Episode I: 10 Years Old

[kman]

http://www.starwars.deepthi.com/images/starwars-phantom-menace-poster.jpg

Today is a very "special" day. 10 years ago, on this very day (May 19, 1999), the first of the three Star Wars prequels, Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace was released, arguably the beginning of the end of George Lucas's credibility.

-Jar Jar Binks
-Pod Races
-Little bitch Anakin Skywalker

Today needs a memorial of some kind. A moment of silence, a monument of some sort, perhaps.

Or maybe we could just list everything we hated about the movie and talk about how old we feel now that it's 10 years old.

[N.O.D.]

I suggest calling all bowel movements taken today Lucas.

I took a huge steaming Lucas this morning in honor of this anniversary.

[dfbovey]

Every saga... can be ruined.

[JPJ]

Oh sweet Jesus I had forgotten all about this mess.

This thread reminds me of an old love that broke my heart and that has never fully healed.

Thanks a lot A HOLE!!! (George Lucas)


8P

[Mase]

Heh. I remember walking out of the theater wondering if it really sucked as much as I thought it did. At least we got a great Triumph bit out of it.

[Ra Havok]

Shit man, I remember it took me half a year to realize the disappointment I had suffered.

[Telekinetic Ketchup]

I thought it was increadibly boring and had no interest in any scene without darth maul.

[Beastie]

I remember seeing the trailer on TV a month or so before the movie was released and I remember being SO bloody excited!

I taped it on VHS and took it to work where we did a grand screening in the conference room at lunchtime. Over 40 people attended to watch - and EVERYONE thought it looked amazing.

Then I went to see the film at the cinema and the world went to shit.

I HATED all the YIPPEE and HOW WUDE! crap - the shockingly bad child actor - Darth Vader being called 'Annie' - the whorish Pod Race designed only to sell video games.......ARGH.

The list could go on and on.

I felt like someone had shit on me - and that someone was George '6 chins' Lucas.

[KRAZYRICKY1]

that little boys career was ruined before it even began.

[Beastie]

that little boys career was ruined before it even began.

Yeah. Haven't heard much about him since Phantom Menace. Has he gone down the classic child star route of becoming an alcoholic / druggie / wild thing?

[DJ Kenobi]

I also left the theater after my first time seeing Ep1 thinking, "did that just suck? I think that might have sucked." I saw it again the next day, and yes, it did indeed suck. It was a very sad day for me.

[Ra Havok]

Haha, oh man, we're all a bunch of traumatized little ****ers, ain't we?

[Breck]

Yeah, because I didn't think it sucked that bad. It wasn't God's gift to movies, but it wasn't bad. Then again, I'm not a nostalgia sucking geek who glorifies his childhood memories.

[dfbovey]

I think that childhood memories make the fact that it was a terrible movie sting a bit more. But, it was definitely a bad movie no matter how you slice it. Poor acting, direction and plot in a shiny graphicly enhanced package.

The entire movie, I was debating who I'd strangle first... the kid actor who played Anikan or Jar Jar. Both were equally unbearable to watch on screen.

I've tried to watch it a few times to give it a 2nd chance and never make it through it.

[Telekinetic Ketchup]

Yeah, because I didn't think it sucked that bad. It wasn't God's gift to movies, but it wasn't bad. Then again, I'm not a nostalgia sucking geek who glorifies his childhood memories.

to be honest I never liked star wars to begin with I just liked this alot less than I disliked the older ones.

[Breck]

Poor acting, direction and plot in a shiny graphicly enhanced package.
Honestly, if you watch the original movies with objectivity, you could same the same thing about them.

[Victor-17]

the true phantom menace
http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l312/Victor-17/jarjar.jpg

[dfbovey]

Honestly, if you watch the original movies with objectivity, you could same the same thing about them.

Yeah, I have no illusions that the original movies were perfect by any means. But, up until the Ewoks, there weren't any annoying characters or critters introduced that made me want to turn the movies off. From that point forward it was a downward spiral for me.

