Star Wars: The Movies (Spoilers)

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True, but the failures of the prequels did not influence the sequels in any way. It wasn't like the ending of TLJ, where we were like... okay, where do we go from here? RotS hit a hard reset on everything the prequels has had built up.

Was it interesting directing btw? Rian's was, but JJ's was "just" good. He had his bits and pieces, mostly with the two Kylo vs. Rey duels, he managed to make them look fresh and interesting, but it's really hard to appreciate ROS with its insane pacing. Also, some of his nice shots (ie. Knights of Ren posing on top of the dunes) are nothing more than scenes for the trailers, and otherwise makes no sense. JJ's work would have been more than enough if it was accompanied by a decent story, but overall I prefer Rian's visuals. Even the questionable casino planet had some fun shots, like the trampling of the casinos.

This is what I mean, even with a crappy story, a decent director will at least make it look interesting to watch. With the prequels, there's just nothing really amazing going on. It's all filmed quite basic and blandly. I guess the pod race scene was decent. But beside that, nothing really stuck with me at all. I can't point out another scene that was good and stuck with me. I wish Lucas would go all insane Lucasy and redo all of the special effects from the prequels.