“Star Wars: The Last Jedi” director Rian Johnson over the weekend revealed what made the prequel trilogy so good.
What’s going on:
- Social media engaged in discussion over the “Star Wars” prequel trilogy after Scott Malthouse asked Twitter to “Say a genuinely nice thing about the Star Wars prequels.”
- Johnson responded: “Lucas made a gorgeous 7 hour long movie for children about how entitlement and fear of loss turns good people into fascists, and did it while spearheading nearly every technical sea change in modern filmmaking of the past 30 years.”
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The “Star Wars” prequel trilogy includes “Star Wars: Episode I: The Phantom Menace” (1999), “Star Wars: Episode II: Attack of the Clones” (2002), and “Star Wars: Episode III: Revenge of the Sith” (2005).
The prequel trilogy controversy
- Over the years, “Star Wars” fans have panned the prequel trilogy, saying that the films did not meet the high expectations, according to Newsweek. The films weren’t as good as the originals, too, according to Newsweek. These controversies have made fans dislike the series.
- In recent years, the prequel trilogy gained in popularity. In fact, as I wrote about before, the prequels have been a focus of youngsters on TikTok. For a short time, TikTok users changed their profile pictures to images from the prequel trilogy.