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Video game MOUTHWASHING is getting a movie adaptation, with Karyn Kusama directing for Sony. Scott Derrickson will produce. Mouthwashing was one of Bloody Disgusting’s 10 Best Video Games of 2024. In the game, crew members are stranded aboard a space freighter. Source: @THR

They fail at being epic operas even more than they fail at realism. The writing and acting is mostly flat and boring. Same goes for the cinematography. There’s nothing operatic about it. Epic perhaps in theory but certainly not in execution. You guys have created a version of the Star Wars prequels in your heads (a version that sounds pretty interesting, if only it existed) and have grafted it onto the actual films which in reality fail at whatever they were trying to do, unless they were trying to be verbose, clumsy, wooden, and bland. It’s very clear to the rest of us that the people trying to rehab the Star Wars prequels are just nostalgic for something that they enjoyed as kids. That’s fine. I have a nostalgic attachment to some crappy 90s movies like Independence Day for example. It came out when I was 10 and at the time it seemed to me like the greatest cinematic achievement in history. But then I grew up and I can now see that Will Smith punching an alien and saying “welcome to earf” is not a high point of western art. And that’s fine. It’s stupid but I still remember it fondly. You don’t have to try so hard to intellectualize some dumb bullshit you liked when you were a kid. It’s okay. It can just be dumb bullshit, which it is.

the reason millenial nerds feel a compulsion to shit on the star wars prequels, despite the obvious cinematic brilliance, is they are played entirely earnest. there is no jim from the office winking at the camera, which makes them excruciating to the irony poisoned millenial mind

It had a fucking 1950's Americana diner. From the United States of America. And the short-order cook knew intricate details of obscure galactic weaponry the Jedi Archives didn't. Everything about the movie was stupid.

I dare anyone who criticizes the acting in the Prequels to watch any opera - Italian or otherwise - and observe the performance of the actors. To most, it’s going to look goofy, stilted, and awkward, but that isn’t a flaw. That’s deliberate.

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its so funny how the star wars prequels are obviously cinematic masterpieces, but a bunch of chungus gen X nerds who never amounted to anything convinced us they were bad because they didnt make them feel like empire strikes back did when they were 10

The script is awful and plot makes no sense and is completely inconsistent with the originals

No. The Star Wars Prequels were hated because we were quite literally promised at least one or more movies about Darth Vader. Darth Vader in the helmet and cape doing the iconic, menacing breathing. Darth Vader fighting Jedi. Darth Vader enslaving Wookies. Darth Vader striding around and being a general all around badass. That was the promise. That was what all the advertising was about leading up to The Phantom Menace. (1999). Lucas welched on the deal. Instead we got podracing, fart jokes, and a creepy romance with 17-year old Natalie Portman and 8-year old Jake Lloyd.

i think people have gotten too comfortable pretending the star wars prequels are good movies

Watched The Phantom Menace last night. That is genuinely such an impossibly bad movie I can't imagine watching it in 1999

The Cloud City additions to Empire Strikes Back are just such hot garbage