JasonN said:
vaderios said:
See this (short) review and make yout conclusions ;)
http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/12/17/watch-this-70-minute-video-review-of-star-wars-the-phantom-menace/
He does bring up some very good points and critisisms... but I get very tired on his need to belittle and insult people that happen to like EP1 - yes, it's certainly is a "flawed as sh*t" movie , but it's definitely not the worse film of the SW series.
Plus, his attempts at "dark" humor are worse than Carlos Mencia's standup act. -_-
While it is utterly pointless to belittle people who like anything, this review does serve as a good guide to the sort of thing that needs sorting out and as for it not being the worst film in the series I'm not sure what criteria you can judge that contest.
It's like picking you best friend or your worst enemy.
There is so much so wrong with episodes I, II, III and VI and that the only thing you can hold between them is what does work.
ROTJ still has the original cast and while Ian is fun it's possibly his worst performance until he puts the Halloween mask in ROTS. It has an arrow of intent to follow. It's flawed but it's very fixable.
ROTS has the much of the same problems as the rest of PT but Hayden and Ewen to actually come across as friends in the first act, even though the plot often makes no sense it feels more like Star Wars most of the time than the other two.
AOTC has almost all the same problems as TPM plus the introduction of the worst written and acted romance and the most pointless mystery investigation ever written. But it has a couple of action sequences that are actually well paced and the ground battle is somewhat evocative of that Star Wars thing in the title.
However TPM had the longest prep time of any Star Wars film, it was and will possibly from now on be the most anticipated film ever made with a high degree of good will directed at the series (even if ROTJ was nowhere near as perfect as a large share of fans remember it to be) While any film would have an uphill struggle to live up to that sort of anticipation (an excuse often quoted to let it off the hook) it was so insubstantial and made so little sense and lacked almost any redeeming feature that it poisoned the well of good will directed at the series and set up what was to not work for almost anything with Star Wars in the title that followed it.
Many people are forgiving of the jarring flaws in the other three not so good Star Wars films because TPM was so awful.
Imagine if TPM was a really good film and then AOTC and ROTS had come out as seen.
Many of the things people let those films get away with would be thrown into sharp focus. After the release of TPM, ROTJ would be re-appraised as being nowhere near as good as the other three.
It was the wrecking ball of the saga.
On the plus side it offers the greatest opportunity for fan editors to test their imagination (which is why so many editors give it a go).
Never has a film so needed to be loved been so derided by so many.
It took Star Wars from being a cool world for the whole family to enjoy even further into a toy catalogue for kids and nerdish collectors than Jedi ever did.
Someone should go through this review (and a few like it) cut out the wonderfully sick jokes and isolate the key points.
Then go through all the ideas here and elsewhere which address those points and see if they can be improved on and see if any of those points have never been addressed and work on those too.
As I said way back when this thread began most edits just nibble around the edges of the problems with the prequels.
There is so much wrong with them on so many levels that boldness is the only way to save them and the saga as a whole.