Very true.... the lightsaber through the door trick was pretty cool.
Swimming to the Gungan village was interesting, but I dug the ride to the city of the Naboo through the Planet Core better... even though it was a special effects sequence, and wasn't important to the real story.
The thing that ruined Ep 1 for me was JarJar Binks. If it weren't for him, the movie would've been 10,000x better. But, yeah, Darth Maul (Snake Eyes in the new G.I.Joe movie!), was definitely the saving grace for that movie.
Oh, and I forgot to mention - Before Narnia started last night, they had a little trivia thing goin' on. On it, they said that Ray Parks had no acting experience before Ep 1. He was actually there as a stunt coordinator for the light saber scenes. George Lucas was apparently so impressed with him, that he became Darth Maul. Now, that's pretty neat.
It's like comparing the first two Aliens movies against the latter two.
It's like if Kubrick or Kurosawa, or Wolfgang Petersen had become Verhoeven. Or worse, Uwe Boll.
Yeah, he had fun. Yeah, it was his franchise. But he disenchanted so many of us with the alteration of Jedi-ness into a Wagnerian concept of something you're born with, and not something you aspire to. His attempt to use annoyingly too-cute aliens for sickening comic relief undermined his storytelling.
Maybe, like Einstein, he lost his real spark after the early years.
Life will go on. But my love of Star Wars wanes, as a result.
Everything else aside, you're simply not correct about how one becomes a Jedi. Luke and Leia are candidates to be Jedi because they're the children of a Jedi. That's clear in the first trilogy. If you missed it, well, too bad that Lucas's repetition of that disenchanted you, but it's blatantly there.
No, the second trilogy isn't of the same quality of the first one. Oh well. :)
And I happened to like Jar Jar Binks. The Phantom Menace was meant for kids. You're not a kid.
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But it didn't make up for the suckage of Episodes I and II, or the Ewoks in VI.
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Swimming to the Gungan village was cool also.
But admittedly, those were mere moments in a lengthy film, a far-too-small proportion in the Coolness vs. Suckitude meter.
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Swimming to the Gungan village was interesting, but I dug the ride to the city of the Naboo through the Planet Core better... even though it was a special effects sequence, and wasn't important to the real story.
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Oh, and I forgot to mention - Before Narnia started last night, they had a little trivia thing goin' on. On it, they said that Ray Parks had no acting experience before Ep 1. He was actually there as a stunt coordinator for the light saber scenes. George Lucas was apparently so impressed with him, that he became Darth Maul. Now, that's pretty neat.
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I enjoyed it, too. If you didn't, c'est la vie. *shrug*
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It's like if Kubrick or Kurosawa, or Wolfgang Petersen had become Verhoeven. Or worse, Uwe Boll.
Yeah, he had fun. Yeah, it was his franchise. But he disenchanted so many of us with the alteration of Jedi-ness into a Wagnerian concept of something you're born with, and not something you aspire to. His attempt to use annoyingly too-cute aliens for sickening comic relief undermined his storytelling.
Maybe, like Einstein, he lost his real spark after the early years.
Life will go on. But my love of Star Wars wanes, as a result.
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No, the second trilogy isn't of the same quality of the first one. Oh well. :)
And I happened to like Jar Jar Binks. The Phantom Menace was meant for kids. You're not a kid.
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CRAP.
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