Took my 7 year old this past weekend to see the 25th anniversary rerelease of The Phantom Menace. My mom introduced me to Star Wars and I hope to pass it on to him.
I was 7 when I saw Episode 1 for the first time in theaters, and I took my 7 year old to see it in the very same theater this past weekend for the 25th anniversary. She loved it just as much as I did.
@@imperialremnantpodcast It was her first time! We watched A New Hope and Empire Strikes Back at home, then they announced the 25th anniversary theatrical release and I knew we had to go.
Watching this in cinemas last week was such a treat. I can now view it both through a lens of nostalgia and also completely objectively as an adult. Whichever way I look at it, it is undoubtedly a brilliant film for so many reasons. The characters in general are well written, the audience laughed when it was funny, they teared up when it was emotional, and the cheered when the credits rolled. Jar Jar simply put, IS funny, and whilst a couple of his scenes are perhaps unnecessary (something Lucas has admitted to himself), he never gets irritating or unlikeable nor does he "ruin the film". Jake Lloyd is fantastic and so UN-deserving of the hate he received for this role. He brings such a warmth to the character it makes Anakin's eventual demise all the more heartbreaking. The scene where he leaves his mother on Tatooine is really gut wrenching! The costume design is some of the best in the franchise. The sound design is an absolute masterclass from start to finish, in particular the pod race sequence, which is so well arranged its almost musical! The Score as we know, is masterfully crafted by John Williams. It introduces so many iconic themes across the film and weaves them together so intelligently to make something fun and joyful and emotional and sinister and foreboding. It all culminates in a third act which is frankly flawless where the film manages to handle 4 different storylines simultaneously WITH EASE and in large part due to Williams' ability to take us from one thing to the next without it ever feeling jarring or out of place. In fact its so well put together the breaths between duel of the fates provided by the other sequences make the tension at the end even greater. The whole thing is so underrated its baffling to me. Lucas is certainly a genius.
I saw the prequel marathon on Sunday May the Fifth, 2024: seeing them all together in one day in the cinema is so spectacular!! The story beats pay off as each film grew darker and darker. Lucas was and is so much smarter than the entire Disney company! His lifetime achievement Palm d'Or at this month's Cannes Film Festival is so well deserved! G'day from Sydney, Australia (where Episode II and Episode III were made).
That's awesome! I didn't make it to any events this year. It's so great he got the lifetime achievement award, his contributions are undeniable. Australia is high on our travel list. Maybe 2027 or '28. I think this winter I need to pick a cold weekend and just do a trilogy a day in my Death Star room haha.
I took my boys to see it this weekend and it was a blast! As we came out I tried to explain to them that when it came out no one had seen anything like it when it came to the spectacle and world immersion. I don’t think they understood. I didn’t at that age either.
Many, many weeks breaking down The Phantom Menace on dvd at my gaming shop with WotC 3e d&D/Star Wars along with WEG games. Qui Gon Jinn head butting Maul was Epic. Bit of fun, I got a hold of the book before the movie reached local theaters, had about a month bar hopping my nearby college campus town going by the name Qui Gon and ordering Jin to drink. My grandparents had more than a few of Liam Neeson movies, everyone that got my joke were in awe that my street larp character was so close to Liam acting for the movie. b.) Street larp, game series from Whitewolf/World of Darkness(WoD) Vampire, werewolf, mage, changeling, .. etc. It wasn't just played in the park, at someone's house, or single local game shop. Its college town, 3miles of bars and dozens of gaming shops. Clan/tribe/chapter house pins identify larp players to each other along with more than a few dozen police officers were into the games. So there was a gaming/street community looking after everyone for safety with the risk of being shut down if any trouble got out of hand. So yes after TPM, the local police were on the joke and help stage mock lightsaber fights in parking lots and in alleys behind the gaming shops and bars. Parts of the city the trains run like clockwork. So the police and a few others Stage a car search during a train passing like imperial finding spice smugglers in Star Wars alien masks. Thats not just a toy lightsaber, that is anti-imperial propaganda device etc. More than a few big guys with beards walking around in bath robes.
