saw it with my dad i was 7. i remember him laughing the entire time. he would bring up jarjar for years after. something about that character really pushed him over the edge into not wanting to give the movie a chance. im sure i loved it though.
Reminds me of my mom hating Pikachu’s Island vacation from Pokémon The 1st Movie, I’ve noticed it seems to be a common source of PTSD for parents of millennials.
I’m glad my mom sat through it with me and my friends.
Everyone had a good time and laughed a lot at jar jar's whacky hijinks. At home mom made us chicken tendies and we played Mario64 until late at night. Best 30th birthday ever!
I burst out laughing, rolled around in the aisles, threw popcorn everywhere, and waved my toy lightsabre around - and then I got off the bus AhhhhhhHhh
I was very young. I remember thinking it didn’t feel like Star Wars and the acting was terrible. I was disappointed by it. I liked the second one a lot more.
I saw it 20 times. People initially enjoyed it. It's still easily the best prequel, but I fricking hate Star Wars now. I was cleaning stuff out of my parent's house recently and got disgusted by the amount of time and money I wasted on products from a bunch of stupid movies and it broke me of any love I used to have for them.
I know the feeling. I don't think I had anything from the prequels, but I had far too many toys as a child - would have been better off without most of them.
also, I challenge you not to say "product" for two weeks, it's a lazy habit and there's always ab alternative, stop talking like a drug baron or marketing gay.
> I challenge you not to say "product" for two weeks
I'm using it here purposefully to highlight the worthlessness of the junk/crap/shit/etc that I bought. I was able to sell around $1200 of it on ebay, but got sick of running a store so gave the rest of the utterly worthless stuff to a guy on facebook that said he wanted it and was willing to come pick it up.
I was livestreaming my youtube reaction video at the time, so I was too busy telling people to like, subscribe, upvote, friend, rate, side swizzle, forward, retweet and reading out whatever my sponsors told me every five minutes to pay attention, which is what no one else did.
in reality I was disappointed and was looking for something to like about it. I took my younger sister and she liked it.
obiwan being played by the heroin addict was lame, darth maul was silly with bits of stuff stuck to his head, the boy was mildly irritating, everything was shiny and polished, Natalie Portman and her double were pretty.
>What was the initial reaction of you and people you saw the movie with?
We were honestly just confused but convinced themselves we were just too stupid to comprehend the greatness
It was a minor letdown for a 16yo fan of almost anything Star Wars but I couldn't quite explain why at the time. I never saw any of the other prequels in theaters and it basically killed my interest in the franchise
Nah.
The major appeal of the OT was the "lived-in" scifi aesthetic with amazing spaceship and military designs and the entire OT leaned heavily into WW2 style for the uniform, gear and so on...
Because of that it resonated across every demographic and culture. There was something universal about WW2 being transposed into a space setting.
The prequels did away with all that and the designs are all over the place and the spaceships all actually look like toys. Lucas just hired too many designers so it's a mishmash of various influences that doesn't really mesh together and form a coherent style.
Yeah I saw it. Waited in line with friends for the tickets.
We all liked the jedi stuff (padawan stuff was new), the stuff about the Republic, Palpatine showing up, Darth Maul and so on.
Pod racing was sort of cool but it felt like it belongs in an entirely different movie and took way too much time. The pod designs were great though and we all played the pod racer game later on.
The gungan/Naboo/droid stuff was very cringe and nobody even gave a frick about any of that apart from the droidekas.
Also we later on spent an ungodly amount of time playing the Jedi Power Battles game.
I was 8 and remember everyone liking maul and the ships and the podrace, my dad slept and went out to smoke, my mom liked jar jar and my sister didn't care.
Looking back, making Anakin "too young to be a jedi" when he was a toddler was quite moronic, too young was Luke, anakin was like a ypeee kid.
Lucas decision to steal obiwan backstory and giving it to a shoehorned character just so he could die like Obiwan in the fist one was also stupid.
Making Amidala, the mother of Leia be a queen unrelated to the alderaan title was also stupid.
