PT The Phantom Menace is the best Prequel film

Thus, the big problem was Hayden Christensen.

The Phantom Menace is actually much better done than the rest of the prequels. There are more live effects. There seems to be more focus, even on the CGI creations. CGI in the next two films has this hazy lack of detail to it.

Several shots pay homage to Star Wars. The ship landing in the forest is just like the Millennium Falcon landing on Yavin. The Gungan city is pretty creative and luscious, Naboo is a great sight.

Watto's junkyard is fun. It is part of a Star Wars that is still "used".

You can still see film grain too.

The story...makes more sense than the next two films. Two Jedi investigating a blockade go on a detour and find a special boy who saves the day.

And Jar Jar is annoying. But he isn't the entire film. Hayden Christensen is far more annoying to me in the next two films due to his adolescent voice and some of the really forced "dark moments" that he has.

Now that I think about it, the thing with Hayden Christensen is that...he's a skinny dude. Darth Vader was played by a body-builder, and everything about Darth Vader screams unstoppable force. But Hayden...is just a skinny kid. And he still screams teenager throughout the entirety of the films, not man. Like, the ideal Anakin Skywalker would have been like Liev Schreiber.

So in short, TPM is fine. My real problem with the prequels is with AOTC and ROTS.

Redundant.


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To be fair saying that Phantom Menace is the best prequel film is like trying to decide who is least gammy in a pack of lepers.

Flame suit on.

 

TPM is definitely the movie that my opinion has changed the most favorably on over time. I've always liked ROTS and still do. I really liked AOTC when it first came out, but overtime I've become less of a fan of it. Maybe because I think the Clone Wars just handles the same material so much better?

TPM though, while it has flaws, is a movie that I've come to really enjoy watching. While I'll agree with the idea that it lacks a central character, it has the best group of characters. Qui-Gon really cements the film and brings gravity and class to everything. I'm not sure it's my favorite prequel, though. Probably my second favorite.

I did a list when the film came out in 3D of 100 things I liked about TPM. I need to dig that list up.

 

Yeah, but the pod race (nearly) is.

There were some great ideas for TPM, but Jar Jar and the never-ending pod race render it essentially unwatchable ... at least without resorting to the fast forward button.

 

I agree that The Phantom Menace is the best prequel film.


But I'd say that AOTC or ROTS are the best prequel film if they were in the title of this thread.

 

The Phantom Menace and Revenge of the Sith are both fantastic, and Attack of the Clones wasn't quite fantastic, but was certainly great. Also, why do people bother posting in the prequel sub-forum if in general they don't like the prequels? I mean, I really like the original trilogy, but it's not like if I hated them I'd be on the Original trilogy sub-forum telling people they suck. I might defend the prequels over there, if this site let people, but I wouldn't do anything else.

 

No, Revenge of the Sith was pretty bad. It and AOTC were way too digital, even compared to TPM. Anakin being basically a whiney teenager throughout it made his menace...just annoyingly stupid. In TPM, there are moments of charm, to put it nicely, lots of little details in the world, it feels like many of the shots were taken with more patience and thought. And there are some good words being spoken, poetic.

Poetry is utterly lacking in the next two.

I think Lucas might have overcompensated a little in the next two, after the criticism of the first one.

 

I follow threads by checking the "What's New?" feature so I'm not dropping in necessarily on individual forums. The title of this thread caught my interest ... I was generally curious why Ezekial found TPM to be the best of the prequels. I read his post, took it to heart and decided to chime in with my own two cents.

 

So like, reading the wiki, it appears that George was seriously thrown off-base, had his confidence shaken, by the vitriol directed at TPM. So he had a pretty hard time writing AOTC. It kinda shows...

 

I wish he had just done what he did with Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi -- provide guidance on the story, get a screenwriter to write scripts and a director to direct. Fortunately, that appears to be what's happening with Episode VII.