Maso’s long speech praising the technical and artistic achievements of episode 1 and then abruptly saying he hates it is one of my favourite moments on this channel
It’s a moment where I started laughing by myself out loud for a couple minutes. I laughed so much that I had to rewind the video a bit to catch what was said after that.
It’s an excellent bit, using a sincere and fair judgement right before absolutely dismissing it in one line which… tbh is equally valid and relatable. It’s actually encapsulating James and Maso’s whole approach to this channel imo, Dan Murrell and Lon Harris from Honest Trailers used to praise Mr Sunday Movies before I’d listened to Weekly Planet or became a fan of caravan of garbage and I know why. It’s the harsh and funny, but nonetheless fair and measured humour which they also prided themselves on being at Honest Trailers.
Mason’s opening statement about TPM is up there as one of the best moments in this duos history for me and as he so often does James assists by completely breaking down laughing
Apparently James was really worried about the backlash he was going to get from Star Wars fans when he released the Star Wars caravan of garbage videos that it brought him down. So much so that he ended up playing games to relax. The main one was farming simulator due to its soothing nature. That led to the working title for these videos to be called blue harvest.
For YEARS, I thought the super speed dash move was actually a flaw on our VHS tape. That was reinforced by the fact it’s never shown again. It wasn’t until I saw this movie on television as a teenager that I realized it was an intentional effect. Hence to say, I’ve always felt it’s one of the worst looking bits of the movie 😂
I always wondered why the scene was edited that way and even after playing a slew of star wars games where force speed is an ability it never registered that that's what they did in episode 1
Fun fact: The midnight release of the Episode 1 toys at Toys'r'Us led to a massive spoiler that I saw first hand, as an 11-year-old. I watched a group of grown men have an absolute shitfit because they realized the Darth Maul figure had "BREAK APART BATTLE DAMAGE" on the front. They outright spoiled Maul getting cut in half on the toy packaging. I've never seen so many grown men melt down so fast.
"Who would you bring back to life if you could?" *Mason's long pause as I assume he's thinking affectionately about a lost loved one he dearly misses* "Dinosaurs."
3:08 I'm more concerned about the person who saw the Phantom Menace and immediately thought "Wow, you know what this reminds me of? The Columbine Massacre." What a bizarre article.
I’ve read about that on a couple of different analyses of the film. Basically, the theory is that the character of Anakin- brooding, emo, alienated- is designed to appeal to teen boys, and the type that would engineer a tragedy would potentially identify with the character in a a more profound way. Then, they usually mention the killing of the younglings. Not saying it’s a correct theory or that I agree; just saying I’ve read the idea from more than one source.
@@KahlessTheUnforgettable I've had treatment for BPS and the Tragedy of Anakin Skywalker is sincerely used as an example of BPS.. which at the time didn't help me tbh. I was like: aight, so redemption is still on the table, no matter how despicable my behaviour..
It was so annoying how they had to treat that as a plot hole, and made it all secretly an intentional design flaw by the guy who built it who was actually a rebel. It was supposed to be a difficult target to hit that nobody would even think to go after. Luke has to use the force to even hit it.
I love how Yoda (1) keeps putting Force lightning in his pocket (2) never has to reach for his light saber - having it jump into his hand (3) does all of his awesome lightsaber stuff (in both movies) with zero witnesses
@@bibblyboing I remember everyone loved The Force Awakens and all had their own pet theories about Rey Kenobi and Snoke Windu and all that. oh, and was Han force Sensitive,? So maybe he could have survived a lightsaber to the heart and a mile deep fall into the bowels of an exploding planet, but Rian [soccer-ball shaped head] Johnson did a massive FYou to everybody's favourite theories which is why the movie was so hated. Not because it was a crap movie at all !
RE: yellow lightsabers The original Luke Skywalker action figures from Kenner for ANH and TESB came with yellow lightsabers. Pissed me off to no end when I was a kid. 😄
Portman not being in the third one a lot because she made Keira Knightley cry would be kind of weird because isn't Knightley primarily in the first one? So they would have been like, "Yeah, you were mean to some of the other actresses in the first movie, so we're going to reduce your role in the third one, even though you're going to be in the second a whole lot." Doesn't really make sense, sounds like BS.
I said it when you first posted these and I'll say it again: the second half of Attack of the Clones should have been episode 1, the first part of Revenge should have been episode 2, the second half should have been episode 3, and the relevant 5 minutes from Phantom Menace should have been a flashback
I’ve seen many “reshuffle” posts but I think yours is the best one I’ve seen. Just need to say that “I hate sand” needs to be there but the latter love story scenes like “I wish that I could just wish away…” would need to be cut for me to be 100% on board!
No. Episode I is important in establishing the characters, showing the state of the galaxy before war breaks out, establishing various themes relevant to the rest of the trilogy, showing the start of Palpatine's rise to power, and plenty more. And besides, no other Star Wars movie has flashbacks, so having them randomly in one installment would feel out of place with how the rest of the story is told. (And don't bring up TLJ's flashbacks. Disney's garbage sequels don't count. George Lucas had nothing to do with them and they deliberately undermine his plotlines and character arcs. I'm just talking about the real movies.)
Phantom Menace is weird cause all of the new aliens in it feel like they're racist caricatures of races that don't exist (or in the case of Newt Gunray, actual Asians)
1:51:50 Thank you! Him awkwardly yelling NOOOOO.. Just made it funny. If he would have just had a pure raw scream while fu*king things up around him with the force.. it would have been sooooo much more effective! Showing his raw anger and pain, instead of a CinemaSins.. .. No. (Ding!)
The reason why there’s a new villain in each movie is because each prequel villain is supposed to be a piece of Vader. Maul is supposed represent the hate and rage vader has, dooku is supposed to represent the fallen jedi and greivous is supposed to be the cyborg jedi hunter.
My gosh, if they really had just gone with Obi-Wan doing all the risky adventuring and finding Annakin and winning his freedom...not only would that correspond to the Obi-Wan we know from the original trilogy, but also it would make all the later confrontations he has with Annakin more meaningful, more emotionally resonant. It seems insane that they had this in the script and then they changed it--just to add a character who stands between Obi-Wan and Annakin (metaphorically), played by an admittedly good actor, for whom the role was clearly mostly just a paycheck. The whole prequel trilogy wouldn't been much less terrible as a result of that one, significant change.
