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The Phantom Menace 3D Release

Brad Jones the Cinema Snob goes to a midnight showing of The Phantom Menace in 3D at a midnight showing and talks about it with his wife/girlfriend and two friends in the car.

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Well, considering that The Phantom Menace was written and directed by someone who's mentally handicapped...
I love it when a "nobody" (I hope the mods notice quotation marks) calls a man who revolutionized the film industry (and made billions of $$$ doing it) "mentally handicapped". :guffaw:

I think it was a joke. ;)

Would the term senile be more respectful? After all, plenty of rich moguls went off the deep end in their old age
Brad Jones the Cinema Snob goes to a midnight showing of The Phantom Menace in 3D at a midnight showing and talks about it with his wife/girlfriend and two friends in the car.

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Sweet! I love that guy. :)
 
I don't watch much of Brad Jones' Cinema Snob stuff but it's usually entertaining. Reminds me a little of some the things nighttime cable-access hosts in my area do when there's a big movie premiere or social event. One local host even took the camera with him to the Bonnaroo music festival and gave blow-by-blow accounts of the entire trip and critiqued everything, including his hotel room and how easy it was to cook Ramen noodles in a coffee maker. It made for a very amusing video even though only half the program was about Bonnaroo.
 
The various in-car movie reviews he and his friends do are usually entertaining. The TPM stuff wasn't quite as good because the guys in the backseat weren't familiar and I didn't find them as interesting/funny as Brad's usual companions.
 
My cousin is taking me to Phantom Menace on the 18th or the 19th. I'm looking forward to it because it's for my birthday and because I took him and his sister not quite thirteen years ago.
 
I wouldn't be shocked in the least if NASA and the CIA have had hoverboard technology for years. The general public is always the last to find out. They probably have entire skate parks constructed underground at Area 51.

Ron Paul is the only presidential candidate who's brave enough to discover the truth for us!!! :shifty:

Silence, Earthing! My name is Darth Vader. I am an extraterristral from the planet Vulcan!
 
Mach5 said:
I love it when a "nobody" (I hope the mods notice quotation marks) calls a man who revolutionized the film industry (and made billions of $$$ doing it) "mentally handicapped". :guffaw:

I think it was a joke. ;)
Could have been sarcasm. Hard to tell without smileys.

Would the term senile be more respectful?
Dunno. Mike from RLM called him mentally ill, IIRC.

That was apropos all those "pointless" changes to OT. I still think there is a point to them, but ultimately, only Lucas knows the truth.
 
Saw it last night . . . fell asleep twice!
The sound was not as obnoxious as Thor was.

THOR was an okay film. It was a better movie than the first trailer made it appear, and Natalie Portman(a purely coincidental STAR WARS connection) helped make the thing considerably more watchable. The best Marvel superhero film of 2011 was easily CAPTAIN AMERICA, but THOR wasn't a "bad" movie. Just...very corny. Like the comic book character himself, of whom I was never the biggest fan as a kid.

I was more of a Rom fan. Sue me. :)
 
I haven't seen it. I would have been willing to give it another try (haven't seen it in about nine or ten years), but it just never came up. I don't imagine my opinion would magically change, because the things that I remember bothering me about the movie are bothering me now as I think about them, but it would have been nice to be surprised, discover positive aspects of the film that I didn't see the last time I saw it.
 
The schedule COULD even be speed up. I would like to see two a year. Perhaps with a second release within a particular year at some point in the fall. Wishing thinking of course.


Yeah, but it's easier for Lucas' tax accountant to only do one a year. It will also insure his employ (the tax accountant) for 6 years.:lol:
 
$23 million this thing raked in. No wonder the economy is so shit and people are broke.
 
$23 million this thing raked in. No wonder the economy is so shit and people are broke.

.... Because a few million people had a spare $20 to spend on a movie ticket in order to get an ounce of enjoyment out of life?

:confused:
 
Waste of cash people, waste of cash. 3D is already worse than AIDS, throwing a Star Wars prequel in there makes it unfathomably terrifying.
 
My son and I went to see it today.

It's still the weakest of the 6 movies, IMHO, but we enjoyed it nonetheless. I thought the 3D was pretty good.

Worth a matinee.
 
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