Even though there was obvious soap opera style acting in the originals, the story and characters had a charm and believability to them. All of that was absent in the new trilogy.

[Knigge]

I like the part where Jar Jar falls down.

[KRAZYRICKY1]

Reeeboot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ScottEwen]

The thing that the new Star Wars movies are missing is a Han Solo character... the guy that makes fun of the other characters and doesn't care about what's going on. See also: Sawyer in the first couple seasons of Lost. Everyone in the new Star Wars trilogy took themselves completely seriously, and the only "comic relief" in the movie was characters like Jar Jar who fell down a lot and stepped in poop.

[dmario]

Reeeboot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

you'll have to kill Lucas for that to happen.

[weirdozhead]

i can't remember a damn thing about that movie, just a scene where the lil kid is racing? (i remember cuz i think they had an arcade game about it)

then again i guess it's been 10 years since i've seen it, and i probably fell asleep halfway thru.. the re-releases of the original trilogy at the theatres was far more exciting

[NickRocks]

man you guys are a bunch of whiny bitches haha. I remember leaving the theater being 12 years old (god that was 10 years ago?) and thinking that was all in all, pretty damn cool. the podrace scene was dope. the last fight scene with darth maul was kickass. sure jar ar was annoying, but it still is IMO the best of the prequel trilogy...episode 2 was a borefest and 3 had no dramatic tension at all...not to mention anakin giving into palpatine way too easy.

its a solid 6/10 for me.

[Knigge]

Shuttup, child. ;)

Really, though? The best of the three?! REALLY?! Phew...

[dfbovey]

I was just thinking that I can be assured, that whatever thoughts I have on something... Nick will have the opposite.

The 2nd and 3rd movies were instantly better, because they didn't have that incredibly horrible child actor or as much Jar Jar in them.

[NickRocks]

bah...idk about you guys, but this was the TITS to watch in the theater

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmaZUmDLvQk

so was this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUsltuNO6l8

[KRAZYRICKY1]

3 was the best, me and my best bud with to see part 2 with our then girlfriends and we both fell asleep on it. that one was a borefest, and also the only movie I have ever fell asleep on at the theatres.

[Bruce Lee]

man you guys are a bunch of whiny bitches haha. I remember leaving the theater being 12 years old (god that was 10 years ago?) and thinking that was all in all, pretty damn cool. the podrace scene was dope.

It was pretty dope... the first time around.... when it was in BEN HUR.:skull: :skull:

http://blog.afi.com/100movies/user-uploads/post1616.jpg

OH SNAP, Lucasites! You done been told!

[NickRocks]

I was just thinking that I can be assured, that whatever thoughts I have on something... Nick will have the opposite.

The 2nd and 3rd movies were instantly better, because they didn't have that incredibly horrible child actor or as much Jar Jar in them.

hahah what else have we ever disagreed on?

i agree that jar jar and the kid were the worst parts, but as far as action goes, i liked episode 1 the best. something about the sfx in 2 seemed too fake to me.

at least with episode 1 it SORT of felt like the original trilogy with the dusty atmosphere during the anakin scene

and jabba the hutt flicking the little animal off while the pods go by was funny.

idk, maybe its nostalgia for me.

[dfbovey]

One scene where I was like, "you've gotta be friggin joking..." was when "Ani" was in the ship accidentally blowing up all the droids in the hanger. It was pretty retarded.


hahah what else have we ever disagreed on?

i agree that jar jar and the kid were the worst parts, but as far as action goes, i liked episode 1 the best. something about the sfx in 2 seemed too fake to me

I usually don't comment. But in general I've just thought "wow" to a lot of the stuff that you've said in the break room. :)

[NickRocks]

ah yeah, i just remembered when hes flying in space. "spinnings a good trick!"

heh, i guess i can laugh about it now.

btw, ive always thought that kid was a terrible actor, remember jingle all the way?

[Breck]

I think it's good you see it from the child's perspective (not that Nick is a child, but he was when he saw it). I think a lot of adults would have had the same reaction to the originals that you guys are having to this first one, had they not been blown away by the revolutionary special effects.

