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Post #450425

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haraldo23
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Episode 1: The Phantom Hour (Completed)
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Date created
27-Oct-2010, 10:45 AM

Just saw it and, man, I don't know. It works pretty good, but there are still too many Jar Jar "jokes", Anakin imbecilities and the whole midichlorian stuff annoys the hell out of me...

The movie now feels too rushed with just action sequences and lightsaber igniting all over the place. I didn't really understand what the whole story was about,  although there wasn't much of a story to begin with. Qui-Gon now seems like the main character. Darth Maul, on the other hand, isn't even a background character anymore. XD The guy is in the movie for, like, 2 minutes.

Watching this I realized how much I hate Keira Knightley's voice... it's so slooooow and boooring...

I may go as far and say that I rather watch this edit than the original, but still - this doesn't feel like a Star Wars movie. I really appreciate the effort and this is one hell of an attempt at trying to fix this $hit, but there's just too much stupid stuff in this movie. I'm not sure if it's even possible to fix it.

One thing that I missed though was  the scene where Obi and Qui Gon  are approaching (swimming towards) The Gungan City.  John Williams' music in that scene is just incredible. It's so mysterious and stuff, I love it! It made the whole scene for me.

Other than that, I have to say - great job, man! The source material sucks ass but you really tried and for that - KUDOS to you! XD