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What is the worst part of The Phantom Menace?
- Thread starter Dalek
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Yeah, worth mentioning for anyone unfamiliar with the two people in this video, it's not a serious analysis or anything. The Terence Stamp story is hilarious.
I just re-watched Phantom Menace last week, and while Jar Jar was annoying at times, the worst part was C3P0 and R2-D2 being crammed in there.
There wasn't anything romantic between them in this one, was there? Anakin's infatuation was one-sided.
I'm going to be a contrarian and highlight what I think is the best part, which is some rad ship/vehicle design:
It wasn't a good sign of things to come when the text crawl started out talking about a trade dispute.
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I'm going to be a contrarian and highlight what I think is the best part, which is some rad ship/vehicle design:
I agree with this. The design of most things in the movie were on point. Those ships look great.
What the fuck was this supposed to be?
A derisive Gumgan sneer at the mention of the name "Binks".
Scoop troop, get out your pens: actor Brian Blessed insisted the flesh of his costume be significantly more malleable in order to deliver that line with the same expressiveness as his real face, and it ended up requiring several million dollars worth of research and development. Lucas and Blessed are old friends, the former having met the latter on the set of Flash Gordon, and anything Blessed requested, Lucas greenlit. In the end, the effects team had to develop an entirely new kind of foam latex, which was later used as the basis of commercial memory foam. Your grandmother's memory foam pillow wouldn't exist without Blessed's derisive Gungan sneer.
Flash Gordon informed many of The Phantom Menace's production choices. Lucas has also admitted that his design language for the aliens of the Trade Federation was heavily influenced by Max von Sydow's portrayal of Ming the Merciless.
I'm going to be a contrarian and highlight what I think is the best part, which is some rad ship/vehicle design:
This design is fine but that chrome finish is garbage.
Well it's 100 percent CG and not a costume, so... lol.
The memory foam part LMAO
I was hanging out with a bunch of Jawa's near Toschi Station and apparently they call this show RHLSTP, but I don't know if it'll catch on.
The racial caricatures are what stick with me. Everything else is just bad, but the race stuff is just pure poison.
Honestly, it's probably this for me too.
I appreciate those fan edits that turns them into an alien language with subtitles. Like... why didn't they just do THAT? Like in OTHER movies? Why the insanely racist foreign accents? Why did NO ONE say anything about it?!
I'm going to be a contrarian and highlight what I think is the best part, which is some rad ship/vehicle design:
Mars Guo and Ebe Endocott had the best designs. Props to Neva Kee for doing something new outside the "chariot" design.
My least favorite part was the climax. I love the Darth Maul battle...but juggling 3 other plotlines really gets in the way.
As someone with a soft spot for TPM, it still has to be Jar Jar. Just the most annoying character imaginable who adds nothing to the film.
The fact that pod racing took up most of the film. You could literally take out every single part of pod racing and the story would still be relevant. All they had to do is say "Jedi boy pilot cuz force" and shovel a dumb way for him to be "released" from his overly racist owner.
I loved those characters so much as a kid, only to open my eyes after watching them again and realising how racist some alien races were, just wow.
I loved those characters so much as a kid, only to open my eyes after watching them again and realising how racist some alien races were, just wow.
I remember that sinking feeling too about half way through the movie where I realized The Matrix (released just a few weeks prior) was like 100x better and far cooler than this movie, something that seemed laughably unbelievable just 4-5 months prior.
this right here.
Era's hate boner for the prequels is insufferable.
Watched it yesterday with my kids and they (and i) enjoyed it. I think kids enjoy Jar Jar.
I've always liked the world building and story in the prequels. They were all brought down, imo, by dialogue.
I've always liked the world building and story in the prequels. They were all brought down, imo, by dialogue.
It's deserved, unlike the hate boner that Star Wars nerds have for TLJ.
No it's just fun dunking on them because they are objectively shitty movies. It's not that deep.