[Carter]

I went to see Phantom Menace with a girl who had never seen the original trilogy. When we were leaving the theater, I was like, "waaagh, I can't believe that little asshole grows up to be Darth Vader."

Then she was like, "Thanks for ruining the end for me, asshole!" And that girl was your mom.

At least half this story is true.

[NickRocks]

I went to see Phantom Menace with a girl who had never seen the original trilogy. When we were leaving the theater, I was like, "waaagh, I can't believe that little asshole grows up to be Darth Vader."

Then she was like, "Thanks for ruining the end for me, asshole!" And that girl was your mom.

At least half this story is true.


this made me burst out laughing. i know i remember saying that padme was going to be lukes mom and a kid at school and i got into a fight over it because he was saying i was wrong.

WELL WHOS LAUGHING NOW, HUH, JERK?

[weirdozhead]

3 was the best, me and my best bud with to see part 2 with our then girlfriends and we both fell asleep on it. that one was a borefest, and also the only movie I have ever fell asleep on at the theatres.

have you ever seen "the skulls"? i can't watch more than 10 minutes before i'm out like a baby

even the poster makes me kinda drowsy

http://www.deccarecords-us.com/images/local/300/2886E.jpg

^ the entire movie looks like this too.. it's all darkly lit with lullably harp music playing subtley in the background while people talk with a whispery tone throught the entire ****ing movie (which seems to totally take place at dusk)

[ScottEwen]

I remember leaving the theater being 12 years old (god that was 10 years ago?) and thinking that was all in all, pretty damn cool.

I could see maybe enjoying that movie as a child, but have you watched it recently? It's awful. I hated it when I first saw it, but recently I decided to give it a second watch, and I couldn't make it twenty minutes in. Anything other than the action sequences is boring, the dialogue is laughably bad, and there are plot holes left and right. It's really bad. Also, arguing about which of the new trilogy is best is like arguing about which turd is tastiest.


I went to see Phantom Menace with a girl who had never seen the original trilogy. When we were leaving the theater, I was like, "waaagh, I can't believe that little asshole grows up to be Darth Vader."

Then she was like, "Thanks for ruining the end for me, asshole!"

Now that's funny.

[dfbovey]

The 3rd turd is tastiest.

[jdmakescomics]

I saw it when I was 7, and all I remember is that I thought it was really boring. I haven't really had any urge to try watching it again.

[kman]

In honor of today, I thought I'd post this track from Patton Oswalt's "Werewolves and Lollipops" album about going back and time and meeting George Lucas before he did the prequels. Pure brilliance:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDCjIjsZp_Y

Anyway, I was 15 when this movie came out, and because I was a stupid adolescent I thought it was cool. I think I might have seen it a second time. But the more I matured into the geek before you today the more I began to dislike it.

Out of the three prequels the third was the "best" (a term I use loosely). I even got goosebumps when you see padme naming baby Luke and Leia. Because that's a huge moment in the saga no matter what, and I really enjoyed it.

But ugh. What shitty movies those were. But we're all to blame. Because even though we didn't like them, most of us probably rushed out for episodes II and III, knowing full well that they'd be shit like the prequels before it. Oh well.

[Bruce Lee]

Remember that time when they did a fourth Indiana Jones movie? Yeah...

...that was something...

I spent the whole movie thinking: Damn it Indi--in school they told us that hiding a refrigerator was a BAD idea!!!

I've been confused about refrigerators ever since. Chain it shut, remove the door, or stock pile it for when the Nuclear Winter comes--I just can't decide!!!! :skull: :confused:

[KRAZYRICKY1]

how dare you............................................... ...

[Breck]

But ugh. What shitty movies those were. But we're all to blame. Because even though we didn't like them, most of us probably rushed out for episodes II and III, knowing full well that they'd be shit like the prequels before it. Oh well.
I can't figure out what everyone thinks is so bad about them. I liked all of 'em. They were fun.

