>This May the 4th weekend (so, from Friday 3 May), The Phantom Menace will be re-released in cinemas for a limited time, meaning you can revisit all your favourite moments as large and loud as George Lucas intended. Not only that, but the release is accompanied by epic new poster art from Matt Ferguson – with Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon ready to head into battle, Padmé standing her ground, and the ominous face of Darth Maul looming over it all. Now this is podracing!
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>Ex-squeeze me anons! Will you be seeing my movie on the big screen?
Yes, I will.
Yes I will jarjar. Frick everyone else in this thread who ignored you.
meesa no watching
I remember this shit breaking me as a 7 year old kid, when I kept asking my parents about why didn't Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan just sold the fricking royal private luxury ship for a cheaper one. why didn't they just send a message to the Jedi Order for a ride, why didn't they hire a smuggler or something to get them there, why didn't they sold the equipment and clothes and shit of the queen for local money, why didn't they just go to a money changer, why didnt they kept looking for parts elsewhere, why did they went all the way with that betting shit instead of just jedi mind tricking someone. Hell, they could have even just threatened Watto, "hey, we are Jedi and we are going to cut you down for slaveholding if you don't help us" with promises pf monetary compensation later instead of all that betting shit. In fact, they could have just bet their cash on some sabacc came in a cantina, control the dice like Qui-Gon did and get the money for repairs in like, an hour or so,
And the best part is, the ENTIRETY of this shit does not matter in the slightest. The journey, Coruscant, the Queen, NOTHING. 2/3 of the runtime of the movie are meaningless filler, just to get Anakin on the ship. All their plans fail, all the characters fail, all the background and world fails, all the plot fails. Then the obnoxious c**t just blurts in that AKSHUALLY they had an army ready the entire time, so just the movie could continue and all the CIS ships are conveniently gone too so the rest of the movie could happen.
As a fricking kid I was howling mad about how STUPID this is and it ruined me on media forever. FRICK this movie and FRICK the sóys trying to defend it
If that was you at 7…
and then you grew up to be a troony, wtf was the point of all the filler beforehand
>troony projecting on others.
Imagine making and consooming media so shit that a literal 7 year old can pull apart its inconsistencies, how nothing you vomited on the screen makes sense.
The answer to all of these is that they didn't need to and Qui-Gon wanted to bring Anakin.
They needed to, because the movie insisted to enable its dumb plot.
Amazing, the podracing part was the only decent part of the movie, with actual stakes at play and of course they cut down on that one.
>STOP ASKING COMPLETELY LOGICAL QUESTIONS AND JUST CONSOOM
No. 🙂
Literally the entire movie is trash, every single tiny plot element they introduce, nothing makes sense. Like how they did not accept the testimony of two Jedi about the invasion, the same two they have sent to negotiate about it. Or everything about the Gungan army
you questions were moronic then and are moronic now
>helpless, moronic fanboy kvetching
Your tears are delicious. SW fans are the biggest sóys on earth, forcibly dumbing themselves down to be allowed to love the product they consoom
>the greedy vendor going to the Hutts over being promised money if he shuts the frick up.
Yeah, sounds very plausible. Almost as plausible as the Jedi being unable to contact anyone, send a message, hire a transport or even just change their money to a local currency. No, they HAD to make a stupid stack of moronic bets, there was no other way, guys!
Plus it was already shown that Qui-gon had zero moral qualms, he tried to mind trick Watto who could only resist it because of plot and used the force to alter a dice roll. He was already unfair and underhanded, so why not just do wrong, right? Show a movie about Jedi being forced to survive and adjust their morality in a wretched hive of scum and villainy, see how they use their powers how do they think when forced into stealth.
And in the end none of that mattered. The prequels could have literally started with Episode 2 .
>uhm why didn't they just kill everyone???
>uhm why didn't they just go to a money-changer???
>uhm why didn't they just sell their clothes and suck dick for moeny???
Real plotholes these ones. Clearly.
>why didnt they just write a coherent script?
No one knows 🙂
Try defending Jar-jar too, its always hilarious when you try that.