The whole sidious wanting the treaty and yet eventually becoming chancellor regardless of the neimodian and maul failure was also stupid.
Killing Maul in the first movie, not introducing Syfo Dias or Count Dooku in the first one...
Making anakin born in Tatooine.
The midiclorians...
And the worst of all the unnecesary virgin birth and chosen one prophecy, ridiculous.
Also making Yoda such a grumpy dude who leads all jedi instead of being already some crazy hermit.
I mean why was he even younger? He lived for 800 years, 30 years wasnt that much for him to have that change.
Anyway a huge lost opportunity and a wasted of good cgi and models
that implied she at least was 4 when her mom died, and being adopted princess while her real mother was already an unrelated queen is just bullshit storytelling
>The whole sidious wanting the treaty and yet eventually becoming chancellor regardless of the neimodian and maul failure was also stupid.
He doesn't want the treaty. The whole point is that he's tricking the trade federation to attack so he can step in.
The fact that he heroes winning contributes to the creation Palpetines empire is a great move. >The midiclorians
Are perfectly innocuous and change nothing.
I was a kid and I loved every minute of it. I thought Jarjar was hilarious and I was absolutely obsessed with all the cool droids and shit. Darth Maul and his double lightsaber was to am abdolescent mind as crsck was to the black community. Like nothing we had ever seen and ran rampant over what we thought was cool. Me being the kid I was and, though I didnt know it at the time, seeking the father I needed, I thought Quigon Jin was fhe coolest. Episode 1 was a phenomena that the sequel trilogy so desperately wanted to capture.
Nowadays I rewatch it and while my inner child still sees some fun, my more mature side sees it as several blunders of film making. A lot.of time spent thinking "what the frick was Lucas going for here, what is this".
People tried to convince themselves that the movie was good but that was simply the aftermath from the final duel with maul, which was still fresh in their minds. I guess most of the audience hoped for a better episode 2 but we all know how that ended.
The prequels are utter garbage no matter what, it is astonishing how bad they are on every level.
I was 13 at time. Had seen the old films and their special editions in the cinema in the years leading up, but was never a huge Star Wars fan. I remember finding Episode I pretty bland. The die hard Star Wars fans I knew liked it though and chew up merch for years afterwards. I think they felt that the rest of us weren't as excited though, which disappointed them. Everyone hated Jar-Jar.
I liked it overall, just not as much as the originals.
There was too much JarJar-related humor, but I still found him more palatable than the Ewoks in ROTJ, which don't seem like they belong in Star Wars at all.
The story and characters were interesting, very different from the OT but still identifiable as Star Wars (unlike the ST, which feels like cosplay).
Anakin shouldn't have been so young but I didn't have a problem with Lloy'd acting.
Honestly ATOC disappointed me more, though I thought ROTS stuck the landing.
Never made sense to start with this one. Attack of the Clones would’ve made more sense as the first one since it actually shows the beginning of the Clone War. Leave Phantom Menace to the EU.
Saw it in the theater with my pops. I think he liked it, never complained about Jar Jar. We went to see the 2nd one, but we never went to see the third. So he must've thought Attack Of The Clones was real shitty, kek. Or maybe he just lost interest in it.
My reactions >I called out that pilot droid being R2D2 >I was waiting the whole time for Jar Jar drop the mask of being an idiot and show what he is capable off, like that jump in the water. >Darth Maul was cool as fuxk >Confusion about what the point of the movie was.
I went with my parents, I was like 7 at the time all I cared about was the action sequences. We're not an ethnically 'diverse' country so my dads reaction was "Jarjar is a Black person! and really annoying." and my mom doesn't really care about star wars either. It's just entertainment for the kids. My brother thought it was shit outside of the action sequences.
It was definitely enjoyable but it was sending mixed signals about the tone.
Some of it was clearly meant to be taken seriously like the jedi mission, politics, the republic setting, slavery on tatooine and the sith plot... but then the tone just flips and you're looking at gungans farting and acting like morons, anakin being a kid, goofy aliens and silly droids.
