[MOVIES] Star Wars Episode I: The Pantom Menace 3D 2012

Concerning the quality of the prequels, I've not seen a better skewering of how horribly awful each one was than Red Letter Media's reviews.

http://redlettermedia.com/plinkett/star-wars/

Hilarious, definitely worth a watch, even if you liked the movies.

 

I really didn't like anyone in the prequels.

Jake Lloyd-I would have been ok with him IF Episode 1 was teenage Anikan with flashbacks to lil "ani." As a part of a full movie, he was equal to Jar Jar for ruining Episode 1.

Hayden-awful wooden acting. Only showed signs when he was yelling or making angry faces.

Ewan-Love the guy, just didn't feel right as Obi-Wan till Episode 3. Maybe it's just that i can't stand looking at him with a pony tail in the first one and a fake ass beard with goofy hair in the 2nd. But, it just felt like he was uncomfortable acting in it most of the time.

Natalie-One of my top 5 girls ever. Love her. Just wasn't right for Padme.

Liam Neeson- The most badass man on the planet. The only one who felt natural when acting. Should never have been killed off. Just cant stand that he looks like your grandfather hippie.

Ian-Did great till Episode 3 RUINED my image of Palpatine/Sideous. All those lame faces he would make and the cheesy delivery on his lines. He turned into a joke to me. Now i just see Robot Chicken "go for Papa Palpatine" in him.

Christopher Lee- Too old for that role. Completely unbelievable for me.

Sam Jackson- There was no Mace Windu. There was Samuel L. Jackson like in every other one of his movies.

Boba Fett- Lame.

Jango Fett- Came across as a wannabe tough guy to me.

As far as C3P0 and r2 and Yoda- they were what they needed to be.


I guess in the end you could say it's all on Lucas's ****ty directorial skills and writing skills that led to so much ****ty acting. But, in the case of Hayden-he proved in other movies that he's just a terrible actor.

 

Han Solo with a cape? GTFO...

 

You sure it's Han. Could be Lando?

 

hmmm good point.

I initially thought han because this looks like the death star, not Cloud City or whatever it's called.

 

One thing that always bothered me about the prequels was that they could have done a better job with continuity with the sequels.

The Clones - Why not just make them stormtroopers and have them look exactly like they did in the sequels? And just call them stormtroopers from the get-go instead of clones then stormtroopers 20 years later.

The ships - I always thought it was odd that the ships in the prequels seemed to be more advanced and sleek than the ships in the sequels 20 years later. Shouldn't have got so carried away with the CGI (although that's been stated a million times). I thought it would have been cool to see Anakin flying around in Vader's tie fighter at the beginning of III instead of that weird looking one he was in. Some cool foreshadowing.

Technology - Like the ships, it seemed like the technology was WAY advanced in the prequels even though it was 20 years earlier. I know the sequels were 20 years old, but they could've done a better job making it seem like it was 20 years earlier and thus 20 years behind in technology.

 

They should have made the movie retro. Just copy over all the style of the originals into the prequels. The hairdo's. The clothing. The technology.

The way they were made would have been nice style for a reboot of the entire franchise making them more modern and what we now see what the future could look like.

 

There actually were "clone wars" though mentioned in the first trilogy. Obi Wan tells Luke in IV that he and Anakin served together in the Clone Wars.

The rest of your post, yes, agree. It was so weird seeing Star Wars all sleek and shiny. Part of the lasting appeal of the original Star Wars trilogy was the authentic and rugged vibe of it that lasted.

Technology seems to clearly have regressed in terms of the military from the first trilogy to the real trilogy. Palpatine is a military warlord who runs the galaxy by the second trilogy yet his armies don't have anything close to the technology the used to have.

 

Dude, this was brought up several pages before. It's not a "skewering" of the movies so much as an angry fanboy ranting in a r****ded voice. It's partially an act for comedic reasons, which is all it should be treated as. Silly comedy.

Some people on another forum told me to watch it, because it was supposedly the smartest movie review ever. It's not. At every point , this guy just takes the contrarian position to the movies no matter what. As I said before, he literally claims that the Jedi had no reason to think the Trade Federation was doing anything wrong, after being attacked. I'm not exaggerating about that, it's that childish. Which is why I think this "Plinkett" weirdo is an embarassment to SW fans, especially all the people he convinced into not "understanding" the movies' plots.

Like them or hate them, Star Wars is a straightforward action series for kids and family audiences. Which is why its the lamest thing ever when fanboys have to invent reasons for not liking them, such as claiming how they couldn't understand the plots. Just be up front about your opinion on not liking the story or characters, instead of being dramatic like this.

 

"Shiny" doesn't mean better tech. A really shiny and prettied-up airplane from 1950 isn't going to shoot down an F-15. I think the Death Stars outgun anything in the prequels.

 

The occasionally hinted-at romantic subplot between Luke and Leia was worse than any romance in the prequels IMO, with the way it eventually turned out. Don't tell me that Lucas and his colleagues seriously thought she was his sister during the first movie. :grin:

It's really funny to me how little that potential relationship seems to occur to people, including myself. Because things get really weird if you spend any time thinking about it.

 

Hmm, I've never seen that Red Letter Media thing before. It's funny. Yeah, it nitpicks as much as possible, but there's a lot of stuff in there that's pretty on the mark too. It just reminds me how much I was looking forward to those things, before I saw them. New Star Wars movies was at the time something I wasn't sure I would ever see.

The prequels were such a freakin' disappointment.

 

I remember hearing or reading that the way George Walton Lucas described it as, the empire has taken over and that the galaxy is at a military state. All the ships and tech were destroyed in that war that ensued during the time between III and IV, leaving less then desirable ships, weapons and tech. Makes some sense if you think of it, but at the same time...

I enjoy it for what it is, a movie about people and lightsabers.

I will see these movies in 3D, as my gf has seen none of them, I have warned her that I - VI it gets better as you go on so expect the worst on this first one.

 

I was never a big fan of Star wars (they were nice but not great movies).

I to III are terrible, I really do not like the Anakin character in any of the movies. Basically for many of the same reasons many others have mentioned.

I started watching the star wars movies with my wife, starting at the phantom menace but we never made it pas III, Halfway into III she gave up.

 

Ewoks ....will be

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Dary old

 

The worst thing about a rerelease is people that will be experiencing SW for the first time will have the best of them, Empire, pretty watered down by the time they get there.

 

I briefly thought about these things even though I usually don't care. It could be explained by going through a hardcore war. All of the clones are obviously dead by Star Wars, most of the ships were blown up and replaced with war time built battle ships. Prequels were the end of a long time of piece where people rolled around in a maserati and after that they all had wartime hummers.

 

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