People who went to see The Phantom Menace in cinemas, were you left disappointed?
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I saw it as a li'l jimmy so not at all.
homie I was three years old, of course I was disappointed.
Imagine hating duel of fates
If your movie relies entirely on music, you're a shit filmmaker. John Williams is a great composer, it's a shame he wasted so much time working for hacks, but at least he got paid.
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>t. ~~*Rick Berman*~~
>YOU RUINED THAT TOO?
For me it's Across The Stars.
I couldn't stand it for Jar Jar alone. It doesn't help that it's basically just Ben Hur in space and the pod race scene is the only part that stands out.
Jar Jar Binks is a classic minstrel character with a weird alien design to distract from that fact. He even says "massa" constantly.
I feel like if George Lucas had made the character look more black it would've been way more beloved, albeit way more controversial simultaneously.
He was played by a black guy.
Said black guy was harassed and became depressed over it
No. Contrary to what zoomers are told, everyone left the theater happy as hell. The whole "everyone hated the Phantom Menace" is a complete lie. Murmurs of resentment started with AotC. What happened was a bunch of Gen Xers realized that you can't go back and feel the same excitement you did back in the 70s and early 80s.
Actual hate of the prequels quite literally started when Stoklasa made his moron hit pieces.
go to bed, George, so much sneed is bad for your hypertension
Wrong.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_People_vs._George_Lucas
oh no some fat homosexual had an opinion
Likely a troll post, but this is hilarious zoomer (and maybe young millennial) revisionism. People were b***hing out of the gate, and even the more positive reactions were incredibly lukewarm. The Plinkett reviews just analyzed these movies long after most of us had stopped thinking about them. It was an autopsy, not an assassination.
>Actual hate of the prequels quite literally started when Stoklasa made his moron hit pieces.
Have you ever considered the reason they were so wildly popular is because they echoed the sentiments of a great number of people?
>wildly popular
Hahaha.
The fact that chuds on here genuinely believe that George sold SW to white slavers because of Plinkett reviews proves you wrong, sweaty :^)
Otherwise you wouldn't have cause to whine so much about them.
Yes. People with shitty taste.
Came here to say this. The reason RLM blew up is because they were able to harness the sentiments of so many. The recent retcon from zoomers is incredible to witness take place in real time. Good example of how easy it is to manipulate the perception of reality.
Nah, I thought it was alright. I wasn't expecting the second coming of christ or anything, although I think the OT Special Editions being released in theatres tempered my expectations, especially the absolute trash that is ROTJ SE.
>Actual hate of the prequels quite literally started when Stoklasa made his moron hit pieces.
Just because you're a stupid homosexual that derives opnions from youtube videos doesn't mean everyone else is. This is the shittiest excuse for prequel apologists and will never not be incorrect.
AotC was shit otuside of Mullet-Wan, and RotS had one of the biggest nosedives in it's last act than I can remember of any film ever.
>DO NOT WANT
You fricks pushing this narrative of being victims of a cabal of reviewers, as if youtube actually means jack shit to anybody, has always been pathetic.
Good post. The only people I knew at the time who liked it were very normie, moronic, pothead, nonwhite lefties who were just fans of the originals because of the (waning) cultural popularity of the IP.
The truth is in between these two things. TPM was a massive hit and kids in particular loved it, including Jar Jar - but what Lucas didn't count on was that much of the audience would be bizarre sour middle-aged homosexuals who somehow haven't realised that the original trilogy doesn't stack up as an adult either, frick you
sadly people forgot how to have fun and enjoy kino. Little did they know the horrors of the yidsney slop yet to come
Nope, wrong. Middle aged homosexuals did the most griping because, guess what - they were the core fans of the original trilogy - in fact, it was the geeks and nerds, who at that time, still were a genuine subculture. As I said, I was in high school and I thought it was okay... I guess. And I was a Star Wars nut. My other friends who weren't Star Wars fans found the Phantom Menace confusing in that they didn't know what the hell they were supposed to be invested in. None of them liked it. If you think the truth is between those two posts, the only truth in the post I responded to is that young kids loved these shitty movies as kids, and maybe the RLM reviews convinced them otherwise. Saying it was a massive hit is meaningless. Rise of Skywalker was a huge hit too.
Yeah, Disney's Star Wars is really awful, but the prequels are still dogshit. I mean, Grown Ups 2 might make Grown Ups 1 look like kino (I never saw these shit piles), but who cares?
>Revenge of the Sith was seen as surprisingly decent when it came out
Now this is accurate. No idea why, because it was at least as bad as AOTC.
I loved TPM when I was 11
I didn't like AOTC when I was 13/14
These are children's stories, anon, that's all that's going on. People who were too old for it watched it thinking they were going to enjoy it, and, unlike me, were too fricking moronic to realise that's moronic
go back and watch the original trilogy, "star wars nut", it is almost as bad as the prequels
I liked Revenge of the Sith more until recently.
What changed is that I learned about behind the scenes stuff to do with reshoots and script edits.
For example did you know Yoda telling Obi-Wan that Anakin was lost to the Dark side and no longer Obi-Wan's pupil was to do with a plot point that was completely reshoot and cut surrounding the Dark side having an effect on Anakin?
On top of that was the jealousy of Obi-Wan, in the script before reshoots Palpatine implied to Anakin that Obi-Wan is having an affair with Padme, which is why in the film there's the "Obi-Wan was here" to Padme and also why he spergs out so much when Obi-Wan appears on Mustafa.
Another very important thing that was changed, Palpatine told Anakin that the Jedi were plotting to take over the Republic. This is when Mace Windu and Co confront Palpatine, originally Anakin was in the room totally confused and having no clue what the Jedi were doing. And in the process defends Palpatine, this version didn't have the Padme dies and visions plot points, Anakin just sided with Palpatine because he was his friend and saw the Jedi doing something completely corrupt.
Because the film was such a cluster frick there's still lines about this like "I see through the lies of the Jedi." (In regards to taking over the Republic, from his perspective the Jedi really were trying to take over) but because of reshoots these lines and plot points don't make any sense in the movie but Lucas kept them in.
In other words Revenge of the Sith needed more reshoots and probably a complete delay.
I think the prequels needed more than a good script to save them. The Phantom Menace was maybe salvageable had cooler heads prevailed, but AOTC and ROTS are ugly clusterfricks of CGI noise. In that way, I suppose, Lucas was ahead of his time. Those two movies are so lacking in form and at the same time stilted cinematically, that I don't think a good script or even good acting could have made them work. They'd still be pretty dull. I never understood why AOTC was hated, but ROTS was liked, because they're so close in quality that I feel like whichever you like better is a matter of trivial preference. I like AOTC slightly more because it has a better score and cooler sound effects.
Easy to forget but George Lucas never took on a project this big before - correcy me if I'm wrong but OT had co-writers, co-directors, etc, etc, whereas PT it's all him, *and* dealing with novel (and gay) technology
Sometimes I wonder whether Lucas never had any plans for a prequel, he just called the first one "Episode 4" as a nod to its roots in old serials; but people started theorising about it; and then after Jurassic Park and Toy Story he realised his cash cow ILM needed to show it could compete in the CG arena and he decided to make movies showing off CG visuals - and what better way to make them sell tickets than to use Star Wars branding?
idk if this comports with the known facts
The first one was originally just called "Star Wars". No prequels or sequels in mind.