This weird whiplash effect made people just feel like there's something fundamentally wrong with the movie and the course the franchise is taking.
Lucas tried to course correct and make the other prequels more serious, but then he fricked up by casting Hayden who acted like he was in some high school play.
Talk shit about Jar Jar all you want but everything he said or did was memorable.
In fact almost every single line in the prequels is memeable and recalling it instantly defines the situation where it was used. Lucas might be autistic, but there's genius in his inept autism since all his lines clearly convey ideas and are perfectly tailored for the situations used.
I can't even remember any lines from the sequel trilogy. It's like everyone was just blabbing in stock phrases, stock sentiment, just flapping their gums do pad out the dialogue. Trite stuff that you instantly forget as soon as the scene changes.
I was six years old at the time and hadn't seen the originals because Eastern Gayropean lol. Went with two of my friends and my cousin and his friend who were both two years older. I remember being confused as to what even the plot was - having to read subtitles didn't help - and overall we were all pretty bored - my cousin and his friend started making loud jokes during the Coruscant scenes. The Darth Maul fight was pretty hype though, however even as a little kid I thought Anakin blowing up the space station was moronic. Didn't mind Jar Jar but didn't think he was very funny either.
A few years later the originals aired on TV and I loved those. Add the late 90s and early-to-mid 2000s vidya and I was in love with the franchise, except when me and my classmate rented Attack of the Clones and our reaction at the end was ''huh?''.
Incidentally my step brother was obsessed with Hayden Christensen when ROTS came out, and I mean really obsessed. He knew every interview and trivia fact about the movie and the actor and used Anakin[LastName] and Hayden[Last Name] as his online handles for Guild Wars.Incidentally the movie was pretty okay and it was kinda cool that I saw it with another friend after we watched a TV marathon of the series, since he hadn't seen any.
I had high hopes for TFA but after some 20 minutes in I realized that the franchise is deader than dead and was genuinely confused as to why the frick people praised it. TLJ was just a funny absurdist comedy to me.
Yes. 8 year old me loved it. It was the first Star Wars movie that made me fall in love with Star Wars in general.
I saw the original trilogy via TBS reruns on television, they were fine, but they never WOWED me. Honestly, I thought the designs were goofy as a kid, despite me respecting them today.
I'll never forget it. It was right about when Qui Gon and Obi Wan watched Jar Jar do a double flip into the water. Me and my best friend glanced at each other with very concerned looks on our faces. Trepidation, I would call it.
I was 24 and remember it well, saw it with a SW fan friend who was less keen on it than me, in fact he never really quite got on board with the prequels because he was superficially all about the 'cool' Han Solo/bounty hunter stuff
- At first I didn't like Jar Jar, or specifically his voice, and I genuinely thought they were setting him up to blindside the audience at a later date with him doing Force stuff or even going Sith
- The shot where they use the rappel guns in unison really took me out of the movie for some reason
- The underwater chase, Pod race and lightsaber duels left my mouth hanging and soi facing
- All the Machiavellian stuff with Palpatine was brilliant imo and it was genuinely creepy watching him play the manipulative 'innocent'
- Overall I loved it and wanted more
It was honestly kind of surreal from start to finish, we'd waited so long and there we were, sat in front of the screen watching it. I'll never be that excited or intrigued by a piece of media or art in my lifetime ever again, and it was a genuine thrill to have witnessed it.
I saw it when I was 7 but don't really remember much of the experience. I do remember arguing with a friend at school that it was shit because he wouldn't shut the frick up about Darth Maul.
I was like 6 so everyone my age (including me) loved it.
I still enjoy it in my 30’s even with its many flaw and my ranking of the prequels is still 3>1>>>2
Surreal because there had been no Star Wars for so long and the hype was off the scale, people bought tickets for other shit just to see the trailer and walk out.
Overall a bit strange but the podracing was sick and everyone went mental over Darth Chad and his double ended light stick.
I’ll give Lucas props for hiring an actual stunt actor to play Darth Maul, no one else could have done that character justice and I kind of wish he lived on for the next two movies.