There's so many things wrong with the Tatooine part of the movie I think it completely destroyed the foundation of what was established in the OT. Which is hilarious since all it would take is just a few tweaks to the story to make them both work together. First off, obviously have Obi-Wan with Qui-Gon when they meet Anakin. Secondly make Anakin 15-18 years old, then establish Owen and Beru (yeah remember them? Because the Phantom Menace didn't) as Anakin's best friends who are also around the same age, instead of having that bizarre group of little kids who are all obviously children of the producers. Show Shmi also getting along well with Owen and Beru too, maybe Owen comes by to help her out with chores and stuff when Anakin is working. Like, instead of that random kid who helps Anakin with his podracer, have that be Owen. Maybe Beru originally had a crush on Anakin or vice versa, but he left before they really got together. And when Anakin leaves Tatooine, we can get a bittersweet farewell scene with them, with Owen promising Anakin that he and Beru will look out for his mother, which would also segway nicely into her living on their farm by Attack of the Clones. Lastly, but most importantly, don't have Qui-Gon directly take on Anakin as an apprentice. Qui-Gon believes Obi-Wan is ready to become a Jedi Knight, right? So instead of just awkwardly trying to get rid of him so he's allowed to teach Anakin, have Qui-Gon foster the relationship between these two so that Obi-Wan can teach Anakin. It can even mirror how Obi-Wan made Ahsoka Anakin's apprentice since he thought he was finally ready to teach. In this version, that can make a lot more sense because Qui-Gon already did the same thing with Obi-Wan and Anakin.
Keep in mind though, they had a ton of money and knew the power of a loaded cast, so they got bigger stars this time, too many. That's why the best trilogies are pre planned, and don't prioritize that too much. Hunger Games straddled the line and gave us a reason to lile who was featured even more. Obi really coulda ate 🤷🏾♂️😭
@@Dorian_sapiens yet I thought Qui Gon to be the coolest of all the Jedi. Liam Neeson brings the same gravitas to that role as did Sir Alec Guiness, playing Obi-Wan in 1977. and sadly both get killed off too soon.
@@ZanderFoulner I liked him as a character, too. But I agree with these other comments, that the way he functioned in the story was to stand in between Obi Wan and Anakin, and it would have been better if he hadn't.
I've seen these videos numerous times, but every time they pop up in a new form or a reccomendation I always sit through them all and thoroughly enjoy it.
My dad took me to see phantom menace for my tenth birthday at the Winchester century theaters. That was the last time I watched a movie with him. Damn near 25 years ago
My dad took me to see episode II on my 11th birthday, it was awesome, one of my best memories with him. Havent seen him in 10 years, not dead, just an asshole.
I think the prequels should have been focused on Anakin and Obi-wan's relationship. Movie 1: master and apprentice; Anakins training and adventures. Movie 2: brothers in arms ; war breaks out and the jedi choose not to fight. Obi-wan rebels and joins the war and Anakin follows. They become highly regarded soldiers due to their abilities. Movie 3: adversaries; the horrors of war have messed up Anakin, turning him to the dark side and he returns to take revenge on the jedi for not participating. Obi-wan tries to stop him.
I will never forget the massive cheer that went up in the theater when Yoda first attacked Dooku with his lightsaber. I was 13, and I can't deny, even I was kinda pumped at the time.
In the Jedi ways, the root of all suffering is clinging to the permanence of impermanent things. So I know that expecting these two Australian men to keep making commentaries on movies for me forever is setting myself up to be "totes devo", but Jedi god be damned if the content put out here and on the weekly planet isn't a shining gem in my relationship with movies. I feel like I'm genuinely thrusting the seeds for futute dispair into the ground with every laugh and grin I get from this channel because when you boys stop making videos one day, I will have lost two incredible voices in how I have come to know how to love and appreciate movies. I have no idea when those seeds of sadness will sprout, or when they will reach maturity and be ready for reaping. But when that time comes, it will truly be a Blue Harvest. Which is also the original working title for Star Wars
The ‘just get the bus’ from Tatooine is even worse now because Obi Wan literally gets the space bus from Tatooine in that crappy series. You don’t even need to send everyone on the bus, send freaking Captain Tanaka on the bus to Coruscant and have him fly back in a working ship. He’d be there and back in no time. The plot just implies Qui Gon is having fun, pissing around, and is indulging a gambling fetish.
@@arthurg.calixto3338Well, that should pretty much be everyone. They’re objectively bad films. I can see enjoying them, but I really can’t see enjoying them enough to want to stand up for them in the comments. That’s like trying to stand up for Anakin being a good person, after murdering hundreds of 5 year old children. That’s objectively bad behavior, regardless of anything else that happened to him, just like the PTs are objectively bad films, regardless of anything else that attempts to explain it away.
@goldenageofdinosaurs7192 hundreds??? There was 20 kids slain at most... also that's not OBJECTIVELY bad... what if you go back in history, would you kill 5 year old Hitler if you could? Would it be bad?
Well if anything, i was there for the premier and hype of Star Wars Episode I back in 1999. Ppl did in fact reserve hotels rooms and tent outside the theaters. It was like nothing anyone had ever seen before. PPl went absolutely nuts for Star Wars again. I was in the military, doing "our" mandatory service at that time, and i remember one of my service mates in the barracks, had especially saved his leave passes just to go to the premier on Episode I. I saw it two weeks later with my then GF at our local theater, and i never saw that much ppl in that theater before or since. I mean the hype and expectation was beyond incredible. But heh... As we all know.. Ppl went in with great expectations and came out with.... "wtf was that"... Rest is history. Peace.
After all these years, I still don't love the prequels, but I've come to terms with the fact that they weren't made for me. I grew up with the Originals, and I'm happy to have them.
Three things -1. Yes, Star Wars has always been political. 2. The politics have always been idiotic, muddled and overly simplistic. 3. Why in the hell do Jedi all dress like moisture farmers from Tatooine?
The Jedi outfit thing is because George wanted Obi-Wan to wear his iconic outfit from the OT, but never stopped to realize he wore those clothes because it was a desert. But again, it was his iconic costume so fuck it, he wears that in his 20s now. So does every Jedi I guess. Unless you're a woman, you're apparently allowed to wear unique clothes like every Jedi should. But if you're a dude you get the wrinkly beige and brown robes that make you look like a desert hobo.
Obi wan was also hiding out on tatooine trying not to be caught and murdered by the empire, so it made sense for him to constantly wear his jedi uniform and name tag.
You people wanted Jedi to dress up like spec ops soldiers with tactical goggles and space latex suits or something? Also, you people are forgetting that Yoda, the old Anakin, and Ben all wore capes as force ghosts, it was always the implied uniform of the Jedi.
