The Phantom Menace 3D Release
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Episode I is a flawed but good movie. I liked it thirteen years ago. I like it today. Screw the haters who think it raped their childhood. Expecting a movie made sixteen years after the last one in the franchise(which itself was a qualitative downgrade from the first two films in the series) to live up to all your glorious, diamond-encrusted expectations is asking a bit much. Hardcore STAR WARS fanboys felt that Lucas owed them the movie they wanted, and that's not how Hollywood works...I'm sorry. George Lucas has done some royally stupid things to his saga over the years and his new BluRay changes are(mostly) gratuitous alterations to sell more movies and rake in the cash, but the man made Episode I the way he felt it needed to be made. Piss and moan all you want that Anakin isn't the kid you wanted him to be or that there's too much talk about trade boycotts and blockades, but the franchise belongs to Lucas and he can make the movie he wants. He should have done a few things differently in my eyes, but that's just my personal opinion as a fan. I don't hate any of the STAR WARS films even if a couple were subpar. If these obese, Cheeto-stained fanboys typing up ad hominem attacks against Episode I in their mom's basements want a better Episode I then make it yourself. The film is what it is, warts and all. Claiming it ruined your perception of the STAR WARS saga or made you want to kill Lucas with a shovel is your right and I'll defend it, but it sounds so childish and stupid. It's one thing to give legitimate criticism and want a movie to be better. It's another ball game entirely to claim it raped your stupid childhood.
It's just a movie, nerdboys . Get over it.
It's just a movie, nerdboys . Get over it.
Never said you had to. Just saying it helps me to appreciate the film even more than I already did.
Say what you want about the movie, but Darth Maul is a badass. Even poorly coordinated kids are no match for the deadly Sith apprentice.
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Say what you want about the movie, but Darth Maul is a badass. Even poorly coordinated kids are no match for the deadly Sith apprentice.
No, you're thinking of the poor schmuck who has to wear the Jar Jar Binks costume.
THAT guy is probably hooked on Nyquil and Vicodin.
If I had the money I'd make a film about a guy who obtains time travel technology and goes back in time with a plan to kill George Lucas before he ruins Star Wars. But it would be like the Twilight Zone. He kills a Lucas look-alike, ends up on death row and the prequels still get made.
Fuck happy endings.
Fuck happy endings.
And like the J.J. Abrams TREK timeline, Lucas is the same man but with differences this time around. No beard. He has two Best Director Oscars. And HOWARD THE DUCK didn't suck the chrome off a trailer hitch.
Happ endings can sometime sbe so overated. But then so can unhappy endings. Plus it's a movie series designed for kids. You could be forgiven for thinking each one should have a happy ending, except of course for the serious ramifications of
The Revenge of the Sith.
The Revenge of the Sith.
STAR WARS films aren't really for kids per se. They're for entire families of all age ranges. There are references to mythology and classical heroes in the films that only adults will get(and even then a lot of them will miss them), there are some seriously dark events that wouldn't be included in a kid's movie(Anakin mercilessly slaughtering the Jedi younglings inside the High Council chamber, the torture of Han Solo on the electrical rack in EMPIRE)and---to be frank---the whole convoluted backstory of the Skywalker family and who relates to which person is something a lot of kids wouldn't be able to follow or even be interested in. Sure, the Ewoks, Jar Jar Binks and cool action scenes help bring reams of kids into the theaters but Lucas designed his Saga for people of all ages and generations.
I don't agree. Children aren't stupid.
Depends on the kids you personally know and deal with. I've known some who could care less about the whole immaculate conception/Shmi thing or that Owen Lars winds up being Anakin's stepbrother many years later. Some kids understand and get the connections. Others stop caring after the whole Vader-is-Luke's-father thing becomes clear. It's a mixed bag. Some kids care about STAR WARS only for the action scenes and lightsaber fights. Others could tell you who each character is and where they come from.
ReadyAndWilling
Fleet Captain
anyone know what lucas will be changing this time around? i heard yoda will be CGIed?
This is the new Episode I Yoda.
If you ask me, he's better than the puppet from the original version of the film. It never really looked like Yoda.
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At least now the prequels are all uniform when it comes to the little green guy. Say what you want about the other changes Lucas made to his films, but this one made sense.
If you ask me, he's better than the puppet from the original version of the film. It never really looked like Yoda.
[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zg9JEymRXg4&feature=related[/yt]
At least now the prequels are all uniform when it comes to the little green guy. Say what you want about the other changes Lucas made to his films, but this one made sense.
ReadyAndWilling
Fleet Captain
wow i didn't even know.
any other changes?
any other changes?
I could be mistaken, but aside from a few deleted shots being reinserted into the full-length movie(something Lucas and McCallum already did with the first 2001 DVD) I think the CGI Yoda is the only change made to the first film.
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