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Star Wars: The Phantom Menace Review

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You know, I've never minded The Phantom Menace that much...not that it's a great work of art or anything (no...it certainly isn't that...) but it's at least better than that shitstain known as Attack of the Clones...I mean, Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan aren't exactly deep in TPM, but at least Liam and Ewan are good ACTORS--in AOTC, there are only two good performances in the entire film, not a good ratio, especially when two of the worst performances are from two of the main characters, in fact the de facto focus of the film (Portman and Christensan).

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Jase Apprentice

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Revenge of the Sith was the second best movie of the six.

George lucas should have really just made the first three movies into two movies and cut out half of phantom menace and Attack of the Clones. He tried to stretch a little bit of story out into 5 hours of movie, and thought he could fill in the void with extra "character development", which it wasn't really.

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Captroop Grand Master

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Revenge of the Sith was the second best movie of the six.

George lucas should have really just made the first three movies into two movies and cut out half of phantom menace and Attack of the Clones. He tried to stretch a little bit of story out into 5 hours of movie, and thought he could fill in the void with extra "character development", which it wasn't really.

I've said this for a while: if Revenge of the Sith was R-rated, it would have been the best of the 6. Actually, that's a lie; Empire Strikes Back pwns all. But RotS would have been great as an R-rated action sci-fi flic, and it showed the massacre at the Jedi Temple.

The two things Phantom Menace had going for it that kept it from being a total bust in my mind, are 1.) outstanding vehicle concepts that really inspired me artistically 2.) Darth Maul and the amazing double-edged light saber fight. Visually stunning.

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I don't care what anyone says...

Star Wars in any form (yes even the kiddie'd down Phantom Menace) is 10x better than anything else Hollywood puts out to this day...

I'd rate the 6 in this order

Empire Strikes Back

Revenge of the Sith

A New Hope

Return of the Jedi

Attack of the Clones

The Phantom Menace

But FWIW, TPM is still better than any of the LotR movies to me... You have to view the Star Wars work as a complete thing, and it's impact on the world as we know it is greater than anything in entertainment history...

If it wasn't for Star Wars, Sci-Fi/CGI/Movie technology would all be set back at least a decade...

Therefore, even if it's the worst part of the Star Wars universe, it's still better than most of the stuff out there...

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Davidson Deac II Grand Master

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George Lucas is laughing at this guy as he cashes yet another check.

One thing about the Phantom Menace. It was made for boys age 6-12. And they liked it. 30 and 40 years olds trying to recapture their youth thru Star Wars were not going to like it.

I didn't like it, but then I didn't much care for Transformers either. Kids movies all of them.

I did like Revenge of the Sith though. That was more of an adult movie, albeit with one of the worst romance stories ever written.

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I did like Revenge of the Sith though. That was more of an adult movie, albeit with one of the worst romance stories ever written.

they needed it for the story but It could have been so much better. The way anakin was turned to darth Vader was the worst part of the film...it was like someone snapped their finger and he was all of a sudden a bad guy...lol

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