Wow, I can’t believe it’s been 10 years since Star Wars: Episode 1 – Phantom Menace came out in theatres. I remember the crazy hype before the movie was released: kids meal tie ins, stores opening at midnight to sell Star Wars Merchandise, record breaking number of downloads for the trailer. I fell for the hype. I must have watched the quicktime trailer at least 10 times. I also bought Star Wars memorabilia from the Legos’, toys and the cups at Taco Bell.
I skipped school the day the movie came out and watched it with my brother. The line wasn’t too long, probably about 40 people deep. I was really excited and I couldn’t wait for the awesome space battles and jedi fights. Watched the movie and unlike most hardcore fans, I enjoyed the movie. It wasn’t perfect but I enjoyed the pod race, the jedi’s duking it out with Maul and the space battle.
The highlight had to be Darth Maul taking on two Jedis and kicking ass. Too bad none of the fight scenes in the other two prequels lived up to it. George Lucas decided to go “CG” and you have Yoda spinning for thirty minutes again Count Dooku and Palpatine. What was a cool concept became laughable. Okay back to Episode 1….most of my friends actually liked the movie as well. The first week it came out, it wasn’t blasted by the fans. Maybe it was because the hardcore fans were in denial that it wasn’t as good as the original trilogy or that Jar Jar was annoying but as time passed by, the fans hated the movie.
To this day, Phantom Menace is still my favorite Star Wars prequel. The acting was a little bit stiff but the action pieces kept me entertained.
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Circus80
May 20, 2009 -
I think Star Wars: The Phantom Menace was a very good movie, too. Some critics liked it, some others hated it for
it overuse of special effects, it’s wooden acting, or lack of story. But I agree that the movie was a lot of fun ten years ago, and it’s still fun to watch on DVD. May the force be with us all. 🙂
Papa85
May 20, 2009 -
The Darth Maul fight scene made me fell in love with double-sided lightsabers.
The fight between Obi and Anakin in Revenge of the Sith was also cool. I enjoyed their emotional conflict towards each other, drama + action’s always good.
Reboot
May 20, 2009 -
I remember watching it, i think it was the best of the sequels. I concider it the best because it connected two Generations of Star Wars fans, and created alot of new fans.
Also, the Phantom Menance made the star wars series more, human, for lack of a better word.
And of course Darth Maul, he was awesome.
I laughed at teh parts with CGI yoda, just was on odd thing to do.
I think overall, concidering the time it was released, and who was releasing it, it came out fairly good.