To clarify:
>Sometimes I wonder [TRUE FACTS] whether Lucas never had any plans for a prequel, he just called the first one "Episode 4" as a nod to its roots in old serials; but people started theorising about it [/TRUE FACTS]; and then [MY WONDERING] after Jurassic Park and Toy Story he realised his cash cow ILM needed to show it could compete in the CG arena and he decided to make movies showing off CG visuals - and what better way to make them sell tickets than to use Star Wars branding? [/WONDERING]
idk if this comports with the known facts
Of course it was. It's comic book shit like Superman. Doesn't mean adults couldn't enjoy it of course but it's just a rip-off of Buck Rogers, this was not considered mature at the time
RotS is unironically the worst of the prequels. TPM and AotC have small little ideas that could be salvaged and turned into a fun movie, but RotS is just 100% unsalvgeable crap.
mace window was kino, general grievous too
They were cool in the Tartakovsky cartoon, not the shitty movie. Don't confuse them.
No, I was 17 and hated 1. Early twenties by 3 and almost fell asleep. Everyone teenage or older hated them at the time. Never met anyone who liked them until years later, 2010+ and only ever online.
>the only people who disliked it are middle aged
No one under 15 liked it at the time unless they were severely mentally moronic
Untrue. I was basically numb during AotC and my friend leaned over and said "this movie is really boring", we were both about ten. Revenge of the Sith was seen as surprisingly decent when it came out.
None of RLM criticism were unique to them. They just collected most of the salient criticism for the prequels that had been around for years on internet and made them into a video.
Even if you have a soft spot for the prequels, they're still bad movies. Reading this thread, I'm not sure if it's zoomers being moronic, or if Cinemaphile has fallen so far down the contrarian rabbithole, that it can't tell day from night anymore.
Eventually they'll say the same thing about the Force Awakens, but with E;R in place of RLM.
>Even if you have a soft spot for the prequels, they're still bad movies.
Checked and true, but so are the originals, *and* the prequels - or at least TPM - were good enough to be good fun for a small child
This is actually one major drawback to making trilogies/series aimed at children, in that the audience ages and changes significantly between films
This is one reason JK Rowling is a genius, she sidestepped this problem by having the series "age" with the readers
The OT doesn’t really work when a lot of other SW media portrays force users as capable of doing Chronicle-level shit. Force Unleashed and Fallen Order just makes the old trilogy just sorry in comparison. That and the fights aren’t as great.
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Going from Force Unleashed to A New Hope is some serious whiplash. Same with Fallen Order. The prequels and all its media made the Force way too powerful for the OT to make sense. Ashoka being a non-entity in them is wonky too.
They're not bad movies, you just saw a funny review and decided they are bad because of it.
>can’t even imagine someone coming up with their own opinions without being told what to think
The cope in this thread is incredible
No they won't you fricking moron. Prequels were risky experimental visionary art. Sequels are worthless risk-free corporate product and an OBVIOUS SJW hit piece on Luke Skywalker
I was but a wee lad and loved it but my brother who was 24 at the time absolutely despised TPM and the other 2 prequels, although he recently said that the prequels weren't actually that bad when we discussed the disney sequels
I was 10 when I saw it and thought it was okay, but I didn't like it as much as the originals. My dad and uncle hated it though.
only zoomers think prequel hate started with rlm
This. It looked like nothing else at the time. I saw it three times at the cinema even though i gotbto see a cam of it. Some were confused by it but hated it? Nah. I had no expectation but liked the 50s sci fi aesthetic.
there was a honeymoon phase for the public yes. tends to happen with massive phenomens like that.
reminder that normalgays all loved TFA after its release
This. Theres an entire generation of prequel apologists. Why? Because they grew up watching I, II, and III. They love Natalie Portman, Ewen, the cool different light sabers, the clones, General Grievous, all of that. And the memes speak for themselves (I hate sand, hello there, now theres two of them, I guess that concludes negotiations, I have the high ground). These had nothing to do with Gen Xers who grew up with the OT trilogy.
Going back to TPM, I remember people hating Jar Jar, people hating the Midichlorean retcon, people not liking Anakin much, people not liking the Podracing scenes, and being 50/50 on Maul. I also think people were on the fence with Ewen as Obi Wan since the Alec Guinness was so beloved. I think some people also took issue with the graphics and the complicatedness of the politics in the plot (ala trade federation blockade, the senate, and all the scenes with Padme negotiating). The thing is though, kids didn't give a shit about half of that and didn't have strong OT nostolgia, so they didn't care. And many lego toys were bought as a result.
Thats basically the divide explained, imo.
I was telling myself that it was good, I mean, I was young and stupid and I clearly couldn't comprehend George's genius, so it was my problem that I didn't get it, right?
However, when RoTS came out, me and my friend were already ike "it was the best of the prequels, I guess".
No, me and whole theater shat and pissed their pants during duel of fates and then talked all excited about the movie leaving the Hall
Only 10 years later RPM tell me why specifically TPM was worse than YouTube fan made movies
>Star Wars theme
>credits roll
>mfw
>thinks: "The next one will be better, won't it?"
I was disappointed my brother hated it so much he kept talking about it all day.
Saw it as a freshman in high school. Heard a few reviews that were lackluster or bad beforehand, so I wasn't disappointed. It didn't seem like a bad movie to me then. It was hard to judge because it was the first in a trilogy, and I figured the next film could bring dimension to the characters, which on first viewing felt a bit inert. By the time I saw Attack of the Clones however, the prequels were a big joke to me.
That was a hot summer, I was wearing my gecko t-shirt with my jnco jeans. Ball chain necklace, chain wallet.. shit, probably even gelled up my hair back then. You know, I never really even understood the first three so why should I give a frick about this one right? Well, fact of the matter I didn't. But it was where I finger'd puss for the first time. She was fat and I don't regret it
>finger'd puss for the first time
Bullshit, not with those jnco jeans on, in fact , the only thing you were fingering was your butthole.
>GAP kiddies fantasizing about young boys butts
Nothing changes
>Jnco kids denying they were the biggest dorks of that time period
You were losers then and you're losers now. Sad.
Sounds like you need to get over it homosexual, lol
>Sounds like you need to get over it homosexual, lol
>lol
I fricked her a couple of times but she was lame. Hopefully you got a chance too bro
You will never be as much of a chad as this.
JNCO jeans in '99? That fad was already over, my lil zoomer chud.
They were still pretty cool in rural Oregon back then but I didn't hear about Kurt Cobain dying until 9/11 so I see what you mean
I thought I lived in a backwater town.
I owned a pair. Black corduroys. Felt like a goober wearing them.
Saw that shit as late as '05, zoom zoom.
Grew up in Northern California, East Bay, never saw anyone wearing these, ever. Was this a Midwest thing?
fricking kek, absolute Cinemaphile autistic kino right here
I saw it as a kid and it thought it was good. The most vocal critics probably grew up on the older movies, and the same thing with the critics of the newest ones.
The newest star wars movies were pretty good. The CGI was impressive, there was still a sense of epic drama, people are just nitpicky about it. I enjoyed them and didn't think too deeply about the movies either.
