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@JohnGoltStudios @mightydudbolt @CNKellerbach @langofmind At no point were they trying to stop him from becoming chancellor. Padme was in favor of it because as chancellor, he could have stepped in and done more.

@Cruizerdave1 @mightydudbolt @CNKellerbach @langofmind Kill the two jedi, who are helping Padme in her quest to retake Naboo from the Trade Federation, who are attempting to mess with Palpatine's plan regarding Naboo and him becoming Chancellor.

Everyone is giving the wrong reasons for why this sucks. It sucks because Darth Maul is a non-character. He's a guy with horns who has no interior goals or desires. Why is he here? Why are they fighting? None of this matters, and it's not about anything

@aoverton_ @screenrant Snyder liked the pictures in The Dakr Knight Returns, but didn’t read it. Or if he did, he didn’t understand it.

@screenrant The Batsuit (Dark Knight Returns inspired) is the greatest live action Batsuit OF ALL TIME.

A decade on, though, it’s evident that #Batman v #Superman: Dawn of Justice was judged too harshly. It throws generic formula to the wind in favor of a darker, brutal reality. 🎞️ Read More: screenrant.com/batman-v-super…

@paul_r24759 @screenrant That’s the thing. Batman is a brainless brute and Superman is a depressed emo god. This film tried to be edgy, but came off as something a 13-year-old nerd would write and think was cool.

@screenrant I can't believe you posted this. They made Batman look stupid, he should have seen what was going on ahead of time. Gave Superman less restraint and control. Superman would have been mindful of the people around the fight. So no, or as few as possible, citizens would get hurt.

@screenrant Wrong. Everything is wrong. This movie misunderstands the two main characters, its plot is idiotic, and it manages to be both pretentious and stupid at the same time.

@avidfilm @SandyofCthulhu Why do slaves live in a comfortable home where they can have dinner guests, personal freedoms, Anakin has his own room and the means and time to build robots and space hot rods. They either intended to make slavery look awesome OR it’s poorly written.

Sigh, first of all, the movie clearly explains that the slaves on Tattoine have an explosive device in their bodies that will explode if they run away. Qui Gon would not only have to restrain Watto, he would have to threaten him to have him dismantle the bomb, and that’s just not within his character. Secondly, even if Qui Gon did save Shmi from slavery, the Jedi Order expressly forbids familial relationships, which is clearly shown when the Jedi pretty much reject him because of his emotional attachment to his mother and his fear of losing her. And thirdly, if you say that her being rescued from slavery would not impact the story any differently than her simply being killed, why is it so important to you that she is freed in the first place? Her not being freed serves a purpose in that it forces Anakin to say goodbye to her sooner than would be necessary had she been freed. I’m sorry, it’s not my intention to be rude, but it’s stuff like this that makes it clear that a lot of prequel haters are just grasping at straws and not actually engaging with the actual films.

Qui Gon Jinn killed 4 humans in The Phantom Menace. He also killed a ton of battle droids, but I don't count those. He wouldn't have even had to kill Anakin's owner. Just steal his slaves and run away. Lock Watto in a closet for a while or something. Have a fun escape sequence taking Anakin off to their starship and flying away. "But that's illegal!" And fixing the pod race isn't illegal? It wouldn't have destroyed the rest of the story arc either. You can easily find other reasons for Anakin to turn to the dark side despite having his mother rescued. Perhaps while they're escaping to the starship they go through the desert and some sandpeople see them and a shot hits mom. Or in the shock of the ship's taking off mom falls down and breaks her neck and Anakin internally, subconsciously, blames Qui Gon Jinn. Looky there. I spent FIVE MINUTES thinking up alternate ideas for Anakin's mom and I came up with several ways all more sensible than the retarded idea they used. This is why we hate the Phantom Menace. Because it deserves it. It's not just Jar Jar. The retarded "Midichlorian" bit. The gross misuse of Darth Maul - so built up, yet so wasted. It's maddening. As I've said before, I went into The Phantom Menace excited and happy and expecting a renewal of the greatness of Star Wars. I fought hard against my cognitive dissonance while watching - my eyes & ears telling me it sucked, while my brain was trying to convince me it was okay. But by the end it was too objectively clearly awful. And the fact that the Disney movies were EVEN WORSE doesn't make the prequels any better.

