Hold on to your seats folks. I have something positive to say regarding the only prequel I've seen.

Because I'd seen screen-grabs of the SEs, I was skeptical about Phantom. I went into the film not expecting much, but thinking maybe it might be ok.

Here's the positive; At the start of Phantom, I thought this was a great shot. Composition, execution, and the feel all seemed worthy of the film I experienced back in 1977.

Worthy ended about two minutes later. These days the shot sometimes pops into my head as a setting that my imagination assigns to some of the EU I've read. It's a great shot and my memory held on to it. The rest of the film, however, is all but gone.