7 things you'd change about the prequel trilogy

I won't change anything. I'm a spectator and I take what is given. My choice is to like it or not but I'm not the owner or the guardian of the story. I'm not gonna say I would have done better than the ones who do things especially when I sit in a couch.

 

Spoil sport hahahaha

 

Seven... you only need to change three things.
1. The Phantom Menace.
2. Attack of the Clones.
3. Revenge of the Sith.

 

Agree with you. The only problem is I think they are here to stay. Personally wish they could erase the whole abomination and do a whole reboot on the prequels. Ain't gonna happen. I'm sure Lucas would have put that in the contract somewhere when he sold it all to Disney. I'd say undo most of the terrible alterations he made to the OT too but again he probably told Disney they can't do that. I think that what he did to the OT angers me even more than the prequels. I don't care if they were his to do what he wanted. Without the fans buying tickets and merchandise of the first film he wouldn't have been able to have made the rest of the saga. They are more the fans property than his in my opinion! He totally ignored that fact and treated us as if we were nothing to him!

 

Prequels are like Darth Vader. More machine than man. A mix of good and bad. Potential for greatness wasted.

 

I'd change the laziness of The VFX...I saw a feature recently where Rob Coleman says, "We wanted 60 shots this week, but we got 450!"

 

The things I would change are these:

#1-Anakins age in TPM. He should have been at least as old and grown up looking as Padme.

#2-Things put in the movie just to make kids laugh =Jar Jar's goofiness, poop, fart. Boss Nass cleaning his saliva, Battle Droid goofiness ect.

#3-Have Darth Maul survive till AOTC and have Grievous introduced there instead of Dooku. That way we could have Darth Maul be the one who battled Yoda while Grievous escaped with the Death Star plans. Yoda would be the one to take down Maul and his defeat would have much more meaning and Grievous could have fought Obi Wan and Anakin when they rescued Palpatine. He would loose this fight to Anakin after leaving Obi Wan unconscious but he would have escaped afterwards.

#4-No Midichlorians

#5-Have the Jedi order be more galant and knightlike. After hearing Ben Kenobi's description of the Jedi in ANH, I always pictured Jedi as heroes who helped those in need no matter what and not just because it was convinient to them. It was a little shocking to have such an image tarnished by having Qui Gon tell a little slave boy that he wasn't there to free slaves. Even knowing the kid and his mom had bombs inside them, had Anakin not been the chosen one, Qui Gon wouldn't have cared to leave the little kid to his fate as that was simply none of his buisness. Then Obi One puts the topping on the cake by saying his comment about Qui Gon picking up another pathetic lifeform. I don't know about you guys but that just wasn't what I imagined a Jedi would be like after watching the OT.

#6-Make the nightclub from AOTC and the Opera House from ROTS better. The Mos Eisley cantina really did look like a cantina and it was full of awesome creatures and cool music. Jabba's palace was awesome as well and it even had a cool musical number and great aliens as well but the Night Club was kind of sucky and it had no life in that scene. Just putting a few scantily clad girls in the scene and a dorky Star Trek drug dealer does not an awesome nightclub make. The Opera House sucked big time as well and if it weren't for me having read it elsewhere, I would have never known they were watching an opera. That looked like acrobats jumping from one bubble to the next and it could be better compared to a circus and if I hadn't seen art of that scene elsewhere, I would have never even known those were Mon Calamari swimming there.

#7-Have Durge and Ventress be in the movies. Even if it were minor roles, such important characters needed to be part of the Clone Wars.

 

1. No Jar Jar, or Grievous... walking carpets are fine.
Babbling frogmen & coughing half-droids are not.

2. More Maul... in all three films. Let the Iridonian-Zabrak exit stage left after killing Qui Gon Jinn thinking that Kenobi was vanquished by the long fall. Let his arrogance end up being his downfall in ROTS, without all the force-powered finger-leaping, overhead force-pulling, mysterious saber switching to Maul's other hand, poo-doo. Develop Kenobi for Alderaan's sake... show us HIS struggle with lust for revenge, show us how his flaws were passed to his Padawan. And no slaying Jedi babies, for the love of lightsabers THAT was plain STUPID. Let the clones whack the kids, we hate Stormtroopers anyways.

3. Skip the pod racing toy grab scenes and make Anakin a teenager. Wanna show us how hard it was to leave slave life? Do the flashback thing or force nightmare. Anything but Yippeee!!

4. Anakin and Padme had a nerd with no lady-skills writing their fireplace and balcony scenes, my goodness find someone with a clue. Beg the former Mrs Lucas to work her magic once again... forget Kasdan, its Marcia that the prequels missed most.