I was 1000% not ready for James describing the Jedi Council as "an awful pack of nerds" 🤣 Also I just realized now that "Duel of the Fates" relates to Anakin's fate, not those of the Jedi's vs the Sith's and I feel like an idiot
It's all complete nonsense, James is just projecting his own insecurities with authority onto fictional monks and the whole Duel of the Fates was BS made up my Filoni that falls apart under examination
I never really thought about Mace Windu just bringing the three guys with him at the time to assassinate Palpatine. As a kid, to me they were all jedi council members I knew from the action figures and comics, so of course they were the best choices, right? But I think it speaks to the hubris of the Jedi that James mentions in Episode 1. Of course they just send Qui-Gon, a 50 year old man who’s not on the council, to fight Darth Maul. “It’s just a Sith Lord, one of our middle management and his padawan should handle him easily. Oh wait, he died? Alright, I guess for the next Sith Lord, we’ll bring four guys. Who? I don’t care, any four - come on guys, it’s only a Sith Lord!”
As a kid I thought that the prequels happened in the future of the OT and Anakin was Luke`s son, or Luke was recast or Luke time traveled back and became Darth Vader or something like that. George`s story telling gave me 0 chance to comprehend what was going on in those movies, I had to have it explained to me by some older kids to understand. That all being said, if you squint and tilt your head the over all plot here was genius and many designs and characters in these movies were incredibly iconic, plus it was one of the best times overall for Star Wars.
The revisionism for the prequels has been astounding. I rewatched Phantom Menace a while ago, and I still have the same opinion I did in 1999. It's utter garbage.
i've seen it speculated that fans of the prequels are generally too young to remember the movies coming out, if they'd even been born. they more closely identify with clone wars because it's actually good. no idea why they have some stake in these boring ugly movies, though.
@@guymann1660 Wrong, i have vidi memories and loved the movies more than TCW as a kid. Still do, you wouldve had a point if you mentioned Genndy's show but you didnt
The whole Anakin conception thing is MUCH more interesting in the old EU where Darth Plagueis was the one behind it, rather than Palpatine. And it wasn't something intentional, it was a byproduct of him trying to force his will onto Medichlorians and something deep within the Force, some spiritual quasi consciousness pushed back against his manipulations and created Anakin to be its Avatar. Plagueis even worried if his manipulations had created a series of events which would destroy the Sith. It's not a coincidence that Anakin kind of can be viewed both as the Jedi's chosen one, but also is a decent candidate for the Sith prophesied child, the Sithari.
Everytime i let youtube autoplay it takes me to this video. Not any caravan of garbage video but this one specifically. Ive probably seen 3 times the whole way through at this point. RUclips, please release me from this prison!
I can love a movie that has a great story and poor special effects, but I absolutely can't tolerate a movie that has a crap story and awesome special effects, and that's why I hate the prequel trilogy.
The critical reception of TPM was super strange. I remember when Rottentomatoes used to have a critics score and another one for the "elite" cream of the crop critics like Ebert or AO Scott. The overall score wasn't so bad (hovering around 60%) but the cream of the crop was like around 30%.
The entirety of The Phantom Menace is just one long prologue with virtually no impact on the rest of the saga is the problem. It leaves the next two movies on fast forward to get to Darth Vader.
@@samuelbarber6177Honestly, if they didn't waste an entire movie on the Phantom Menace, they could've made Revenge of the Sith the second act of a trilogy. With a sequel that shows the immediate beginning of the Empire, Obi-Wan and Yoda forming a rebellion that inevitably gets wiped out, leading to them abandoning the fight until Luke and Leia are old enough. Show a more gradual change as Vader becomes the one we see in the originals, as opposed to getting dipped in lava once and wearing the same exact suit for 20 years. There's a lot more they could've done before wrapping everything up at the last 10 minutes.
The BPD shit at the end is actually the most believable stuff from Anakins abuse and trauma. The megolomania, refusal to accept facts, and just violence and hostility to loved ones. Was actually on point.
Can you guys do big trouble in little china? No real reason I want you to do it, other than it's a fun movie and I think y'all would have some great commentary for it. Cheers love everything you guys do!
I cannot overstate how abruptly, even for a kid in middle school (as I was at the time), Anakin being a kid made him feel so misplaced and it continues for the trilogy. He always felt way too young and absolutely too immature through out the whole trilogy. Even the turn feels like a kid making a decision based on a single dream rather then a grizzled war veteran who has lost so much, has some PTSD and is afraid to lose what he finally was gaining. Sorry Clone Wars fans, that show does not fix the issue, it exacerbates it instead. The characters and then their complete disappearance for no reason, the change in attitude and then change back then change again or basically whatever Filoni needed to keep his changes afloat. Congrats though, you got sold that genocide occurs because of a chip and not simply words, what an immature change of something meaningful.
Darth Vader means dark father in German or something. In all the books, a Sith would choose their own evil sounding name. Palpy choosing the name just didn't seem ok. What if he says, "your name is now Darth Whineybitch". Does Anakin then say ok or does he ask to speak to the manager?
I think when Yoda says "the dark side clouds [the future], he in fact /was/ using intuition, implying the dark side's shadowy actions are hard to predict, making it hard to know what the future holds. That's how I interpret it, at least. Not like the "I've got a bad feeling" "I don't sense anything" line where a certain someone is definitely ignoring his own eyes.
The amount of pointless work nerds put into trying to retroactively make all of Lucas’ first draft scripts appear coherent is depressing. That amount of brainpower and effort could have done something useful, instead of coming up with a recipe for Jawa Juice. This IP really should have ended in ‘83…
As a grumpy old man pushing 50 I absolutely hated the Prequels for years. I tried to convince myself they were good when they were 1st released, but I just couldn't do it for very long. But I'm one of those people who have "come around" to the Prequels. I actually prefer to watch them over the Original Trilogy these days because I have seen the OT 100 million billion kajillion times. Fantastic movies. Love all three of them. A New Hope might be my favorite movie ever made, as it impacted me as a child probably more than any other movie. Empire Strikes Back is 100% the most well-made film of the three. And Jedi - yeah, it was a little disappointing that it was aimed at a younger audience - especially after how dark Empire was - and Han Solo's character was noticeably forced into the film due to Ford not wanting to be in the movie until the 11th hour, but Jedi is still a fun and satisfying final act. It returns to the more fun serial feel from A New Hope. But I know those three movies forward, backward, sideways, upside your head-ways - as much as I hate a lot of the decisions Lucas made in the Prequels, I've actually come to rather enjoy them for what they are instead of hating them for what they're not.