The only thing that stood out to me as weird was when he milks this frickin thing on the cliffside, chugs it down raw, then gives his milky stare like he's making some kind of point. WTF was this to be honest. There was something weirdly intimate about it that just stuck with me in an offputting way. Whatever, it's not a big deal.
Overall, it's Star Wars. It's a megafamous franchise, blockbuster mass entertainment. It's made to appeal to as many people as possible. It does this very well. You can break it down and dissect it, but most will just get lost in the universe and enjoy the ride with all the special effects fireworks. And it's for all ages so it's not offensive.
There's plenty of substance if you want to get into all the characters, worldbuilding, storylines. There's tons of extra media around it. But you can just switch it on and be entertained, and there's enough depth to the writing to occupy your mind. Overall, I like Star Wars as a whole, not one part over the other.
You vill drink ze swill and you vill be happy.
No, I saw it again a week or so later. But then I realised the Tatooine part dragged. Never understood the 'On no, trade blockadezzz' thing, though.
Hated Jar Jar binks, wished they casted a better pretty much both young and the older actor for Anikan. Both the kid and the adult sucked balls. The guy the played Anikan demasked at the end of Return of Jedi was the best actor for Anikan we ever got, it's never been topped since. Everything else bout Phantom was great though.
No. I was 6 years old.
No it was so cool. Darth Mail and the Duel of Fates still gets me going.
Even as a kid I was wary of Jar Jar though. He always seemed like he was playing dumb.
Glad to find out 20 years later I was not the only one.
There also like this big deal about WHO the titular Phantom Menace was, I’m surprised that’s not brought up more often whe the Darth Jar Jar theory is talked about. Lucas wanted you questioning things.
ITT: zoomers roleplay as millennial Chads
>soijack avatarhomosexual talking down to anyone
Yes, it is an avatar, because projective lookism is a waste of time so the only person an image applies to is the person posting it. Stop being worthless.
I was 19 years old when I saw it in the theater. People applauded at the credits. Jar Jar was pretty lame, the dialogue was a little corny and Anakin was a horrible actor but otherwise it was enjoyable. The podracing scene was a highlight and Darth Maul was a fan favorite.
Not at all. But the REAL fun was being in theaters for the opening battle scene of III.
I get all the h8er arguments but this trilogy is old enough to warrant nostalgia goggles. Watching this and playing KOTOR was a comfy Star Wars era indeed. Far better than the shit Disney has done.
>KotOR
>Jedi Knight
>Rogue Squadron
>Battlefront
>Lego Star Wars
>and the GOAT, Episode 1 Racer
Frick yes, 1997-2005 was the absolute golden age of Star Wars vidya.
Don't forget Republic Commando.
Republic Commando is overrated. The controls felt like it was made for consoles and what a waste of an opportunity for 4 player coop.
Great game, missed it somehow at the time but picked it up recently and it’s better than I expected. This one is also just pure kino.
>can commit infanticide and use the corpses of wookies as cover
Brutal.
I do miss when Star Wars tried to be a little bit more for teenage boys.
>Rogue Squadron
Wish I could play this on my PC or virtual console. I bought Rogue Squadron 3D and there's a camera glitch that last I checked had no fix.
I just got this for free recently through I believe Amazon Prime gaming with a bunch of other free games I didn’t realize I had ready to go, and didn’t have any issues. They might have fixed it
I absolutely hated them at the time of release but, even with their flaws, they’re pure kino now. Even more so due to Disney. So comfy to throw on in the background.
I was 15 and remember enjoying it but being that impressed. I saw it with my uncle and he was not impressed
I was 10 and I loved it, didn't realize it wasn't a good movie until high school
Yes.
Jar-Jar was jarring because I couldn’t understand him and his baby talk.
Qui-Gons bet with the junker space israelite made no sense.
The audience collectively let out a “wtf” when midichlorines were mentioned.
Baby Anakin was annoying because child actors suck.
It was a beautiful movie. And everyone was excited about seeing a fully powered Jedi knight. But soon realized there was no consistent pattern to the force abilities and it was just another Lucas ex machina.
People were dissatisfied with hopes for a better sequel with out kids.
Yep. Didn’t watch the other two after unless someone brought it over.
I was 10 and I loved it. I saw the original Star Wars movies with my dad in like a rerun showing at a theatre before The Phantom Menace, and I much preferred The Phantom Menace.
It's still my favorite Star Wars movie. I wouldn't consider myself to be a Star Wars fan, though. Qui-Gon Jin is a fricking badass, young Kenobi is cool, the fight at the end with Darth Maul might be my favorite fight in all of Star Wars films, and the Pod Race is definitely my favorite scene in all of Star Wars. It's just the sort of series that really improves with special effects, and Phantom Menace is the first time that the technology really caught up with the universe that the story was trying to showcase. You get to see the beginnings of all the big players.
Comparatively, on a rewatch as an adult, I find Luke to be just a little whiny b***h. I don't like him at all. He's kinda okay in VI, but he's almost too wienery at that point. I just don't find Luke to be a likeable character. Han Solo is pretty cool though. I think I-III are much better than IV-VI, but that's as someone who does not consider himself to be a Star Wars fan. I thought the special effects were really good in VII-IX, but there was not even a little bit of substance with which to carry the movie, so I thought they sucked, obviously. Star Wars wants special effects more than anything, but it does not want them in lieu of a coherent plot, and that's not to mention the propaganda.
I didn't think it was going to be so cringe. But the last fight made up for it. But yes I was disappointed. It was the most hyped shit of all time. EVERYTHING WAS STAR WARS. every fast food restaurant, every brand, vending machines were star wars. It was everywhere. The year before they started the hype train by updating the old trilogies and put that in theaters. It was reddit af
I would like to add that my dad was fricking seething over Jar jar. It made him hate the entire thing. He kept whispering how gay he was lol.
Based dad.
Pretty accurate summation.
I saw it as a kid and I thought it was awesome. Way better than the smelly old boring OT. The OT is so overrated just because it had groundbreaking special effects.
Phantom Menace is that good shit. Probably the best of any Star Wars movie.
It didn't really mentally register as a bad movie to me because I didn't have enough film knowledge at the time. I just thought George Lucas was a genius and had to be setting up the most intricate rube goldberg master chess player plot and the next movie he would spring his trap on us and we'd all be blow away. When it didn't happen in Episode 2 it killed a little bit of my remaining innocence. I really thought he had the fall of Anakin plotted out like since the 80s as a Shakespearean level tragedy crossed with every great movie ever made. And it just turned out to be mommy died, bad guy promised me I could stop my girlfriend from dying, time to murder younglings and become Darth Vader.
>time to murder younglings
If this had just been removed entirely the whole trilogy would be better
What do you replace it with? Killing adult Jedi? That would be a weird thing for Padme to instantly accept you went evil, maybe they really did turn against the Republic. Even if she was a true believer it isn't enough, she's pregnant with his children. That would make her character much less relatable.
I'm honestly asking, I don't like the moment but I don't know how to replace it.
