 "Well done" | 2009-07-26 |
| - Reviewed By kcurley8 |
I am a first generation Star Wars fan. I was 9 years old when A New Hope came out, and like everyone else I was blown away. It was a thrill ride that kept on going through six years and three wonderful films.
So like most I was excited to hear that, finally, Lucas was going back and bringing us more Star Wars. It was too good to be true! Here I am at 30 years old and Episode 1 is coming out!
I think that with most fans here in lies the problem...
Now we are older. None of the original fans are kids anymore. And I firmly believe this is why all the negative crap about Episode 1.
No, it's not the same. It CAN'T be. We're not children...we have had twenty years of sophisticated sci-fi movies under our belts. What dazzeled us as kids simply won't work anymore.
Don't believe me? Ask any kid who saw Episode 1 when they were 8 to maybe 13 years old. The majority LOVED it. Why? The same reasons we loved the original back in 1977. The didn't have the baggage of 'Lucas changed our favorite film series'. All we had as kids were things like the Star Trek and Lost In Space TV series and films like 2001 and Planet Of The Apes. Star Wars WAS new and different...and very special. As adults, it just isn't anymore, considering how much SPFX have progressed (and, of course we do have the original trilogy to thank for most of those leaps and bounds).
Next time you see Episode 1...try to watch it with a kid. Maybe you might just see it reflected back at you the way our parents saw it in our eyes back in 1977. |
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 "Good Company" | 2009-05-26 |
| - Reviewed By User: A2MODJWRZ9O3UU |
| This movie was sold as 'used-very good condition' I recieved a movie in 'like new-excellent' condition. At a great price. Shipping was fast, it did suprise me that it was shipped FedEx but arrived by US Postal. I would and will do business with this company again. BTW, my 6 year old is a star wars nut and he has watched this movie over and over, with no issues with the dvd. |
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| "Best Movie Ever! Muy Muy I love you!" | 2009-04-29 |
| - Reviewed By User: AHX5HNQPRPO9L |
Okay, Ja Ja Binks here, and Ima gonna be reviewing dis here movie, Star Wars Episode 1, da Phantom Menace!
Now first of all, mesa kinda biased with dis one, mmm hhmm! Know why? Cause itsa be starin me! Ja Ja Binks! Dis defintiley be bein da best outta all da Star Wars films. First, da Jedi be fightin the Trade Federation who looka like Chinamen, Den, dy fly to Naboo where dey meet me, Ja Ja Binks! And when dey me in trouble, mesa come along to rescude dem! Deysa about to be sentenced to prison by our maxibig leader, but mesa defend dem and we are all allowed to leave and go on adventures. Uh huh!
Da Jedi be goin to da desert land of Tattooine, and here dey meet da young ANakin Skywalker. I thinkin it bein a good idea to brign himin alongin, sos I talk da Jedi into takin him along. While dis is going on, I help da young Anakin win a pod race so we can free all the slaves on da planet.
Now meesa go back to Naboo and be leadin our army to war against the TRade Fedaeratiobn. And deysa havin all robats, but we having our Gungan bombad genreals, and our sheieldsenm, and our giant lizard things! Deysa can't win against all datin!
Sos once I save da day dere, mesa become decorated war hero and beocme a maxibig senator for the da people of Naboo. Uh huh!
dis is bein da best of all da star wars films, and if you a beein seein just one, you be makin sure you be seein dis one.
Oh yeah, after I retire from bein senator I retire and become inportant journalist and Gungan movie reviewer on Amazon!
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 "JAR JAR BINKS - IT STINKS!" | 2009-04-14 |
| - Reviewed By User: ADP4HV7E0BB64 |
Showing my age here: when STAR TREK THE MOTION PICTURE finally appeared in 1979, I was among the first in line; I stood in the snow waiting breathlessly for the second show. When the audience for the premiere emptied out, everyone had blank, bewildered faces. Not good. After watching it I understood why. STTMP put the best characters on the sidelines and rehashed "Where No Man Has Gone Before."
Fans develop attachments to characters and themes.
Even the late great Joseph Campbell revered the original STAR WARS trilogy. The original will always remain a classic, and Empire, the immediate sequel, nearly topped it. But by the time we got to Jedi we had cutesy Ewoks running around and a rehash of blow-up-death-star.
Drunk on profits, Lucas was already dumbing down the franchise.
Little did we know just how dumb it would get until PHANTOM MENACE.
We've all seen and suffered through it anyway, so I'm preaching to choirs. But it's still staggering to witness just how childish, simplistic and foolish PHANTOM is - this from a man who could literally film anything he wanted - and he did.
Nobody wanted to say NO to George Lucas.
Jar-Jar Binks: easily the most reviled "character" in film history; that took a lot of work to accomplish.
Darth Vader - a cultural icon - is reduced to a silly child. "Annie! Annie!"
ANNIE??? That's a girl's name, and a rather famous one.
There are so many jaw-droppingly stupid scenes, from the underwater "fish" people prancing around to the idiotic "finale" with Annie running amok as a wannabe pilot.
After suffering through this I have more respect for Mel Brooks' SPACEBALLS. It's about the same - except Lucas was serious.
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 "Not Much To See Here....Move Along" | 2009-04-09 |
| - Reviewed By onin_1012 |
| The sad truth dawned on all of us watching Phantom Menace that this movie made Return of the Jedi look like Taxi Driver. With nothing but emotionless dialogue, bad acting from star Jake Lloyd and LONG gaps without any action Phantom pushes your patience. Add to that the tornado of annoyance that is Jar Jar Binks, and you have the weakest Star Wars movie in the saga. The menacing presence of Darth Maul is the only saving grace here, and the lightsaber duel is pretty impressive in it's own right. But the rest of the films flaws are just to much to suffer through. Kids will love it and it's great for introducing real young ones to the franchise, but otherwise just stick with the SW movies with Darth Vader on the cover. |
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| "Bad Hair Movie" | 2009-03-17 |
| - Reviewed By User: AAYE34TCTNV2R |
| My six-year-old had this on and I saw bits of it so I can't really say what it was about. He did like it and I suppose he's the target audience, but there's no excuse for any movie, even a kid's movie, being this lame. I somehow managed to mostly notice Natalie Portman. She's really pretty but what's with Lucas and the hairdos? Remember Carrie Fisher's cinnamon buns in the first movie? Portman has many styles that are more like outlandishly elaborate pastries than hair. And honest to God, I did a better acting job in my 4th grade production of Sleeping Beauty in 1972, wearing my mother's nightgown as a fairy costume, than Portman does in The Phantom Menace. Like, what meds was she on? I'm happy for Ewan MacGregor and Liam Neeson that they got nice paychecks out of this as they have given many fine performances in lower-profile films, but the material here is so bad that even actors of their talents can do little. If your kids HAVE to watch this, find something else to do, in a galaxy as far, far away as possible. |
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