@mightydudbolt @CNKellerbach @langofmind The Terminator has a stated goal - eliminate the mother of the human resistance leader that will defeat Skynet. What is Darth Maul’s objective?

@CNKellerbach @langofmind The Terminator and Darth Maul are both horror monster–type characters who are specifically designed to act as ciphers whom the audience can project their fears and anxieties onto. It is a very appropriate comparison.

@letsgetfree13 @langofmind Decepticons want energy to fuel their expansionist desires while Autobots fight to protect others from being exploited. It’s pretty clearly spelled out in the 80s cartoon and comic. Less so in Bayformers, but those are trash.

@langofmind He's a sith lord. Siths kill Jedi. That's like asking why Decepticons fight Autobots.

@langofmind @letsgetfree13 Decepticons are generally trying to procure energy to fuel their expansionist empire, while the Autobots are trying to stop them from enslaving others. It’s actually pretty well defined.

@letsgetfree13 Wait, actually why do Decepticons fight Autobots

@langofmind That’s the thing. What is Maul’s goal here? What is the Jedi’s goal in this conflict? What is the objective?

@bestofstarwar Child Boba saying “hee hee hee” cancels out the cool bombs.

“I genuinely can't understand how the previous generation saw this in 2002 and said "this sucks".”

@AdamasNemesis @CptAncapistan @Shuttlecock Yes he was. He brought poop and fart jokes into Star Wars.

@CptAncapistan @Shuttlecock Not my favorite character by any stretch of the imagination, but come on, he wasn't *that* bad...

The thing is, a whole generation didn’t hate the Star Wars prequels. I was 18 when Phantom Menace came out, saw it opening night with a few friends from student res, and then rewatched it at least three or four times in the theatre over the next month or so. Pretty much everyone saw this movie (and EpII & III). Guys and girls. Nerds and casuals. Many went multiple times (the box office numbers prove this). The merch sold through the roof, every magazine featured cover stories with the cast, most casual fans thought Jar Jar was funny while the Star Wars nerds were obsessed with the tech behind the character. Girls loved Padme’s fashion while straight guys loved Portman. The online fandom was hyperactive with fan theories, fan art, etc with a very clear even split between the male/female demos. Fan and general public reaction was insanely positive. This particular scene became ICONIC. 98% of the negativity came from the professional film critics. TPM wasn’t perfect by any means but the media definitely tried to push the message that it was a disaster, Jake Lloyd sucked, and that Jar Jar was offensive and racist. This weird gaslighting that it was the fans who were negative and toxic is just current media trying to do damage control for just how negative they were at the time.

@CptAncapistan @Shuttlecock Truth!

@Shuttlecock Everyone always hated Jar Jar

@Shuttlecock That’s simply not true. People dragged the guy at Aint it Cool for years after he gave it a glowing review.

@valeriefinnigan @gentlemen_net @FantasyGalaxies Prenatal care wasn’t the states issue. The technical wonderland they lived in simply could ascertain why she died. She didn’t hemorrhage. She just lost the will to live. It was nonsense.

@Cruizerdave1 @gentlemen_net @FantasyGalaxies To be fair, her marriage just fell apart, and because they had to keep that marriage and all results so secret, she apparently received little to no prenatal care. I mean, she didn’t even know she was having twins until they were being born.

I genuinely can't understand how the previous generation saw this in 2005 and said "this sucks"

@JamesJewiss1 @NobleBrown My thing is why is Darth Maul fighting these guys? What does he want? What is there for him to gain? It’s just music stinger - time for a lightsaber fight. What is Maul’s goal?