>What do you replace it with? Killing adult Jedi?
yes. They should have just let the clone troopers kill the younglings. The adult jedi murdered would have been fine if they had actually built some of them up in the movies but we literally only got qui-gon and mace, the rest of them for three movies where just filler characters whos names are not even mentioned
Nah I don't buy it. Padme is not.a Jedi, she believes in the Republic. She begrudgingly accepts the war (which the Jedi raised an army for) and now that it's basically over what does she care if he turns against them and starts fighting against the Jedi? She'd want to know more at least, if we're at all to believe she loves him.
And even if she does learn more, what is she going to turn against the father of her children for? He's siding with the wrong political party?
>what is she going to turn against the father of her children for?
she never even does that in episode 3, he chokes her before there can even be any resolve between them. And he dieing words where "there is good in him", so even with the child murder she stuck with him. The whole thing was poorly written.
That moment he chokes her would make even less sense if she weren't stirred up when confronting him. I'm just saying the whole prequel trilogy is a giant jigsaw puzzle with things that don't fit, you can't take out one piece and fix it. I don't agree with a lot of what George did but I understand a lot of his decisions in isolation.
>in isolation.
its about the only way they can make sense. Like now with anakin coming back in Ashoka to give advice or some shit, you gotta wonder why would anyone listen to this scummbag mass child murderer? At least in the OT we knew he was a bad guy that was responsible for possibly millions of deaths but not that he personally killed children. The whole thing destroys his redemption arc
I know the choices suck when taken as a whole but that's why I specified "in isolation". Really the whole idea stinks, you can't make a fun space romp that's also a devolution of a character from hero to villain, Anakin's journey was never going to make sense in a Star Wars movie in any viable way and every decision is fruit of the poison tree.
lol excellent point
Plus, the original movie isn't some deep evaluation of Luke's growth into a hero, it's just basic adventure stories, so the symmetry wouldn't be there even if george succeeded
There's no good way to do Anakin's fall. Look at RotJ, it's heavily implied that if Luke had finished off Vader then the dark side would have him completely and the Emperor would seize control of him and Luke would turn against his friends in the Rebels. Also Vader made it sound like he had lost his free will. "You don't know the power of the dark side. I MUST obey my master." So Anakin would have fallen into the dark side and had a moral inversion, but it's not dramatically satisfying if he loses his free will due to space magic.
>There's no good way to do Anakin's fall.
Sure there is, and you don't even have to change the core concepts that were already in the movie.
Have Padme get progressively more ill with _time_, over 2 movies, and have Anakin be tortured over it due to all of his power and skill and he can't do anything for her. Add in regular poking and prodding of temptation to reject the jedi ways for something more forbidden, something that rejects the natural flow/cycle of life and can "restore" Padme, with him eventually breaking.
The biggest problem with the prequals and Anakin is that he never seemed like that much of a "good guy" to begin with, and when he turned it was on a dime, there wasn't that much build up for it over episode 3. Everything needed way more time for it to feel somewhat natural, but it was never afforded it. Doesn't help that you start off with him as a kid in episode 1, so you don't really get the span of that move to work on it. His fall needed to be over all 3 movies if they really wanted to tell that story.
Clone Wars fixes his character and makes him into a proper hero who’d eventually fall to evil.
No, the idea of killing jedi children is overkill when you already know the character gets redeemed by the end. The whole scene in Mustafar still works without that.
he's redeemed among people who were not around for his worst crimes
everyone involved with the slaughter of the younglings is dead, there is nobody around to continue resenting Vader for it
episode 1 is my favorite star wars film and qui-gon is my favorite jedi. qui-gon is what i imagine a typical jedi should be like. just like spock is what i imagine a typical vulkan should be like
I was like 7 so I was thrilled, thought it was the coolest thing I’d ever seen
I was a kid and this was my first Star Wars movie.
I don't understand anything about the plot. But love the relantioship within the young jedi and his master. And Dath Maul was a Great villain overall. And his design was 10/10!
Yeah I was literally 9 and left asking when fricking Boss Nass held up the big orb, "Was that it!?". Nobody influenced me to think that
It was amazing. Saw it three times
I was 11 yrs old btw
i was bored at times but my brother and i were jumping around making lightsaber sounds afterwards.
Stop mentioning youtubers. They are irrelevant and literally no one in the real world has ever heard about them.
i was like 14 and fairly unimpressed. its a fun little racing movie otherwise
No, I was like 8 or 9 and thought it was fricking rad. Got a PS1 with the tie-in game that same birthday too, shit was great. This film's flaws are not for me to seethe about.
No. It was my first Star Wars movie and I loved it. I was 7
My parents have asked what I thought for years, but everytime I remind them I was two. I have literally no memory of it but for some reason they never remember and ask me again.
You zoomies don't understand. The realization that these were the biggest pieces of shit movies ever took some time to digest. Star Wars fans in the 80s were 100% united with star wars, they didn't nitpick the movies like we do today, every decision Lucas made in those original movies was justified and accepted by fans. There werent pockets of fans outraged over Boba Fett falling in the pit, that all came much later. Fans had decided they loved phantom menace before ever seeing it. I remember seeing a video of a reporter asking a star was fan "what if the phantom menace is bad" and you could see how foreign even the concept of that question was to him, it's like he couldn't grasp it, he said "there's no way it'll be bad, that's impossible" because in their minds Phantom Menace was already an instant classic. There was no way phantom menace would he bad. After the initial shock, people were still riding high off the hype because they didn't know what they had just watched, all they knew is that they watched star wars, and they're supposed to love star wars. It took days, weeks, for some, years to come to terms with the fact that phantom menace was awful, and you saw the repercussions of this with attack of the clones because the box office took a 40% drop
Some of this post is hyperbole, but a lot of it is dead on. And yeah, good point there - with franchises such as this, it's the subsequent entry that takes a financial hit after one film is disappointing. I don't think the Phantom Menace is horrible though. It's the least offensive of the prequels. Ponderously dull? Yes.
People have been making these arguments since the Phantom Menace. Outside of Jedi, the originals are really strong films as far as Hollywood blockbusters go. I don't understand this whole concept of children's films as being outside the realm of criticism. Many of my most beloved films are films I loved watching as a kid that are still compelling as an adult.
>Outside of Jedi, the originals are really strong films as far as Hollywood blockbusters go.
All three are hokey. Notice how Jedi is the one hated the most; that's because the first audience was six years older when they saw it and had grown too old to enjoy it as unreservedly as they did the first time. "Muh ewoks", why didn't they hate muh jawas, muh r2d2 then?
>I don't understand this whole concept of children's films as being outside the realm of criticism. Many of my most beloved films are films I loved watching as a kid that are still compelling as an adult.
Possibly you're a homosexual? I don't believe I've said children's films are beyond criticism at all, HOWEVER obviously a film that successfully entertains children isn't going to be equally compelling to an adult.
An adult can still enjoy children's stories but he has to be able to meet them on their own terms, which Star Wars gays are unable or unwilling to do. They wanted the prequels to be as compelling to a 30-something, and in the same way, as watching a great (and novel) movie for teh first time as a 9-yr old. Can't be done.
Star Wars has never been made for kids. They were not kids movies. Only the toys were for kids but even then, they were too intricate just for kids. The games were also not for young kids.
It was okay
Soundtrack was amazing. Loved the pod race and the final fight, the rest of it felt weird because I didnt know I could dislike starwars.
