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  • 5 years ago
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    this actually looks pretty good https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XN-1csXSwSY
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  • 5 years ago
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    If the racing pod was worth one slave, why didn't they use the money they got from selling it to buy Shmi?
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  • 7 years ago
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    A communications disruption can mean only one thing—invasion.
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  • 7 years ago
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    Dear diary, today I watched The Phantom Menace again.
    It was awesome.
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  • 8 years ago
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    Am I the only one who really like Episode I?
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  • 8 years ago
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    I'm about to rewatch the Phantom menace for the first time in years.

    Dis gon b good
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    • Dr Eggnog
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      Editing … It's kinda cute seeing someone who's usually such a harsh critic love this piece of shit. <3
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    • Ulty
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      Editing … Of the prequels, I only saw Revenge of the Sith and it was one of the biggest piles of shit i've ever seen. Heard PM and AotC are even worse...
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  • 8 years ago
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    The Phantom Menace wasn't Darth Maul.
    It wasn't Chancellor Palpatine, either.
    Or the Trade Federation.

    The real Phantom Menace was Anakin all along.

    This realization blew my mind.
    http://stream1.gifsoup.com/view3/1407328/it-was-me-austin-o-s.gif
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  • 8 years ago
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    https://youtu.be/qFDT2L5bPFI

    bwaha, brilliant ^^
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  • 8 years ago
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    Wow, just wow. I have to say watching this was much harder then I anticipated it to be. In all honesty I thought I could of come out of Phantom Menace and be able to defend it to some degree, that it isn't as bad as everyone makes it out to be. Well while I still believe it isn't as bad as it's made out to be - aka worst movie ever - there is just not not much good that can be said about it, it really isn't all that great. Where do I even begin with it? Characters are incredibly shallow - seemingly lifeless - as they deliver dialogue with absolutely no conviction or heart to it, they just stare dead eyed at each other as they speak in monotone. I mean dialogue has never been a strong point of this franchise, but God dammit is it just the worse here. At least in the original trilogy the actors delivered this questionable dialogue with some energy and life; In Phantom Menace everyone looks dead inside as they do it. If there is one thing the Phantom Menace shows is that Jedi, by character design, are boring & shallow and need other characters around them to give the film live, energy, and heart - and that's not even necessarily true as Luke had plenty of human characteristics to him. I mean where's the Han Solo or the Lando Calrissian of this movie, of the prequel trilogy in general? There isn't one, and the closes Phantom Menace even gets is with the most hated character of the franchise - Jar Jar Binks. For all the well deserved shit he gets for being a downright horrible character, at the very least he isn't dead inside like everyone else seems to be. But what my biggest gripe with Phantom Menace is that it takes over an 1hr 50min (the start of the fight between Maul, Kenobi, & Qui-Gon) to feel anything close to a Star Wars movie for me. What is even worse is that between the beginning and that moment there is only one enjoyable moment I had, the podracing sequence. Everything else is either a) dead inside actors delivering monotonous lines b) boring exposition delivered in monotone c) Galactic Republic C-SPAN or d) bad child acting. So while I won't say Phantom Menace is the "worse movie of all time" I will admit that there is clear problems to it. It has moments that are enjoyable but is weighed heavily down many things that, overall, lessen the experience for me - sometimes making it down right unbearable for me to watch.

    Also can you fuck off with your stupid special editions Lucas. For Christ sakes I can clearly tell what you've fixed over the years as it looks so jarringly different & out of place from the rest of the CGI effects.
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  • 8 years ago
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    How was the overall reception of episode 1 and 2 back in the early 2000s, did everyone agree on their awfulness even back then or were people too caught up in the moment of "oh mah good, a new sw movie!!1" to realize their flaws or god forbid, actually enjoyed watching them for real? I only remember being extremely hyped for episode 3 a decade ago and anticipating watching the movie in the cinema, it was glorious. It never even occurred to me once that these prequels were critically ill-received by a majority of the movie-going population, many of whom are avid fans of the OT. Ask any 90s kid who grew up with the prequel trilogy, chances are they love em.
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    • rockshard PhD
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      Editing … Jar jar binks received a lot of backlash in the media and articles, this I remember. So I can safely say that the movie was not received all that well. Also I recently saw a Roger Ebert clip from that year "worst movies of the year" and Phantom Menace was one of the clips shown in the intro to the segment, although not necessarily one of the movies chosen.
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    • Sir Larosenin
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      Editing … Most fan that grew up with the OT were disappointed and most critics weren't good. But I personally loved them until about 4-5 years ago when I realised how bad they messed up. There's a lot of good stuff coming from the prelogy (politics, awesome jedi battles, music, some locations, etc. But sadly half the characters are bad, the dialogs are bland or awful (the love scene in ep2).
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    • free fall
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      Editing … It was a mixed bag but most people thought Episode I was okay. Nobody wanted to be disappointed by it, it was the most hyped movie I've ever witnessed in my lifetime. Everybody agreed that it wasn't as good as the OT unless they were really dazzled by the special effects. rockshard is right, everyone hated Jar Jar even back then. By the time episode 2 came out the reputation that episode 1 has today had been firmly established, and everyone hated 2 as well.
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    • Big Boss
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      Editing … That's sounds about right. Pretty much everyone hated Jar Jar immediately, and wasn't quite what people were hoping for, but took a little while (until the video release perhaps) for most people to agree it pretty much sucks. Episode 2 having many of the same problems solidified it.
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Star Wars - Episode I: Die dunkle Bedrohung G
Star Wars épisode I : La Menace fantôme F
Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace d o E

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