Fuck, I forgot how sad that movie is.
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It’s crazy to think Anakin could have had everything he ever wanted. He would have been granted the rank of master in due time, he could have lived happily ever after with the woman he loved. But instead he was groomed and manipulated by some creepy old fuck. It’s really sad.
Grew up, in this case, would mean your childhood included said media. Yeah, you had the OT in your childhood too, but the prequels weren’t strangers there either. Adult star wars fans at the time wanted something for their nostalgia.
How do you quantify that beyond your own anecdotal experience though? As you identified, that was a pre internet era. From my sample study, my dad, and all my friends parents, enjoyed the prequels, took us to theatres, and bought us a tonne of merch.
I think Disney is just using this as a scapegoat to cover up the fact that they bought the most successful franchise in the world and killed it.
Fanboys (2009) is a movie where the premise is getting a terminal friend to Skywalker Ranch to see Episode 1 before he dies. The movie ends with the joke sting “but what if it sucks?” (Or something along those lines) before fading to credits. That joke wouldn’t have landed if the general consensus was that the prequels were good.
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