>were you left disappointed?
No. I watched it 5 times in theater its the only film I've watched more than twice in a theater. It has flaws but it has more interesting imaginative things in it than the entire Disney War sequel trilogy combined.
I didn't like midochlorians though.
Wow, what a high bar to beat.
I was 6 years old so I loved every second of it
I liked it as a kid, but I probably would have liked the sequels too.
What I remember is, that I had now idea this was suppose to be a prequel how Anakin will become Darth Vader, so even then it felt really disjointed.
11th grade and no I wasn't
No, as a kid I liked it. I thought Jar-Jar sucked, but Darth Maul was really fricking cool. Battledroids were okay, the politics was eh. The battle of Naboo was a lot of fun though. I recall being a bit disappointed that Maul bought it, as even as a child I thought it would have been fun for him to be the Prequel version of Darth Vader, a looming threat that the heroes had to deal with.
In fifth grade I saw it in theaters 4 times homosexual
Of course not, it's the best Star Wars movie.
I can only imagine midwits hating it
no, I went 9 times in total
Absolutely not. It was fun to watch as an 11-year-old, and it's fun to look back on The Shakespearean tragedy that is the potential timeline where Anakin was raised and trained under Qui-Gon jinn and truly became space Jesus instead of what actually happened.
He did bring balance to the Force though. I don't get why the frick people thought more shitty ass bureaucratic Jedi was "balance". At the end of the PT the Force was balanced; two legitimate Jedi, two legitimate Sith (yeah I know all the side force-sensitive character shit frick off).
Yeahhhhh but honestly I think that balancing of the force thing is so vague that there isn't really supposed to be a correct answer. I think the metric is supposed to be how everybody believed it was going to unfold, and The Shakespearean tragedy of Qui-Gon dying when he did kind of broke that specific timeline. Anakin was really looking for a father figure from day one, and Qui-Gon would have been the best bet, but due to the situation he ended up having more of a brotherly relationship with Obi-Wan and latch on to palpatine as the father figure.
Now I admit I'm taking Dooku's words at face value, but there are implications there that Qui Gon was enough of an outsider that there could've been an issue there and Qui-Gon could've gone rogue if he felt the council wasn't being true to the Force. So even with Qui-Gon staying alive doesn't mean Anakin would be some savior for the Jedi Order.
kino meme pic
Impossible to refute this picture
>despite being only ~50% of the population
>Qui Gon was enough of an outsider that there could've been an issue there and Qui-Gon could've gone rogue if he felt the council wasn't being true to the Force
I think he would have. My personal headcanon is that Qui-Gon had to die for the Civil War plot to work. Because, unlike Obi-Wan, Qui-Gon would have seen through the plot and either reported to the council that he found nothing, or foiled the plot some other way.
I think there could be a kink alternate storyline where Qui-Gon lived, mentored Anakin, and foiled the civil war plot by not playing into Palpatine's hands.
I think Qui-Gon would have been highly skeptical of the existence of the clones and the Council's willingness to walk blindly into a trap laid for them.
>grows up without a father
>gets an appendage cut off
At last I truly see.
When Jedi talked about balance in the Force, they didn't mean equal parts light and dark. A more apt description would be "equilibrium". The Jedi believed that any use of the dark side upset that balance.
>The Shakespearean tragedy
Jesus Christ, get your head out of your ass.
I was five years old. I liked it a lot when it first came out. Not as much as I liked watching the OT a little bit later, but I liked it.
Absolutely not, I absolutely loved the movie. It's aesthetic always brings a warm fuzzy feeling because I saw it as a kid. I had a poster, I played the video game on PS1. I had a bootleg VHS tape of it that I couldn't watch because we didn't have a VHS so I made my mom take me to my relatives so I can rewatch it
I was 11 years old and liked it at the time. But even then I didn't love it and when it came out on DVD I didn't rewatch it the way I rewatched the OT so often I wore out the tapes. Jedi Power Battles the video game kicked ass though.
was disappointing to see everything nerfed and watered down but at least it was a real star wars movie, the pod racing and darth maul duel scenes alone made it great
no. i loved it and watched it multiple times. it was my favorite movie for years. if people hadn't meticulously highlighted all of its flaws i'd probably still have an overwhelmingly positive opinion of it, and i still think its aesthetics and novelty are unmatched and i'm glad george lucas brightened my childhood with this masterpiece unironically. i spent very little time making smirking criticisms and plenty of time enjoying this kino.
RLM literally ruined star wars
Good
I was young enough to enjoy them as special effect festivals, but the general sense of disappointment and derision in the response to them was universal and undeniable, first time in my life that I actually saw large swathes of people start turning away from the franchise (in a way that hadn't happened with the Lucas "special editions"). Mindblowing that some people nowadays act like the disappointment is somehow a retcon, I really hope that people just repeat that for bait.
I was a dumb ass kid, so I loved those yellow naboo fighters and Obi Wan fighting Darth Maul. It is a franchise made to sell toys for children, it was never high art.
>It is a franchise made to sell toys for children, it was never high art.
Maybe, but that's this type of cynical thought that has completely butchered Lucas' career.
I'm sure that, if he had surrounded himself with the right people (not a bunch of boring technicians typing on a computer, i mean actual craftsmen who can elevate a story like how Peter Jackson, Francis Coppola, Jim Cameron, George Miller or even Spielberg did for their own blockbuster/auteur flicks)
I remember watching the movie as a dumb naive kiddo (thinking it was the first movie of the saga and not the other way around), and I didn't understand what made this IP special to millions of children all across the globe since the only sequences that were exciting were the simultaneous battle fights at the end and the pod race. It goes without saying the rest of the picture was a nightlare and I fast-forwarded them. It's only recently when I rewatched Project 4K77, 4K80 and 4K83 that I "get" what made Star Wars is (was?) a phenomenon.
It wasn't just one dude behind it all, it was a bunch of competent adults who had a clear vision set in stone (notwithstanding the Disney sequels, that's another basket of eggs altogether).
Lucas made the mistake of pondering to everyone : a trilogy that discusses the importance of preserving democracy and the inherent geopolitical issues of globalization also features a CGI jiggaboo caricature stepping in the poopy as a "joke". You know, if I were in George's shoes, I would have co-directed and co-written with others to create something like a bold mixture of Ran (for the battles), La Dolce Vita (for the love story aspect) and Ivan's Childhood (for the introduction of Anakin's character). Kinda like what we had with "Rogue One" but artsier, less cynical and more personal. Reclaiming Star Wars the right way, and levelling up the audience with it.
I wasn't excited about it, so wasn't disappointed. I only saw it because I felt obliged to experience the must-see movie of the year. I think I zoned out at some point. I left not remembering what it was about.
nah I enjoyed it as a kid but thats it, its a kids movie. Some people nowdays just have a hard time saying their favourite film as a kid is bad, they never grew up
85 Millennial here. I didn't have the sort of obsession a lot of people did with Star Wars. I mean, sure it was part of my childhood but so were Labyrinth, Willow, George's Island, Are You Afraid of the Dark? et al.
I remember liking the movie overall. Especially the underwater chase scene(always liked stuff like sharks and shipwrecks) and the duel against Darth Maul.