I loved hearing your memories watching each Star Wars with your mom. I'm of the generation that watched the original trilogy in theaters. I was one of the few prequel fans of my generation.
My son,9 years old,and I are going to see the re-release tomorrow. It will be his first time seeing a Star Wars film at the cinema. Fitting as The Phantom Menace was also my first Star Wars at the cinema,in fact it was the first Star Wars film I ever saw. I was 17 years old and I fell in love with the film. I thought it was the greatest film I had ever seen. I loved Jar Jar Binks and I of course delevoped a major crush on Natalie Portman. At the time I saw it, I didn't even know an episode two was on the way. That's how little I knew back then lol.
I love the full circle stories people have been posting of taking their kids to see this re-release. Nine is a great age for Phantom Menace in theaters too! Also, who didn't have a crush on Natalie Portman at that time? Haha
@@imperialremnantpodcast It's going to be fun. He loves the pod race. Episode One is his second favorite of the six Star Wars Episodes. Return Of The Jedi is his favorite one. He loves the Ewoks and the speeder bike chase. Also,who doesn't still have a crush on Natalie Portman. She's still extremely beautiful.
@@Mcfly85A The Pod Race and Duel of the Fates alone are worst the cost of admission so get blasted with sound on the biggest screen possible. ROTJ was my favorite as a kid too. Great point on Portman, haha.
@@imperialremnantpodcast My favorite is Revenge Of The Sith. My son likes that one as well but he says it's sad. I agree it is sad but it's an epic tradgey. I showed him them in chronological order. So,he started with Episode One. Lucas himself says that that's how the saga should be watched and I agree with him. So my son didn't know that Anakin would become Darth Vader. That floored him. He was shocked when that happened. Then in Empire he was basically standing on his head while Luke battled Vader... wondering if Vader would tell Luke the truth. Once he did,he looked at me and said "my god,he knows!" lol.
I think my biggest issue with Episode 1 is that Lucas wrote the script himself. Including other voices would’ve helped craft the movie into a much better experience, minimize the amount of visual effects used, and amplify the character dialogue/arcs. May the Fourth be with you, always!
As much as I love Spielberg I can't forgive him for saying no to Lucas when asked for his help with the prequels! I'd love to see the results in a parallel universe where Spielberg was happy to be a part of it as well as more of the team from the ot
@@claykeough7898 Spielberg, " Well George you always had a passion for Foreign Films. The ball is in your court, make it Foreign and relatable. Good, bad, or indifferent what you will make will be talked about for decades."
@@runeandersen7022 2 and 3 had significantly less jar jar haha. I don't love the character but he's not for adults and the actor didn't deserve the hate. Thanks for watching !
Very different tonally. If I had to choose I think I'd go Revenge but I could never say anything negative about Duel of the Fates haha. Thanks for watching!
TODAY AT 3:00 PM, MY DAD AND I WILL GO SEE STAR WARS THE PHANTOM MENACE IN THEATERS FOR ITS 25th ANNIVERSARY!!!!!!! Definitely the weakest of the trilogy, but very excited to see this on the big screen!!!!! I was born in 1998, which I would have been several months old, so I obviously don’t remember seeing this but now I won’t be saying that anymore!!!! THE POD RACE AND DUEL OF THE FATES WILL BE THE STANDOUT for this theater experience!!!!! So excited!!!!! MAY THE 4th BE WITH YOU!!!!!
No, no he didn't plan everything out from the start, and he certainly didn't plan Star Wars ANH to be a middle chapter from the beginning. Even the film we got was totally different from early drafts of the movie. He only decided to make it a middle chapter when he was writing ESB, and even then none of the PT was planned out. And again, no, Lucas didn't write ANH on his own. Most of the dialogue was ghost written by Gloria Katz and Willard Huyck.
@@lakernation26 What, of Phantom Menace? Really? It must've been abysmal if what we eventually got, a script that was helped by a ghost writer, was still that bad!