Just feels like a waste to discard such an awesome looking character so fast even if his death was cool.
People miss the obvious with these Palpatine henchmen
Maul : obedient silent enforcer clad in black with a menacing presence
Dooku : eloquent old fallen jedi with a chain clasp cape and fencing style
Grievous : wheezing cyborg that was rebuilt from a once proud warrior
All three combine to foreshadow Vader. That's why none of them had a more prominent role in the movies. They were not meant to steal the show (despite being interesting), just be thematic building blocks for Vader
Even with subtext as obvious as this there are still people who claim it's coincidence or accident. Some people just absolutely refuse to credit Lucas with an idea.
Anyone remember the reaction of their parents in the theater when Anakin burns alive in Episode III?
I remember my dad was kind of taken aback by how violent Episode III was.
i was 6 when i saw it in theaters with my mom, and when he caught fire i got (silently) freaked out and she aggressively shoved her hand in front of my eyes. i remember grievous’ death disturbing me a bit too with the exposed organs and flames coming out of his eyes. i was kind of a pussy as a kid kek
I saw the whole PT new in theaters, the only reaction I heard in the theater was when Yoda about to fight Dooku in AOTC. I heard a few laughs when the fight actually started, then the theater went silent and lost interest again
a great experience. the whole audience was tense, you could tell people were trying to hold back their thoughts about how bad it was and hoping that each subsequent scene would 'fix' it. during the quiet moment where obiman mourns qui-gonn's death someone in the back row farted REALLY loudly and shouted "meesa bombad", audience erupted and couldn't keep it together for the rest of the film
I saw it as a kid in theaters. I was really hyped, but that gave way to profound boredom. I was also trying to find the scene where Anakin casted Vader's shadow but couldn't find it. I also hated Jarjar and the goongas
I'm 49. Went to see it with 10 other guys of the same age. Star Wars was a pretty big thing for all of us growing up.
We all walked out going "Ehhh..."
what's it to you?
Everyone in the theater laughed because of how shitty it was, just like the rest of the prequels.
sup mike what does mcauley culkin’s wiener taste like
Yes I did.
My initial reaction was telling myself that what I have just seen was Star Wars, so it must have been great.
saw it with my dad i was 7. i remember him laughing the entire time. he would bring up jarjar for years after. something about that character really pushed him over the edge into not wanting to give the movie a chance. im sure i loved it though.
My dad still brings up jarjar to this day
Same, he calls him "the most loathsome character ever put to film"
I think we may have the same dad.
Reminds me of my mom hating Pikachu’s Island vacation from Pokémon The 1st Movie, I’ve noticed it seems to be a common source of PTSD for parents of millennials.
I’m glad my mom sat through it with me and my friends.
Everyone had a good time and laughed a lot at jar jar's whacky hijinks. At home mom made us chicken tendies and we played Mario64 until late at night. Best 30th birthday ever!
I burst out laughing, rolled around in the aisles, threw popcorn everywhere, and waved my toy lightsabre around - and then I got off the bus AhhhhhhHhh
immense excitement gradually yielding to immense disappointment
I was very young. I remember thinking it didn’t feel like Star Wars and the acting was terrible. I was disappointed by it. I liked the second one a lot more.
I saw it 20 times. People initially enjoyed it. It's still easily the best prequel, but I fricking hate Star Wars now. I was cleaning stuff out of my parent's house recently and got disgusted by the amount of time and money I wasted on products from a bunch of stupid movies and it broke me of any love I used to have for them.
I know the feeling. I don't think I had anything from the prequels, but I had far too many toys as a child - would have been better off without most of them.
also, I challenge you not to say "product" for two weeks, it's a lazy habit and there's always ab alternative, stop talking like a drug baron or marketing gay.
> I challenge you not to say "product" for two weeks
I'm using it here purposefully to highlight the worthlessness of the junk/crap/shit/etc that I bought. I was able to sell around $1200 of it on ebay, but got sick of running a store so gave the rest of the utterly worthless stuff to a guy on facebook that said he wanted it and was willing to come pick it up.