I also remember that same week we got Pizza Hut as a treat because I was getting braces and it had Jar Jar on the box.
It's been over twenty years, anon.
Well all right, all right... no, I guess. It was sort of okay, but a bit meh even then. Never was much of a Star Wars fan, so I didn't expect much.
Didn't bother to see the later movies of the trilogy in a theater based on the first one so maybe it left a poor impression though. I watched EpII pirated skipping the most gringeworthy bits on fast forward and saw only bits and pieces of EpIII.
Cut class with about 8 friends. Stood in line for 9 hours. Probably the most disappointed I’ve ever been. Huge fan of the original trilogy as a kid.
Hell nah, I was like 8 that maul duel was dope
I was engaged at the time and managed to persuade my fiance to go watch it with me. I was never more mortified in my whole life. I felt like she would break off the engagement after watching the tripe but she was merely annoyed. Surprisingly, she agreed to watch FotR with me later after we were married and she actually liked that movie.
The "um er well the originals are bad too!!!" lie is the saddest prequelzoomer cope.
I'm old and the originals are bad too.
When was the last time you watched them? I attended a marathon screening when the sequels came out and it was just interminable. Everything, the acting, the dialogue, it's all so bad.
They're still pretty good but they're NOT these flawless masterpieces, they're almost as bad as the prequels.
Boomer/Gen X fantasy: originals amazing, prequels godawful
Reality: originals alright, prequels slightly less so
Thanks for your dumb post. Next time, when you troll, try to make actual points for the sake of verisimilitude.
Compared to what? What are some great movies that star wars doesn't hold up in comparison to?
godfather
>can only name one movie
A few well shot scenes and a good score doesn't make a bunch of Italian guys sitting around talking a good movie. I've never understood mob films, there isn't a single one that I like. Are you supposed to self insert as le epic mobbies like a kid in a superhero movie or something? I've seen better low budget yakuza flicks than godfather
Uh you can't just say that about an Approved Smart Person Movie, pal. Who do you think you are?
>You didn't copy-paste My Favourite Movies.txt, opinion disregarded
Pick any great movie you like, the point is that it's good when you're 20 and still good when you're 40, whereas a kid's movie like Star Wars is good when you're 10 and not so good when you're 20
You can literally only name one movie that's better than star wars. Star wars is the second best movie according to you. Without a context of comparison, relative terms like "good" and "bad" are meaningless.
Yes, that must be it. I only like two movies because I won't sit here listing you movies, every one of which you'll dismiss no matter how good it is, like you did with the Godfather. you, sir, are an absolutely massive homosexual and i hope all your mint-in-box collectables get water damage
You're missing the point entirely(low IQ probably), if you named even just one movie i liked i would have explained to you how relative adjectives work one post sooner instead of being distracted by how overrated the godfather is. I can think of dozens of movies I like more than star wars easily, like lotr and a good portion of Kitano and Kubrick flicks and orochi and M&C and on and on, and I think star wars is a good movie. You can literally only think of one movie thats better than star wars. On the logical level your claims are based on something other than a relative spectrum. My guess is that you're parroting what someone else said, since according to you star wars is the second best movie.
Not the guy you're talking to but I also always thought Star Wars was piss poor even as a kid (12 when phantom menace released), here is a list of things I enjoyed viewing more at the time for you to judge:
Austin Powers
True Lies
Bravo Two Zero
Robin Hood Prince of Thieves
Predator
Goldeneye
[Old] Star Wars is good when you're 40 and older, just for different reasons. One of them having them reinforce the right kind of values and priorities in younger generations. Lucas knew exactly what he was doing, first and foremost.
Lucas intended Star Wars to be pro-communist propaganda. This is a documented fact.
What a gay Black person
have a nice day
i was not disappointed because boy anakin was icsh
the projector crapped out during the lightsaber battle at the end and people got butthurt
>butthurt
boys were raped? or was it consensual?
I had a blast, had a blast with clones too, and along with empire those three were my favorite star wars movies specifically because they all had large awesome field battles. Clones especially because it had the coolest one.
I don't remember anyone hating on the prequels until the reddit letter media meme reviews.
There are so many moments and scenes, from all three movies that are high points of the franchise, it’s just so poorly done overall. He made a mistake not handing them off to others like ESB and RTJ. Maybe one day we can ask an AI prompt to remake them from the perspective of different directors.
For some reason I was expexting Anakin to get fricked up and in the suit by the end of the movie, so yeah kinda disappointed. I was also 8.
Star Wars was always shit to me, I never knew why the lad down the street though Luke was cool, I knew James Bond/The Terminator would frick him up 1v1 anytime.
>t. child me blog
You're supposed to like Darth Vader and stormtroopers and cool stuff like that, not the kid in the robe
Whilst formulating a reply I've realised I only like prequel memes and Shadows of the Empire [n64]. Also, Harrison Ford was always boring af to me, both in Star Wars and Indy so maybe he's what put me off.
Based. Luke was always a whiny little homosexual. Even as a little kid, the fascist Empire were so much cooler than the wienersucker rebels.
32 now, so about 8 when it came out. saw it opening weekend with my friends, it was the coolest fricking thing ever and darth maul was the coolest guy ever. jar jar was mildly amusing to me back then.
was a little light on action though, which is why II amplified that section quite a bit.
if the internet existed in 1977, everyone would have nitpicked starwars and it wouldn't have become a classic
>no one invented movie criticism until the 00s
i guarantee you 99% of the criticism for phantom menace would not enter your mind if not for internet
Here’s another one. It’s crazy to see this today.
>The internet doesn't influence people's opinions on things
It does and it's called herding behaviour, it doesn't matter what media enables it. Half of your thoughts are not your own.
I had a good time, but not good enough to ask my parents for toys related to it. I still bought and rewatched all the prequel movies, and will probably watch them agian. The sequel trilogy in non cannon to me though, it and everything around it doesn't exist.
>The sequel trilogy in non cannon to me though, it and everything around it doesn't exist.
Based truthsayer. Frick Disney and frick Kathleen Kennedy.
I was 9 and I fricking loved it, highlights being podracing scene, there's always a bigger fish, big battle at the end and Darth Maul fight. I liked Jar Jar, he's fun. To me it's still the best out of prequel movies. The setpieces are cool, it's engaging and I always liked Liam Neeson.
I thought it was amazing everyone did the critics made people hate it later believe me
I was 9 and I hated it. I could tell my parents couldn't wait to get the frick out of the theater. Also some Puerto Rican guy was stabbed and the cops showed up.
Saw it three times
Imagine seeing kino of this magnitude and being disappointed? Boomers are moronic.
That was literally the only good part of the movie, the rest was shit
It’s a shame the scene is intercut with the moronic gungan slapstick. Really ruins the tone.
I was 3 and I loved it
I remember not enjoying the other two as much but over the years I’ve really come to enjoy revenge of the sith
I was like 7 years old so not really. I was very confused about what the movie was about thoughbeit
More confused. Didn't understand what was going on with Natalie Portman's hair.
If you go back and watch it, a lot of the movie is boring as frick with boring ass political stuff nobody could give a frick about. And the tone was way too goofy at points. But at the time, the feeling of "Holy shit, Star Wars is back!" was strong enough that lots of people overlooked or didn't even care about that stuff.