SW movies (post Empire) are like Metallica albums. They keep getting so much more progressively bad that they make you appreciate the previous one more : D
It never ceases to amaze how nostalgia clouds peoples minds. I was 14 when this piece of crap was released and hated it back then because it was objectively horrible, and it blows my mind how people just eat it all up because light sabers.
@@imperialremnantpodcast showed up on my recommended for no reason so I’m also entitled to remind you how wrong your opinion about this horrible movie is.
@@crapversereturn5800 not really, it’s just concerning to see people like such a dumb movie, it’s people like that the reason Hollywood keeps pumping out turds because they know how brain dead you all are. Have a nice day.
Took my 7 year old this past weekend to see the 25th anniversary rerelease of The Phantom Menace. My mom introduced me to Star Wars and I hope to pass it on to him.
That's great! Those memories will definitely stick with them.
I was 7 when I saw Episode 1 for the first time in theaters, and I took my 7 year old to see it in the very same theater this past weekend for the 25th anniversary. She loved it just as much as I did.
@@PlayMadness that's amazing. Full circle. Had she seen it at home or was this the first time?
@@imperialremnantpodcast It was her first time! We watched A New Hope and Empire Strikes Back at home, then they announced the 25th anniversary theatrical release and I knew we had to go.
IMO the most underrated Star Wars film.
That MAY go to Solo for me. But this one's right up there haha
Its rated perfectly, your opinion is overrated by you.
@@squiremuldoon5462 u cray
Your opinion is garbage please refrain from giving it in the future @@squiremuldoon5462
You mean, not the least shitty.
Watching this in cinemas last week was such a treat. I can now view it both through a lens of nostalgia and also completely objectively as an adult. Whichever way I look at it, it is undoubtedly a brilliant film for so many reasons.
The characters in general are well written, the audience laughed when it was funny, they teared up when it was emotional, and the cheered when the credits rolled.
Jar Jar simply put, IS funny, and whilst a couple of his scenes are perhaps unnecessary (something Lucas has admitted to himself), he never gets irritating or unlikeable nor does he "ruin the film".
Jake Lloyd is fantastic and so UN-deserving of the hate he received for this role. He brings such a warmth to the character it makes Anakin's eventual demise all the more heartbreaking. The scene where he leaves his mother on Tatooine is really gut wrenching!
The costume design is some of the best in the franchise. The sound design is an absolute masterclass from start to finish, in particular the pod race sequence, which is so well arranged its almost musical!
The Score as we know, is masterfully crafted by John Williams. It introduces so many iconic themes across the film and weaves them together so intelligently to make something fun and joyful and emotional and sinister and foreboding. It all culminates in a third act which is frankly flawless where the film manages to handle 4 different storylines simultaneously WITH EASE and in large part due to Williams' ability to take us from one thing to the next without it ever feeling jarring or out of place. In fact its so well put together the breaths between duel of the fates provided by the other sequences make the tension at the end even greater.
The whole thing is so underrated its baffling to me.
Lucas is certainly a genius.
Very well put!
I saw the prequel marathon on Sunday May the Fifth, 2024: seeing them all together in one day in the cinema is so spectacular!! The story beats pay off as each film grew darker and darker. Lucas was and is so much smarter than the entire Disney company! His lifetime achievement Palm d'Or at this month's Cannes Film Festival is so well deserved! G'day from Sydney, Australia (where Episode II and Episode III were made).
That's awesome! I didn't make it to any events this year. It's so great he got the lifetime achievement award, his contributions are undeniable.
Australia is high on our travel list. Maybe 2027 or '28.
I think this winter I need to pick a cold weekend and just do a trilogy a day in my Death Star room haha.
I always think it's funny to see the Jar Jar Rolling Stone cover with the headline "Columbine: Who's Fault Was It?"
That's pretty rough, haha. (Uncomfortable laughter)
I took my boys to see it this weekend and it was a blast!
As we came out I tried to explain to them that when it came out no one had seen anything like it when it came to the spectacle and world immersion.
I don’t think they understood.
I didn’t at that age either.
Haha. That's great. Growing up on a world with a believable looking Avengers it's probably hard to explain computer graphics being new not long ago
Great video! Thanks for taking us on a stroll down memory lane.
