Chris
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This is pretty much how I feel. The prequel trilogy has no heart. It's a bunch of soulless CGI designed to sell toys.
The original Star Wars was one of the originators of the "used future" idea. Things were dirty and felt like people lived there. The prequel trilogy has that fake, anesthetic look where everything looks like it was designed solely for the movie. Nothing feels real or lived in. The staggering amount of CGI also takes away from the trilogy as a whole. CGI should be used to enhance a scene or to show something that can't be done easily with regular special effects. It shouldn't be used to create basic fucking sets, and the fact that Lucas used it so damn much really hurt the prequels in my mind because that's what gave them that anesthetic feel.
I really don't see what the third movie did differently from the first two aside from being rated PG-13 for some reason. All of the fights were stupid and ridiculous. Does anyone remember the fight between Obi-Wan and Vader in A New Hope? The fight itself was awful, but we cared about it because both characters were well-written and well-acted. I can't bring myself to care about any of the fights in the new movie because they are all over-choreographed to death and feature characters with almost no development, poor acting, and worse writing.
The lightsaber fights in the original trilogy were great in part because of their simplicity. We were focused on the characters and their conflicts rather than the ridiculous choreography. When it comes to fighting, simple is almost always better than needlessly complex. This is the same thing that made the fights in the original The Matrix so much better than the ones in the two sequels.
I thought the fights in the originals were pretty awful. Part of it was the time in which the movies were made. I liked the last one because the music was sweet and obviously the stakes were high.