It makes sense the way he’s using it
>It's still easily the best prequel
that’s revenge of the sith you’re talking about
I liked it, even got the VHS tape and watched it a lot. Realized it was a bad movie when I got a bit older, but I still like it anyway.
i remember me and other kids liking it, pod race was definitely best
I was livestreaming my youtube reaction video at the time, so I was too busy telling people to like, subscribe, upvote, friend, rate, side swizzle, forward, retweet and reading out whatever my sponsors told me every five minutes to pay attention, which is what no one else did.
in reality I was disappointed and was looking for something to like about it. I took my younger sister and she liked it.
obiwan being played by the heroin addict was lame, darth maul was silly with bits of stuff stuck to his head, the boy was mildly irritating, everything was shiny and polished, Natalie Portman and her double were pretty.
Myself and every single person in the theatre loved every second of it.
Now we pretend to hate it because RLM told us to.
People turned on the prequels long before the Plinkett reviews
>Did you see it in cinema?
Yes
>What was the initial reaction of you and people you saw the movie with?
We were honestly just confused but convinced themselves we were just too stupid to comprehend the greatness
>We were honestly just confused but convinced themselves we were just too stupid to comprehend the greatness
this
We sah in big doodoo dat time
George Lucas is the greatest genius humanity has ever seen
Why star trek nemesis can't be this good?
I saw it and loved it. Then hated it and now love it.
It was a minor letdown for a 16yo fan of almost anything Star Wars but I couldn't quite explain why at the time. I never saw any of the other prequels in theaters and it basically killed my interest in the franchise
The second movie did that for me I expected empire I got jumping Yoda
At least we got Dokku
It was a children's movie, but joke's on them since Star Wars was always for children. They just recognized it at that moment and couldn't cope.
Nah.
The major appeal of the OT was the "lived-in" scifi aesthetic with amazing spaceship and military designs and the entire OT leaned heavily into WW2 style for the uniform, gear and so on...
Because of that it resonated across every demographic and culture. There was something universal about WW2 being transposed into a space setting.
The prequels did away with all that and the designs are all over the place and the spaceships all actually look like toys. Lucas just hired too many designers so it's a mishmash of various influences that doesn't really mesh together and form a coherent style.
Yeah I saw it. Waited in line with friends for the tickets.
We all liked the jedi stuff (padawan stuff was new), the stuff about the Republic, Palpatine showing up, Darth Maul and so on.
Pod racing was sort of cool but it felt like it belongs in an entirely different movie and took way too much time. The pod designs were great though and we all played the pod racer game later on.
The gungan/Naboo/droid stuff was very cringe and nobody even gave a frick about any of that apart from the droidekas.
Also we later on spent an ungodly amount of time playing the Jedi Power Battles game.
I was afraid of Boss Nass for some reason. Something about his design and mannerisms.
>that was bad, I hope there isnt another trilogy from some hack israelite director that will make this kino
all the Black folk started hootin and hollerin when mace windu first appeared. one yelled out "BLACK REPRESENT!"
this was an employee screening for the theater
I was 8 and remember everyone liking maul and the ships and the podrace, my dad slept and went out to smoke, my mom liked jar jar and my sister didn't care.
Looking back, making Anakin "too young to be a jedi" when he was a toddler was quite moronic, too young was Luke, anakin was like a ypeee kid.
Lucas decision to steal obiwan backstory and giving it to a shoehorned character just so he could die like Obiwan in the fist one was also stupid.
Making Amidala, the mother of Leia be a queen unrelated to the alderaan title was also stupid.
The whole sidious wanting the treaty and yet eventually becoming chancellor regardless of the neimodian and maul failure was also stupid.
Killing Maul in the first movie, not introducing Syfo Dias or Count Dooku in the first one...
Making anakin born in Tatooine.
The midiclorians...
And the worst of all the unnecesary virgin birth and chosen one prophecy, ridiculous.