I saw it as a child, and liked the cool light sabre fights.
It was fricking weird and sterile. Jar Jar was way more obnoxious than 3PO, so much of what was told to us as an audience about the past events were totally different or flat out wrong. It was more of a "what the hell was that", type feel. Only the final battle was worth the price of admission. Jake was a miscast and had some of the worst parts in the movie, the entire 40 mins stuck on Tattooine was boring as fug. Even the race was trash.
It was a big let down.
Not disappointed but annoyed.
Yeah, it was more of an irritable anger than benign passive disappointment
I wasn’t disappointed because I knew from the screenplay book released before the movie came out that it was going to be shit
somehow I saw this at the theater like 10 times. My dad took me a couple times, we had like a multi-day school detention thing and they took us to see it after we cleaned up the middle school. Apparently I enjoyed it but I definitely overdosed on da jarjar
Not at the time, the lightsaber fights were cool
Later I watched it again and they didn't matter
First and only movie I recall people getting angry if any one else likes it.
For the 20 years before trannies and women moderated the internet it was fat nerds who decided who got banned.
And they bullied their way through the internet waiting and watching for anyone to say they liked any of the prequels.
You can still find the relics of this class still kicking around, still on the mission
No but i wasn´t hyped either. I was like "well, that was just more Star Wars".
i was in third grade and even then jarjar was cringe and all of the kids hated him lmao. aside from the pod racing scene we also thought anakin was dumb. it was all about darth maul and qui gon. also the naboo fighters were cool.
I remember Episode II even more clearly and physically cringing during the anakin/padme romance scenes and being bored for most of the movie but feeling the last battle kind of made up for everything.
I was in middle school by the time Episode III came out and old enough to actually care what other people thought so even though I attended the midnight showing I acted like it was a shitty movie and I was just in it to cap off star wars even though I ended up actually liking it a lot. It's almost comically indulgent (the insane CGI battles, the extremely drawn out final duel) but the core of the film is a lot better than the previous two.
I was 9 when it was released and I don't remember having any strong feelings about it either way.
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No.
I was 7. I didn't really understand the coruscant plot, but I liked jar jar, pod racing and the lightsaber parts. I remember going home and I called my friend on the phone telling him how cool it was. Then next day we played pod racing at school like everywhere. Good old times.
So you liked the pure cinema parts, even tho many of them like Jar Jar were actually inspired from older pure cinema experiments.
Really shows that there's merit to this medium, too bad that Hollywood is cancer.
The action was fun, but there was a lot of "wtf?" moments, be it wooden acting, scenes that made little sense, over all dumb ideas, jar jar, etc. It was still a visual spectacle for the time so that also carried it.
It was fun the first time around, but after the action and the visuals were no longer fresh, there was little left to enjoy.
Its still weird to me how many zoomers think RLM started the prequels hate, when all they ever did is take all the shit talking that was online for YEARS and made it in to a video format. There was just as many Geocities websites made explicitly to shit talk the movie as there were sucking it's dick when it came out. But all these things are like dust in the wind with so much of the old internet being dead and never archived.
>be it wooden acting
A staple of the original trilogy
I knew people were full of shit when this criticism came up. Hayden and Jake were 20× better actors than Hammill
Oh don't get me wrong, there was a lot of wooden performances in the originals, but they at least had a coherent script to work with so the dialog they were spewing wasn't fricking nonsense at the same time.
yeah, the hype was unbelievable, even if it was good it never could've lived up to it
I was 12 at the time so I enjoyed it for the most part. Even then, I didn't really like Jar Jar lol.
The prequel hate was a meme started by those white YouTube Black folk. “Duel of the Fates” and Darth Maul were awesome. In the sequel we got detective Kenobi and Dr Zhivago in space. The third one was perfectly paced and everyone knew Vader was coming. They are legitimately good movies.
>YouTube
It was around before YouTube existed....
You zoomers know nothing of internet culture in an era before it started to turn in to TV it self
Prequlshit was hated by everyone years before youtube was even a thing, sperg
I was born in 2005 ._.
I saw it twice the same day. it was fun, and i liked Liam Neeson in it. pod racing was my favorite part.
you genuinely sound intelligent, how was your life after that?
I became a security guard. my hobbies include, surfing, archery, jiu jitsu, and hooking up with zoomer girls on discord between marathon Rome: Total War campaigns that I play while watching Stargate SG1 on my second monitor.
I'm genuinely unhappy and want to die.
I watched it as a kid, so I loved it. Especially the part where I knew Padme, which to me seemed like a grown up, was gonna be with Anakin, who looked like a child just like me. As I became an adult my opinion changed. Still like the Dark Maul fight and music though. Iconic as frick.
Plenty of fanedits fix the whole trilogy anyway. Different editors had different ideas on how to make it work so you get to pick whatever works best for you.
fan edits frick up the color most of the time
There are plenty that don’t.
Saw it when i was 12 .
It made me a Star Wars Fan (im not anymore for obvious reasons) in the first place. the three OT movies were on TV all the time, but i didnt care for them except for the aliens and never watched them completely when they were on. Even confused them with Star Trek. I liked the cool planets, the ships, the creatures, aliens and droid, the battles and the music. I CAN understand why some Boomers or fans of the originals were so dissapointed and shocked by it, but i liked it and i still ike it.
It was entertaining as a kid my dad thought it was stupid (as a discerning scifi book enjoyer) but there was a lot of excitement about it at west edmonton mall so it was just the thing to see at the time. They gave out some kind of tin box collectable with darth maul on it to me.
>as a discerning scifi book enjoyer
those are for the most part as bad as the EU enjoyers
oh he knows he gets off on picking books apart and if it ends up being good it's a pleasant surprise
he reads very fast so that helps
I was like 4 years old so I loved it. But not as much as the 2nd prequel where they had Yoda flipping around with his little green lightsaber. That made me super excited and I pretended I was yoda and jumped across the couches at home. I tried to do a flip and ended up falling on my back and hitting myself in the face with my knee which gave me a bruise for weeks.
it was the first star wars movie I ever saw, I thought it sucked except for Darth Maul
yeah my reward Neurotransmitters were busted by the matrix in early march 1999
that was a nice trans allegory
I was 9 so I dont think I was able to be disappointed yet. I was the target demo and I was all in. The marketing blitz for episode one was like a 4 year long relentless blitz.
Nah, it replaced The Empire Strikes Back as my favorite when I first came out of the theater.
Oldgay here. It was the beginning of the end. We didn't realize that the Ewoks in Jedi were a preview of all the crap to come. However my kids love the prequel trilogy. No one likes the sequel trilogy.
>oldgay
Emphasis on the gay part. Ewoks and Gungans were always kino
I loved the Ewoks as a kid so I can understand zoomers loving the prequels, but the cognitive dissonance from a lot of people recently about the reaction to the prequels at the time is very funny. Something that happened so recently, within the last generation, can be so warped and inaccurate to reality. The response to the prequels at the time was worse than the response to the sequels currently. Looking back, they have great moments and I appreciate them more than anything Disney has or will produce under the IP, but that doesn’t change reality of its reception at release. And you’re 100% accurate on the sequels; kids hate them. Even Marvel has lost their interest now, but at the time of the sequels, no one was initially interested in them other than old hopeful millenials and Gen X fans of the OT.
