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Here's a list of tons of leftist movies.
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I'd watch it because it's good, not because it's Star Wars fan fiction.
protip: George Lucas only made 6 Star Wars movies.
The prequels get too much credit. People have nostalgia glasses on for what were bad movies. The same complaints today about the Disney trilogy (except for the chud complaints) were made about the prequels.
Like how you gonna have Samuel L. Jackson in your movie and have him be completely wooden? There's multiple academy award winners and nominees in there, yet their acting sucks. It's because they had a shitty director with Lucas not letting anyone else have input or telling him no.
I was still a kid, but older going into my teens when they came out. I remember the reactions people had, comparing them to the original trilogy. My point is, chuds get themselves worked up over a franchise that's been objectively terrible as though they were the pinnacle of modern cinema. They need to just shut the fuck up and enjoy the slop.
I don't know, I'll defend the prequels a little bit. They're still bad movies, but they're bad in a way that was... interesting? Besides pod racing, which rips, they had some actual political ideas and were at least set against a backdrop of a liberal democracy descending into fascism.
A manufactured war creates a crisis and goads a small group of bourgeois senatorial elites to concentrate power in the hands of a unitary executive who uses that power to abolish the liberal democracy. The sequels don't have anything resembling politics, just vibes.
George absolutely needed reined in but he did have some good ideas in the all the slop. But I'm willing to give him way more slack for modeling the rebels in the OT after the Viet Cong than maybe should.