Jar Jar’s there for the kids, dude. He’s comic relief.
>he actually tried it
Lol. Lmao.
Star Wars is for families IE kids and adults. It has certain things for kids, and certain things for adults. Understand?
>he is ACTUALLY trying to defend Jar-Jar, something even Lucas has abandoned trying
Because losers like you b***hed to high heavens. Manchildren like you harassed Jake Lloyd and Ahmed Best to the point where Jake's life was ruined and Ahmed considered suicide. You're scum. Actual trash.
Oh no.
(who gives a shit)
Are you going to get a hernia trying to defend it?
defend what dude? i enjoy the movie i watched it last year it was chill and a good time while i prepared dinner for myself. do you overanalyze all movies/shows you watch? i remember some loser once told me he couldn't watch dexter bc "he could beat up the guy". i get you want some realism or better decision making but nothing was offensively stupid.
Looks like you ARE going to get a hernia defending it.
>They needed to, because the movie insisted to enable its dumb plot.
You haven't given any reason it's dumb. You've just suggested other things they could've done instead.
>They obviously don't a give a fraction of a shit about Lucas' version of anything
Obviously, which is why i assumed it's part of the contract that they can't change it or release old versions. They probably would if they could.
Lucas has famously talked a lot about artists having the rights to control their work, so i'd imagine it'd be a priority for him.
>dumb 7 year old has dumb questions
Not sure why you felt the need to pad the run-time this hard.
this:
by the point they got to tatooine quigon had essentially hijacked the entire operation and was adamant on doing things his way. his stubbornness and inflexibility is kind of the point, and also they didn't want to raise any alarm bells to the hutts etc by trying to publicly sell the ship. their operation was also ostensibly about keeping the queen completely away from danger
they couldn't have threatened watto because 1. he would've gone to the hutts and 2. it's not "the jedi way"
And they were supposed to be careful which would make it stupid to resort to threats or violence.
Also Qui Gon had faith in the force.
Imagine unironically being this guy for 1 day. Imagine thinking like this guy does. Would make me want to blow my own brains out.
I'm not that bad after all.
Normally you're supposed to grow out of your infantile mind.
Not if you have autism.
>when I kept asking my parents about why didn't Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan just sold the fricking royal private luxury ship for a cheaper one
they aren't going to sell the queens ship are they
>why didn't they just send a message to the Jedi Order for a ride
>why didn't they hire a smuggler or something to get them there
that wouldn't have fixed the ship
>why didn't they sold the equipment and clothes and shit of the queen for local money
like what?
>why didn't they just go to a money changer
wtf is a money changer
>why didnt they kept looking for parts elsewhere
they did only watto had them
>why did they went all the way with that betting shit instead of just jedi mind tricking someone
they tried but it doesnt work on watto
>Hell, they could have even just threatened Watto, "hey, we are Jedi and we are going to cut you down for slaveholding if you don't help us" with promises pf monetary compensation later instead of all that betting shit
that would have gone down well im sure
>In fact, they could have just bet their cash on some sabacc came in a cantina, control the dice like Qui-Gon did and get the money for repairs in like, an hour or so
the main goal was to free anakin at that point
>wtf is a money changer
Reminder that prequel fans are this moronic.
Except that was actually explained and the plot is consistent, unlike the trainwreck of prequels where no two action or character logically connects to each other.
>they aren't going to sell the queens ship are they
Why not? The whole point is trying to get to Coruscant to tell the Senate about the occupation ASAP
>that wouldn't have fixed the ship
Refer to my first response
>what is a money changer
The place you go to exchange currency for different ones
>they did watto had them
No they didn't. Qui Gon says "We'll try one of the smaller dealers" and just goes straight to Watto's
>they tried but it doesn't work on Watto
Then go somewhere else. His "no one else has this part but me" is an old as frick sales tactic
>that would have gone down hill
How? There's no form police there. Qui Gon could just take it by force.
>The main goal was to free Anakin
Which was moronic when you think about what was going on in the plot.
>Which was moronic when you think about what was going on in the plot.