Thanks for the kind words and thanks for watching!
Many, many weeks breaking down The Phantom Menace on dvd at my gaming shop with WotC 3e d&D/Star Wars along with WEG games.
Qui Gon Jinn head butting Maul was Epic.
Bit of fun, I got a hold of the book before the movie reached local theaters, had about a month bar hopping my nearby college campus town going by the name Qui Gon and ordering Jin to drink. My grandparents had more than a few of Liam Neeson movies, everyone that got my joke were in awe that my street larp character was so close to Liam acting for the movie.
b.) Street larp, game series from Whitewolf/World of Darkness(WoD) Vampire, werewolf, mage, changeling, .. etc.
It wasn't just played in the park, at someone's house, or single local game shop. Its college town, 3miles of bars and dozens of gaming shops. Clan/tribe/chapter house pins identify larp players to each other along with more than a few dozen police officers were into the games. So there was a gaming/street community looking after everyone for safety with the risk of being shut down if any trouble got out of hand.
So yes after TPM, the local police were on the joke and help stage mock lightsaber fights in parking lots and in alleys behind the gaming shops and bars. Parts of the city the trains run like clockwork. So the police and a few others Stage a car search during a train passing like imperial finding spice smugglers in Star Wars alien masks.
Thats not just a toy lightsaber, that is anti-imperial propaganda device etc.
More than a few big guys with beards walking around in bath robes.
Haha that part of your story with the police setting up lightsaber fights and playing into the whole Galaxy is peak Phantom Menace craze.
I loved hearing your memories watching each Star Wars with your mom.
I'm of the generation that watched the original trilogy in theaters. I was one of the few prequel fans of my generation.
Thanks so much! It's great that every generation can find it in their own ways.
I watched it two times in the cinema last week.
High quality video!
Thanks!
2nd most underrated SW movie after Attack of the Clones.
My son,9 years old,and I are going to see the re-release tomorrow. It will be his first time seeing a Star Wars film at the cinema. Fitting as The Phantom Menace was also my first Star Wars at the cinema,in fact it was the first Star Wars film I ever saw. I was 17 years old and I fell in love with the film. I thought it was the greatest film I had ever seen. I loved Jar Jar Binks and I of course delevoped a major crush on Natalie Portman. At the time I saw it, I didn't even know an episode two was on the way. That's how little I knew back then lol.
I love the full circle stories people have been posting of taking their kids to see this re-release. Nine is a great age for Phantom Menace in theaters too!
Also, who didn't have a crush on Natalie Portman at that time? Haha
@@imperialremnantpodcast It's going to be fun. He loves the pod race. Episode One is his second favorite of the six Star Wars Episodes. Return Of The Jedi is his favorite one. He loves the Ewoks and the speeder bike chase. Also,who doesn't still have a crush on Natalie Portman. She's still extremely beautiful.
@@Mcfly85A The Pod Race and Duel of the Fates alone are worst the cost of admission so get blasted with sound on the biggest screen possible. ROTJ was my favorite as a kid too. Great point on Portman, haha.
@@imperialremnantpodcast My favorite is Revenge Of The Sith. My son likes that one as well but he says it's sad. I agree it is sad but it's an epic tradgey. I showed him them in chronological order. So,he started with Episode One. Lucas himself says that that's how the saga should be watched and I agree with him. So my son didn't know that Anakin would become Darth Vader. That floored him. He was shocked when that happened. Then in Empire he was basically standing on his head while Luke battled Vader... wondering if Vader would tell Luke the truth. Once he did,he looked at me and said "my god,he knows!" lol.
Grew up with original trilogy; saw each prequel movie at midnight on opening day
That's awesome. I don't do the theater much anymore but I do miss that excitement of a midnight release
Wow great video! Packed with facts, news snippets, fun tidbits-and all serving a concise narrative summary. Subscribed, I am.
Thanks so much! Glad you enjoyed it
I think my biggest issue with Episode 1 is that Lucas wrote the script himself. Including other voices would’ve helped craft the movie into a much better experience, minimize the amount of visual effects used, and amplify the character dialogue/arcs.
