Seems to me like Mark Hammil is truly and the most loyal person related to SW ever. Perhaps even more than George himself. I love the prequels btw. I can see issues where people point but I love it. Now, the sequels are a whole different thing. I hate that. But that's just me. May the Force be with you!

Marcia Lucas: The Sequel Trilogy sucks! Prequel fans: Hell yes! Marcia Lucas: The Prequel Trilogy also sucks! Prequel fans: nutegunray.jpg "She can't do that, shoot her or something."

I grew up during the prequel era and i enjoyed them.I'm glad mark hamill defended them.

Mark is probably the greatest proponent to the fans and Star Wars.

Mark Hamill loved the meme culture of the prequel trilogy.

I grew up on both trilogies, while they are far from perfect, I still love them. They are both different which is a good thing. I love the Originals but the Prequels might win it in my eyes because of the expanded story, blurred lines between good and evil and the great spinoffs, like Clone Wars. I wish fans didn't crap all over the prequels as much as they did. If not we might have had a half-decent conclusion to the Starwars universe.

I still love the prequels, it set up the original trilogy without relying on throwing references to it every scene. The sequel trilogy was terrible in my opinion it wasn't even a trilogy! Just felt like a very bad fan level for the old Jedi knight games! We messed up episode 8 so here's Palpatine..... Again! The starwars saga ended with RotJ for me!!!!!

I am 11 years younger than return of the jedi and i enjoyed both the OT and PT

Revenge of the sith is still one of the best star wars movies to date.

The prequel trilogy brought us the clone wars, became a meme factory, and expanded the lore like alot.

The prequels are getting attacked again, we must win the war and fight back!

I always loved the prequels and still have no problem with it

I'm a firm believer that everyone has their right to their own opinions, & everyone shouldn't be expected to agree. That said, I can totally respect where Marcia Lucas is coming from on this. Undoubtedly, she invested a lot of herself in the original trilogy & helped her ex-husband make it the masterpiece it is today. From that line of thought, it's easy for me to see how she'd believe George screwed up on the prequels. I think he screwed up with some of the revisions he did to the original trilogy, so there's numerous things I don't like in the prequels. Of course, there are things I actually like in the prequel trilogy, too, but I'd never say it measures up to the originals.

Prequels 1 and 2 were OK . But Revenge of the Sith was a home run. Totally Knocked it out of the ballpark Which is an achievement . Very few trilogies have a best part 3

Can we at least all agree that lightsaber combat was best during the prequels?

"Filled with eye candy" When I was 11 and young, I saw a lot of CGI :D When I was 14 and hornee, I saw Padmé's beIIybutton XD Edit: And to complete this, when I was 17, full of rage, rebellious and just wanting to kick rears, I saw Obi-Wan and Anakin fighting over lava 😎

I've said it before and I'll say it again EP3 Caries the trilogy the Acting, fight choreography, darker tone, high stakes and satisfying conclusion leading to the OT are truly well rounded. And the cinematography in the opening scene is some of George's best work.

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Most adults back then we’re fine and actually really liked the prequels, when III came out.

I was under the impression Mark Hamill didn't watch the Prequels and he was just surprised how the Prequels was hated.

I feel prequels are ok because they explored different themes. The sequels felt like a rehash of the OT, jedi destroying another death star, killing the emperor again

Really the only thing I didn't like about the prequels is JarJar.

story wise, especially episode 1, the prequels are not the best movies still I loved them.

I’m from the original trilogy and I loved the prequels

The prequels did such an amazing job with world building that I can overlook some of the clunky to bad dialogue.

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I had the exact same misgivings upon seeing Episode 1. However, it had to take us back to another era in the universe, it was going to be different. The story is there. If it was possible to make it in the ‘70s, it would have been a breakout smash hit, the likes that had never been seen before.. The prequels as a complete body of work are quite something. They have laid the foundation for everything we know as Star Wars going forward. The real Star Wars, not the “tent pole” Star Wars Kennedy gave us.