[ScottEwen]

They were fun.

I think the problem is they weren't.

[Breck]

Eh, they were to me.

[ScottEwen]

I think that's kinda how I feel about the new Indiana Jones movie. I didn't hate it like everyone else seemed to. There were parts I thought were dumb (Shia LaBeoufo swinging on vines, the entire alien/UFO ending, nuking the fridge, going over the waterfall), but for most of the movie I was with it and enjoying it. It's nowhere near as good as the first three, but I didn't hate it.

[Archerion]

I was born in 1979 so i kinda missed the starwars thing, so i saw them on VHS they were cool but by the time i did watch them the special effects were already out of date. i watch them now they look like crap, but i think for the time period they were the shit. I think love hate of these movies has to do with age and what is new to you. I have to agree the phantom menace was very gay but i think there were trying to hook a new generation not the ppl who saw the three in the late 70s, early 80s. I think its a give take thing, do you try to get the generation of ppl who know the moves to come back or get a new generation (kids) and get two more movies that they will go see. They will bring there parents , the first generation who saw it.

[Mase]

Episodes II and III are watchable. As the Fett and Jedi counts increase it gets a bit more interesting.

Jar Jar is actually somewhat amusing in II and III, just in how out-of-character he is. It's like there's a menacing Rodian seated next to the camera operator who's only job on set is to shoot Jar Jar if he strays off script.

[ScottEwen]

I was born in 1979 so i kinda missed the starwars thing,

I dunno, I was born in 1981 and I grew up on Star Wars. And Indiana Jones, and Ghostbusters, and Back to the Future, and all the other awesome 80s movies.

[Ra Havok]

Remember that time when they did a fourth Indiana Jones movie? Yeah...



One of the greatest regrets in my life.

[weirdozhead]

i'd guess the majority of this site was born around 79 or a lil later, that was prime time to be a star wars fan

[The_Standard]

In honor of today, I thought I'd post this track from Patton Oswalt's "Werewolves and Lollipops" album about going back and time and meeting George Lucas before he did the prequels. Pure brilliance:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDCjIjsZp_Y

Anyway, I was 15 when this movie came out, and because I was a stupid adolescent I thought it was cool. I think I might have seen it a second time. But the more I matured into the geek before you today the more I began to dislike it.

Out of the three prequels the third was the "best" (a term I use loosely). I even got goosebumps when you see padme naming baby Luke and Leia. Because that's a huge moment in the saga no matter what, and I really enjoyed it.

But ugh. What shitty movies those were. But we're all to blame. Because even though we didn't like them, most of us probably rushed out for episodes II and III, knowing full well that they'd be shit like the prequels before it. Oh well.

Thanks that was great!

[The_Standard]

I remember the anticipation of seeing it and going with 2 groups of freinds and then after the midiclorian scene going wTF! I was like others had said pretty sure it wasn't very good but was confused for a bit after. I got a dvd at a dollar store a few years back called "the fandom menace" on it there is an australian fan club that is gearing up for the premeire of Ep1 and they are having a con, they document there expectations and then there review right out of them leaving the screening, its great most of them where so confused with what they didn't like and alot of apologist saying well I'll have to see it a few more times to get it etc.

[Johnny Blaque]

I went into Phantom Menace with no interest really. It was an ok movie. Pod racing was really cool. Star Wars fans are self hating or something, before the prequels came out, people constantly bitched about Luke Skywalker being whiney, something has to annoy them about every single one of the movies.

[weirdozhead]

luke was whiny? i never really thought that.. i just thought the first star wars was kinda boring, but strikes back was near perfect and jedi was entertaining.. watching phantom menace you get the feeling it wasn't even made by a human, it's so dry and devoid of anything endearing

[dfbovey]

Luke was supposed to be whiney in the beginning.

[ScottEwen]

Luke was supposed to be whiney in the beginning.

Must be genetic.