Nothing makes me more nostalgic for the early-2000s than listening to some guys on the internet bashing the Prequels. :) Now that we are approaching the 20 year anniversary of Episode 3, I would rate the Prequel trilogy like this: Storytelling: 4/10 Technical innovations: 9/10 Being 2-Hour Toy Commercials That Made Me Want To Spend Money I Didn’t Have On Action Figures: 11/10
Me randomly once every other month at midnight, thinking it's way too late to start watching a movie, only to proceed to watch this and the transformers compilation back to back
I'll always remember. So we went to see revenge of the sith, and when Anakin gets his new name. The theater was dead quite. Darth... And some child blirts out Vader right before it was said. And the theater just booed that kid. My gf at the time yelled you, "you fu*king serious!" And I just sat there like yeah she's with me. Lol
As a long time viewer...I was blown away by the fact that the working title for the original starwars film was the same as so many of the other films covered by these guys. This is the entertainment journalistic integrity you just don't see anymore.
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Maso’s long speech praising the technical and artistic achievements of episode 1 and then abruptly saying he hates it is one of my favourite moments on this channel
He's so right about everything too
It's genuinely my favorite. It's that and corn of coblin
It’s a moment where I started laughing by myself out loud for a couple minutes. I laughed so much that I had to rewind the video a bit to catch what was said after that.
It’s an excellent bit, using a sincere and fair judgement right before absolutely dismissing it in one line which… tbh is equally valid and relatable.
It’s actually encapsulating James and Maso’s whole approach to this channel imo, Dan Murrell and Lon Harris from Honest Trailers used to praise Mr Sunday Movies before I’d listened to Weekly Planet or became a fan of caravan of garbage and I know why. It’s the harsh and funny, but nonetheless fair and measured humour which they also prided themselves on being at Honest Trailers.
It's like Poetry. It Rhymes.
The fact that I've seen the three videos individually won't stop me from watching this whole ass movie
Same
I come back to these compilations often when I just need background noise and don't want to pick. The transformers one I've seen a ton
Absolutely, the very same on my end lmao
@@DarkachuWasTaken I play them when I need to lighten up on a crappy day. Lol These guys are a blast!
That’s why we’re here
Mason’s opening statement about TPM is up there as one of the best moments in this duos history for me and as he so often does James assists by completely breaking down laughing
You guys wouldn’t believe what the running title for Star Wars was back in the day.
What is it? I must know
Green Trivia?
RODNEY!
RODNEY!
The Dark Universe staring Tom Cruise?
Apparently James was really worried about the backlash he was going to get from Star Wars fans when he released the Star Wars caravan of garbage videos that it brought him down. So much so that he ended up playing games to relax. The main one was farming simulator due to its soothing nature. That led to the working title for these videos to be called blue harvest.
That's triviarific
I knew it was coming but I still did a goofy little smile and breathed extra good thru me nose
@@nailinthefashionyou knew it was coming even with the awful set-up?
I have a bad feeling about this.
@@cable7152 farming simulator is just such a charming phrase, sue me
Maso’s mini speech that he gives in the Phantom Menace video is still one of my favorite things they’ve ever done
“Nah you only get one of them [force dash] in your life” remains one of the funniest things I have heard said about Phantom Menace.
Have we ever seen Obi Wan do another one? Or any one person do more than 1 in the movies? He might be bloody right
It kills me because somehow Qui Gon never used it before himself
@@DarkachuWasTaken Like did a big force jump once and never really did it again. Maybe that was his one and only use of that.
For YEARS, I thought the super speed dash move was actually a flaw on our VHS tape. That was reinforced by the fact it’s never shown again. It wasn’t until I saw this movie on television as a teenager that I realized it was an intentional effect. Hence to say, I’ve always felt it’s one of the worst looking bits of the movie 😂
I'm assuming it was meant to cover up something that looked silly
@@TheSleepiestPlurals"this looks silly. Let's make it look goofy instead."
I always wondered why the scene was edited that way and even after playing a slew of star wars games where force speed is an ability it never registered that that's what they did in episode 1
When the original Kenobi v Vader duel went down on the Death star I thought the flickering light saber was Obi Won's force batteries failing. 😅
They actually forgot to add it in Nevada hook, and Paul yanking them out of the way
Mundi: Your thoughts dwell on your mother
Anakin: My thoughts dwell on your mother
Mace: He IS the chosen one
Obi-wan watching Anakin kill children on a big screen: Jesus Christ, that's Anakin Skywalker
Fun fact: The midnight release of the Episode 1 toys at Toys'r'Us led to a massive spoiler that I saw first hand, as an 11-year-old. I watched a group of grown men have an absolute shitfit because they realized the Darth Maul figure had "BREAK APART BATTLE DAMAGE" on the front. They outright spoiled Maul getting cut in half on the toy packaging. I've never seen so many grown men melt down so fast.
Oops.
I really thought that storyt was going to end with "Blue Harvest"
"I've never seen so many grown men melt down so fast" perfectly describes the modern Star Wars fanbase
The dream, watching men crumble.
Damn, so tie in merch was spoiling stuff way back before I could notice
"Who would you bring back to life if you could?"
*Mason's long pause as I assume he's thinking affectionately about a lost loved one he dearly misses*
"Dinosaurs."
3:08 I'm more concerned about the person who saw the Phantom Menace and immediately thought "Wow, you know what this reminds me of? The Columbine Massacre." What a bizarre article.
I’ve read about that on a couple of different analyses of the film. Basically, the theory is that the character of Anakin- brooding, emo, alienated- is designed to appeal to teen boys, and the type that would engineer a tragedy would potentially identify with the character in a a more profound way. Then, they usually mention the killing of the younglings. Not saying it’s a correct theory or that I agree; just saying I’ve read the idea from more than one source.
@@KahlessTheUnforgettable I've had treatment for BPS and the Tragedy of Anakin Skywalker is sincerely used as an example of BPS.. which at the time didn't help me tbh. I was like: aight, so redemption is still on the table, no matter how despicable my behaviour..
maybe they were the chosen ones ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@@notyourdamnbusiness8795tortured souls, just like Anakin.
anakin walked into palpatines office right as he was reviewing exhaust ports on the death star, thats how that was overlooked.
Luke : « Votre excès de confiance est votre faiblesse. »
It was so annoying how they had to treat that as a plot hole, and made it all secretly an intentional design flaw by the guy who built it who was actually a rebel. It was supposed to be a difficult target to hit that nobody would even think to go after. Luke has to use the force to even hit it.
