Bigger drop in quality?

[futurefields]

Lord of the Rings trilogy to the Hobbit trilogy

or

Star Wars Original trilogy to the Prequel trilogy?



Tough call right guys? I haven't seen the last Hobbit movie yet but the first two did not have any of the real magic the LOTR movies did, similar to the Prequel trilogy and Star Wars.

 

[Mayne]

gonna have to go with apples to oranges here. Peter Jackson should of stopped the gravy train and Lucas should of been part of his legacy...its such a tough question to answer to be honest.

 

[futurefields]

gonna have to go with apples to oranges here. Peter Jackson should of stopped the gravy train and Lucas should of been part of his legacy...its such a tough question to answer to be honest.

He wrote and directed all 3 prequels no? I don't follow.

 

[Mayne]

He wrote and directed all 3 prequels no? I don't follow.

I got mixed up with the latest sw film. Still confusing question though.

 

[brianmanahan]

home alone 2 to home alone 3

beats them both

 

[Balt]

Lord of the Rings trilogy to the Hobbit trilogy

or

Star Wars Original trilogy to the Prequel trilogy?



Tough call right guys? I haven't seen the last Hobbit movie yet but the first two did not have any of the real magic the LOTR movies did, similar to the Prequel trilogy and Star Wars.

I would say the Hobbit movies were watchable but just very forgettable.

The Star Wars prequels were truly terrible, though.

 

[pete6032]

Star wars Episode I may be the most disappointing movie ever made.

 

[norseamd]

Star wars Episode I may be the most disappointing movie ever made.

Maybe only because it was so anticipated.

Episode 7 is by far the worst Star Wars movie ever made.

 

[Ruptga]

Episode 7 is by far the worst Star Wars movie ever made.

False, 1 has basically no redeeming qualities as a movie. 7 is simply uninspired, it's stupid and derivative but even at its worst it just can't compete with Jar Jar.

 

[motsm]

I only watched the first Hobbit movie, and while it wasn't awful, it was bland enough for me to skip the sequels. That said, The Lord of the Rings trilogy is a really high bar, one of the best trilogies ever made, as all three movies are equally strong in their own ways.

The Star Wars prequels are simply bad, but I also don't think the original Star Wars trilogy is as strong as The Lord of the Rings. Star Wars is a good film, but hasn't aged as well as the two films proceeding it. Empire is indeed great, and really sets up the finale nicely, but RotJ decides to sloppily close all of the plot threads left open in Empire with a prologue, so it can pointlessly retread the Death Star plot from the first movie.

Then they decide to reboot the series, and Episode 7 had to have another Death Star plot. OK, but at least they got that out of their system. Rogue One is going to have a completely original plot, and most certainly won't be about a Death Star... nope, never...

So I guess it's hard to top just how unbelievably awful and redundant Star Wars has become, even if the originals aren't all they've been built up to be in pop culture.

 

[twinrider1]

Jar Jar Binks.

/thread.

 

[DigDog]

the star wars prequels are the worst piece of filmmaking ever made. if i could live in a world where they were never made, but every morning someone vomits on me, i would make the switch.

now, what were you asking?

 

[Lyfer]

the star wars prequels are the worst piece of filmmaking ever made. if i could live in a world where they were never made, but every morning someone vomits on me, i would make the switch.

now, what were you asking?

Lol.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

False, 1 has basically no redeeming qualities as a movie. 7 is simply uninspired, it's stupid and derivative but even at its worst it just can't compete with Jar Jar.

Agreed no chances were taken with episode 7 but that's a good thing after episodes 1-3

I also want to add:
Far too much kid stuff in episode 1
Then "hold me like you held me by the lake in Naboo" ugh!
Or the 30 second conversion to Darth Vader. Ugh

 

[Sonikku]

Not gonna lie. Despite holding the originals from my childhood in higher esteem, I like the Star Wars prequels. The prequels clearly had a lot more on their mind than The Hobbit or even the Star Wars original trilogy. I've commented on this before, it's a story about a mostly well meaning people being taken in by the silver tongued populist into becoming complicit in the destruction of their own liberty and democracy over promises of security. It was just poorly executed.

I like episode 3 a great deal more than 7. 7 should have been about the struggles of the rebel alliance shifting from a Guerrilla warfare military to being a functional government that works. The First Order should have adapted from big budget super weapons to utilizing the same hit and run tactics used so successfully by their enemy, the line between terrorists and freedom fighters becoming blurred. Instead they went for an episode 4 retread. Too bad.

 

[motsm]

Agreed no chances were taken with episode 7 but that's a good thing after episodes 1-3

Two wrongs don't make a right.

 

[GagHalfrunt]

The Hobbit movies were dull and too long. But if the entire trilogy was cut down to lets say a single two or two and a half hour flick it would have been a good movie there because what was shot was decent. The Star Wars prequels were outright bad. The acting was awful, the writing was awful, the characters were awful, even edited down to the best bits it still would not have been good because the best bits were weak.

 

[cubby1223]

Lord of the Rings trilogy to the Hobbit trilogy
or
Star Wars Original trilogy to the Prequel trilogy?

Tough call right guys? I haven't seen the last Hobbit movie yet but the first two did not have any of the real magic the LOTR movies did, similar to the Prequel trilogy and Star Wars.

Actually quite a simple call.

Lord of the Rings trilogy - extremely good
Star Wars Original trilogy - fantastically amazing

Hobbit trilogy - meh but very tolerable
Star Wars Prequel trilogy - ridiculously god-awful I haven't seen the movies since the theaters and never will again


Star Wars original trilogy is better than Lord of the Rings, and Star Wars prequels are worse than the Hobbit. Very easy to call which was the bigger drop in quality. Then to tack on, I would place Star Wars episode 7 below The Hobbit trilogy but certainly above the prequels. Episode 7 was a bad story with a bad plot. The Hobbit was a very good story, it just was badly stretched out into a trilogy. I'll take a good story with bad execution over a bad story with good execution.

 

[zerocool84]

Hobbit was done fairly close to the LotR movies so it's similar enough in style even though I didn't much think Hobbit was great. The prequel Star Wars movies were done LONG after the originals. Plus all three original Star Wars movies were directed by different people.