re: Star Wars Phantom Menace Destroyed

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like how everything was shot in front of green screens so the actors never were part of their environment so they never acted with it

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This is a pet peeve of mine that he stated really simply and effectively in the review. He said the movie "lacked grit." And it's true. That's why I can't stand CGI environments and some CGI characters. It's all too clean and neat. No matter how sophisticated they make CGI, you can still tell the difference. I know there are some shots you just can't pull off without it, but there's something about looking at Lucas filming in Tunisia for the original Star Wars, and then seeing him in his "movie laboratory" filming Phantom Menace that really drives this home.

By the way, "Phantom Menace" is really a dumb title for the movie. So is "Attack of the Clones." Does a 7 year old name these movies?

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Just look at some of the examples of things Lucas wanted to do with New Hope but he was thankfully denied by movie execs

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Probably the one time Movie Execs knew what they were talking about

He said that Attack of the Clones review is going to be even longer than than the Phantom Menace one, which is good, because it is a much more flawed movie than PM is (I know thats hard to believe, but its true).

LINK

i checked yesterday too


the avatar teaser was ok but didnt have much substance

The best observation he made was how the Jedi landed on Naboo hiding in a droid drop ship, quickly find the gungan lair where they are told the naboo surface city was on the other side of the planet.

So why were the droid landing ships landing on the opposite side of the planet from their target?

Good stuff.

Really there is no need to go past #1.

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The best observation he made was how the Jedi landed on Naboo hiding in a droid drop ship, quickly find the gungan lair where they are told the naboo surface city was on the other side of the planet.

So why were the droid landing ships landing on the opposite side of the planet from their target?

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And the sad thing is I didn't even think of this until he said it.

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So why were the droid landing ships landing on the opposite side of the planet from their target?

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well if they are invading the planet why wouldn't they send troops all over? He made better observations such as why would you take a robot on wheels, and goofy amphibian type creature and a teen aged girl to look for a ship part on a planet you is controlled by gangsters? 2 Why would the sith lord want to kill the queen when he needs her to call the vote of no confidence?

I didn't buy his points about light saber duals between the trilogies at all. That was his weakest argument to me.

It made perfect sense to me that the light saber duals in the original trilogies were kinda simplistic because you had first two older, past their prime guys that hadn't swung a saber in 20 years then later one of those guys against a kid that didn't know much what he was doing.

For that reason, it made perfect sense for the the sith/Jedi to be slinging it back when the Jedi order was alive and well with dudes at the top of their game.

That's how I saw it anyway.

So that was the one time the dude shot an airball to me.