The light sabre sequences were amazing, know one argued that. But the story telling, acting and a script were a massive let down compared to the original trilogy. Plus the CGI was in its infancy and lacked the gritty feel of real models and didnt have the feel of an ancient galaxy. The poster eho mentioned the fact us older fans wwre comparing it to the previous films and the newer fans are comparing it to the newer shit sandwiches they have been fed is completely valid.

Because only 30 minutes of it DIDN'T suck You're judging this against the Last Skywalker slop I'm judging it against Empire Strikes Back We are not the same

@gunsnroses Hope she’s OK!

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@anishmoonka That's a good explanation. I mean, look at the Marvel films. You have the most colorful costumes and world out there, and most of the films all look desaturated and gray.

Warm colors increase your heart rate. Cool, washed-out tones lower it. Every remake you’ve watched in the last decade has been deliberately color-graded to flatten that signal. It started in 2000. The Coen Brothers shot O Brother, Where Art Thou? in Mississippi during summer, when everything was, in Joel Coen’s words, “greener than Ireland.” They wanted a dusty Depression-era look. Cinematographer Roger Deakins tried every trick in the book: chemical treatments, lens filters, old darkroom techniques. Nothing worked. So they did something no one had done before: digitally scanned the entire film and recolored it frame by frame. Deakins spent 11 weeks turning lush greens into burnt yellows. No feature film had ever been entirely digitally color graded before. Every major studio adopted the technique within a few years. And then the problems started. Modern film cameras don’t capture what your eyes actually see. They intentionally record flat, grey, washed-out footage to capture as much detail as possible. The plan is for the color team to add vibrant color back in later. But the people doing that work stare at grey footage for weeks. Their eyes adjust. One filmmaker admitted he’d bring saturation up to 120% and feel satisfied, then realized the image still looked desaturated to everyone else. He had to crank it to 200% before it looked normal. That’s just eye fatigue. The color draining also happens on purpose. Muting colors hides bad CGI. If a computer-generated background doesn’t quite match the actors, draining the color smooths over the mismatch. The Lord of the Rings extended editions look flatter than the theatrical cuts for exactly this reason: the added scenes had less polished effects, so they were washed out to cover it. Then streaming made it permanent. Bright colors look messy when video gets compressed for phones and laptops. Dull colors look consistent whether you’re watching on a 75-inch TV or a 6-inch phone screen. So studios color their movies for the smallest screen in the room. Your brain registers the difference even if you can’t name it. Your eyes are wired to perceive warm, rich colors as closer and more immediate. Washed-out tones create emotional distance. When a studio drains color from a scene, they’re dampening the emotional signal the image sends to your brain. Old film stock didn’t have this problem. Kodak and Fuji films had rich, punchy color built into the physical chemistry of the film itself. Each brand had a distinct look you could recognize. Digital cameras capture flat, neutral data by default. Getting that warm, vivid “film look” from digital requires skilled work that costs time and money. Most productions don’t invest enough of either. Modern cameras can capture a wider range of colors than film ever could. The technology has never been better. The choices have never been lazier.

@RestrictedDaily I feel like other people have played Superman, but Christopher Reeve WAS Superman.

No disrespect to the others… but Christopher Reeve set the standard for Superman and nobody’s touched it since. Agree or disagree?

@TimothyDooner @IGN My kids love the OT. They kind of make fun of the prequels, and don’t take them seriously. As for the sequels, they were happy to see them once, but don’t revisit them.

@IGN It won’t. Prequels were loved by Millennials but hated by oldheads. The new trilogy is not liked by kids. I have two boys on elementary school. SW is a dead brand with them and their friends unfortunately

The puppeteer behind Star Wars droid BB-8 has said Disney's divisive sequel trilogy will eventually become as beloved as the saga's prequels — in around a decade's time. bit.ly/47j9e2X

@MalCat191392 @IGN They are a guilty pleasure. Yes we love the music, the effects broke new ground and there is lots of mindless action, but man the dialog is so bad, the scripts awful and the story poorly paced and executed!

@IGN The prequels are 'beloved' because we love to make fun of them. I don't think your films should asipre to be the quasimodo of the franchise.