[weirdozhead]

didn't he come home to find his aunt and uncle murdered, then get his hand chopped off by his father and find out the chick he had the hots for is his sister? i guess that would make most teenagers kinda "whiny"

[Breck]

didn't he come home to find his aunt and uncle murdered, then get his hand chopped off by his father and find out the chick he had the hots for is his sister?
Welcome to Alabama!

[weirdozhead]

lulz, good one

[joekey]

As bad as that movie was im thankful that it was made, only because of how much i loved Darth Maul, Qui Gon Jin (sp) and a young Obi Wan.

[cbikle]

Yeah. Haven't heard much about him since Phantom Menace. Has he gone down the classic child star route of becoming an alcoholic / druggie / wild thing?

If true, close. (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005157/board/thread/114370822?d=137558321&p=1#137558321)

[kubankin]

The only good star wars thing Lucas did after the original 3 movies was the clone wars 2D cartoon shorts and that was because he didn't touch them in any way and therefore didn't mess it up.
I think even he knew just how huge of a mistake he did with Jar-jar though, hence how quickly he shut up him up in the other movies.

[Spooko]

Before this day in 1999, I used to love the sound of Lightsabers and fantasize about them almost as often as I fantasized about womens.
After that day, and every day since when I hear the sound of Lightsabers I visualize TAKING A F**KING AXE TO GEORGE LUCAS AND HIS OBESE BLOB OF A BODY, I WANT TO NUMB HIM UP AND CUT OFF HIS F**KING 12 CHIN NECK UNDER BLOAT AND F**K IT INFRONT OF HIM BEFORE HE BLEEDS TO DEATH, THEN CHOP UP THE REST AND F**KING JAM IT DOWN THE THROATS OF HIS CHILDREN AND SCREAM ,"NOW HERE IS SOMETHING YOU LOVED AS A CHILD, BUTCHERED AND RAPED AND YOU CAN NEVER HAVE IT BACK UNLESS YOU EAT YOUR OWN S**T !!!"

I did however get permission to ditch school to go wait in line, which is kind of rad.:omg:

[MC Fumunda]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmaZUmDLvQk

Okay, I'll give it to you that Darth Maul is cool. He's got the cooler weapon. He dresses like a badass...he's got a cool stare down scene while those pointless things put up force fields....but that scene pissed me off so much. THAT was the shittiest turn in a fight ever. He ****ing jumps over him while Maul doesn't do anything. He lands and Maul doesn't do anything, and then he has time to cut him in half and Maul doesn't do anything? Give me a ****ing break. That five seconds negates the entire previous fight.

And just what the **** was Obiwan looking at from inside that hole? I'm pretty sure there was no way he was looking at the light saber from down there.

Bleh.

They could have done soooo much more with that character. Everyone got pumped as **** to see this dude in action, then he goes out like a bitch. He could have been in all three flicks, kicking ass and grimacing....but no.

And the thing about the movies going for a new modern audience that I thought was really weird was the first one is obviously a kid's movie, right? Then the next goes a bit darker, and by the third...mother****ers are being burned alive and getting decapitated. Hardly a movie I'd want a child to see.

The new prequels really leave a bad taste in my mouth. I could bitch and moan for days about them, each individually, forever. Like...my god...I'm feeling a rant bubbling over me right now....but I won't do it.....

...goddammit no.....

[kman]

Give in to your hatred, Matty. Let it flow out of you. Strike the Prequels down and complete your turn to the Dark Side!

(holy shit that was geeky)

[Akira X]

I even got goosebumps when you see padme naming baby Luke and Leia.

I had a similar sensation.

WAAY before the Prequel had even come out... maybe before they even announced it, I remember having my hands on a Star Wars universe sourcebook. I think at the time I had tried to read the Thrawn books as part of my compulsory reading (if you wanted to play the computer, you had to read, yo). I didn't make it through the first book. The problem was probably no pictures, I'm assuming. But it did get me interested in the Expanded Universe stuff, so I dug through the sourcebook to find out the stuff that happened in the book that I didn't want to read. Then I remembered that in the movies, Obi-Wan and Darth Vader had a history, and that Darth Vader was an awesome pilot and the fought in the CLONE WARS--holy shit, I had to find out about this. So I read what backstory was established between the two characters when I stumbled upon probably the coolest ****ing thing I had read at that point in my life: Obi-Wan and Anakin Skywalker fight on a volcano planet, Obi-Wan cuts off his mother****ing arms and legs and leaves him to BURN.