Also making Yoda such a grumpy dude who leads all jedi instead of being already some crazy hermit.
I mean why was he even younger? He lived for 800 years, 30 years wasnt that much for him to have that change.
Anyway a huge lost opportunity and a wasted of good cgi and models
The OT already mentioned her Alderaan parents being her adoptive parents. Luke had to specify if Leia remembered her REAL mother.
that implied she at least was 4 when her mom died, and being adopted princess while her real mother was already an unrelated queen is just bullshit storytelling
she remembers her ACTUAL mom through THE FORCE, you dummy
they don't have to explain SHIT
also Leia was having adventures across the galaxy with Kenobi while she was a toddler, escaping kidnappers and red hot chili peppers and shit DAILY
you SHITLORD
>The whole sidious wanting the treaty and yet eventually becoming chancellor regardless of the neimodian and maul failure was also stupid.
He doesn't want the treaty. The whole point is that he's tricking the trade federation to attack so he can step in.
The fact that he heroes winning contributes to the creation Palpetines empire is a great move.
>The midiclorians
Are perfectly innocuous and change nothing.
No, i was too young. Brother went with dad and when they came back they brought me a lego naboo starfighter set
I was a kid and I loved every minute of it. I thought Jarjar was hilarious and I was absolutely obsessed with all the cool droids and shit. Darth Maul and his double lightsaber was to am abdolescent mind as crsck was to the black community. Like nothing we had ever seen and ran rampant over what we thought was cool. Me being the kid I was and, though I didnt know it at the time, seeking the father I needed, I thought Quigon Jin was fhe coolest. Episode 1 was a phenomena that the sequel trilogy so desperately wanted to capture.
Nowadays I rewatch it and while my inner child still sees some fun, my more mature side sees it as several blunders of film making. A lot.of time spent thinking "what the frick was Lucas going for here, what is this".
It looked cool and special effects were really great but the plot as confusing and honestly I think everyone was just disappointed.
the plot wasnt confusing it was just dumb, especially when Mace Windu doesnt even send another jedi to somehow unravel the misterys of the sith
People tried to convince themselves that the movie was good but that was simply the aftermath from the final duel with maul, which was still fresh in their minds. I guess most of the audience hoped for a better episode 2 but we all know how that ended.
The prequels are utter garbage no matter what, it is astonishing how bad they are on every level.
I was 13 at time. Had seen the old films and their special editions in the cinema in the years leading up, but was never a huge Star Wars fan. I remember finding Episode I pretty bland. The die hard Star Wars fans I knew liked it though and chew up merch for years afterwards. I think they felt that the rest of us weren't as excited though, which disappointed them. Everyone hated Jar-Jar.
I liked it overall, just not as much as the originals.
There was too much JarJar-related humor, but I still found him more palatable than the Ewoks in ROTJ, which don't seem like they belong in Star Wars at all.
The story and characters were interesting, very different from the OT but still identifiable as Star Wars (unlike the ST, which feels like cosplay).
Anakin shouldn't have been so young but I didn't have a problem with Lloy'd acting.
Honestly ATOC disappointed me more, though I thought ROTS stuck the landing.
I was 11 and really into star wars. I thought it sucked and I still haven't watched episode II and III.
yeah sure
Never made sense to start with this one. Attack of the Clones would’ve made more sense as the first one since it actually shows the beginning of the Clone War. Leave Phantom Menace to the EU.
What if it was called episode zero?
I was in high school at the time and saw it with 3 friends and the general consensus was kid was annoying and Jar Jar was stupid.
Saw it in the theater with my pops. I think he liked it, never complained about Jar Jar. We went to see the 2nd one, but we never went to see the third. So he must've thought Attack Of The Clones was real shitty, kek. Or maybe he just lost interest in it.
My reactions
>I called out that pilot droid being R2D2
>I was waiting the whole time for Jar Jar drop the mask of being an idiot and show what he is capable off, like that jump in the water.
>Darth Maul was cool as fuxk
>Confusion about what the point of the movie was.
