JCC Embrace The FU - Formerly the STAR WARS IS BAD thread

Both, remember that scene in Revenge of the Sith where he mercilessly slaughtered that room full of dubstep fans?

 

Yeah well you can't fault him for hating dubstep. It gets everywhere.

 

Holy ****, you’re Deadpool.

I fully expect you to claim to not know who that is.

 

Isn't that a thread we had?

 

Perhaps the most divisive of all Star Wars movies (at least until Last Jedi came along).

It gave us dodgy dialogue, dated CGI, Jar Jar, space politics & midichlorians.

But it also introduced us to Qui Gon Jin, Mace Windu, Padme & Darth Maul.
Characters that remain very popular & had a big impact on the Saga.
Plus, John Williams' score is excellent.

Maybe a better director could have gotten something more out of it, alas we'll never know.

So here's to you TPM, for today at least.

 

yeah - imagine if the movie matched the score ...

 

happy birthday to my favorite star wars film of all time

 

And I can't remember a single characteristic for any of them.

When Star Wars fans go crazy for characters that are literally recycled props (IG-88) this is the definition of damning with faint praise.

 

hbtpm

 

The five best original characters from TPM:

Watto
Nute Gunray
Jar-Jar
Boss Nass
The Protocol Droid that's in the room serving galactic tea or whatever it was when they try to gas the Jedi

 

TC-14

 

Yaddle sitting in a saddle playing with a paddle .

 

I always liked Queen Amidala's advisor because he had a funny name

Sio Bibble

 

Who could forget that moment when Captain Panaka lured away the Dalek invasion force so as to save Spider-Man and Scrooge McDuck?

 

damn we old

 

That, and the soundtrack are its greatest strengths; have always erred on the side of liking TPM, despite varying degrees of criticism I've had towards it. Favorite random memory of waiting in line that night: the fellow with a portable TV near me, at one point watching this episode of The Simpsons:



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Happy birthday to the one true and honorable hero who saved them all from certain doom and believed in Anakin's abilities to the end.





Happy birthday Ric Ollie! This whole thread is one big celebration.

 

Happy birthday, guy whose name we can't even spell!

 

The entire attempt is one big typo.

 

^ You catch on fast.

 

Mace Windu is the only cool thing about TPM and he didnt become cool until ROTS. Whereas Darth Maul was cool
but lost that status in exchange for robot legs.

 

"I wasn't asleep, I was drunk!" - George Lucas upon reading criticism of his writing in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, 1999.

 

It has problems unique to itself, unique to the prequel trilogy, and even some issues that have existed in the series right at the start. Taking away the fact that one film was a cinematic breakthrough and launched the fandom of a hundred-million would-be movie lovers and the other was released under the crushing expectations of two generations of film fans, Star Wars - Episode I: The Phantom Menace is almost as good as Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. At the very least, it is absolutely at home within the broader Star Wars franchise.

They are both fine introductions to their respective trilogies which pave the way for arguably superior sequels (you may prefer Star Wars to Return of the Jedi, I happen to prefer The Phantom Menace to the pandering and choppy Attack of the Clones). They both suffer from (comparatively) campy acting, stilted dialogue and inconsistent pacing. But a least some of adverse reactions to Episode I concerned how it differed from the original Star Wars trilogy.

The Phantom Menace lacks a rouge-ish Han Solo character, even if the film didn’t need a cynical audience surrogate this time around. Natalie Portman was always derided for not playing Queen Padme Amidala as a clone of Carrie Fisher's Princess Lea. Her somewhat cold, Elizabethan portrayal is both her best performance in the prequel trilogy. Lucas's apparent cave-in Attack of the Clones, making Padme “sexier,” is one reason Episode II is the weakest of the series.

That The Phantom Menace (and by proxy the prequel trilogy) operates differently than the first three Star Wars films does not automatically make them inferior, merely different. Taken as an individual film or the start of a three-film saga, it has eye-popping visuals, some robust action, at least three terrific performances (Liam Neeson, Ian McDiarmid, and Pernilla August), an excellent score by John Williams, and a politically wonky story that was a chilling modern-day parable.


https://www.forbes.com/sites/scottm...x71XemJkrbZwPuXoBKMpuZL2fKR8ByLU#10f1949f1be8

 

Nah, it’s ****.