Can You Believe It's Been Ten Years Since TPM Premiered?
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And it's still much maligned.
Ewoks aren't as bad. At least they didn't talk.
Bilbo Bagshot: The Phantom Menace was eighteen months ago, Tim!
Tim: I know, Bilbo. Okay. It still hurts! It's just that kid wanted a Jar Jar doll!
Bilbo Bagshot: Kids like Jar Jar!
Tim: Why?
Bilbo Bagshot: What about the Ewoks? They were rubbish! You don't complain about them!
Tim: Yeah, but Jar Jar Binks makes the Ewoks looking like... fucking Shaft!
Tim: I know, Bilbo. Okay. It still hurts! It's just that kid wanted a Jar Jar doll!
Bilbo Bagshot: Kids like Jar Jar!
Tim: Why?
Bilbo Bagshot: What about the Ewoks? They were rubbish! You don't complain about them!
Tim: Yeah, but Jar Jar Binks makes the Ewoks looking like... fucking Shaft!
Wow. I vividly remember going to see it. There were four of us: me, my sister, her husband, and Laura, a friend of my sister's I'd met just a few times. After the movie we all went out for a beer and a snack, which meant more quality time with Laura. Wasn't much longer before she and I were officially an item, and we got married a couple years later, and we're still happily together.
Oh, the movie? Bearing in mind that three of us were seriously into SF movies and that sort of thing, and my sister, though not really into it, had grown up on the original movies, we all thought it was really lame. Great evening, though, despite the movie.
You beat me to it!
But, working for the Social Security, I also appreciated when she rushed through Tim's benefit application because he hated TMP
Plus of course, Peter Serafinowicz who played the guy who stole his boyfriend was the voice of Darth Maul!
ltcmmanderdata
Lieutenant Commander
hard to believe 10 years now since episode one
Ewoks aren't as bad. At least they didn't talk.
The Ewoks are redeemed in the fact that they're cannibals. And would eat Jar Jar.
For some reason, the ten years since TPM makes me feel older than the thirty-two years since ANH. Weird.
It's probably different for everyone depending on their age and interests. For me, the 25 years since Terminator kills me.
Actually the "networks" didn't interfere at all with them. Just that RDM and company ran out of steam and couldn't deliver what they promised. They wanted to reel in the female viewers by shoving in stupid romantic plots out of the blue and still left the storylines hanging. The show was called "Battlestar Galactica" which sounds to the average viewer as a scifi action show, now scifi soap opera.
Oh yeah??? Well, all those 18-year-olds you see running around who'll be graduating high school this year -- they weren't even ALIVE when Home Alone, Dances With Wolves, Total Recall, Die Hard 2, Pretty Woman, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Back to the Future Part III came out!!!
The CGI looked bad back in 1999. Instead of blending in and helping to sell the story, it was front and center and WAS the story. It looked like a video game back then, it still does now.
It's nowhere as bad as CGI: The Movie (also known as Ultraviolet), but it was still pretty bad. The CGI creatures interacting with the human actors and the space battles were fine, but it was the 100% CGI environment that sucked big time with The Phantom Menace.
It's nowhere as bad as CGI: The Movie (also known as Ultraviolet), but it was still pretty bad. The CGI creatures interacting with the human actors and the space battles were fine, but it was the 100% CGI environment that sucked big time with The Phantom Menace.
Nardpuncher
Rear Admiral
I thought you were going to show the part in ROTJ where it sounds like the Ewok says " This guy's wise"
Yep...10 years. I basically am a prequel supporter...I just wish George Lucas had somebody watching over him and asking "Are you sure you really want that person to say that?" and "Do you really need that many elements in one effects shot? It may look cluttered."
