, him being a sith ALL ALONG, from where he first appears is silly

@@zarodgaming1844 If he wasn't presented as a comic relief then yes it would have worked other wise it would be very silly.

Tidder T Yes. But there were other people there to supervise him and only really directed the first in the original trilogy. Where in the prequel he had complete control. It’s actually one of the few times I actually accept the Studio interference.

George Lucas did not have full creative control over the original trilogy. Much of the character designs, scripts, etc were done by other people. For example the entire last act of the original movie was invented by George Lucas' wife/ girlfriend at the time. Who suggested the Death Star should try to blow up Yavin in order to add tension to the final dogfight over the Death Star. A lot of the emotional or dramatic moments that worked in the original trilogy was because George Lucas was willing to collaborate with other people. Who knew when to tell him when something was wrong or the movie was missing something. 15 years later, enter the Prequel Trilogy where Lucas has 100% control and was essentially everyone's boss who was more then willing to fire someone for not doing exactly what he wanted. And you can see the clear difference.

@Tidder TI have, actually.

@Tidder TOkay i'm going to explain this in simple terms. You just said "he gave even more freedom to others than what you described about the original trilogy above." right? George Lucas wrote, directed, produced and oversaw the editing of all three movies in the Prequel Trilogy even though he wasn't credited for doing so. Let me lay this out for you. Phantom Menace= Directer, Writer, Unaccredited Editor, Attack of the Clones= Directer, Writer, Unaccredited Editor Revenge of the Sith= Directer, Writer, Unaccredited Editor When you are the director of a movie. You are the boss. The studio hands a budget to a director to create his vision in film. Everything that is in the final product of that movie, everything that you see on that screen must be approved by the director. That's how film making works. Contrast George Lucas involvement with the original trilogy. Star Wars= Director, Writer, Music Producer Empire Strikes Back= Story By Return of the Jedi= Story By, Co writer. Do you see the contrasting difference? In Empire Strikes Back George only received a Story By credit. Which means he wrote the script outline, not even the script itself. Only in Return of the Jedi is he credited with being a co-writer. To state that George Lucas "he gave even more freedom to others than what you described about the original trilogy above." is factual incorrect. George Lucas was clearly in a far higher seat of power and involvement in the Prequel Trilogy then he was in the Original Trilogy. He directly wrote, directed and produced every single Prequel Trilogy movie. That was not the case in the Original Trilogy. Because George Lucas was not a successful filmmaker at the time. The studios resented him and almost shut down production of the first Star Wars. Obviously 15 years after the success of the original trilogy. George Lucas was the head of his own company, became a billionaire and no longer needed to rely on others to make his films. He had more then enough of his own money and power to do it exactly the way he wanted it to be done. Which is why he decided to be the head of production on the prequel trilogy. The difference in quality speaks for itself. But getting back to my original point. What you said, is wrong.

@Tidder T Um okay? Nobody is telling you to not love George Lucas. I'm explaining facts to you. Tone down your emotion.

Lmfao you will fall asleep during Zhivago if you can't even watch an action movie

You try building something at work, with workplace materials, and explaining that it's yours when you get fired. He was a slave when he built it, and left it unfinished.

FWIW, In the comics, they explain that Anakin actually didn't "build", C-3PO but repaired him. A robotics corporation built him many years earlier and he was eventually scrapped. Anakin found C-3PO in a junkyard, disassembled, and repaired him over time. Memory wiping is common place for droids when they are retired, thus the in-universe explanation why he doesn't mention his life prior to Anakin putting him back together.

C3PO even makes a reference to Anakin (Darth Vader) in "The Force Awakens", when he says "Thank the Maker!"

I liked it in "Robot Chicken", when Darth Vader tells Luke, "I am your father", and "Princess Leia is your sister", along with "And I... built C3PO. He then bores Luke when he tells him that the Force is just nothing but a bunch of microorganisms called midichlorians. lol

Do you honestly think he made C3PO from scratch? That would honestly be impossible, he just put him together.

Ewan MacGregor as Obi-Wan was honestly the best thing about the prequels. Sucks we won't get to see him again now that the anthology movies are on hold :/

"noir detective stuff was genuinely great" Hey, remember when Obi Wan discovered that a Jedi had commissioned the clone army? The prequels didn't.

You misspelled, "terrible". ;)

You are strong and wise and i'm proud of you

This.

That's...precisely why he doesn't like sand..? I mean, Tatooine is the planet where he lived the first 9 years of his life as a slave and had to leave his mother so I can't imagine it would hold many happy memories for him.

I don't like mud but I grew up on Earth

A better way to articulate the different childhoods of Anakin and Padmé would be to change Anakin’s line to “I have no fond memories of sand.”

@@colincopland3665 I don't know, that's a much more awkward thing to say than the whole "I don't like sand" thing...

Uh. Yeah. That's why he hates it. It's the place where he was, you know, a slave. He had a bomb placed in his body so he couldn't run away. Later on his mother was murdered there.

athroughzdude I guess it depends what canon you’re going by. In Legends, most clones became stormtroopers.

@@sirmount2636 By the sequel era the clones are definitely cancelled

Ocelotl Chimalpahin They’re around as far as Return of the Jedi. But they’ve been mostly phased out.

