Am i alone-TPM?

[fuzzybuzzytoys]

I actually love it. I was so so excited by the build up. I didnt read any spoilers or watch any trailers. As the film was out 2 weeks before in Canada, I went over to see my family and watched it in Toronto 2 hrs after getting off the plane. I loved it. It was Star Wars. I then went from the cinema into Toronto city and partied the night away and got laid that night too if I remember. One of my all time favourite days!

The next day I went a brought a ton of toys and watched the afternoon showing.

I have more a problem with Attack of the Clones as a movie.

 

[Fishtalk]

The mind boggles when you think how much Phantom Menace merchandise they dumped on us. Much of it now stored in lofts, basements and garages the world over. Even in another 50 years it'll all still be worthless. I've lost count how often a well meaning friend will offer me an Episode 1 talking money box or similar shite.

 

[zombiemedia]

The mind boggles when you think how much Phantom Menace merchandise they dumped on us. Much of it now stored in lofts, basements and garages the world over. Even in another 50 years it'll all still be worthless. I've lost count how often a well meaning friend will offer me an Episode 1 talking money box or similar shite.

Loads of folk picked stuff up as an 'investment' - didn't really work out.

EDIT - case in point - http://www.starwarsforum.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=25694

 

[theforceuk]

I then went from the cinema into Toronto city and partied the night away and got laid that night too if I remember. One of my all time favourite days!

:lol: :lol: :lol: Legend.

 

[theslider]

Can't stand any of the prequels. As weasel has already and I concur, to me they don't exist! Plinkett's reviews of all three some up my feelings exactly.

 

[phreatobite]

I'm still very angry about TPM and the apologist movement that's developed saying "It wasn't that bad".... well, it really, really was!!!

TPM failed as a film in its own right and shits all over the established Star Wars canon. I love the originals and the prequels just show so them much contempt.

R2 can fly... **** off! Don't retcon my childhood.

 

[zombiemedia]

I'm still very angry about TPM and the apologist movement that's developed saying "It wasn't that bad".... well, it really, really was!!!

TPM failed as a film in its own right and shits all over the established Star Wars canon. I love the originals and the prequels just show so them much contempt.

R2 can fly... **** off! Don't retcon my childhood.

So much this.

 

[Stargeezer]

I got a banner from the videostore from back in the day, it's a hard plastic banner you put in front of the lighting above the shelves, let me know if you would be intrested in that, then i'll send you some pictures.

 

[x-pack]

I then went from the cinema into Toronto city and partied the night away and got laid that night too if I remember. One of my all time favourite days!

:lol: :lol: :lol: Legend.

That old Phantom Menace fever. Like John Travolta :lol:

 

[x-pack]

I actually love it. I was so so excited by the build up. I didnt read any spoilers or watch any trailers. It was Star Wars. One of my all time favourite days!

The next day I went a brought a ton of toys and watched the afternoon showing.

I have more a problem with Attack of the Clones as a movie.[/quote="fuzzybuzzytoys"]








:wink:

 

[phreatobite]

"a unique disaster, a cataclysm as lucrative as it is unforgettably awful. The Phantom Menace will perhaps be remembered as the worst great success ever, the fulfillment only of a monetary vision"

 

[indianawars]

The only thing worse than TPM!

 

[zombiemedia]

The only thing worse than TPM!

Chuck Han walking 'behind' Jabba in the mix too...

 

[Robstyley]

Ooh I ****ing love it me! Podracing and Jedis and that funny geezer with the tattooed face. Yeah, good wholesome family fun

 

[Jediknight3263827]

if it wasnt for jar jar ****in stinks and young anakin crap acting like 'oops' it wouldnt have been that bad. :roll:

 

[zombiemedia]

Phantom Menace positives...

The 20th century fox opening and the initial blast of John Williams
Duel Of Fates music
Darth Maul looked pretty cool

I honestly can't think of anything else.

 

[palitoyjunky]

The most amazing thing about Ep 1 was the hype :!: Nobody had experienced that kind of excitement before :!: Fancy paying for another movie just to c the Ep 1 trailer

Fans had been waiting 16 years for another SW movie etc. Hell I even went to the U.S. to c it b4 it came out in the UK

 

[Grant]

The only thing worse than TPM!

Chuck Han walking 'behind' Jabba in the mix too...

Removing Sabastian Shaw from the final scenes and replacing him with Hayden was a total mockery of the movie. I'm only glad Sabastian had passed on by them so he wasn't around to see it. ****ed up move right there^. Just my 2 pence worth.

 

[x-pack]

Agreed. Quite unforgivable and the biggest slap in the face to the man himself and to the fans

 

[sith-smith]

I took the afternoon off work to go watch it.

I went to the cinema I originally saw Star Wars in the 70's.

It started and within a short while I was a depressed and felt totally let down.

I went to KFC to grab something to eat and sat there surrounded by Maul and Binks.

I decided to go and watch the next showing and hated it less. I think the over hype of it meant it was never going to be as good as I hoped. Once I'd got over that I could at least attempt to enjoy it a little more second time round.

There are somethings wrong with the PT, but there are things which to my mind are very good.

Some of the nods to the OT were nice. And though the transformation of Anakin to vader could have been better, I like the way it happened. You could see a gradual (to some extent anyway) turn.

On the other hand it doesn't entirely seem to fit with the OT clearly...and Lucas's rehashing of the OT to fit in with the prequels does not help.

The plotlines seem a bit thin in places as do some of the characters.

And the look of the film isn't always good. Too CGI and sometimes it seems just for the sake of it!