@@KarazolaXall things considered Luke Skywalker is basicly just some guy who did nothing special :D but i dont consider disney stuff canon
Unbelievable no one calls Christopher Lee’s character Count Dookula.
You just did..! ;)
I love how Yoda
(1) keeps putting Force lightning in his pocket
(2) never has to reach for his light saber - having it jump into his hand
(3) does all of his awesome lightsaber stuff (in both movies) with zero witnesses
42:51 remember when we had fan theories Snoke was actually the librarian granny? good times
turns out he was a palpatine homunculus and died in the next movie lol
@@bibblyboing I remember everyone loved The Force Awakens and all had their own pet theories about Rey Kenobi and Snoke Windu and all that.
oh, and was Han force Sensitive,? So maybe he could have survived a lightsaber to the heart and a mile deep fall into the bowels of an exploding planet, but Rian [soccer-ball shaped head] Johnson did a massive FYou to everybody's favourite theories which is why the movie was so hated. Not because it was a crap movie at all !
I am once again on my knees, begging. For the fifth element caravan or garbage!!
I’ve only recently found caravan of garbage so have been binge watching lots of their content and even I’m noticing you there in the comments 😂
i mean we need a zorro before that ever happens
@@ZrankFappaHhe may be irrational but he is very consistent
i second this
Absolutely yes!
first 10 minutes of this is one of the all time great pieces of film criticism, especially mason’s monologue.
lol get a life mate these are just a bunch of pretentious man babies. They’re literally nothing and mean nothing.
"all time"
@@oldoddjobs all time.
This video is garbage what do you mean?
@@mrdrums007 lol it’s such trash by a bunch of pretentious tools
RE: yellow lightsabers
The original Luke Skywalker action figures from Kenner for ANH and TESB came with yellow lightsabers. Pissed me off to no end when I was a kid. 😄
Lucas saying "I designed these to work silently" is the most transparent, bullshit spin of "I can't write dialogue" in the history of cinema.
It's like Poetry.
especially considering the music and sound design are the best parts of these movies
😂
Him wanting it to “work silently” came to life with LEGO Star Wars the complete saga
In his defense, he's admitted that he is one of the worst people at writing dialogue lol
Portman not being in the third one a lot because she made Keira Knightley cry would be kind of weird because isn't Knightley primarily in the first one? So they would have been like, "Yeah, you were mean to some of the other actresses in the first movie, so we're going to reduce your role in the third one, even though you're going to be in the second a whole lot."
Doesn't really make sense, sounds like BS.
I said it when you first posted these and I'll say it again: the second half of Attack of the Clones should have been episode 1, the first part of Revenge should have been episode 2, the second half should have been episode 3, and the relevant 5 minutes from Phantom Menace should have been a flashback
I’ve seen many “reshuffle” posts but I think yours is the best one I’ve seen. Just need to say that “I hate sand” needs to be there but the latter love story scenes like “I wish that I could just wish away…” would need to be cut for me to be 100% on board!
Then go edit the movies yourself and make a fan edit of what you think it should be mook
@@mrdrums007It's not his job to make the prequels good. That was Lucas'. And he failed miserably.
No.
Episode I is important in establishing the characters, showing the state of the galaxy before war breaks out, establishing various themes relevant to the rest of the trilogy, showing the start of Palpatine's rise to power, and plenty more. And besides, no other Star Wars movie has flashbacks, so having them randomly in one installment would feel out of place with how the rest of the story is told.
(And don't bring up TLJ's flashbacks. Disney's garbage sequels don't count. George Lucas had nothing to do with them and they deliberately undermine his plotlines and character arcs. I'm just talking about the real movies.)
@@alfredvickers4054 Imagine going through your life thinking the phantom menace has "themes" lmao
I think that Obi Wan and Jango should have calmed down and shared a death stick while hugging it out. 😂
Phantom Menace is weird cause all of the new aliens in it feel like they're racist caricatures of races that don't exist (or in the case of Newt Gunray, actual Asians)
I think you'll find that they are all racist caricatures of races that do exist.
Absolutely. And the Gung Guns with that pidgin Caribbean accent.
Let’s not mention Waldo, greedy and with a big noise
Extra fun little fact: The person cast as Tarkin in Revenge was Wayne Pygram, Scorpius from Farscape. I loved that.
but Guy Henry who they used in Rogue One is so like Tarkin it is spooky
1:59:24 never caught this before but I'm pretty sure Mason was making a Star Trek joke and laughing that it flew right over James' head.
Anyone who thinks "I have the high ground" isn't a real strategic advantage hasn't seen videos of people fighting in Stadium seating.
It's an one of the most well known strategic advantages
Still Doesn’t make the movie good though
Shaking Jango fetts helmet
That's freaking gold
"dad, you in there?"
You'd think the Blue Harvest bit would be old by now but I still die laughing every time. Also Rodney!
I always assumed yoda/emperor didnt use lightsabres was because they had no need with their sheer control/strength with the force.
48:27 I *love* that someone took the time to animate this lmao
I’ve rewatched these videos multiple times and Im still going to watch this compilation because you guys rock
1:51:50 Thank you! Him awkwardly yelling NOOOOO.. Just made it funny. If he would have just had a pure raw scream while fu*king things up around him with the force.. it would have been sooooo much more effective! Showing his raw anger and pain, instead of a CinemaSins.. .. No. (Ding!)
@@null6634This!🤣
yeah, that "nooo" was child level writing, almost if it was a parody
The reason why there’s a new villain in each movie is because each prequel villain is supposed to be a piece of Vader. Maul is supposed represent the hate and rage vader has, dooku is supposed to represent the fallen jedi and greivous is supposed to be the cyborg jedi hunter.
That's really interesting, I never considered that
Huh actually makes a ton of sense, I wonder if I rewatch the Clone Wars prequels or series they play into that.
Except Maul is barely a character in The Phantom Menace, and the hate and rage he's known for comes after he's cut in half by Obi-Wan.
So Vader is the complete of all three? Nice!
Also because of the toys probably
james' whiny anakin voice at 1:02:31 is so good i really feel like i'm there on the ship
Obi-Wan: "no! Absolutely not, I'm not putting up with this shit any more" (aka- the entire plot of the clone wars)
I saw this thumbnail and uttered, “oh no…. They made it to the prequel trilogy” 😂🖤
When Vader did the comedic “nooooo” I fell out of my theater chair and rolled all the way down the walkway to the front row in a fit of laughter.
