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(Time) Amusing Ten things that are just as annoying about Star Wars: The Phantom Menace now as they were thirteen years ago   (entertainment.time.com) divider line 115
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2012-02-10 11:43:38 PM
Yep... Jar Jar is on there

/it's not just me
 
2012-02-10 11:50:20 PM
You know what wasn't annoying about 13 years ago? Farking slideshows. Because they didn't exist.
 
2012-02-10 11:54:01 PM
I see slideshows haven't gotten any less annoying either.
 
2012-02-10 11:56:49 PM
cdn.hometheaterforum.com
 
2012-02-10 11:57:44 PM
1) Jar Jar Binks
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2012-02-11 12:01:33 AM
Bathia_Mapes: 1) Jar Jar Binks
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Heheheh

/thank you
//I knew there was a reason I'd favorited you
 
2012-02-11 12:02:39 AM
Jar jar in 3d!
 
2012-02-11 12:04:27 AM
MaudlinMutantMollusk: Bathia_Mapes: 1) Jar Jar Binks
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Heheheh

/thank you
//I knew there was a reason I'd favorited you


Thanks!

You got favorited by me some time back, but I recently updated the note next to your user name after you made a comment on the Rubio thread that made me laugh. :-D
 
2012-02-11 12:05:10 AM
Dead for Tax Reasons: Jar jar in 3d!

*shudder*
 
2012-02-11 12:30:15 AM
Midi-chlorians? *checks list* thank god they included them.
 
2012-02-11 12:47:10 AM
Anonaloomatoffa!
 
2012-02-11 01:07:40 AM
Wooden acting,wooden acting,wooden acting,wooden acting,wooden acting,wooden acting,wooden acting,wooden acting,Jar Jar Binks and last but not least,wooden acting....
 
2012-02-11 01:41:10 AM
Jar Jar turned me off to the entire franchise.

/Waits for Whedon to finish the Big Damn Trilogy.
 
2012-02-11 03:15:05 AM
13 years? Really? Wow, I've to this day only made it through 40 minutes of that movie and have not seen any of the two that followed. Before you remove me from TF, I did see the first three in the theater.... each year, as they came out.
 
2012-02-11 04:00:44 AM
I've never watched the whole thing, and I was the projectionist at the time.
I've also never made it through more than 5 minutes of anything that had the words "Harry Potter" in the title either.
 
2012-02-11 04:41:19 AM
My breasts... Meegasa squeeze them.
 
2012-02-11 05:35:53 AM
WhyteRaven74: Midi-chlorians? *checks list* thank god they included them.

Is Jedi cureable? Would a strong antibiotic take down the whole culture?
 
2012-02-11 07:34:53 AM
I'm going to say it.

I liked the movie.
 
2012-02-11 07:44:30 AM
1. Penis
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2012-02-11 07:56:18 AM
I think young Anakin is just as bad as Jar Jar.
 
2012-02-11 08:04:24 AM
Bathia_Mapes: 1) Jar Jar Binks
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My idea exactly, but I didn't feel like typing his name ten times.

/favorited :)
 
2012-02-11 08:07:39 AM
baltimoreblonde: Bathia_Mapes: 1) Jar Jar Binks
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My idea exactly, but I didn't feel like typing his name ten times.

/favorited :)


Link (new window)
 
2012-02-11 08:08:10 AM
 
2012-02-11 08:08:45 AM
George Lucas
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/the only proper list
 
2012-02-11 08:11:24 AM
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2012-02-11 08:34:32 AM
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/Half in the bag!


The thing that really brings out how bad Phantom Menace is is when he asks people to describe the characters without using their job or how they dress.

/Incedentally, when he lists directors that can get away with not telling a straightforward story, he lists all my favorite directors.
 
2012-02-11 08:40:56 AM
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Yeah, that's pretty much required watching if you consider yourself a fan of movies, in general.
 
2012-02-11 08:47:57 AM
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2012-02-11 08:52:33 AM
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2012-02-11 08:54:48 AM
Only ten?
 
2012-02-11 08:58:47 AM
MP3 player + Riff Trax = tolerable phantom menace in theatres
 
2012-02-11 09:00:28 AM
The_Time_Master: Red Letter Media kicks ass, and yes, it's worth the whole time spent watching it.

Something to consider: the greatest legacy of the prequels is a series of reviews of them.
 
2012-02-11 09:04:02 AM
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2012-02-11 09:10:40 AM
11.chewielouie: Only ten?
 
2012-02-11 09:24:54 AM
11. Making us wait 25 years for poorly written prequels.

The list nailed all my complaints. I remember watching it in the theater in 1997 with my brother (we were both Star wars fanatics in 1980, we were 4 & 8), I think by the 2nd pod race lap we were both ready to leave.

The best CGI still looks like who framed roger rabbit.
 
2012-02-11 09:26:15 AM
miss diminutive: You know what wasn't annoying about 13 years ago? Farking slideshows. Because they didn't exist.

THREAD! OVER! All that needs to be said, has been said.
 