Holy shit.

So, after seeing the first movie, and knowing how terrible and disappointing it was, I had a fuel burning inside me, A FIRE--I had to ****ing see that fight go down. Those six years I put up with everything just to see that scene.

And you know what?

Totally ****ing worth it. Not gonna lie. At least seven years of building that scene up in my child-brain and when I finally saw it it was just as badass as I imagined it would be. He ****ed him UP. BURNED ALIVE. I was probably plumping.

It was like supreme validation. But then like, 10 minutes later Darth Vader's first words are bitch tears... kind of killed it a little bit, BUT WHATEVER.

[kman]

Ha, I remember a friend of mine had read those books and told me that was his origin, way back when I first saw those movies when I was a kid. So yeah, that scene was always in the back of my mind when watching the prequels, too. I guess maybe that's why the third movie worked for more people; it had plot points that everyone knew had to happen (I'm assuming, not having read them): the construction of the Death Star, Luke and Leia's birth, Vader's transformation, and the near destruction of the Jedi.

I just think it's unfortunate that the moments where you actual feel the connection between the prequels and the original trilogy were all in basically the last act of episode III.

[weirdozhead]

the third was mostly what i thought the trilogy was gonna be about, but he basically saved all the cool shit for that one movie

i didn't need to see darth vader as a child and all that shit, i thought the movies would start a year or two before he went bad and concentrate on his transformation and possibly early days as "darth vader", there was a lot of time between eps iii and iv, i would've rather seen his early days wearing the mask busting some asses than all the bs from 1 & 2..

he started the story WAY too early

[Beastie]

Oh, and can I just say that possibly the worst thing in all 3 prequels was the sickening scene with Anakin and Padme frollicking in the meadow with those f*cking giant cow/tick creatures.

That made me vomit -- then eat my vomit - then vomit my vomit again.

It was THAT bad.

[NickRocks]

I had a similar sensation.

WAAY before the Prequel had even come out... maybe before they even announced it, I remember having my hands on a Star Wars universe sourcebook. I think at the time I had tried to read the Thrawn books as part of my compulsory reading (if you wanted to play the computer, you had to read, yo). I didn't make it through the first book. The problem was probably no pictures, I'm assuming. But it did get me interested in the Expanded Universe stuff, so I dug through the sourcebook to find out the stuff that happened in the book that I didn't want to read. Then I remembered that in the movies, Obi-Wan and Darth Vader had a history, and that Darth Vader was an awesome pilot and the fought in the CLONE WARS--holy shit, I had to find out about this. So I read what backstory was established between the two characters when I stumbled upon probably the coolest ****ing thing I had read at that point in my life: Obi-Wan and Anakin Skywalker fight on a volcano planet, Obi-Wan cuts off his mother****ing arms and legs and leaves him to BURN.

Holy shit.

So, after seeing the first movie, and knowing how terrible and disappointing it was, I had a fuel burning inside me, A FIRE--I had to ****ing see that fight go down. Those six years I put up with everything just to see that scene.

And you know what?

Totally ****ing worth it. Not gonna lie. At least seven years of building that scene up in my child-brain and when I finally saw it it was just as badass as I imagined it would be. He ****ed him UP. BURNED ALIVE. I was probably plumping.

It was like supreme validation. But then like, 10 minutes later Darth Vader's first words are bitch tears... kind of killed it a little bit, BUT WHATEVER.


true that...I remember the best moments in episode 3 to me were:

1. anakin firing his lightsaber up in front of the kids and the whole audience gasping...and i sat forward and whispered "yessssss"

2. anakin totally wrecking all the trade federation fools on mustafar.