Yeah it was a bit shit. Jar Jar was so incredibly annoying, the politics plot was dumb, overall was too long. Kino action and the top cast couldn't save it. 2 and 3 more enjoyable, watched them all in the cinema.
I also saw 7 in a cinema and it was the last SW property I paid for, never again.
I was 8 years old and it was fricking awesome. It was made for me, an 8-year old.
>space action scene, frick yeah space
>lasers, frick yeah lasers
>political mumbo jumbo, just zone out looking at the pretty buildings and cool costumes
Frickin awesome. Then all the great games came out, what a time to be alive.
saw it when I was 9 and hated star wars before going in cause I thought it was for old people.
It was an action packed thrill ride from start to finish. from the cool fights on the droid control ship the the surface of Naboo. then the pod race was something else like a mini epic race movie. then there was the cool 4 way battle at the end in space on the ground in the palace and the cool lightsaber fight against Maul. such an epic fricking film all around a perfect mix of practical effects and cgi. suffice to say it was my favorite movie ever and I was a huge fan after that buying the games and toys.
I did not even find about about how much it made gen x neckbeards cry until 2007 or something like that.
>I did not even find about about how much it made gen x neckbeards cry until 2007 or something like that.
Because it actually didn't and you attribute knowledge to youtube clips like a dolt.
Hell no, I saw it three times and I remember my mom being startled when Duel of the Fates kicked in during the ending credits.
I thought the first one was unwatchable. The scenes were too short, everything seemed so wooden, dry and hacked together. Back then people had slightly more attention span and movies moved more slowly and smoothly, so it was jarring.
Second one: The romance is ridiculously cringe. Nothing that cool happens. Booring.
Third One: I actually liked it, Anakin finally goes full-moron levels of evil. But I was very disappointed that such an ultimate-level evil character was so motivated by the death of his wife/gf when their whole relationship was unconvincing and terrible and it's like conditioning boys to believe the most important thing in the universe is saving women.
No, i was in 7th grade and me and my dad went to see it again. We made my mom go the 2nd time but she didn’t like it.
Yeah, but it was mostly because I had the plot spoiled to me by the sticker book.
>People who went to see The Phantom Menace in cinemas, were you left disappointed?
On the surface, I was pleased... As an OG Star Wars Gen-X kid, I was merely happy seeing modernized Star Wars media..
...but sure, overtime the movie did not age well. Flaws in the story, flaws in the SFX, flaws in the casting.
Didn't resonate as the OG trilogy did.
there are CG flaws of the same order with well polished movies praised by everyone nowadays, thing is that the show has enough of a internet hate to make people nit-pick and be really autistic about that aspect
I invite you download Arcane, a show praised for its CG and go frame by frame, you have clipping, lazy animation, budget-cutting tricks everywhere. It's the exact thing people complain about with the prequels.
I think this type of nit-picking is only invited because the OT was just practical effects so people can now find a blame for why it didn't click with them.
The ewok hate also started with the prequel hate. This gatekeeping nerds retconned the whole way.
my butthole friend who was not a SW fan laughed outloud like crazy when he seen CGI yoda. Movie fun was dead after that
People that hate the prequels were really just ESB fans. They've been crying since ROJ. The internet allowed them to portray themselves as the majority.
Everyone loved the Ewoks.
2 Ewok movies and a cartoon that lasted 2 seasons while the Droids cartoon was canceled after one.
Star Wars was dead by 86-87, outside of the occasional memberberry reference.
Until the nerd culture of Kevin Smith and the likes of the mid 90s arose.
>too young for New Hope but saw Empire in theaters.
That's the hater demographic, they haven't stop whining since the first Ewok appeared onscreen.
They like one Star Wars movie and all of a sudden have to be the representative of all fandom to proclaim how everyone hated everything else.
It was my first SW movi and it was amazing. The ending was disappointing tho I didn't understand where they were going for and it was stupid.
Yeah.
They could have easily fixed the movie too.
1) Downplay Aniken's role, he should still be there, but the story should have left him on the sidelines for most of the film.
2) Remove Qui-Gon Jin, I think Liam Nesson should have been in the movie, but have him play a kind-hearted scoundrel with a heart of gold, maybe Aniken's adopted father, or the guy who owns him and his mom. Shit, you can still have him get killed by Maul at the end, just have Maul beat Obi-Wan and Neeson's character steps in to help, at the cost of his own life.
3) remove C3P0 homosexualry.
4) Princess Amadala needed an actual personality, and a reason to be so important. Instead of a stupid trade dispute, maybe have another Princess vying for the throne, because Amadala was planning on ending the monarchy and turning Naboo into a democratic republic.
5) Midichlorians could have even stayed, just drop the part about how the force comes to them,.instead say that midochlorains are attracted to those who are force sensitive, so the jedi use them to gauge a person's ability to use the force.
1. they're stranded on a desert planet and the kid is both a curiosity and the future Darth Vader, seems like a good excuse to expand on him.
2. as the Council is presented in the series Anakin would've never become a Jedi without Qui-Gon's unorthodox mentality, he also held enough respect in the Council he refused to join to sway their mind.
3. comic relief for people receptive to that
4. yea why not he could've done that in 1000 ways, some better, not a bad idea
5. he was vague enough and Lucas explained countless times that he split the Force into two, the Cosmic and the Living, those organisms deal with the Living Force, the force the Jedi use as magic with their will power.
I was 13 and not at first because the light saber battles were so cool. But then I went back a second time after watching a New Hope in between and started noticing all the issues with the retcons.
No, a pedophile molested me in the theater's bathroom.
Nah I trusted Lucas and I wanted more
>you were a child and you liked the effects
I was 24 and I liked what Lucas was doing
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I was 10, so I thought it was the greatest movie all time
I wasn't so much disappointed as I was surprised by how different it was from the OT. There was so much new stuff in it that I didn't even really compare it to the OT, but took it on its own terms. Apart from some of the dumb humor, I thought it was enjoyable.
>how different it was from the OT
It is. The OT has conflict built into it from the onset. The PT establishes it, over the course of the movies. It does a good job of showing how a democratic system can succumb to corruption despite appearing healthy on the outside.
I was a kid so not really but I wasn't that impressed either since I didn't care for Star Wars. I just went along with my two nerd friends on their second viewing. They loved it, which is odd since most fans hated it.
I was 10 when this film came out and saw it 3 times in theatres
but playing with lego star wars sets was still more enjoyable than watching any of the films including the originals
Star wars has always been a dull story to begin with. The most memorable things of the OT besides Darth Vader and the lightsabers were just Leia's hair, the plot hole incest, that dalek and cyberman duo and the furry man, because of how grotesque that stuff looked.
Star wars old gays bashed the prequels for all the wrong reasons which only confirms what childish morons they were.
>Too much politics
The galaxy went from republic to a fricking empire, how do you think it happened you stupid idiot
> Made up stuff like Midichlorians
Who's gonna tell them retcon was a thing since the second movie
>Muh headcanon backstory about Darth Vader didn't translate on screen
The fact that Anakin was an awkward manchild like the majority of star wars gays instead of some self insert batman character hit home too hard