I just posted a review of the Phantom Menace on yahoo’s site after reading moron after moron saying how excited they are about shelling out $14 to be spoon-fed fecal matter. They’ll probably take it down, so I’m posting it here:
With its pedigree and expectation, this is probably the worst film of all time. And as time goes by it stinks even more.
I remember seeing it the midnight premiere showing in San Francisco. 20 minutes into it I was looking around, wondering if I was being punk’d.
Lucasfilm is so ashamed of this movie, the title is barely legible on all the billboards and ads.
Jar-Jar is the least of the film’s problems. I suggest googling “Phantom Menace review” to understand the full fetid splendor of this ass-terpiece.
I’ll only excuse the ten year olds when it comes to this film. The rest of you going to see it oughta be ashamed of yourselves. Hold off until the real trilogy begins.
Ass-terpiece. Classic.
We saw it opening weekend at Grauman’s Chinese Theater, so we had no idea that we were walking into a stupid movie full of bad dialog and worse acting. In the years since, I have had no desire to rewatch the movie. And not even the slightest urge to see what it looks like in 3D.
Curiously enough, Phantom Menace is the *only* Star Wars movie I’ve seen complete, start-to-finish. The first one came out when I was in HS; I read the novelization and never went to the movie. The other two came out while I was in the Navy, and again I never saw them in the theater. I’ve caught most of them in pieces on TV but never a whole movie in one sitting.
PM I went to with a bunch of friends and was unimpressed, to say the least. The last two I skipped a-purpose, though I did catch a prolonged scene where Anakin was injured in some sort of lava field: I guess that’s where he turns.
AIR from the book, Hans shot first