3. The "I HATE YOU!" line when anakin is burning.

[dfbovey]

I liked the scenes that showed him turning more to the dark side, felt they could have pushed some of them to be even more dramatic.

The scene where he goes to rescue his mother from the sand people could have been much more dramatic for example. But dry acting and direction left it feeling empty.

[50%grey]

I know it is Cliche'...,but the only thing I liked out of all three movies was the Darth Maul fight,but not how they ended it.

Seem like the movies got worse and worse as they went on,and then when three came out it was so comically bad that I just gave up on that series.

I really wish Lucas would allow other people to do movies in his universe.

But whatever, I'm not to sad about it. The first three orignal movies I can watch pretty much forever and like em.

[thEbrEEze]

Yeah ep:1 was terrible. They killed Darth maul for god's sake ad replaced him with...Count Dooku?, Bad form Lucas, Bad form.

[malachimanson]

Yeah ep:1 was terrible. They killed Darth maul for god's sake ad replaced him with...Count Dooku?, Bad form Lucas, Bad form.

Thats Christopher ****ing Lee if he wants to be in a movie as a Sith you damn sure you put him in a movie as a Sith. :D I remember watching the making of. Lee was like i'm an expert swordsman had to be for all those films I did when i was younger. lucas your to old we don't want brake you. Hold onto this glow stick and swing it around.

I was telling my wife the other day. How cool of it would of been if Anikin just went ape shit in the second on. Right after he said I love you. He gets free and just starts hacking Jedi down. Just goes on a murdering spree. Padma all crying. I save you last because I love you. Slice off her head. Dooku walks up to him and goes what does our master wish. Clones of them all.

3rd movie would just owned Cloned Jedi vs Remaining Jedi. =) one could only wish.

[thEbrEEze]

Thats Christopher ****ing Lee if he wants to be in a movie as a Sith you damn sure you put him in a movie as a Sith. :D I remember watching the making of. Lee was like i'm an expert swordsman had to be for all those films I did when i was younger. lucas your to old we don't want brake you. Hold onto this glow stick and swing it around.


Nothing against Chris lee. I think he's a fantastic actor but character wise , why replace Maul with Dooku. Maul was a character that you could've explored so much. Lee was a good dooku, I just wish there was mor eto that character, he didn't seem bad ass enough.

I mean how sick would it have been to see yoda vs maul in ep: 2. Sooper sick!!!

[dmario]

what i liked about the 3rd one was that you FELT Anikins pain. I am not a big star wars fan but i loved the original movies. i hated all the movies up till Ep 3. and man, i wasn't disappointed at all other than the good guys were too busy trying to be good.

[Knigge]

and man, i wasn't disappointed at all other than the good guys were too busy trying to be good.
Not Mace, sir. He was willing to do what was just. What was good for the many.

[NickRocks]

thats why mace windu is my favorite jedi.

[malachimanson]

Windu wasn't mine at first but then you realize every team needs a prick to put them in their place and thats Windu.

[jharker]

I'm actually glad I saw this when I was 13. I wasn't able to comprehend yet that a Star Wars film could suck so bad. I guess at the time it took some of the sting out.

It was at a time when my dad still had to take me to the movies.
At the end he asked me what I thought of the film and I still remember saying;"I....liked it(?)"

Crappy thing about it was that the movie didn't come out until september over here, so I had the whole summer to build anticipation for it.
Not having any internet back then didn't help to prepare me for dissapointment either.

The even suckier part about this was that i missed The Matrix that year. Thinking it would be another Johnny Mnemonic type of film, it didn't even enter my mind to go see the better sci-fi film of that year.

[Ra Havok]

When I left the theatre, my father asked my what I'd thought of it, and I said: "This is quite possible the greatest movie ever made."

Denial is the first step.

:confused: :(

[Archerion]

i'd guess the majority of this site was born around 79 or a lil later, that was prime time to be a star wars fan



Well the first Star Wars, released on May 25, 1977 i wasnt a twinkle in my fathers eye yet,

The Empire Strikes Back, released on May 21, 1980 I was 14 months old, still not old enouph to watch a movie.