I went with my parents, I was like 7 at the time all I cared about was the action sequences. We're not an ethnically 'diverse' country so my dads reaction was "Jarjar is a Black person! and really annoying." and my mom doesn't really care about star wars either. It's just entertainment for the kids. My brother thought it was shit outside of the action sequences.
I enjoyed it and I think a lot of people did, too. Obsessive SW fans probably didn't, but it was clearly aimed more at kids than the OT.
It was definitely enjoyable but it was sending mixed signals about the tone.
Some of it was clearly meant to be taken seriously like the jedi mission, politics, the republic setting, slavery on tatooine and the sith plot... but then the tone just flips and you're looking at gungans farting and acting like morons, anakin being a kid, goofy aliens and silly droids.
This weird whiplash effect made people just feel like there's something fundamentally wrong with the movie and the course the franchise is taking.
Lucas tried to course correct and make the other prequels more serious, but then he fricked up by casting Hayden who acted like he was in some high school play.
Talk shit about Jar Jar all you want but everything he said or did was memorable.
In fact almost every single line in the prequels is memeable and recalling it instantly defines the situation where it was used. Lucas might be autistic, but there's genius in his inept autism since all his lines clearly convey ideas and are perfectly tailored for the situations used.
I can't even remember any lines from the sequel trilogy. It's like everyone was just blabbing in stock phrases, stock sentiment, just flapping their gums do pad out the dialogue. Trite stuff that you instantly forget as soon as the scene changes.
>I can't even remember any lines from the sequel trilogy.
Sigh... somehow Palpatine returned
especially the step on poo and fart scene
Jar Jar is a Buster Keaton everyman contrasted with the ubermensch jedi.
>they fly now?
>they fly now
I bypassed the compressor!
I was six years old at the time and hadn't seen the originals because Eastern Gayropean lol. Went with two of my friends and my cousin and his friend who were both two years older. I remember being confused as to what even the plot was - having to read subtitles didn't help - and overall we were all pretty bored - my cousin and his friend started making loud jokes during the Coruscant scenes. The Darth Maul fight was pretty hype though, however even as a little kid I thought Anakin blowing up the space station was moronic. Didn't mind Jar Jar but didn't think he was very funny either.
A few years later the originals aired on TV and I loved those. Add the late 90s and early-to-mid 2000s vidya and I was in love with the franchise, except when me and my classmate rented Attack of the Clones and our reaction at the end was ''huh?''.
Incidentally my step brother was obsessed with Hayden Christensen when ROTS came out, and I mean really obsessed. He knew every interview and trivia fact about the movie and the actor and used Anakin[LastName] and Hayden[Last Name] as his online handles for Guild Wars.Incidentally the movie was pretty okay and it was kinda cool that I saw it with another friend after we watched a TV marathon of the series, since he hadn't seen any.
I had high hopes for TFA but after some 20 minutes in I realized that the franchise is deader than dead and was genuinely confused as to why the frick people praised it. TLJ was just a funny absurdist comedy to me.
/blog
Yes. 8 year old me loved it. It was the first Star Wars movie that made me fall in love with Star Wars in general.
I saw the original trilogy via TBS reruns on television, they were fine, but they never WOWED me. Honestly, I thought the designs were goofy as a kid, despite me respecting them today.
I'll never forget it. It was right about when Qui Gon and Obi Wan watched Jar Jar do a double flip into the water. Me and my best friend glanced at each other with very concerned looks on our faces. Trepidation, I would call it.
I was 24 and remember it well, saw it with a SW fan friend who was less keen on it than me, in fact he never really quite got on board with the prequels because he was superficially all about the 'cool' Han Solo/bounty hunter stuff
- At first I didn't like Jar Jar, or specifically his voice, and I genuinely thought they were setting him up to blindside the audience at a later date with him doing Force stuff or even going Sith
- The shot where they use the rappel guns in unison really took me out of the movie for some reason
- The underwater chase, Pod race and lightsaber duels left my mouth hanging and soi facing
- All the Machiavellian stuff with Palpatine was brilliant imo and it was genuinely creepy watching him play the manipulative 'innocent'
- Overall I loved it and wanted more
It was honestly kind of surreal from start to finish, we'd waited so long and there we were, sat in front of the screen watching it. I'll never be that excited or intrigued by a piece of media or art in my lifetime ever again, and it was a genuine thrill to have witnessed it.