5. Send Rick "Yes-Man" Mccallum to Mustafar in the Outer Rim, on a one way ticket... for agreeing to all the overuse of CGI. Somebody had to tell G.Walton no and RC wanted no part of that. Banish him. Forever.

6. With Mr Lee gone, I'll tread lightly here with Dooku.... he would have been excellent as a former Jedi turned Senator from wherever. And make his #1, Tarkin's young double... who just happens to work for Darth Sidious. No loose ends, people.

7A. No lightsabers for Yoda and Sidious... just badassery with the force.

7B. No Boba is a Jango clone. Just. No.

 

I'll add more later but my top three are a rewriting the dialogue with a team of skilled script writers.

Replacing Hayden Christenson with Leonardo DiCaprio or Christian Bale or another top tier actor.

In Revenge of the SIth I would have had Anakin kill a bunch of jedi council members and jedi knights instead of having him kill some children and cutting away into a montage, I would have shown the power of the chosen one.

 

Ooh, this should be fun:

1. Remove C-3PO and Chewbacca. Make R2 a personal droid to Bail Organa.

2. Make Jar Jar a drunken warrior/guardsman who shapes up into a competent and well-respected leader in the climax of TPM.

3. Either increase Anakin's age or decrease Padme's age in TPM (Now that I think of it, picking the latter would make the decoy queen twist a lot of sense.)

4. In AotC, use green-screen effects PROPERLY.

5. BETTER DIALOGUE!1!1

6. Improve Anakin's transition to the Dark Side.

7. Despite being hilariously iconic, Darth Vader's "NOOooo!" line needs to go.

 

Nail on the head here.

 

Owen would be his biological brother or STILL his step-brother ?

 

I think, step-brother would be more acceptable. As he is maybe adopted, to work on the farm.

 

That's still a form of slavery . . .

 

Yeah which I still like. It would give Vader that bit more of an edge to his character. Going from a orphan who feels rejected and lost, then to a slave being told what to do, ect.. loathing to have a family, to be loved.. Then gets discovered that he can use the force, and goes from Orphan, Slave, Jedi, then a Sith ruling the galaxy!

Almost like Citizen Kane.

 

Haha, I refuse to watch that! I've never heard Drake! and I never will! I'm a Jedi, like my father before me!

 

Basically, Drake is a privileged Canadian kid who sings about "starting from the bottom."

 

It's an interesting thread because I think it's a cert that Disney will give us special editions with lots of changes. It's well within their capability to rearrange and or cut scenes or parts of scenes, to add deleted scenes or to complete and add unfinished scenes, to improve dated cgi, to change the voice and dialogue of certain irritating characters or delete their dialogue altogether (droids). Some of the best fan edits have already shown the way to go with these movies and Disney could do a lot worse than following their lead.

 

I Liked the politics sub plot, i will 100% concede that the execution of the plot wasn't great, but the plot line it self that Palpatine got the senate to hand him power via political scheming and playing one side against the other, is great and so refreshing over the usual bad guy raises an army of evil and tries to conquer. So I give utter credit to Lucas for having the ambition to try and pull of such a complex and original plot, its just a shame he didn't quite succeed. Thou the "So this is how liberty dies... with thunderous applause." line is genius!

My own changes would be:

• Anakin's age in Episode One, would have had him same age as Padme.
• I probably would have had Anakin's fall at the end of Episode 2, as just two much was crammed into Revenge of the Sith, and Anakins turn to the Dark Side was way to rushed.
• Not have C3PO created by Anakin.
• A better Reason for Obi Wan and Yoda to go into hiding, I mean Obi won his duel and Yoda only just lost.... it seemed bizarre that they then just went into hiding.... was like grow a pair lads, re-group and have another crack at Palpatine.
• Cut Jar Jar
• A bit of an explanation into Anakins virgin birth thing, i don't really like the idea, but if your gonna do it you have to explain it a bit more on screen.
• And Lucas generally getting a bit more help to tell tell his vision on screen, cos over all i love most of lucas's idea's for the prequels, but he just doesn't manage to pull them off a lot of the time, and probably would if he'd just got a bit more outside help like he did on the original trilogy.

all my other gripes about the prequel trilogy, are about individual scenes, (like Anakin blowing up the droid control ship by accident, and C3PO's head been put on a battle droids body....) rather then overriding issues with the trilogy itself.

Having said all that i'm not a prequel hater, their are lots of things about the films i love and don't want to see them marginalized or pushed to one side as star wars moves forward.