They just suddenly changed their mind with no structure or buildup or characterization, just random events going on and the stack of moron bets getting even higher for absolutely no reason, as there was nothing preventing them from just sending a message to Coruscant, hiring a Han Solo ass freighter to just get there, secure the queen and be done with it and just return for the weird Midi-Chlorian(lmao) prodidgy a few weeks or months later. Even that shit falls apart, as their escort quest to Coruscant turns out to be totally pointless and meaningless, for some reason the Republic does not act to protect its member planet, nor even accept the testimony of a Jedi knight or a planetary monarch of an invasion, which is both just so incredibly moronic that it boggles the mind, then the entire movie gets undone as they just GO BACK to Naboo. They even bring the little kid into the warzone! Also its never explained why its the same two jedi or even why just two jedi get sent back when they know that a Sith lord is active. Good thing a random ass army materialized out of plot contrivance, because it would have been the most awkward credit roll ever as they just stand there completely fricked.
Nothing, absolutely nothing makes sense about the entire movie, it falls apart on the slightest application of logic or common sense. Shitty scripts that cannot immerse you with their boring ass plots and flat characters and require you to turn off your brain entiretly is NOT entertainment.
>Good thing a random ass army materialized out of plot contrivance
Why wouldn't the gungans have an army?
>the Queen of Naboo does not expect or know the status of the other civilization on the planet
>the Gungan army was not destroyed during the invasion, just went to some "secret place" that was never explained
>no one ever tells the main characters about it, nobody knows nor talks about it, despite it was shown that Qui-gon has so extensive briefing about the planet he knew the names of random swamp monsters.
>until suddenly the irksome pile of shit smugly brings it up at 3/4ths of the movie out of nothing, how convenient
>despite the robots doing everything in their power to enable it, the army loses anyway
>good thing the confederates were nice enough to send their navy away for no reason.
It is just a ridiculous conga of moronation
What kind of dialogue were you expecting?
The Gungans are isolationist and don't care about the humans living on Naboo because they can stay hidden in their underwater city.
Their army is also weaker than the droid army.
Why would the characters be talking about it?
A nation having an army is not something that needs an exposition dump. That's the default assumption.
Why didn't they take the eagles to Mt. Doom????
Did they even bother getting you diagnosed after that
>fat autist prequel defenders just keep seething
Are you mentally ill or just completely unaware how a rational sequence of event looks like?
>Gungans don't want to help because they don't like the Naboo
>Amidala forms an alliance with the Gungans
>the Gungans now want to help
What is it you don't understand about this sequence of events?
>I HAVE NO IDEA HOW LOGIC OR EVEN NARRATIVE WORKS, BUT I MUST DEFEND THE HONOR OF LUCAS AND DISYNEY
Lol. Lmao.
>AND DISNEY
Disney had nothing to do with the making of this film
>a people that has been established to exist and use weapons having an army is a logical and narrative error.
Ok moron.
>he tries to wriggle out by pretending to be moronic
Its okay, we all think you prequel fanboys as actually moronic.
not an argument
Whos "arguing" here? I'm calling you names because youre moronic and your distress at struggling to defend the prequels entertains me.
Epic
its just some anon larping as seeing through it at the time when in fact he was probably just 3 years old or something and read some reddit thread about this with some bullet points that he's now regurgitating
Sounds bout right. Most prequel haters didn't even watch the movies but take RLM's opinions to heart.
So they can do this shit, but god forbid if they made the theatrical cut of the original trilogy available
I'd imagine it was part of the deal that they had to preserve Lucas' versions of the films.
They obviously don't a give a fraction of a shit about Lucas' version of anything. Why stop now?
This version of TPM probably isn't the theatrical cut anyway, it's probably the version with the CGI Yoda and extended podrace sequence
Lucas was never satisfied with the theatrical cut. He wanted to do more but was limited by the tech at the time, which is why he took matters into his own hands by pioneering the very tech he needed to do what he wanted.
It’s honestly surprising that Disney still hasn’t released the theatrical trilogy in blu ray or 4K after owning the franchise for over a decade, it’s like free money right there for them.