This looks like an old pc game, kek. I'm digging the aesthetic.
It looks pretty cozy unless you want some privacy. Doesn't seem like you can just draw the curtains if you want a wank
I saw it when I was 7 but don't really remember much of the experience. I do remember arguing with a friend at school that it was shit because he wouldn't shut the frick up about Darth Maul.
I've never been so disappointed by a film in my life, it got far worse after that but that was the first time
jar jar was ok outside of tatooine scenes
I was like 6 so everyone my age (including me) loved it.
I still enjoy it in my 30’s even with its many flaw and my ranking of the prequels is still 3>1>>>2
Surreal because there had been no Star Wars for so long and the hype was off the scale, people bought tickets for other shit just to see the trailer and walk out.
Overall a bit strange but the podracing was sick and everyone went mental over Darth Chad and his double ended light stick.
I’ll give Lucas props for hiring an actual stunt actor to play Darth Maul, no one else could have done that character justice and I kind of wish he lived on for the next two movies.
Just feels like a waste to discard such an awesome looking character so fast even if his death was cool.
he comes back in the filonislop clone wars but becomes a pretty compelling character by the final season
People miss the obvious with these Palpatine henchmen
Maul : obedient silent enforcer clad in black with a menacing presence
Dooku : eloquent old fallen jedi with a chain clasp cape and fencing style
Grievous : wheezing cyborg that was rebuilt from a once proud warrior
All three combine to foreshadow Vader. That's why none of them had a more prominent role in the movies. They were not meant to steal the show (despite being interesting), just be thematic building blocks for Vader
Even with subtext as obvious as this there are still people who claim it's coincidence or accident. Some people just absolutely refuse to credit Lucas with an idea.
Lucas wanted to sell more toys so we got Maul, Dooku and Grevious instead of a single cool dude like Vader
Anyone remember the reaction of their parents in the theater when Anakin burns alive in Episode III?
I remember my dad was kind of taken aback by how violent Episode III was.
i was 6 when i saw it in theaters with my mom, and when he caught fire i got (silently) freaked out and she aggressively shoved her hand in front of my eyes. i remember grievous’ death disturbing me a bit too with the exposed organs and flames coming out of his eyes. i was kind of a pussy as a kid kek
I saw the whole PT new in theaters, the only reaction I heard in the theater was when Yoda about to fight Dooku in AOTC. I heard a few laughs when the fight actually started, then the theater went silent and lost interest again
>I heard a few laughs when the fight actually started, then the theater went silent and lost interest again
Brutal
a great experience. the whole audience was tense, you could tell people were trying to hold back their thoughts about how bad it was and hoping that each subsequent scene would 'fix' it. during the quiet moment where obiman mourns qui-gonn's death someone in the back row farted REALLY loudly and shouted "meesa bombad", audience erupted and couldn't keep it together for the rest of the film
People went nuts for it. I was selling TVs at Sears back then, and we had this movie on all the new plasmas and LCDs to show how crisp the image is.
I saw it as a kid in theaters. I was really hyped, but that gave way to profound boredom. I was also trying to find the scene where Anakin casted Vader's shadow but couldn't find it. I also hated Jarjar and the goongas
Yes like 5 times. It was kino. I never saw a movie in theaters as many times as I saw this.
i watched the whole ass movie waitin for that dark vader homie to show up... never did
smdh
I'm 49. Went to see it with 10 other guys of the same age. Star Wars was a pretty big thing for all of us growing up.
We all walked out going "Ehhh..."
Sound effects for pod racers were insane
We need a new Pod Racing game. Sound effects really helped it too.
>that noise Sebulba’s podracer made every time it turned a corner
Absolute kino along with Jango Fett’s seismic charges