My take: Original trilogy -- changed my life and I think of bits of it every day. Prequel trilogy -- the dinosaur parade was nice.

I grow up original trilogy empire:strike back & return of the jedi. I was exicted when the prequel's game to theatre in finland & the very 1st tiem when they introduce palpatine i whisper to my friend that is the Empreror!

it's like how the old republic games also have their own identity the old republic focused on the corruption of the jedi order and how their ideas can be flawed the prequel trilogy was about the galaxy's dependance on the jedi to serve justic and the orginal trilogy was about how a governing body can go mad with power when they take over I completely agree with mark on this. not that I like ALL of the prequel series. episode 2 was rough for me, and the fact that anakin could've been written a little better but I'm finally glad people are slowly realizing that the prequel series isn't as bad as everyone said it was

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I dislike both prequels and sequels but I'm glad others like them.

im kind of wondering if George Lucas himself feels about this info

Other than Jar Jar, I liked the prequels. I wish Revenge of the Sith had been darker and went deeper into Anakin's conversion to Vader. Too much time was spent on Gen. Grievous.

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The amount of critiques on the prequels are minor compared to the Disney films. Maybe a few cringe romance lines… a little to much cgi and jar jar maybe had to much of a part or survived things he shouldn’t have but other than that the prequels have that unforgettable magic touch of George Lucas… perfect casting, unforgettable music score, great fight sequences, very interesting characters, very scenic/climatic scenes, pays homage to the lore of the origin series.. adds to it.. leaves you wanting to know more or wishing the order 66 scenes were longer or that u knew those counsel members more.. made you love mace windu despite his briefly he was in the movie and jango fett and darth maul… not to mentions the costumes especially on Amidala were spectacular 😍. If I’m not mistaken they won for best costumes. The list could go on I think ppls expectations were Un reasonable because ppl thought it should be better then the orignal but to me it comes close to equal. 🤷

for someone who hasn't been part of Star Wars for a long time, Marcia Lucas makes so many unnecessary and unsolicited opinions.

I love how there’s basically just a bunch of random pictures of jar jar throughout this video

I have been a huge fan of the franchise since the beginning. I grew up on a heavy dose of SW my whole life, and still love it to this day. I think that the prequels were extremely challenging to watch initially, but even in my own attachment to the original trilogy I knew that I had now outgrown the franchise. I tried watching the prequels many years after and could not stomach them, until my brother, who is an even bigger fan (and loves the prequels) told me to check out the Clone Wars series. I think that it was that series that allowed me to go back and watch the prequels again, allowing me to truly enjoy them and look forward to the new ideas within the franchise. The sequels in my eyes tried to challenge the audience with new philosophies and critiques on the good vs. evil narrative. I think that it all comes down on whether you can stomach the second of the three, and only then I learned to move on. I think that nowadays, the Mandalorian has brought us full circle and rescued the child within us older folks by letting us know that we still form the foundation to the whole thing, as it moves in its unpredictable directions.

The prequels gave the Star Wars trilogy so many unique characters Jedi’s and planets people really take it for granted

She cried because she couldn’t handle the awesomeness of the prequels.

I like it when people dont like my opinion. Makes it even more special

Am I with Mark and think that prequels were not that bad. I love the prequels, I don't think Prequels ain't better then the original but it had a charmed that enjoyed. Sequel on the other hand is different story.

I love the classic random arrow pointing to absolutely nothing in the thumbnail.

I think the prequels would have been much improved if Jar-Jar would have been better written or non-existent.

mark hamill has said multiple times he has been in every star wars movie to date as one character or another whether you knew it or not he did something on each movie

I saw the midnight premiere of TPM. Crowd full of amped up hardcore fans. As the final fanfare blared and the end credits began, the audience was awkwardly silent for a few seconds then someone started clapping. Then the rest of us were like "Well, alright I guess we'll clap too". We were all confused about what we had just watched. None of us wanted to admit we didn't like it but we couldn't pretend to be jazzed about it either.

