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I just watched The Phantom Menace. What a terrible movie.
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Shuggananas
Banned
Podracing is fucking baller doe
Subpar Scrub
Banned
Pod racing and darth Maul are the only redeeming parts.
Bedameister
Member
It's ok. Episode 2 is even worse
Broken Joystick
At least you can talk. Who are you?
Costume design, pod racing and the score are all great.
Dynamite Shikoku
Congratulations, you really deserve it!
Yeah it sucks. I liked the poster with the darth vader shadow though.
Arthr2ShdsJcksn
Banned
Jar Jar is a stronger character than Darth Maul. That tells you everything you need to know about this piece of trash.
CaviarMeths
Member
Why? He's the Boba Fett of the prequels. Has one line in the whole movie and then dies like a punk, but got popular because he looks cool. There's nothing interesting about the character. His only purpose was to die so that Palpatine was in the market for a new apprentice.
yup
terrible movie
the whole clone war was super boring
what is interesting is the bump in special effects tho
especially 3 looks really good
Shuggananas
Banned
In my point of view 3 looks really bad
I've been watching all the movies again after seeing The Force Awakens, my post from the movie thread..
Probably been a good 10 years since I last saw this movie. Thought it'll be interesting re-watching with Star Wars fever going on. This is not a good movie..
I'll just post some bullet point thoughts:
- Jar Jar is insufferable. Not funny at all, annoying and terrible CGI.
- Anakin is insufferable. Maybe even worse than Jar Jar if i'm honest. Absolutely terrible dialogue, and acting. The complete opposite of what he should be in my opinion.
- The CGI is bad everywhere.
- Terrible voice actors to play the Trade Federation guys. Sound like are doing really bad Asian voices.
- The Pod-racing scene is actually well filmed, but goes on too long.
- Pacing is bad. Just after the pod race and everyone leaves I looked and had been watching for 1 hour and 20 minutes and basically nothing had really happened yet.
- Darth Maul is still pretty cool, but so underused. Has like two lines of dialogue and only appears in a few scenes.
- The Naboo soldiers have terrible looking outfits.
- The royal starship, trade federation vehicles, command ship are really cool looking. Some nice designs there.
- The music is pretty good, some very good tracks.
- Anakin piloting the ship, flying into space and single handedly destroying the trade federation command base was the dumbest thing I have ever seen.
Probably been a good 10 years since I last saw this movie. Thought it'll be interesting re-watching with Star Wars fever going on. This is not a good movie..
I'll just post some bullet point thoughts:
- Jar Jar is insufferable. Not funny at all, annoying and terrible CGI.
- Anakin is insufferable. Maybe even worse than Jar Jar if i'm honest. Absolutely terrible dialogue, and acting. The complete opposite of what he should be in my opinion.
- The CGI is bad everywhere.
- Terrible voice actors to play the Trade Federation guys. Sound like are doing really bad Asian voices.
- The Pod-racing scene is actually well filmed, but goes on too long.
- Pacing is bad. Just after the pod race and everyone leaves I looked and had been watching for 1 hour and 20 minutes and basically nothing had really happened yet.
- Darth Maul is still pretty cool, but so underused. Has like two lines of dialogue and only appears in a few scenes.
- The Naboo soldiers have terrible looking outfits.
- The royal starship, trade federation vehicles, command ship are really cool looking. Some nice designs there.
- The music is pretty good, some very good tracks.
- Anakin piloting the ship, flying into space and single handedly destroying the trade federation command base was the dumbest thing I have ever seen.
PhoenixDark
Banned
Yes. I've noticed some revision history going on lately with people trying to claim the prequels were good or at least decent. Maybe people are just in a Star Wars mood but fuck that. The prequels are trash. All of them.
cormack12
Gold Member
Had to watch this recently again. Watching it again and having seen Plinketts review, gives it another dimension in awfulness.
Every scene pretty much has a soft screen wipe cut, which makes it look really amateur. There's no smooth transition between scenes because the actors at most move a minimal distance never opening up another scene naturally. Because of the all the CGI I imagine.
Some of the dialogue is terrible and downright cheesy beyond belief ('It's working!!!' and 'I beg you' to the gungans are particularly bad). On second watch, Darth Maul is like a boy band member with crazy face paint. I think most of his coolness came from the double ended 'saber.
Honestly should be consigned to trash and completely remade.
Every scene pretty much has a soft screen wipe cut, which makes it look really amateur. There's no smooth transition between scenes because the actors at most move a minimal distance never opening up another scene naturally. Because of the all the CGI I imagine.
Some of the dialogue is terrible and downright cheesy beyond belief ('It's working!!!' and 'I beg you' to the gungans are particularly bad). On second watch, Darth Maul is like a boy band member with crazy face paint. I think most of his coolness came from the double ended 'saber.
Honestly should be consigned to trash and completely remade.
Nightengale
Member
I like it.
