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Started 2 years ago by michaelcoyote
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michaelcoyote
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I've not seen anyone post this here, but this 70 minute (!) review of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace pretty well covers why I hated this movie, and moreover why most movies make me hate everyone and want them all to die.

It also vindicates my calling bullshit on anyone who mentioned word one about George Lucas's artistic vision in relation to this film. The only vision Lucas had making Phantom Menace were the dollar signs dancing in front of his eyes.

In total it's about 70 minutes and while it's got a few slow spots, I found it very funny overall. The layout and content is pretty good but the delivery is perfect. It's also about 20 times more entertaining than The Phantom Menace.

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anillo
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i haven't gotten around to watching anything past the first 10 minutes yet but it was pretty hilarious

Posted 2 years ago #
Walker
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I've only watched part 1 as well, but very funny stuff. The guy's multi-part Star Trek Generations review is equally as good:

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michaelcoyote
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Yes, the Generations review is recommended as well.

My brother and I cued up all seven of SW:TPM review as a playlist last night and watched it all except the last one which wouldn't load. We ended up just watching the widescreen version of that. It's pretty funny all the way through, and the guy seems to know his way around film.

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Roland
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I actually loved The Phantom Menace and I consider myself to be a Star Wars fanatic! If I had to pick a least favorite movie in the series it would have been Revenge of the Sith.

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Oh my God that's hilarious.

Yes George Lucas, you can gold-plate a turd or even make it out of Natalie Portman, but it's still, unfortunately, a turd.

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BreakfastwithNick
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Yeah, these are great! I'm actually thinking of using some of his descriptions of how story is structured and protagonists are used in my classes - it's spot on.

I nearly wet my pants laughing in Part 3 when he talks about the idiocy of suffocating the Jedi with poison gas at the beginning of the movie.

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michaelcoyote
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ndekke39 wrote >>
Yeah, these are great! I'm actually thinking of using some of his descriptions of how story is structured and protagonists are used in my classes - it's spot on.
I nearly wet my pants laughing in Part 3 when he talks about the idiocy of suffocating the Jedi with poison gas at the beginning of the movie.

He is spot on. I was actually thinking that this could be used in a film class to discuss common problems with script/story writing in film.

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Brant
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That guy's voice sounds familiar... Did Strong Bad make this video?

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michaelcoyote
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Brant Jones wrote >>
That guy's voice sounds familiar... Did Strong Bad make this video?

Actually I think it's Senor Cardgage.

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Roland
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The guy is a Mr. Filthy wanna-be.

He makes good points about storytelling but its nothing you haven't heard before. The obnoxious movie reviewer fad is tired. It's too easy to rip on the prequel Star Wars movies.

Rehashing all the old Phantom Menace hate with a bunch of marbles in your mouth isn't really being original or instructive to anyone making movies.

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honavery
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I watched this a couple of weeks ago and thought it was pretty funny.

As someone who saw Phantom Menace in the theater over 4 times, I can say I pretty much agree with him on every point. And he doesn't even get to the obvious stuff like how stupid Jar Jar was, and how the pod race was about 20 minutes too long.

I hope he does more, very well edited and entertaining.

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Core_Models
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Phanton Menace was hard for me. As a kid who saw New Hope in the theaters about 37 times in 1977, and pretty close to that for the next two movies, I had waited years for this. I can't say I hated it, because purely by being Star Wars, I was into it and watched it more than once. Jar Jar didn't actually bug me all that much, how deeply involved he was in things did though. Darth Maul was absolutely bad-ass, and the light saber fights took on a whole new level that was great. At the end of the day though, the acting (from actors who I normally think EXTREMELY highly of) was just atrocious, and that killed it for me.

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Roland
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Total agreement with your assessment Core. The flaws of the movie didn't prevent me from having fun watching it. The prequels all could have been more than what they ultimately were unfortunately. I enjoy the prequel on a different level than I do for the original.

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honavery wrote >>
As someone who saw Phantom Menace in the theater over 4 times. . .

So, five times?

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michaelcoyote wrote >>
I've not seen anyone post this here, but this 70 minute (!) review of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace pretty well covers why I hated this movie, and moreover why most movies make me hate everyone and want them all to die.

If I were you, I'd stop going to the movies.

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Brant Jones wrote >>

michaelcoyote wrote >>
I've not seen anyone post this here, but this 70 minute (!) review of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace pretty well covers why I hated this movie, and moreover why most movies make me hate everyone and want them all to die.

If I were you, I'd stop going to the movies.

...But then there is the small percentage of movies that make me love everyone and love being alive, and might be some of my favorite art ever. So, I still go to the movies. I just avoid most stuff that I can reasonably predict via the trailer. Because I enjoy films as largely a visual medium, I can tell a lot just from a few seconds of cinematography in a trailer.

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jawjack187
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They should have let Darth Maul live and somehow written more fight scenes into the next two. A Maul vs. Young Anakin scene would have been nice.

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michaelcoyote
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michaelcoyote wrote >>
I've not seen anyone post this here, but this 70 minute (!) review of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace pretty well covers why I hated this movie, and moreover why most movies make me hate everyone and want them all to die.

Brant Jones wrote >> If I were you, I'd stop going to the movies.

And for the most part I have. Especially the big studio releases. When I *do* see the blockbusters I have pretty low expectations, and am generally happy if I can be entertained. I'm OK if they have at least basic internal consistency/logic and involve me enough to be entertaining.

Manatee wrote >>
...But then there is the small percentage of movies that make me love everyone and love being alive, and might be some of my favorite art ever.

See, and that's the flipside here. I'll read reviews in the New Yorker, NYT, RottenTomatoes, IMDB, CU, etc. and try to get an idea if I'm up for seeing it.

There are some truly great movies being made even by large studios.

For example, a big surprise to me this year was Kathyrn Bigelow's movie "Hurt Locker" about an Explosive Ordnance Disposal team in Iraq. I had heard a few rumbles about how good it was here on CU, and had seen good reviews from somewhere else. I figured it would be at least entertaining, but I was floored at how well the whole film worked together. the cinematography, acting and direction was fantastic, and the casting of even minor and secondary characters was perfect. In the end, the whole film was pitch-perfect. Enough action to entertain, move the plot and create suspense and enough message to leave you thinking about the film days and weeks later.

Mostly though I just watch Ozu films while polishing my monocle. :-D

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agtw31
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sounds like he just got a 10mg dose of Haldol,and it's kicking in.

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