May the Fourth be with you, always!
Another pass on some of the dialogue wouldn't have hurt but I'm all for him having it his way
As much as I love Spielberg I can't forgive him for saying no to Lucas when asked for his help with the prequels! I'd love to see the results in a parallel universe where Spielberg was happy to be a part of it as well as more of the team from the ot
@@claykeough7898 that would've been pretty awesome. It'd be cool if he did a current one.
@@claykeough7898 Spielberg, " Well George you always had a passion for Foreign Films. The ball is in your court, make it Foreign and relatable. Good, bad, or indifferent what you will make will be talked about for decades."
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Great vid...I hate Jar Jar but other than that it was Ok.I do like 2 and 3 better though...
@@runeandersen7022 2 and 3 had significantly less jar jar haha. I don't love the character but he's not for adults and the actor didn't deserve the hate.
Thanks for watching !
I honestly prefer the PM to revenge of the sith.
Very different tonally. If I had to choose I think I'd go Revenge but I could never say anything negative about Duel of the Fates haha.
Thanks for watching!
TODAY AT 3:00 PM, MY DAD AND I WILL GO SEE STAR WARS THE PHANTOM MENACE IN THEATERS FOR ITS 25th ANNIVERSARY!!!!!!! Definitely the weakest of the trilogy, but very excited to see this on the big screen!!!!! I was born in 1998, which I would have been several months old, so I obviously don’t remember seeing this but now I won’t be saying that anymore!!!! THE POD RACE AND DUEL OF THE FATES WILL BE THE STANDOUT for this theater experience!!!!! So excited!!!!! MAY THE 4th BE WITH YOU!!!!!
Awesome! Glad to hear you're getting the theatrical experience on it. Supposed to be a sneak peek at the Acolyte as well
@@imperialremnantpodcast I heard, and Star Wars just dropped the new Trailer for The Acolyte!!!!!! Which I’m definitely intrigued!!!
@@Oakjet1998 thanks for the heads up. I was off the Internet the whole last week so gotta play catch up on all my Star Wars haha
@@imperialremnantpodcast lol 😂 your welcome
i loved it as a child for the racing, but i'm not a fan of the franchise (i don't dislike either)
Fair enough. Thanks for watching
No, no he didn't plan everything out from the start, and he certainly didn't plan Star Wars ANH to be a middle chapter from the beginning. Even the film we got was totally different from early drafts of the movie. He only decided to make it a middle chapter when he was writing ESB, and even then none of the PT was planned out.
And again, no, Lucas didn't write ANH on his own. Most of the dialogue was ghost written by Gloria Katz and Willard Huyck.
Stephen Spielbergs wife had to fix the scripts cuz the dialogue was terrible
@@lakernation26 What, of Phantom Menace? Really? It must've been abysmal if what we eventually got, a script that was helped by a ghost writer, was still that bad!
The worst thing since my son.
It was bad, and it is still bad.....
SW movies (post Empire) are like Metallica albums. They keep getting so much more progressively bad that they make you appreciate the previous one more : D
A New Hope isn't even that good tbh.
Andy Serkis > Ahmed Best.
I agree with that. Serkis is incredible. Best still didn't deserve that horrible treatment though.
All these years later and it’s still dogshit.
Nah that’s fake news
It never ceases to amaze how nostalgia clouds peoples minds. I was 14 when this piece of crap was released and hated it back then because it was objectively horrible, and it blows my mind how people just eat it all up because light sabers.
Everyone's entitled to their opinion. I appreciate you giving my video a shot.
@@imperialremnantpodcast showed up on my recommended for no reason so I’m also entitled to remind you how wrong your opinion about this horrible movie is.
@@squiremuldoon5462 Shut up
@@squiremuldoon5462 His opinion isn't "wrong", you just have a big ego.
@@crapversereturn5800 not really, it’s just concerning to see people like such a dumb movie, it’s people like that the reason Hollywood keeps pumping out turds because they know how brain dead you all are. Have a nice day.
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Thank you so much! Means a lot.