I grew up with the originals and you're right it was a darker story. When I saw the 1st prequel, it helped that I saw it with my nephew, it was like seeing them with new eyes. I wanted the old star wars but I could see the look on this kid's face that reminded me of how I felt as a kid. Yeah, loved the prequels.

There is a guy sitting next to Wattoo at the Pod Races who looks a lot like Hamill. He’s the guy arguing with Wattoo.

The PT didn't "predict" that politicians would be corrupt. Lucas just looked at reality and put it in the story.

If I were alive when the prequels were released, I would be furious. Since I wasn’t, I adore it. It’s important to remember those 20 years Star Wars didn’t release a movie, and then made Phantom menace. With that in mind, I really do understand the seething hate for it… and love the prequels to death.

I love equally both the Original and Prequels especially The Clone Wars my favourite part of Star Wars era, the Sequels are unfortunately a disappointment cause of conflicting agendas…

Marcia is absolutely right, using 10 year old Anakin was totally inconsistent and later hooking up with older Padmé seems almost like the Lea and Luke weird twist.

The prequel‘s are 🔥 people just be hating.

The prequals are hard to apretiate, and you have to really, really understand stuff. You have to understand the complex stuff under the hood of the surface part of the story. It teaches about political shinanigans, and if properly learned from, issues that haven't happened yet can be prevented.

Mark Hamil now looks more like Vincent Price in that thumbnail

Harrison Ford wanted Han to die.. his agreement to come back was that Han Dies..

I will break it down for you as a very young kid starwars was the first movie I can remember watching at a theater. That is not because in 78 I was still young, but in 80 I was 6 or 7, the movie was such a hit it stayed in some theaters for years after, it moved the paradigm of movie making especially scifi so much that it made many theatre runs before empire came out, which was insane. The first thing is the CGI characters in the newer movies, they are terrible, one dimensional looking. The original puppets and costume aliens and droids were actually tangible things the actors played off of, not a ball on a stick in front of blue screen acting like something is there. They take the liberty of using cgi in everything making it look cheap and fake to someone who grew up with the real thing, not a photo copied lazy impression. I know if you grew up watching phantom that you love jarjar but the character is so cartoonish it really is annoying to the original canon trilogy. The miniatures replaced by cgi also was a huge mistake. And that's what most starwars fans that grew up in my era think

The prequels ended up growing on me. Now I really appreciate them very much. The sequel trilogy I just didn't and won't finish them.

Harison Ford didn't hate Star Wars, he mainly just found Han to be a bit of a boring character to play, and he probably didn't like being asked about it so frequently. He loved playing Indiana Jones.

Now when I first saw Phantom Menace in theatres I was blown away. The music and Darth maul quaijan and young Obi-Wan. Young Anakin was awesome. I just hated jar jar Binks.

What I didn’t like about the prequel series was there were no real stakes. When the clone wars were referred to in a new hope I always thought it was clones vs. every one else, not clones vs. droids. No real stakes you loose an army clone or build more. Only made to allow children to watch, no blood no loss.

Honestly she is said to have saved the original Star Wars by making sure to correct the movie's pace. People, including great and well known directors, told Lucas that the movie didn't make sens and was way too long at times and that it needed to be more balanced.....And honestly, Star Wars (A New Hope)'s cut that made it into the cinema is perfect. (The score also completes it perfectly). There are moments when characters just talk, but the information we are receiving is essential, it sets the tone, it's clear, it's concise and it is easy to understand..Can we truly say the same thing about the prequels?

I feel like it's the funniest thing to see George Lucas in these old pictures it's like sometime between 1985 to 1987 his metabolism just completely halted

In opposing to Ewan McGregor,always pushing down the prequels.

I was around 18 and I loved the prequels and still do

I thought Revenge of the Sith was a sci fi masterpiece

Her criticism makes perfect sense. She simply hates all the Star Wars trilogies she wasn't involved in. Bitter that she's not at the grownup's table anymore.