Present tense.
Present tense.
Flintty
Member
Everything in the OP has been discussed repeatedly since 1999. I actually like the movie though but the one thing that really pisses me off is Lucas' prioritising of scenes. Example: When Qui Gon and Anakin are heading back to the ship on Tatooine they are running. Why are they running?? Then out if nowhere Maul arrives and starts a fight.
Watch the deleted scenes and you will see why they were running. Why was that scene cut?? Yet Jar Jar had a lengthily scene of getting his hand caught in a pod racer engine and shocking his tongue. That scene has no use whatsoever! Cut it and put the other deleted scene in!
Just bad storytelling from Lucas. I'd like to see someone with talent go back to the PT and recut it for a definitive edition box set.
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Watch the deleted scenes and you will see why they were running. Why was that scene cut?? Yet Jar Jar had a lengthily scene of getting his hand caught in a pod racer engine and shocking his tongue. That scene has no use whatsoever! Cut it and put the other deleted scene in!
Just bad storytelling from Lucas. I'd like to see someone with talent go back to the PT and recut it for a definitive edition box set.
/rant
But ROTS is the best in the saga.
Need to see TFA again though incase it takes the top spot for me.
Maybe George Lucas just predicted the Irak war
The best to come out of those movies are the mr. plinkett reviews. I still think revenge of the siths is tolerable.
Kenshin001
Member
I didn't care for the costume design. It seemed derivative, a mix of Flash Gordon and Dune and like I said Portman looked like a badly done geisha. Maybe it's because I've heard the SW theme so many times but even after watching it today for the life of me I can not remember any of the music.
Broken Joystick
At least you can talk. Who are you?
Duel of Fates is the obvious choice but I genuinely think the film has some great music. Try listening the OST itself.
Did not know that. That's pretty cool
Bloody_Five
Banned
I really enjoy this movie and like it more than Ep 4 and 6
Jar Jar is atrocious but I think it has a lot of good parts.
The scene with the pyre at the end always give me the chills because you see how Palpatine has spun its web and how they are all trapped in it.
The politics and the power play are actually quite subtle and it almost becomes another movie of you focus on it.
Jar Jar is atrocious but I think it has a lot of good parts.
The scene with the pyre at the end always give me the chills because you see how Palpatine has spun its web and how they are all trapped in it.
The politics and the power play are actually quite subtle and it almost becomes another movie of you focus on it.
PdotMichael
Banned
The funniest thing is that Lucas claimed that he made the movies for children.
I mean children sure love badly written trade policy drama!
I mean children sure love badly written trade policy drama!
Nah, Episode I is the best of the Prequel trilogy.
V > IV & VII > VI & Rebels > I > III > II
Woody Invincible
Banned
I thought Episode I was way better than II or III.
PdotMichael
Banned
Also I love how bad episode 1 is that many of the super bad parts are barely mentioned.
Anakin has no father
Anakin incidentally got into a starfighter and destroys one of the mother ships.
Jar Jar's performance on the battlefield
That would be all things which could normally kill entire franchises.
Anakin has no father
Anakin incidentally got into a starfighter and destroys one of the mother ships.
Jar Jar's performance on the battlefield
That would be all things which could normally kill entire franchises.
Kenshin001
Member
My wife thought Qui Gon was his dad which kind of shows how much the story grabbed her.
DiipuSurotu
Banned
Storyboard Anakin looked so much cooler:
Poor Jake Lloyd was horribly miscast.
Poor Jake Lloyd was horribly miscast.
Troubled Bat
Member
I like Jar Jar, and I enjoy Attack of The Clones. Does that make me souless?
Benzychenz
Member
Why do people act like the podracing is good?
The introductions to all the racers goes on forever and the announcer guy is cringe inducing, then when the race starts it's just Anakin slowly catching up in complete silence, with music only starting up at the climax (which is the decent part).
Such a boring segment.
The game based on it is fucking amazing though.
They're just so bad that they should never be mentioned.
The introductions to all the racers goes on forever and the announcer guy is cringe inducing, then when the race starts it's just Anakin slowly catching up in complete silence, with music only starting up at the climax (which is the decent part).
Such a boring segment.
The game based on it is fucking amazing though.
They're just so bad that they should never be mentioned.
I'm an expert
Formerly worldrevolution. The only reason I am nice to anyone else is to avoid being banned.
All of those points have answers though..
I mean similarly episode 7 is dumb because you can replace Anakin/JJ above with Rey/Finn and it's the same thing. And people are rightfully calling ep7 out on it.
Tons of people "liked it" for a little while, I would say most people in fact. It was very easy for people to lie to themselves when they so badly wanted it to be good. They'd deny it today if you asked though. I liked it, but I also watched it when I was 8.
That podracing scene is actually good though!
Psst, no it isn't, it's just that everything else is so fucking boring that it sticks out because something is actually happening.
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