I don't think they can as long as Lucas is breathing. He still has some say over the originals rights.
hope the old twat kicks it soon then
I wish they would scan some old film print and release it so people could shut up about it.
Just curious. I've literally never watched this anywhere but on VHS
>I've literally never watched this anywhere but on VHS
pan and scan pilled
Not necessarily.
Huh, I remembered the CGI Yoda being already on the DVD. Guess not.
damn has it really been 25 years?
I wanted to see RotJ on the big screen but no theater in my country played it, I guess this will be the same. At least I won't have to give yidsney money.
>Every saga has a beginning
What a stupid tagline
I'll probably go see it again. I did 10 years ago when they released it in 3d
Didn't they say they'd release every one once a year, then just didn't?
Probably the same thing this time
I'm just disappointed that they never did the rest of the prequels in 3d
It didn't flop since the the only cost was the 3D conversion, and that wouldn't have stopped George from just going on anyway.
But it is confirmed that Episode II and III were converted at the same time as I and so those masters do exist, but the releases were canceled since the mouse bought Lucasfilm at the end of 2011 and immediately made prequel media verboten to hype people up for their slop.
ESB and ROTJ got released 2020 and 2023. This is continuing that trend. Can't remember did SW got a anniversary release in 2017.
Special editions though right
Not even those ('97 SE), but the 2011 Blu-rays.
I did too, still have a bunch of darth maul 3d glasses that i swiped from the theater kek
because it flopped
Does anyone remember when they re-released Phantom Menace in theaters in 3D back in the early 2010s? I went to go see that with my dad.
They were gonna do the other prequels too but Disney bought Lucasfilms and cancelled it.
European here, is it gonna be in cinema over here aswell?
But I can just rewatch it from the comfort of my home right now if I wanted to
My brother and I will relive the magic.
>tfw realizing I saw this as a kid in theaters 25 years ago
I’ll definitely go see it again but man I feel old reading this, I hope they have it in IMAX so I can enjoy the Podracing scene in its full glory again.
The prequels are an eye-opener when it comes to audiences being too dumb to understand basic plots if they aren't explicitly spelled out.
In their defence key scenes for understanding the political machinations that go on were cut
captcha JORGW
GEORGE W
What got cut?
Bail Organa. Dude was recast for Ep II.
Huh, never heard of that. I'll say it would have have helped the movie if they had political stuff on Coruscant to cut to during the whole Naboo to Tatoiine half of it.
I watched it in 3D in 2012 right before Disney bought them. I had a girlfriend then.
>re-releasing a bad movie
God I hope this causes a wave of "holy shit it's fricking trash" because I don't believe anyone actually watches the prequels and just consumes "lol funny prequel memes".
Its greatest sin is dragging in the first half.
>yfw the opposite happens and even more people start loving the PT
Can't wait!
>because I don't believe anyone actually watches the prequels and just consumes "lol funny prequel memes".
so you admit people actually like it
what a fricking tard
>standing her ground
she's sitting tho
Corrr will be taking my kids for sure.
RAAAAAWR
>TPM rerelease again
>but no AOTC rerelease
What are Disney afraid of?
We have to wait 3 years for the 25th anniversary
It was loser fat frick Gen Xers that b***hed to the high heavens about the prequels because it wasn't just like the OT. The freaks think THEY knew better than the guy who actually created the whole thing. And because they had ZERO media literacy, they didn't understand a damn thing about it.
Will they be doing autism friendly screenings or is it a more limited run?
I ask because I want to take my young nephew to see the Star Wars and introduce him to the film's as I was at his age. The thing is though I get funny looks at normal screenings of films when I run up and down the asiles shouting about my willy and waving my light up toy around. I want him to enjoy the film and not worry about all the haters picking on his cool Uncle.
>favourite moments
Not even prequel brainlets like Episode I.
>not the 3D version so we can see the other 3D prequels that for some reason didn't even get a home video release
>giving Disney money for anything let alone Star Wars' raped corpse
Pass.