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What one element would you change of the Prequels?

Discussion in 'Prequel Trilogy' started by Batman, Sep 12, 2014.

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    Well if it's any consolation, I made it a point from 87 to 94 to watch every week out of loyalty to Star Trek. And along the way there were episodes that were pretty cool. But upon viewing the show about 7 or 8 years ago I realized I was just being dishonest with myself.
     
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    A lot of great suggestions. I think they should have used episode 3 as the starting point and then use the next 2 movies too properly and satisfactorily flesh out anakin's transition to the dark side. A trilogy of movies, much darker than the OT or even ROTS.
     
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    What is the one thing I would change about the Prequels.........

    The death of Darth Maul.

    I would not have killed him off in Ep. 1, I would have had him fill in the role of General Grievous in Ep. 3.
     
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    If I had to pick ONE thing?

    I'd use one actor for Anakin for all three films. And the actor wouldn't be either of the ones they had. I can see why Lucas wanted a child, to show as much of Anakin's life as possible but Jake Lloyd wasn't a great choice. And Hayden Christiansen had ZERO charisma on screen. And NO chemistry with Portman. Some of their scenes together were cringe worthy...

    ...And I LIKED the prequels!
     
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    Someone needs to go back in time and get Leo DiCaprio or Paul Walker to be Anakin... it could have saved Paul Walker's life!
     
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    Paul Walker wasn't that great of an actor though...
     
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    I liked him lol
     
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    This. Darth Maul should have been the main bad guy of the trilogy. When Obi-Wan is fighting Grievous in 3, what if, instead, he was avenging his master?

    Why is Darth Maul the Banner for the PT on these boards? because he is the coolest part of the PT and he's only in the first one.
     
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    I'd make darth maul darth tyranus(and live through all three) instead of grievous and have grievous in control of the space battle in TPM and with anakin causing his injuries. Also merge Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon
     
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    I liked him too....and when you stop and think about it he looked more like a grown up Jake Lloyd than Hadyen did IMO.
     
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    I agree with most of the previous posts, no jar jar, better or just less CGI, slightly better plot, less continuations, less predictably, more darker.

    Probably the number one thing for me though was the choice of actor for older Anakin. Hayden wasn't right for the part IMO, although he had a couple of decent moments. For such an important role and being the main protagonist, Lucas should have picked someone with a little more experience, less good looking. Instead we are left cringing through most of EP 2, some of 3, and wishing Padme would die sooner so we can see him turn dark already.
     
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    Paul was a likable bad actor... like Keanu Reeves
     
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    No Midi Chlorians! (yoda)
     
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    To be fair, there's no individual thing that is going to fix the prequels (except my suggestion of course). These films weren't just disappointing Star Wars movies, they were bad movies in general. They were riddled with problems. You can forgive the overuse of CG, but you can't forgive terrible scripts and bad acting. Sure, the films had some good moments, but you can't use those moments to sweep the problems under the rug. You have the look at each film as a whole, and each film had some glaring problems.

    Additionally, my opinion is shared by most people. You are perfectly entitled to enjoy the movies and have the opinion that they are good; I'm not saying my opinion is worth more, but objectively speaking (well, as objective as we can be), these are poor movies. I was in denial about it for many years, but with each viewing of them, I enjoyed them less and cringed more.
     
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    I'd have Jabba feed Jar Jar to the Rancor at the earliest opportunity.
     
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    Rancor? Surely that would be too quick of a death. How about being digested over a thousand years?
     
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    Combine the first two movies into a single Vader Childhood and Education film. Bring in Kasdan for the second film. Have a second movie dealing exclusively with Anakin's exploits as a Jedi hero, showing his virtuous, heroic nature. Then have him actually turn evil, not momentarily postal.
     
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    For me i would have to change one thing that has always bugged me. Its how Qui-Gon Jinn and darth maul (same to) die. Qui Gon gets a sabre through his stomach, then darth maul gets cut in half and falls down the shaft. Quin Gon then dies in Obi Wans arms. We later find out in the clone wars that Maul is still alive. If Maul lived after being cut in half surely that made Quin Gons cut was merely a flesh wound he was a master.
     
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    Well, the big problem there is, it never made a lick of logical sense for Maul to have been brought back to life in TCW. Nobody survives being sliced in half across the midsection and then falling down a pit that's too deep to see the bottom of. Dark side or no, it just doesn't happen, even in a universe where sound carries in space and spaceships explode in massive fireballs in a vacuum... ya just don't slice some poor sod in half, dump both halves of him down a "bottomless" pit and then say, "Oh yeah, and by the way, he survived that one."

    Of course, the fact that Lucas went to those lengths and expected that ridiculous a degree of suspension of disbelief from us would seem to indicate that even HE eventually realized that it was a lousy idea to have killed Maul off in TPM in the first place. IMHO, that should have never happened. Maul should have ended up being the nemesis that Anakin couldn't beat, and who he eventually turned to the dark side in order to kill. He had too much potential to become a great villain to have been used as a disposable bad guy the way he was.

    But once Lucas had him chopped in two... that should have been the end of him, IMHO.
     
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