My gosh, if they really had just gone with Obi-Wan doing all the risky adventuring and finding Annakin and winning his freedom...not only would that correspond to the Obi-Wan we know from the original trilogy, but also it would make all the later confrontations he has with Annakin more meaningful, more emotionally resonant. It seems insane that they had this in the script and then they changed it--just to add a character who stands between Obi-Wan and Annakin (metaphorically), played by an admittedly good actor, for whom the role was clearly mostly just a paycheck. The whole prequel trilogy wouldn't been much less terrible as a result of that one, significant change.
There's so many things wrong with the Tatooine part of the movie I think it completely destroyed the foundation of what was established in the OT. Which is hilarious since all it would take is just a few tweaks to the story to make them both work together.
First off, obviously have Obi-Wan with Qui-Gon when they meet Anakin. Secondly make Anakin 15-18 years old, then establish Owen and Beru (yeah remember them? Because the Phantom Menace didn't) as Anakin's best friends who are also around the same age, instead of having that bizarre group of little kids who are all obviously children of the producers.
Show Shmi also getting along well with Owen and Beru too, maybe Owen comes by to help her out with chores and stuff when Anakin is working. Like, instead of that random kid who helps Anakin with his podracer, have that be Owen. Maybe Beru originally had a crush on Anakin or vice versa, but he left before they really got together. And when Anakin leaves Tatooine, we can get a bittersweet farewell scene with them, with Owen promising Anakin that he and Beru will look out for his mother, which would also segway nicely into her living on their farm by Attack of the Clones.
Lastly, but most importantly, don't have Qui-Gon directly take on Anakin as an apprentice. Qui-Gon believes Obi-Wan is ready to become a Jedi Knight, right? So instead of just awkwardly trying to get rid of him so he's allowed to teach Anakin, have Qui-Gon foster the relationship between these two so that Obi-Wan can teach Anakin. It can even mirror how Obi-Wan made Ahsoka Anakin's apprentice since he thought he was finally ready to teach. In this version, that can make a lot more sense because Qui-Gon already did the same thing with Obi-Wan and Anakin.
Keep in mind though, they had a ton of money and knew the power of a loaded cast, so they got bigger stars this time, too many.
That's why the best trilogies are pre planned, and don't prioritize that too much. Hunger Games straddled the line and gave us a reason to lile who was featured even more.
Obi really coulda ate 🤷🏾♂️😭
@@nagger8216 These are great suggestions. Now I'm even more angry at the prequels, so thanks, I guess.
@@Dorian_sapiens yet I thought Qui Gon to be the coolest of all the Jedi. Liam Neeson brings the same gravitas to that role as did Sir Alec Guiness, playing Obi-Wan in 1977.
and sadly both get killed off too soon.
@@ZanderFoulner I liked him as a character, too. But I agree with these other comments, that the way he functioned in the story was to stand in between Obi Wan and Anakin, and it would have been better if he hadn't.
1:33:09 "Annakin, I am your 2nd cousin"
That's a tone poem right there. You're welcome, George
It's like Poetry. It Rhymes
Love the quick drop in of Rich Evans. Fantastic
I've seen these videos numerous times, but every time they pop up in a new form or a reccomendation I always sit through them all and thoroughly enjoy it.
I demand a compilation of every blue harvest bit 😂
All the Australian extras don't take you out of the movie if you're from somewhere that God pays attention to.
Gottem
We don’t need god we have Paul Hogan
@@mrsundaymovies god damn it I love you
My dad took me to see phantom menace for my tenth birthday at the Winchester century theaters. That was the last time I watched a movie with him. Damn near 25 years ago
My dad took me to see episode II on my 11th birthday, it was awesome, one of my best memories with him.
Havent seen him in 10 years, not dead, just an asshole.
I think the prequels should have been focused on Anakin and Obi-wan's relationship. Movie 1: master and apprentice; Anakins training and adventures. Movie 2: brothers in arms ; war breaks out and the jedi choose not to fight. Obi-wan rebels and joins the war and Anakin follows. They become highly regarded soldiers due to their abilities. Movie 3: adversaries; the horrors of war have messed up Anakin, turning him to the dark side and he returns to take revenge on the jedi for not participating. Obi-wan tries to stop him.
I will never forget the massive cheer that went up in the theater when Yoda first attacked Dooku with his lightsaber. I was 13, and I can't deny, even I was kinda pumped at the time.
I remember everyone laughing
@@funkoxenMe too
Im so excited for them to do the original trilogy, hopefully we get that in 2025
I truly love the way ben and lawrence edit your guys photographs into these videos. It is hilarious.
I almost spit took my tea when ya started talking about Apocalypse! I loved that game! Great trivia.
I resent the idea that Kit Fisto isn’t a top tier loose unit Jedi
Mythbusters tested the higher ground phenomenon! They did an entire Star Wars episode actually.
I’ve seen a few people who do HEMA (Historic European Martial Arts) do videos on fencing/fighting against the higher ground.
In the Jedi ways, the root of all suffering is clinging to the permanence of impermanent things. So I know that expecting these two Australian men to keep making commentaries on movies for me forever is setting myself up to be "totes devo", but Jedi god be damned if the content put out here and on the weekly planet isn't a shining gem in my relationship with movies. I feel like I'm genuinely thrusting the seeds for futute dispair into the ground with every laugh and grin I get from this channel because when you boys stop making videos one day, I will have lost two incredible voices in how I have come to know how to love and appreciate movies. I have no idea when those seeds of sadness will sprout, or when they will reach maturity and be ready for reaping. But when that time comes, it will truly be a Blue Harvest. Which is also the original working title for Star Wars
This is the best Blue Harvest joke I've ever seen, and I usually hate them with a passion.
@@ellaisplotting my comment may not have the most likes, but your reply is worth a hundred that was very nice, thank you
Obi wan taking a metal hand to the throat on a magma planet without saying “ouch that’s hot” totally takes all the believability out of the movie
The ‘just get the bus’ from Tatooine is even worse now because Obi Wan literally gets the space bus from Tatooine in that crappy series.
You don’t even need to send everyone on the bus, send freaking Captain Tanaka on the bus to Coruscant and have him fly back in a working ship. He’d be there and back in no time.
The plot just implies Qui Gon is having fun, pissing around, and is indulging a gambling fetish.
Mmm… path to the dark side that sounds like.
Try it I must.
He stayed for that 🔥 Tatooine Nose Talc
I’m actually a bit excited to engage with a fresh comment section on a RUclips video, such is the quality of Mr Sunday Movies’ fan base.