@@disturbedrocks1996 oh they have a soul its just comprised of meme culture material

Lack of proper build up for major plot events, plot decisions that were made solely for the purpose of being shocking, characters acting wildly out of character and stupid to progress the plot.

Shirley Timple Ah yes, because it's better to rush a product out and have it fall apart from shoddy workmanship, than to take your time.

EVERYTHING

@Shirley Timple What is the difference between delivering a shitty assignment first and getting a 0 and delivering it, correctly, but in the nick of time? I was going to rewatch the series after the last episode but they destroyed the entirety of the plot in s08e03. The other episodes are just further frosting the cake with more garbage.

it was great people who didn't like it should pay more attention to the actual show than stupid fan theories

Dark and cool head canon, but it doesn't work with the clone wars tv show which made anakin less of a prat. If it were just movie Anakin I'd have to agree with you.

I have a list right here. 1.Everything

Nick Gotfred the final shot of the movie with the imperial march is pretty awesome. The sound of Jango’s ship’s torpedos is cool. Everything else, oof.

There's a second good thing though: it introduced a second set of opposing factions (clones and droids) to Battlegrounds and Battlefront 1/2

Shame on all of you! Attack of the Clones was dope. The battle of Geonosis blew my mind the first time I saw it! There were several scenes during those few minutes that gave me goosebumps. The CGI was amazing when you take into account that this film is 17 years old.

The plot has a consistent theme. Good intentions can lead to evil things, fascism can rise when people are sufficiently scared of an outside threat

yeah, I wonder if the kids growing with those senseless sequels will feel the same in a couple of years

And that's just fine, I like your broad sense of perspective.

When you can’t talk normally because you spend too much time on the internet When people don’t come up with their own jokes Etc

Absolutely

I wouldn't call it chicken out, both yes and no, it's a shame he didn't have the tenacity to stick to his guns about what he had in mind, but at the same the fan backlash against the Jar Jar character was just so overwhelmingly negative and toxic that he didn't want the fans to hate for sticking to his guns. Either way it was sad and unfortunate that it all played out the way it did.

There'a no concrete evidence that darth jar jar was George Lucas's original idea, just a joke by the actor.

He gave the audience what it said it wanted. Oh, well...

Shut the f*ck up, Randy.

Friggin cheeseburger walrus

The liquors calling the shots now Randy

It often feels more like something that's there to facilitate Luke and Leia rather than something that's relevant at the time it's happening.

"IT WAS THE WILL OF THE FORCE"

I am amazed Jared didnt mention Palpatine’s influence in their relationship and the events of the war. Attack of the Clones isnt the story of a couple in love, its the story of a man machiavellically pulling the strings of everything around him: Darth Sidius, or if you believe the alternate theory, Darth JarJar.

@You'reThatMantis Because the West is not well aware of the great Russian literature. The author received the Nobel Prize for this book. I advise you to read Doctor Zhivago. I can even make the top 10 Russian books.

A brilliant movie. An even better book. Definitely, a "must-see"!

@@yogeybogeybear3542 Maybe, but the channel hasn't shied away from saying "God is a lie" before, so I doubt they'd have any qualms regarding a fictionalized version of a major religion. It's up to Wisecrack to decide.

It’s really not that complex and it’s not all that original Lucifer is hades, guarding the realm of the dead and people torture themselves with their conscience He doesn’t actually do anything It’s the exact same thing as what supernatural did with the concept of how people go to heaven and hell Seriously, it’s not a cerebral show and outright explains everything straight to the camera It’s actually got nothing to do with Christian myth for the most part haha You’ll have to get your angry-at-society rocks off some other way you sad child haha

I could never get into the show because it's so different from the comics

Wait a sec, something’s not adding up. It could be the Jyn’s father created the plans during the same time attack of the clones happened but that would make Jyn like 50 years old in rogue one

There is power in failure. To fail is to learn great truths, but only if you learn.

*Stop making excuses for the shitty writing. Anakin literally tells Padme a Jedi mind trick wouldn't work on her.*

@@bufflatino5121 😂😂😂 Sure. Whatever you say.

@@Nicholas.Rogala *It's literally IN THE FUCKING MOVIE you clown*

Oh fuck yes. Starting off with: "D&D snorted 500 pounds of coke and hired 20 vietnamese hookers, while writing the season"

"Everything." There, I just saved you about 15-20 minutes of watching deep analysis.

Its called Lucas....he wanted full creative control....he likes the prequels more than the OT since he made it exactly how he wanted it............

Agreed! Yoda pulling out his lightsaber was beyond epic.

@@JORDIIMusic What do you think of the sequel trilogy?!

Its more just out of place. Especially for what was supposed to be accomplished at that moment in the film

It's just meaningless in that situation.

@Mde Creole Shelia Sounds nice! How many innocent children did you murder?

@Mde Creole Shelia Haha. Right. We all know Saddam was going to come all the way here to take away our freedom of speech. Keep telling yourself that. How does it feel to know that almost everyone thinks that war you went to was a gigantic waste of time and money?

Because then it follows with him touching her bare skin and kissing her awkwardly