And as we know, an Actor knows everything and has their pulse on the peoples views.

I love the George Lucas prequels some people didn't like the Ewoks episodes that was on ABC love the ewoks🤔

The prequals have a lot of metaphors and reality type based questions and values, it is deep if you think of the minor details

She’s not wrong about the phantom menace. It’s creepy with anakin and Padme.

I was an adult when the prequels came out and I loved them. Of course they weren't the originals but it was a fine story that filled in holes in the history of star wars

As an adult who took the daughter to see the Prequels, I'd have to say. I enjoyed them.

Why would Mark Hammil defending the prequels surprise you? He’s a very positive ‘Force’ the Star Wars universe.

Reguardless of who said what, at least the prequels are watchable. ,, there’s no defending the sequels…..

Ehh, frankly I find the former Mrs Lucas a pretty bitter woman. The Prequels weren't flawless (virtually nothing is). But they were still Star Wars at their heart. The Sequels were only Star Wars purely on a surface level.

A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one

Actually, I'd trust the review of someone who wasn't personally invited by the writer/director of a film over the opinion of someone who was.

I think the sequels should have followed Ben Solo’s story. Watched him fall as a child and his redemption in the second movie and his hard won fight against the first order in the third.

I've always thought that the prequels had a place in the starwars series. Sure they arnt nearly as good as the originals but they do have a solid place where they belong. Unlike the latest trilogy...

nice to hear you call out the real world senate... SO TRUE

I will never understand this weird mentality towards The Phantom Menace. It was the first movie I ever saw in the cinema and believe me people loved it. When Obi-wan and Qui Gon took their hoods down people cheered not to mention all the other paramount moments seeing the gungan city. The stunning costume designs the freaking pod race. The duel of fates is the best lightsaber duel in the whole franchise, you will not change my mind on that.

Carrie is gone.. Harrison couldn't care less..all we have left is Mark Hamill..and that is all we need.

Technically it could have been better. If they had kept the Darth Binks plotline - the prequels would be amazing.

I love them all I was eight years old when I saw Star Wars in theater. I’m 52 now and I still love them. The clone wars animation and the bad batch. So cool

Mark Hamill is an absolute treasure

I just turned 43 and I loved the prequels! In fact Episode 3 Revenge of the Sith is my favorite Star Wars movie out of all of them.

Harrison Ford wanted to be killed off in the Return of the Jedi and was pissed the character continued. Probably the reason he came back with the sequels, most likely keeping that condition...

I was 10 when The Phantom Menace released in theaters. I can comfortably say that I grew up with the Prequels. Maybe not to the degree that some people did, but I was a barely into my preteen years when it dropped. *They weren't very good.* There. I loved them at the time, of course, when I was easily impressed and just wanted to see lasers, sword fights, and spaceships. But, as I grew older, I began to appreciate the subtleties of the Original Trilogy; their dialogue, the love and attention to detail that went into their special effects, their storytelling. By the time Revenge of the Sith released, I had begun to notice the cracks in the OT, and that they had been crafted with great care in a way that the Prequels just weren't. Now, none of this is to say that I hate the Prequels. On the contrary, ever since my early twenties, I've maintained that the Prequels had vision behind them, they just sucked in execution. Clunky dialogue, tons of exposition, special effects that weren't really "great" until ROTS, some questionable casting choices, etc. I've grown to understand that a lot of this is down to the fact that George Lucas is better as a visionary and a storyteller, than an actual director. He's an artist, but you need something of an engineer too in order to put a movie together and have it work properly. The other thing is that the Prequels were much more massive in their ambitions, compared to the OT. With the OT it was easy. Father, son, old masters, old conflict, empire of evil baddies, rag-tag group of heroes resisting them, hero's journey, bake and done. The Prequels not only had to tell Anakin's story, however, they also had to set up all the backstory that led up to them. The Prequels had a colossal amount of world-building and prologueing to set up the Jedi, the Sith, the Republic, all the major characters who drove the events, etc. You couldn't just step into Luke-s farmboy shoes and be whisked away on an adventure like in the OT, because the truth is, Anakin's story starts WAAAAYYY before he does. Wheels are already turning by the time we even get to Anakin, and they continue turning in the background while we go with Anakin on his own journey. The Prequels had something of an impossible task set up before them, and the lack of refinement of the material on the part of the editors and producers led to far too much being crammed far too clumsily into far too little time. All that being said, again, the Prequels at least had a story to tell. That's more than could ever be said for the Sequels. Between having no real gameplan or endgame in mind, Disney's NEED for new films to be cranked out like cookies, and a bunch of untalented people putting it all together, there's nothing to see. There is no story, no vision, and no future for them. The Prequels aged well with people because they still had those things at heart. Even if they themselves were badly put together, the characters were still interesting, there was still a great over-arching story, and there was still a uniting vision behind what was happening. The Sequels had none of that. They were trash when they were released and they'll be trash thirty years from now. Don't wait for a fan renaissance to save it.

