Posted on 02/13/2012 8:42:27 PM PST by nickcarraway
People still watch movies?
Phantom Menace didn’t merely suck. It suckedy-suck-sucked. It defined “suck” not for merely Sci Fi, but for movies in general.
It was certainly my least favorite of the 6. It serves the purpose of being a good setup for the series, but just isn’t a good movie, especially in the context of the others.
“Attack of The Clones” was ‘good’. “Revenge of The Sith” was great.
Episode 1 should have been about adult Anakin slowly turning to the Dark Side and the birth of Luke and Leia, while the next two should have been the building of the empire.
It can be argued that Jar Jar Binks was potentially harmful to any reasonable person, but outside that, I don’t think so.
I saw Red Tails on Saturday. It was worth the 2 hours and $6 it cost me.
I’ve seen better sci-fi movies parodied on MST3K.
I can’t even remember the name of Liam Muslim’s character...not even one letter of its name...
Movie was so utterly forgettable.
Why is making a mediocre movie the strategy to make gobs of money? Wouldn’t one be more likely to make more money by making a good movie?
>Phantom Menace didn’t merely suck. It suckedy-suck-sucked. It defined “suck” not for merely Sci Fi, but for movies in general.
You took the words out of my mouth...
It was brutal. I wanted to fight Jar Jar Binks and the little kid. Full out MMA fight. How they ruined Star Wars and Indiana Jones is beyond me.
Guess who thought last weekend, and wrongly, “No WAY can JarJar Binks suck as hard in 3-D as he did in 2-D”?
Because they included dumb things like Jabba the Hutt, then in episode II they made Boba Fett a major character, they had the Pod race just to make a Pod Racing video game. The entire series was made to make the die hard Star Wars nerds go crazy by explaining the origin of every character, and also so they could release dozens more action figures and vehicles.
If they truly wanted to introduce the 3D experience, there would be large fans moving air so the audience could truly experience how much the movie sucks and blows.
I bought episode III when it came out but I never saw it in the theater. I thought I would start collecting the whole saga. I did not care for episode III. It was boring. I never bought another starwars movie again. I saw episode I in the theaters opening weekend. I think I liked it. Its hard for me to keep them all straight in my memory. But I think the only part of episode I that was lame to me was the scene where Yoda has a light saber fight. I laughed at the screen in the movie theater when that scene came up. I don’t know who wrote that scene but they should be shot. Yoda is supposedly the most advanced jedi master of all time. He should’ve just made one extremely fast lightsabre move and that’s it. Fight over.
I’m afraid to watch the Tuskegee Airmen portrail in public...I fear inaccuracies that I would have to respond to. I’ll PM you in the morn.
I’ll be contrarian and say that I much preferred TPM to the other two prequels. It’s visually beautiful and several scenes (the early underwater scenes and the pod race) have a sense of wonder about them that I don’t find in the other two. The lightsaber fight with Darth Maul at the end is as good as any in all six movies. In fact, even though the original trilogy are all better films, many of the scenes are clunky and visually uninteresting compared to TPM.
If Vader had killed Jar Jar Binks in “Revenge of the Sith”, I’d have spotted him all his subsequent evil deeds. If he had polished off those damn Ewoks in “Return of the Jedi”, I would have proposed him for sainthood.
The ONLY thing good in Phantom Menace was Darth Maul.
Jar Jar Binks. Nuff said.
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