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Post #356577

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Vaderisnothayden
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Where did they come up with the title: "The Phantom Menace"?
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Date created
23-Apr-2009, 6:36 PM
Yoda Is Your Father said:
Janskeet said:

I think it is a cool title and probably the most clever thing Lucas thought of in the prequels. I remember when I heard it back in '98 when I was 10, I was like wow, The Phantom Menace, that sounds cool. At the time, I didn't even know what "menace" meant.

Really?  When I first heard it (I was 18 or so) I thought it was sooooo cheesy.  Then the next one was called Attack of the Clones amd I just thought 'oh, fuck this'.

 

"Attack of the Clones" really is taking the homage-to-corny-old-serials a bit too far. Homages should never be done done at the expense of quality. I think there's a lot that sucks in the prequels that's there because Lucas wanted to imitate something from way back, like the style of the AOTC romance and Palpatine's awful ROTS makeup.