26th April 2018, 10:12 PM
Dark Jaguar Wrote:The thing is ABF, just because the concept of a democracy falling to war mongering is a valid one to tell in a story, and the "point" of the story, it doesn't make it good. A story can have an admirable lesson but still be told utterly terribly. Heck, there are stories with reprehensible lessons that are told in absolutely amazing ways. "Thank You For Smoking" comes to mind. Basically, the "moral" of a story has almost nothing to do with whether it's good or bad.Sure, of course having a good idea doesn't automatically make something good, but fortunately the Star Wars prequels do a lot of things really well, so they're great regardless. When compared to the original Star Wars trilogy, really the only thing they definitely do worse is humor, which I've always thought isn't nearly as good in the prequels as it is in the originals. But the story, writing, characters, visuals, etc, I at least have always thought that the Star Wars prequels do all of those things great, regardless of what people say. The prequels are really great movies.
My order for how much I like the Star Wars movies goes 6 > 4 > 5 = 3 > 2 > 1 > R1 > 7 >= 8. I'm not sure which is worse between 7 and 8, both do so many things so wrong... in some ways 8 is better, but in other ways it's worse...
Quote:Also, Trump is not half the war monger the Bush administration was. Trump's presidency has more in common with Idiocracy,Well, Trump's instincts are less warmongering than Cheney's, but with our new National Security Adviser (Bolton) I'm sure we'll be involved in more wars soon, since he is a huge fan of war. The only questions is about how long it'll take Trump to listen to him.
But yeah, Trump is nothing like Palpatine. Palpatine is an evil genius with a clever and devious plan, while Trump is an idiot who happened to take advantage of America's greatest weakness, racism, to chance into the Presidency. Where they are similar is that both are antidemocratic people who, once in power, act to undermine the democracy that they lead. We are fortunate that Trump is as incompetent as he is, because him and his team have been damaging our democracy in a lot of ways and that will continue for as long as they are in office...
But yes, so far our system is holding just well enough that Trump's antidemocratic tendencies, and tweets, haven't led to an American dictatorship or such. But his success as far as he has gotten shows our system's weaknesses in ways people didn't imagine before. The idea of America falling to autocracy is much more plausible today than it was when the Star Wars prequels released.
Quote:and the Ster Wers prequels were not primarily about that politics stuff. It was about "family", apparently, according to George RR Lucas. I can forgive you for thinking it's about Palpatine though, since the movies themselves tend to meander around forgetting what they are about, not unlike the Hobbit trilogy.Sure it's about family, but it's also about politics. Those are the two major focus points of the films' plots.
Quote:not unlike the Hobbit trilogy
On that note, I saw all three Hobbit movies in theaters when they released, and they were good. They're a big step down from the exceptional original Lord of the Rings movie trilogy, more so than Star Wars original series vs. prequels almost certainly, but I still liked them. They're too long for the amount of story they have to cover, but I liked them and don't mind that they stretched The Hobbit over three films; two would have been better, but three works.