Return of the Jedi, released on May 25, 1983 i was 4 so i guess i could have started to get into it then.

^_^ but i was into more of He-man , Thundercats, Voltron, ect.


I remember watching the Ewoks Battle for Endor first then started to get into starwars a bit when i was older.

[Mase]

A friend of mine had the best idea in the world, which is that Anakin should have killed Jar Jar. That would have been cool on so many levels.

[joekey]

About Christopher Lee, i had remembered seeing the name of a new Sith in the 2nd film named Darth Tyranus. Then i read that Lee asked to be in the movie so they remade the character or something.

Just the name Darth Tyranus seems like it would belong to someone 10x as evil as Darth Maul. So disappointing.

[Beastie]

Tyrannus was 'politically' evil and had grey hair (which is almost as scary as having horns).

Am I right?






*Ahem*

[danimation2001]

man you guys are a bunch of whiny bitches haha. I remember leaving the theater being 12 years old (god that was 10 years ago?) and thinking that was all in all, pretty damn cool. the podrace scene was dope. the last fight scene with darth maul was kickass. sure jar ar was annoying, but it still is IMO the best of the prequel trilogy...episode 2 was a borefest and 3 had no dramatic tension at all...not to mention anakin giving into palpatine way too easy.

its a solid 6/10 for me.

Dude when I watched Batman and Robin as a kid, I thought that Jim Carry was a perfect choice for the Riddler. And thought he was funny as hell in the movie. I watched it again with more grown up eyes later on and realized, that kids have no freak'n taste what so ever because it was a pile of crap on crap. Watch episode 1 again as you are now and hopefully you'll have experienced enough of the world that is great to know what isn't.

[danimation2001]

The scene where he goes to rescue his mother from the sand people could have been much more dramatic for example. But dry acting and direction left it feeling empty.

The only part of that that I liked was the music when he started to get more violent.

That to me was pretty damn good.

[finfito]

The first time I saw it I was 12 and I thought it was effing awesome. a family friend, who was 20-something and also a starwars geek, took me to see it in the theaters a second time. When we came out I was like "it was AWEsome, wasn't it!?" and he was like "nnnnn...I don't know it was kind of ok". and it's been down hill from there.

on their own they'd be a forgettable trilogy of flashy blockbusters. but yeah because I grew up wearing out many vhs copies of the original trilogy I'm in the "he shit on my childhood" camp.

I can't believe that was ten years ago though, holy crap.

[joekey]

Dude when I watched Batman and Robin as a kid, I thought that Jim Carry was a perfect choice for the Riddler. And thought he was funny as hell in the movie. I watched it again with more grown up eyes later on and realized, that kids have no freak'n taste what so ever because it was a pile of crap on crap. Watch episode 1 again as you are now and hopefully you'll have experienced enough of the world that is great to know what isn't.

Man, i havent watched Batman Forever in, well....forever. Ill have to bust that out sometime.

[NickRocks]

actually, carrey isnt that bad in bnf...its tommy lee jones overdoing two-face that kills it for me

[darrell31316]

I got to see Phantom Menace for free when it first came out. It was at a brand new (at the time) auditorium they have for soldiers and contractors on Camp Doha, Kuwait. I fell asleep at some point half way thru and woke up just before the credits. Whether I was simply tired or the movie was that boring, I guess I'll never know.
I saw it in full years later when my son got into Star Wars. He loved it. I thought it was blah. Jar Jar was kinda annoying.
What pissed me off around that time was that I was trying to get Star Wars, the original movie on DVD without all the revisionist crap and it was impossible to find (legally). I was told by a clerk at Media Play (R.I.P.) that Lucas would not release it on DVD until the entire prequel trilogy had been released. I thought, "so it's true...Lucas really is a dick."

[Deth]

theres another thread called

"what movies made you cry"

this was one of them. But for all the wrong reasons