It's the retirement home for the people who still hate the prequels it seems
@@arthurg.calixto3338Well, that should pretty much be everyone. They’re objectively bad films. I can see enjoying them, but I really can’t see enjoying them enough to want to stand up for them in the comments. That’s like trying to stand up for Anakin being a good person, after murdering hundreds of 5 year old children. That’s objectively bad behavior, regardless of anything else that happened to him, just like the PTs are objectively bad films, regardless of anything else that attempts to explain it away.
@goldenageofdinosaurs7192 hundreds??? There was 20 kids slain at most... also that's not OBJECTIVELY bad... what if you go back in history, would you kill 5 year old Hitler if you could? Would it be bad?
Well if anything, i was there for the premier and hype of Star Wars Episode I back in 1999. Ppl did in fact reserve hotels rooms and tent outside the theaters. It was like nothing anyone had ever seen before. PPl went absolutely nuts for Star Wars again.
I was in the military, doing "our" mandatory service at that time, and i remember one of my service mates in the barracks, had especially saved his leave passes just to go to the premier on Episode I.
I saw it two weeks later with my then GF at our local theater, and i never saw that much ppl in that theater before or since. I mean the hype and expectation was beyond incredible.
But heh... As we all know.. Ppl went in with great expectations and came out with.... "wtf was that"...
Rest is history.
Peace.
After all these years, I still don't love the prequels, but I've come to terms with the fact that they weren't made for me. I grew up with the Originals, and I'm happy to have them.
That’s a healthy way to look at them
I am just now realizing that Jabba's favorite bikini is made out of metal so it will survive the Rancor's stomach acids.
Eeeeew, gross 😂
Three things -1. Yes, Star Wars has always been political.
2. The politics have always been idiotic, muddled and overly simplistic.
3. Why in the hell do Jedi all dress like moisture farmers from Tatooine?
The Jedi outfit thing is because George wanted Obi-Wan to wear his iconic outfit from the OT, but never stopped to realize he wore those clothes because it was a desert. But again, it was his iconic costume so fuck it, he wears that in his 20s now. So does every Jedi I guess. Unless you're a woman, you're apparently allowed to wear unique clothes like every Jedi should. But if you're a dude you get the wrinkly beige and brown robes that make you look like a desert hobo.
Obi wan was also hiding out on tatooine trying not to be caught and murdered by the empire, so it made sense for him to constantly wear his jedi uniform and name tag.
You people wanted Jedi to dress up like spec ops soldiers with tactical goggles and space latex suits or something? Also, you people are forgetting that Yoda, the old Anakin, and Ben all wore capes as force ghosts, it was always the implied uniform of the Jedi.
And the second is straight up not correct, it's just that most people didn't bother actually listening to the movies.
A fun imagining of a guy being dismembered 😂
I was 1000% not ready for James describing the Jedi Council as "an awful pack of nerds" 🤣
Also I just realized now that "Duel of the Fates" relates to Anakin's fate, not those of the Jedi's vs the Sith's and I feel like an idiot
It's all complete nonsense, James is just projecting his own insecurities with authority onto fictional monks and the whole Duel of the Fates was BS made up my Filoni that falls apart under examination
@@Reverse_Hood Do you think before spewing such idiocies, or you just freestyle it and hit reply?
I never really thought about Mace Windu just bringing the three guys with him at the time to assassinate Palpatine. As a kid, to me they were all jedi council members I knew from the action figures and comics, so of course they were the best choices, right?
But I think it speaks to the hubris of the Jedi that James mentions in Episode 1. Of course they just send Qui-Gon, a 50 year old man who’s not on the council, to fight Darth Maul. “It’s just a Sith Lord, one of our middle management and his padawan should handle him easily. Oh wait, he died? Alright, I guess for the next Sith Lord, we’ll bring four guys. Who? I don’t care, any four - come on guys, it’s only a Sith Lord!”
James is just projecting his own insecurities with authority onto fictional monks, the Jedi hubris meme is only believed by midwits
@@Reverse_Hoodhahahaha
@@Reverse_Hood Huh
As a kid I thought that the prequels happened in the future of the OT and Anakin was Luke`s son, or Luke was recast or Luke time traveled back and became Darth Vader or something like that. George`s story telling gave me 0 chance to comprehend what was going on in those movies, I had to have it explained to me by some older kids to understand.
That all being said, if you squint and tilt your head the over all plot here was genius and many designs and characters in these movies were incredibly iconic, plus it was one of the best times overall for Star Wars.
The revisionism for the prequels has been astounding. I rewatched Phantom Menace a while ago, and I still have the same opinion I did in 1999. It's utter garbage.
I merely found it a disappointment back in 1999.
Watching it today however has made me revise my opinion. It's *utterly unwatchable* .
i've seen it speculated that fans of the prequels are generally too young to remember the movies coming out, if they'd even been born. they more closely identify with clone wars because it's actually good. no idea why they have some stake in these boring ugly movies, though.
Who cares
Nah it aint revisionism if i always thought the movies were good. WaTCHED tpm in theaters this month and it was as good as i remeber
@@guymann1660 Wrong, i have vidi memories and loved the movies more than TCW as a kid. Still do, you wouldve had a point if you mentioned Genndy's show but you didnt
Perfect background noise while I work, keep it up lads.
I was trained in Gungan style at the Blue Harvest School of the Mentally Corrupt!! 😅
Ahhh the taxation of trade routes to outlying star systems is tight!!!
This has one of my favorite James lines. "I've come, as most people have" period. 😂
The whole Anakin conception thing is MUCH more interesting in the old EU where Darth Plagueis was the one behind it, rather than Palpatine. And it wasn't something intentional, it was a byproduct of him trying to force his will onto Medichlorians and something deep within the Force, some spiritual quasi consciousness pushed back against his manipulations and created Anakin to be its Avatar. Plagueis even worried if his manipulations had created a series of events which would destroy the Sith.
It's not a coincidence that Anakin kind of can be viewed both as the Jedi's chosen one, but also is a decent candidate for the Sith prophesied child, the Sithari.
Son... of... a... 🤦🏾♂️ Obi Wan being the main Jedi to find Ani makes way more sense.
Also I like how the lava platform kindly resists the current and stays in place while waiting for them to stop talking and get off.
Don’t forget to leave a like three times.
Everytime i let youtube autoplay it takes me to this video. Not any caravan of garbage video but this one specifically. Ive probably seen 3 times the whole way through at this point. RUclips, please release me from this prison!
I can love a movie that has a great story and poor special effects, but I absolutely can't tolerate a movie that has a crap story and awesome special effects, and that's why I hate the prequel trilogy.
