It had Qui Gon Jinn and the duel with Darth Maul and a universe that hadn't quite yet been utterly subsumed by CGI. Anakin was kind of annoying and we all hate mini-chlorines and hate mini-chlorines being Anakin's dad even more, probably even more than we all hate Jar Jar which is a LOT, but at least our intrepid hero, the man even Yoda spoke of with quiet awe, wasn't courting girls by stalking them and then declaring that they'd just murdered an entire village including children. Ahaha, I love you.
I STILL HAVE NEVER SEEN "REVENGE OF THE SITH". And I feel like I'm almost jumping on the bandwagon of other people's righteous hatred of those movies by hating them -- because while I enjoyed the original trilogy like crazy, I've never considered myself a big Star Wars fan so it's not like I ever felt they were ruining my canon or something.
But god, yes. The things you said! I think you make the best point ever in saying the movies should've built up Anakin as a real fallen hero instead of being so preoccupied with "Look he's Vader!" that they made him EVIL BY THE SECOND MOVIE. (Genocide is evil, George Lucas. Just fyi.) Phantom Menace had its obvious and glaring flaws, but none of it was as bad as suffering through the Anakin/Amidala "romance". And that's the part of the movie that made the *most* narrative sense, which is saying a lot.
It's mine, and George Lucas can't have it. Aww, amen!
P.S. Arrrgh, am I the only one who cannot stand that YouTube guy? Co-workers kept recommending those videos to me, so I sat through the whole Phantom Menace one, and I was so turned off by the "also I'm playing this ~character~ who murders women lulz" digressions and intentionally shitty editing. It bothers me that there really is an enjoyable and funny review in there, but I have to keep filtering it through pointless hipster misogyny along the way. I'm really debating whether I want to subject myself to the Ep 2 review or not. [/totally off-topic rant]
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Date: 2010-04-05 03:59 am (UTC)Ahaha, I love you.
I STILL HAVE NEVER SEEN "REVENGE OF THE SITH". And I feel like I'm almost jumping on the bandwagon of other people's righteous hatred of those movies by hating them -- because while I enjoyed the original trilogy like crazy, I've never considered myself a big Star Wars fan so it's not like I ever felt they were ruining my canon or something.
But god, yes. The things you said! I think you make the best point ever in saying the movies should've built up Anakin as a real fallen hero instead of being so preoccupied with "Look he's Vader!" that they made him EVIL BY THE SECOND MOVIE. (Genocide is evil, George Lucas. Just fyi.) Phantom Menace had its obvious and glaring flaws, but none of it was as bad as suffering through the Anakin/Amidala "romance". And that's the part of the movie that made the *most* narrative sense, which is saying a lot.
It's mine, and George Lucas can't have it.
Aww, amen!
P.S. Arrrgh, am I the only one who cannot stand that YouTube guy? Co-workers kept recommending those videos to me, so I sat through the whole Phantom Menace one, and I was so turned off by the "also I'm playing this ~character~ who murders women lulz" digressions and intentionally shitty editing. It bothers me that there really is an enjoyable and funny review in there, but I have to keep filtering it through pointless hipster misogyny along the way. I'm really debating whether I want to subject myself to the Ep 2 review or not. [/totally off-topic rant]