I grew up with the Originals and have friends just as old as me, never see them but call themselves starwars fans because they saw the prequels. I'm a fan of the prequels too and feel like im part of the very few who don't hate Jar Jar. I watched a ton of disney cartoons and Jar Jar reminds me of Launchpad McQuack from DuckTales: essentially a goof that apart of the Hero's team that adds an unexpected element into everyones predictable tactics, still finds a way to contribute to the mission even when they fail 99% of the time. So this made me more tolerant of his character then most.

I grew up with both the prequels and sequels, and grew up enjoying both.

In Star Wars Legends, they killed off Chewbacca.

I'm sure most kids like the sequels today. The issue with adults who are more aware of the big picture is the various inconsistencies within it. Or atleast as you said each trilogy's ability to stand on its own in some big way. Star wars wasn't able to balance growth and continuity very gracefully. Its "rich ground" for storytelling is a blessing and a curse because although there are endless opportunities, it's a lot of expectation to live up to. It seems like real life prevented the original magic to continue.

I mean the pre quels added some neat things to Star Wars overrall but let's not pretend they are good movies when we have videos that span longer than the movies themselves talking about how awful they are.

I think we should have an official consensus on this topic. The prequels tell a great story that builds the legacy and potential of Star Wars even further. The directing during filming was poor but I feel that it’s made up for by the legendary moments. The duel of fates. The battle of geonosis. The majority of the third movie. And all of the lightsaber duels that were absurdly well choreographed. No they’re not perfect movies. But neither was the original trilogy. They both tell their stories but they do it in different ways. One is a more dramatic classic telling of a story. The other a more action packed and flaunting film. But they’re both great for what they are. And the majority of people who don’t like the prequels wanted them to be the exact same type of story tellings as the OT

I saw the original trilogy first and got really excited for the prequels, I was not disappointed at all, though I missed everything with Jar-Jar Binks in The Phantom Menace. Was years later when it gained traction online that I started to see it.

I thought I heard mark did some voices for the prequals and went uncredited

Han dying was like the least inflammatory part of the sequels.

the original and the prequels are too me the best star wars movies ever, of course i love the prequels a little bit more because they where the first star wars movies i seen in cinema. they are all masterpieces and they are star wars you can feel it while watching them in every second it is just love. the prequels are so full of details you only see when you see tthem more than one time. mark hamill is a big star wars fan and when he likes the prequels then you know they are really really good. i never will understand why the fans back then hated them so much, george even said it before episode 1 came out that this will be story about seeing a boy plays with stuff, and we follow the little boy growing up trough the trilogie, i guess most people never listen too what george said about it. the prequels are soo deep in ever second of them that it is absolutly amazing too watch them, the more you see them the more you see in them absolutly genius of george at least for me.