The critical reception of TPM was super strange. I remember when Rottentomatoes used to have a critics score and another one for the "elite" cream of the crop critics like Ebert or AO Scott. The overall score wasn't so bad (hovering around 60%) but the cream of the crop was like around 30%.
People are hating on the casino planet in Last Jedi but the underwater “there is always a bigger fish” scenes are the most useless in whole Star Wars.
Relax
The entirety of The Phantom Menace is just one long prologue with virtually no impact on the rest of the saga is the problem. It leaves the next two movies on fast forward to get to Darth Vader.
@@samuelbarber6177Honestly, if they didn't waste an entire movie on the Phantom Menace, they could've made Revenge of the Sith the second act of a trilogy. With a sequel that shows the immediate beginning of the Empire, Obi-Wan and Yoda forming a rebellion that inevitably gets wiped out, leading to them abandoning the fight until Luke and Leia are old enough. Show a more gradual change as Vader becomes the one we see in the originals, as opposed to getting dipped in lava once and wearing the same exact suit for 20 years. There's a lot more they could've done before wrapping everything up at the last 10 minutes.
@@samuelbarber6177The prequels are one long origin story for Darth Vader. Phantom Menace is the butterfly effect for the next 2 movies.
@@samuelbarber6177The conflict was set uo to put Palpatines ass in the big chair. It was also a test run for the Clone Wars.
The BPD shit at the end is actually the most believable stuff from Anakins abuse and trauma. The megolomania, refusal to accept facts, and just violence and hostility to loved ones. Was actually on point.
Can you guys do big trouble in little china? No real reason I want you to do it, other than it's a fun movie and I think y'all would have some great commentary for it. Cheers love everything you guys do!
Mason's angry rant after the genuine praise of Ep. 1 always gets me crying laughing, especially when you hear James losing it 😂
I cannot overstate how abruptly, even for a kid in middle school (as I was at the time), Anakin being a kid made him feel so misplaced and it continues for the trilogy.
He always felt way too young and absolutely too immature through out the whole trilogy. Even the turn feels like a kid making a decision based on a single dream rather then a grizzled war veteran who has lost so much, has some PTSD and is afraid to lose what he finally was gaining.
Sorry Clone Wars fans, that show does not fix the issue, it exacerbates it instead. The characters and then their complete disappearance for no reason, the change in attitude and then change back then change again or basically whatever Filoni needed to keep his changes afloat. Congrats though, you got sold that genocide occurs because of a chip and not simply words, what an immature change of something meaningful.
pretty sure Qui Gon took Obi Wan's gig because they wanted his death to be impactful and actually mean something in the end
Star Wars: The Phantom Menace was the biggest disappointment since my son.
You better give respect to RLM and Mr. Plinkett or he will fuck your cat.
THE EDITING ON EPISODE ONE, WHERE MASEAU FLIPS FROM COMPLIMENTING TO HATING ON THE MOVIE IS MY FAVORITE 35 SECONDS OF RUclips, ALL TIME!
Darth Vader means dark father in German or something. In all the books, a Sith would choose their own evil sounding name. Palpy choosing the name just didn't seem ok. What if he says, "your name is now Darth Whineybitch". Does Anakin then say ok or does he ask to speak to the manager?
Dutch
Yoda fighting Dooku with just his stick would of been epic
I think when Yoda says "the dark side clouds [the future], he in fact /was/ using intuition, implying the dark side's shadowy actions are hard to predict, making it hard to know what the future holds. That's how I interpret it, at least. Not like the "I've got a bad feeling" "I don't sense anything" line where a certain someone is definitely ignoring his own eyes.
All that’s missing now is the twilight episodes in one, for the ultimate going to bed playlist
Your editor is brilliant
"I've come - and I think a lot of people have..." maso is a better man than I for leaving this one
"You're allowed to like this bad movie." 🥰
“You wanna do the once-in-a-lifetime dash, young Palawan?”
“Sure do!”
Pzshoooow!!!
The amount of pointless work nerds put into trying to retroactively make all of Lucas’ first draft scripts appear coherent is depressing. That amount of brainpower and effort could have done something useful, instead of coming up with a recipe for Jawa Juice.
This IP really should have ended in ‘83…
🎯
No
I'm glad you oldheads aren't relevant anymore.
As a grumpy old man pushing 50 I absolutely hated the Prequels for years. I tried to convince myself they were good when they were 1st released, but I just couldn't do it for very long. But I'm one of those people who have "come around" to the Prequels. I actually prefer to watch them over the Original Trilogy these days because I have seen the OT 100 million billion kajillion times. Fantastic movies. Love all three of them. A New Hope might be my favorite movie ever made, as it impacted me as a child probably more than any other movie. Empire Strikes Back is 100% the most well-made film of the three. And Jedi - yeah, it was a little disappointing that it was aimed at a younger audience - especially after how dark Empire was - and Han Solo's character was noticeably forced into the film due to Ford not wanting to be in the movie until the 11th hour, but Jedi is still a fun and satisfying final act. It returns to the more fun serial feel from A New Hope. But I know those three movies forward, backward, sideways, upside your head-ways - as much as I hate a lot of the decisions Lucas made in the Prequels, I've actually come to rather enjoy them for what they are instead of hating them for what they're not.
Nothing makes me more nostalgic for the early-2000s than listening to some guys on the internet bashing the Prequels. :)
Now that we are approaching the 20 year anniversary of Episode 3, I would rate the Prequel trilogy like this:
Storytelling: 4/10
Technical innovations: 9/10
Being 2-Hour Toy Commercials That Made Me Want To Spend Money I Didn’t Have On Action Figures: 11/10
Me randomly once every other month at midnight, thinking it's way too late to start watching a movie, only to proceed to watch this and the transformers compilation back to back
I'll always remember. So we went to see revenge of the sith, and when Anakin gets his new name. The theater was dead quite. Darth... And some child blirts out Vader right before it was said. And the theater just booed that kid. My gf at the time yelled you, "you fu*king serious!" And I just sat there like yeah she's with me. Lol
As a long time viewer...I was blown away by the fact that the working title for the original starwars film was the same as so many of the other films covered by these guys. This is the entertainment journalistic integrity you just don't see anymore.
John Williams, Ewan McGregor and Ian McDiarmid made the Prequels. You could even make an argument John Williams best work is actually in the prequels.
I second that.
30:03 Also, right next to the Mazz figurine, there's a Wham-O brand Trac-Ball "Trac-et" hanging on the shelf. Fun game.