The Phantom Menace was on ITV this Evening

Whatever people say, TPM is a landmark film - huge leap forward in CGI backdrops, CGI characters like Jar Jar. From a technical perspective it's as groundbreaking as Toy Story, Jurassic Park etc. It's not given much credit for its technical achievements. Of course if you didn't like the story or acting, well, you can't please everyone. Some of the acting was a bit stiff! Many Star Wars fans were disappointed with The Phantom Menace.
 
It's not brilliant but no way is it the worst prequel. It's much more of a coherent film than Clones and Sith and has the best lightsaber fight and locations. The pod race is still incredible and groundbreaking, if too long. I will defend Menace always, despite the horribleness of young Anakin.

Attack of the Clones is so bad you want to strangle it. SOME of the action on Geonosis at the end is pretty good (all the CGI ship stuff) and the speeder chase through Coruscant, but EVERYTHING else is beyond dire. Particularly every time Anakin or Padme speak... or when C-3PO's being thrown around the droid factory near the end. He says 'this is a nightmare!' and indeed he couldn't be more right.

Revenge of the Sith has some great moments but overall it's just as bad as Clones. It's saved by seeing Anakin burn at the end and becoming Vader.
 
Agreed, it had a lot of things i liked about it, it might have not been an amazing movie compared to the rest of the Star Wars but it was a great movie in general.

The storyline might not have been so great but the content of the movie was awesome ( Pod Racing , Naboo Fleet space fight , Qui gon and Obi vs Maul , Gungan Battle )
 
The Naboo Fleet space fight was useless, and ruined by Jake Lloyd ('take that....and that!'), and the Gungan Battle was equally worthless, being little more than a backdrop to more Jar Jar 'hilarity'.

Anyway, 'Attack Of The Clones' this week. I'm already imagining some of the posts on here.........

('They're animals.........')
 
Certainly having the third movie be Darth Vader going around killing everyone would have been the easy way for Lucas to go. That would have earned him a lot of fan praise at least. But for better or worse that wasn't the story Lucas wanted to tell. He was more interested in telling a tragic story of how someone that starts out good turns bad because of a combination of poor decisions and trying to do the right thing for the wrong reasons.



I think they extended the pod race for the DVD as well.



Yeah, they aren't ready to move on just yet are they?:D
 
But wouldn't you agree that this story has ultimately weakened the character, that along with Christensen's performance?


I never felt that the circumstances behind skywalker's transition to the dark side were particularly convincing and the fact that we were ultimately left to feel sorry for Vader (which incidentally I didn't) only negates any sense of ore that the character might have had in the original trilogy.


As a fan I would have happily sat through 2 hours of Vader slicing and dicing. We were robbed I tell ya.:D
 
No I don't think it weakens the character at all. If anything it deepens the character. But then I'm a sucker for tragedies.;)

I always felt Vaders redemption was terribly weak in ROTJ. It feels much stronger to me now, after seeing how/why Anakin become Vader in the first place.
 
I think the hype in general killed it for a lot of people. After 16 years of waiting and all the excitement surrounding it, The Phantom Menace was never going to live up to expectations even if it had been a better film.

I still like it though. It has everything a popcorn film should have.
 
Not if it was done right. Vader did a lot of silent turning and walking away in Empire & Jedi during emotional moments and it looked good.
 
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