2012-02-11 09:27:34 AM
Midichlorians...almost Zeist-like in its ineptitude. Another thing that always bothered my was Anakin's backpack. Everything was grungy and dirty on Tatooine, yet it looked like he just plucked that off the rack at Dick's Sporting Goods
 
2012-02-11 09:34:03 AM
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It's been a few years since I saw this movie (only saw it once), but off the top of my head:

1. Jar jar binks. Why was that thing even in the movie?
2. Young Anakin. I would so much have preferred a teenage Anakin who makes a living by street racing (winning by force-zapping opponents) and is the son of an old hooker.
3. Midichloridans(?). Don't ruin the supernatural with faux-scientific explanations. Ever.
4. Switching off an entire army by blowing up (whatever it was).

I thought the back-story was interesting. Wish that had done more with that instead of the silliness up front.
 
2012-02-11 09:36:01 AM
tequilasundae: Midichlorians...almost Zeist-like in its ineptitude. Another thing that always bothered my was Anakin's backpack. Everything was grungy and dirty on Tatooine, yet it looked like he just plucked that off the rack at Dick's Sporting Goods

I wonder who midichlorians were most meant as a "fark you" to. Was it the other creative minds involved in Empire? The fans that like most the movie that Lucas had the least to do with?

Most fans would agree that Yoda's monolog about the force was one of the great moments in the trilogy, and all things considered, could be viewed as a great moment in film. It had HEART. But midichlorians is what the great creative mind of Lucas came up with? He thought that what fans really wanted to see was Yoda "bouncing around with his little laser sword"?

And why the fark do all the Jedi dress like farmers on Tatooine?
 
2012-02-11 09:36:03 AM
WhyteRaven74: Midi-chlorians? *checks list* thank god they included them.

I struggled to stay interested in the movie up until they mentioned midi-chlorians. That ended my struggle right there. I just tuned out after that and watched the "fill every inch of the screen" pictures fly by.
 
2012-02-11 09:39:08 AM
There's very few directors who can take a talented cast of actors and make their acting suck, but by heaven Lucas is one of those directors. Also the racist angles with the Jewish flying pawnbrowker and Jar Jar. The only caricature I've seen that was worse than Jar Jar was the jive talking autobot from the Transformers.
 
2012-02-11 09:45:56 AM
The thing in that movie that had me rolling my eyes was the choice of Ewan McG for Obiwan.
They must age really quickly where he comes from, because in about 20 years
(in the Star Wars chronology) he'll look like Alec Guiness?...

/Don't get all bent out of shape about Jar-jar. Its a kiddie movie, and he's there just as a kid-level humorous element, that's all.
//After all, you don't want to be like those nerds who got all bent out of shape because Star Trek added the Wesley Crusher character. Again, that guy was added just to give younger viewers (like my nephews who love the re-runs) a character that was closer to their own age.
 
2012-02-11 09:46:49 AM
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2012-02-11 09:51:18 AM
OregonVet: The_Time_Master: THE BEST KICK IN THE ASS fark PHANTOM MENACE MOVIEW REVIEW YOU WILL EVER WATCH IN YOUR ENTIRE LIFE. (new window)

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The Star Trek one is fun too!

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Holy crap that is awesome. Just watched the whole thing.


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2012-02-11 09:53:01 AM
Oh yeah. COmpletely dropping the ball on Darth Maul. Cool looking character that is in the movie for a whole 10 minutes.
 
2012-02-11 09:55:01 AM
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Red Letter Media kicks ass, and yes, it's worth the whole time spent watching it.

The Star Trek one is fun too!

/Half in the bag!

Holy crap that is awesome. Just watched the whole thing.


Yeah, this video should be shown in film schools.
 
kth
2012-02-11 10:00:46 AM
My least favorite thing is that the Jedis talk of mindful action in the OT, and here's Anakin stumblefarking his way through the movie accidentally blowing the right things up.
 
2012-02-11 10:07:07 AM
With three movies to work with in the prequels, I think the whole thing would have been much better had the time spent on young Anakin been used to fill in the gaps between Episodes II and III. Clone Wars does a good job of it, but the movies really never show that brothers-like camaraderie that's supposed to exist between Anakin and Obi-Wan. The content of Episode I should have been relegated to maybe the first act of a movie, and not the whole movie.

/Only watched full version of Episode I twice: Once in the theater, once on Blu-Ray
//Phantom Edit FTW
 
2012-02-11 10:10:32 AM
Fail: TFA's author makes a list of 10 things that are still wrong with the movie and lists the awkward-looking Yoda puppet, which is no longer in the movie. Also incorrectly says that Frank Oz was not the puppeteer.
 
2012-02-11 10:12:03 AM
born_yesterday: I wonder who midichlorians were most meant as a "fark you" to. Was it the other creative minds involved in Empire? The fans that like most the movie that Lucas had the least to do with?

I don't really have a problem with the midichlorians as that complaint seems to be minute compared to much bigger problems (i.e. dialogue, JarJar, etc.), but it is typical of a really annoying problem with the Prequels: every minor character/instance from the original trilogy is called back into the Prequels, no matter how minute the character/instance. Did it really add anything by making C3PO and R2D2 (was it both? I don't really recall/care.) creations of Anakin; was it pertinent to the plot? The prequels simply don't stand on their own as they require constant referencing to the original series. It feels like a sequel was what was intended, but someone got scared over the idea that the fans wouldn't buy a whole cast of characters that would be required for such an idea.
 
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