It's amazing the amount of staying power this movie has. Sure it's not in the way that George Lucas wanted it to be, but the point remains, it's been almost 20 years and people are still talking about this dumbass movie.
The saddest thing about 'The Phantom Menace' is that there is a good movie here. The whole idea of a planet being besieged by a federation of trade vessels that cut the them out from the outside Galaxy. The idea that that the Byzantine state has to make friends with the underwater State perhaps with a un-easy Alliance to defend themselves against the greater threat from beyond the stars, maybe they sent a distress call and have fight for their survival as reinforcements come from the ''big city plant''. Who knows what they could have done!
They could have an adventure with the Jedis getting through the forest, small towns, Fields, rivers and oceans. Going on a Grand Adventure to try and get to the main city to warn them against of the incoming attack. There are so many little possibilities they could have done and instead they waste their time focusing on some idiot boy who doesn't even live on the stupid planet.
Let's start with complaint number one:
The graphics are horrible!
Well this is kind of true, certainly by modern standards The Phantom Menace looks kind of cheap and untextured, you can really tell where the green screens are being used. but if you look at it from an eye if the 1990s you come up with the opinion that it's okay animation. It looks fine, some scenes look pretty good it's still a bit of a letdown that it's not physical like in the original films but what are you going to do. There is one exception to this and that's the scene at the end of the movie with a robots trying to invade the wannabe Byzantine City. The scene of the ships flying over the field looks awful, even my 10 year-old brain thought looks pretty bad.
Pawsitive number one:
soundtrack, despite all the negative things you can say about the fourth Star Wars movie the music is not one of them. in fact it's really the only thing that truly shines in this film and it'll go on to be used inthe next two movies. Saying that the soundtracks good when most of the things aren't does put Star Wars in the same category as ''Sonic the Hedgehog''. That annoying little blue rodent who runs about the place really fast and has a strange little two-tailed friends 'Miles Tails Prower'. Although to give Star Wars it's due the original films were quite good where as the original Sonic game is kind of crap, so at least Star Wars started out good.
negative number Two.
The ever continuously boring desert. My God they had some lame stuff going on here you had a slave family who lived better than most people I know and then a race with these weird floating spaceship thingies that went on for about 12 minutes too long. it brings the movie to a grinding Halt and makes you want to fall asleep even the 10 year-old me couldn't give a shit about this.
A lot of people say that the lightsaber duels got a lot better. They were more entertaining than the in the original movies. And they do look more flashy but I wouldn't call them entertaining. At the end of the day if you went to actual combat with any of the Jedi sword techniques from any of the films you would get destroyed within a minute because the Jedis are the stupidest, dumbest most idiotic fighters who have ever been; With their fliping, kicking and they're jumping with their constant disregard to use their weapon of light in a practical way.
I know another positive to the film. the countless hours of entertainment given us from other people talking about it. Nothing gets a conversation-starting harder with film Geeks than bringing up this atrocity of this movie. both from the people that hate and from the people that love it (and yes they do exist) and from that small group of us that are kind of indifferent to it; But are still amused about it all the same.
Also is jar jar really the worst thing? I mean he's a bit annoying but he's not prominent in the entire movie, he has a big scene at the beginning he has some involvement with the silly pod-race in the middle and there's a battle scene at the end but that only makes up about 30% of the film. The rest of the time he's just kind of there. I think he's been blown out of proportion as the worst thing in the movie. I can think of far worse things in a film such as Scrappy-Doo or the goblins from The Hunchback of Notre Dame movie. If you really want me to get upset about something I can talk about those damn goblins or Gremlins or gargoyles or whatever the hell they're supposed to be.
It's the perfect background movie, not because it has a simple story that's easy to follow, but because the story is so convoluted and indifferent that it doesn't really matter if you follow or not. It's just battle scene, race, battle scene and then they go on again. You never have to worry about what's going on because nothing matters.
The saddest thing about 'The Phantom Menace' is that there is a good movie here. The whole idea of a planet being besieged by a federation of trade vessels that cut the them out from the outside Galaxy. The idea that that the Byzantine state has to make friends with the underwater State perhaps with a un-easy Alliance to defend themselves against the greater threat from beyond the stars, maybe they sent a distress call and have fight for their survival as reinforcements come from the ''big city plant''. Who knows what they could have done!
They could have an adventure with the Jedis getting through the forest, small towns, Fields, rivers and oceans. Going on a Grand Adventure to try and get to the main city to warn them against of the incoming attack. There are so many little possibilities they could have done and instead they waste their time focusing on some idiot boy who doesn't even live on the stupid planet.
Let's start with complaint number one:
The graphics are horrible!
Well this is kind of true, certainly by modern standards The Phantom Menace looks kind of cheap and untextured, you can really tell where the green screens are being used. but if you look at it from an eye if the 1990s you come up with the opinion that it's okay animation. It looks fine, some scenes look pretty good it's still a bit of a letdown that it's not physical like in the original films but what are you going to do. There is one exception to this and that's the scene at the end of the movie with a robots trying to invade the wannabe Byzantine City. The scene of the ships flying over the field looks awful, even my 10 year-old brain thought looks pretty bad.
Pawsitive number one:
soundtrack, despite all the negative things you can say about the fourth Star Wars movie the music is not one of them. in fact it's really the only thing that truly shines in this film and it'll go on to be used inthe next two movies. Saying that the soundtracks good when most of the things aren't does put Star Wars in the same category as ''Sonic the Hedgehog''. That annoying little blue rodent who runs about the place really fast and has a strange little two-tailed friends 'Miles Tails Prower'. Although to give Star Wars it's due the original films were quite good where as the original Sonic game is kind of crap, so at least Star Wars started out good.
negative number Two.
The ever continuously boring desert. My God they had some lame stuff going on here you had a slave family who lived better than most people I know and then a race with these weird floating spaceship thingies that went on for about 12 minutes too long. it brings the movie to a grinding Halt and makes you want to fall asleep even the 10 year-old me couldn't give a shit about this.
A lot of people say that the lightsaber duels got a lot better. They were more entertaining than the in the original movies. And they do look more flashy but I wouldn't call them entertaining. At the end of the day if you went to actual combat with any of the Jedi sword techniques from any of the films you would get destroyed within a minute because the Jedis are the stupidest, dumbest most idiotic fighters who have ever been; With their fliping, kicking and they're jumping with their constant disregard to use their weapon of light in a practical way.
I know another positive to the film. the countless hours of entertainment given us from other people talking about it. Nothing gets a conversation-starting harder with film Geeks than bringing up this atrocity of this movie. both from the people that hate and from the people that love it (and yes they do exist) and from that small group of us that are kind of indifferent to it; But are still amused about it all the same.
Also is jar jar really the worst thing? I mean he's a bit annoying but he's not prominent in the entire movie, he has a big scene at the beginning he has some involvement with the silly pod-race in the middle and there's a battle scene at the end but that only makes up about 30% of the film. The rest of the time he's just kind of there. I think he's been blown out of proportion as the worst thing in the movie. I can think of far worse things in a film such as Scrappy-Doo or the goblins from The Hunchback of Notre Dame movie. If you really want me to get upset about something I can talk about those damn goblins or Gremlins or gargoyles or whatever the hell they're supposed to be.
It's the perfect background movie, not because it has a simple story that's easy to follow, but because the story is so convoluted and indifferent that it doesn't really matter if you follow or not. It's just battle scene, race, battle scene and then they go on again. You never have to worry about what's going on because nothing matters.
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