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Summary: A Great DVD For A Lousy Movie
Review: I remember the first time I saw "Star Wars-Episode I: The Phantom Menace". I was so impressed -with my mouth wide open -by the visual effects that I forgot the rest of the movie. The CGI effects marked a breakthrough so high that I didn't pay attention to the characters. When I came out of the cinema, I asked myself "Was I really watching this movie?"
In a video documentary called "From Star Wars To Jedi: The Making Of A Saga", George Lucas said: 'Special effects are a tool, means of telling a story. Special effects without a story is a pretty boring thing'. Well, in my opinion, it seems he contradicted himself while filming "The Phantom Menace" because the movie almost became boring thanks to those spectacular, yet excessive, visual effects. He seemed to have forgotten how to direct his actors, especially Jake Lloyd, and the story fell down to a great second place. The Force appears to be no longer with Lucas.
However, I must admit that this DVD is fantastic. I mean the extras are truly superb. The documentary, that tells the process that Lucas and his team went through in making this film, is excellent; like a video journal on the production development. The deleted scenes are great, especially the one in which Qui-Gon Jinn (Liam Neeson), Obi-Wan Kenobi (Ewan MacGregor), and Jar-Jar Binks escape from the Gungan transport before it falls down a waterfall. I mean all the extras are worthwhile.
It's too bad that I only have to give this DVD four stars in spite of its quality, but the movie itself refrains me from giving it five. Honest.
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Summary: Star Wars
Review: This is a great movie with incredible special effects. Just because it is the beginning of the Star Wars saga is enough of a reason for it to a great movie
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Summary: Jaba the hut my friend
Review: I would say come on jaba you can do better than this but still his performance was ok but i think its an insult to him if i called him john hartson or the notorious hammy from cambuskenneth. but over all i think the film went incredibaly well as it was succes every where but i still dont call it the best film of all time. scott hamilton was reported missing for a few days and the school dollar acadamy were incredibaly worried for the upcoming star of movies today i think he was away in the auditions for episode 2 . but i shouldnt be talkin about shamoos son and more about the film, this was a hit in my houshold and also for young children all the other star wars films were mostly watched by the older people and eposode 1 was attracted by every one but motly young ones but i say come on jaba keep greased up for eposode 2. i rate this film a 4 star
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Summary: Great DVD
Review: Well I will just say this greatest DVD of all time. The pictures in this movie is awesome. The greatest part of this DVD is that they have so many special features in this DVD compared to the video it is so awesome. They have the 12 part web documentary that goes throught the making of this film. They have the 5 part thing with all sorts of stuff like the two main characters Darth Maul and Obi Wan Kanobi going through the fight scenes and all sorts of things. Other than that this DVD is great the movie is awesome with Yoda and Jar Jar stealing the show they had a I had a great time seeing this in the theaters and i also have a great time seeing this on the DVD player because of the awesome picture and the greatest sounds I have been hearing from the THX surround sound.I will be going this upcoming week to see the newest installment of the STAR WARS Trilogy Episode Two Attack Of The Clones i know this is about the clone wars but I have a feeling at the end the movie is going to take a twist of fate with the story of Queen Amidela and Ankikin because i was watching the last one and I saw that Ani had sometype of crush on Amidela and that i have been figuring out the plot to this one that Ani and the Queen will get married at the end of this episode and in Three that they will have their two children Luke and Leia which will then end the relationship between Luke and Kanobi and that is when Ani will take a turn for the worst and start his transformation to Darth Vader.
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Summary: One of the best dvd's yet
Review: For all starwars fans this is well worth the money the deleted scenes are so cool and one of them george lucas put back in the movie so this dvd has more than the original release. You can't go wrong.
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Summary: Just vanilla
Review: The movie itself was actually pretty good, but when held to the same standards as the original three Star Wars movies it lacked the same oomph. Lucas himself, admitted that he was a little rusty in the Star Wars universe and it showed in some of the choices for the movie. Jar-Jar Binks. That said it is still a decent movie and a definite must buy, if only to eventually own all of the series.
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Summary: Great DVD Features
Review: If you are a Star Wars fan this is DVD is a must. Episode I may not have lived up to the hype for some people, but you have to remember that the hype for Episode I was huge. A great fun adventure movie, but an incredible DVD. The special features DVD is worth purchasing alone. Lucas really gives you a treat with the deleted scences. The making of the film is also really worth watching more than once.
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Summary: Dumb and Boring
Review: I could not stay awake through this horrible movie. Had to fast forward through it because there was no way I could make it through the end. I had heard that this Jar Jar Binks character was annoying but I didn't believe he was that bad. A totally unwatchable film. Every actor, including Liam Neesom, Sam Jackson, and EwanMacgregor, mailed in their performance. The sereis would have never made it if this was the first movie introduced. Contrived and BORING!!!
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Summary: The Star Wars Super Edition Special Collectors Limited...
Review: I know every time I see another Star Wars product with "Limited Set," "Collect all three," or "Special Edition," today, I am going to heavily consider its actual contents. There is this rule of nature I have found - the more you tamper or perfect things which already are at a high calibur, the more disappointed the result. For example, it is like attempting to retake an Exam after you already recived an A+, twenty or so years after you first took it. Very dangerous ground. Watching THX-1138, I have seen Lucas altered his condemnation of "Buy, buy more now...and be happy" to a position where he is afraid to expose true art by worrying about numbers and percentages. Personally, I think he is too critcal of critics, too set on traditional movie structure, and heavily concerned over quantity over quanity, perfection over natualism, and plot over character development. The Phantom Menace, I find, proved not only the world, yet himself it is time to search for what is really attempting to be expressed. Thank goodness this movie was made. I am glad Phantom came out because it proved Star Wars to be simply a fictious story, not something which everything in your life should revolve around. It was a wake up call to let everyone see how foolish it was getting, which was getting to a point where everything dealing with Star Wars seemed to be sent from God alone and taken as a literal Bible. I like Lucas, and I believe him to be a very smart and wise person, very reserved and to himself, articulating only in the scripts of his movies. Yet because of this movie, we will definitly be allowed to see Star Wars as it was intentionly meant for, and what it was all about. For this reason, I do think Lucas will improve. All he can do now is go up and learn with this experience, just as all of us can, and I am also glad he recived the reaction he did, because every director needs it in order to mature. It will create better movies in the end. There needs to be though a distinction of Phantom in relation to the SW movies, and movies overall. If we were to agree with a rating, it probably would be two stars when compared to the saga, three stars compared to movies of today. And this is from observation and a lifetime of experience as being a SW fan myself.
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Summary: The Old series is way Better
Review: I personally don't like this movie. I like the old Star Wars much better. There are better special effects than these new ones. This movie should be setting the standards for graphics like the old ones did when they first came out. Again its my personal opinion.
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