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Summary: No heart and no soul
Review: Well, after only 1,800+ reviews, I figured I would add my two cents worth. Enough about Jar Jar, we all hated him, end of story. The real problem with this movie is that Lucas has forgotten what gives a movie value and entrances the watcher. There simply was nothing to pull you in, to make you feel like you are watching some great epic struggle. This is what the first two movies had (and somewhat the third movie). Nobody cares about CGI generated tadpoles fighting CGI generated robots! "Gee wiz the special effects are great, but do I really care what happens to either side being depicted?" Um, no. Please, Mr. Lucas, go back and watch the first two movies of your own series and try to recreate the magic.Now, as for whether you should purchase this DVD or not? Yes, but skip to the Jedi lightsaber battle scenes. This is the best thing about a DVD--it's way easier to do this than with tape!
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Summary: great movie but will sound also good in DTS
Review: Its a pretty cool movie and it is THX certified but most people own receivers with dolby digital and DTS encoding. And you audio folks know that DTS sounds way better than regular dolby digital. WIll you guys make a DTS edition also???!!!
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Summary: Plenty of action
Review: I found that this movie had all the action that one would come to expect of a Star Wars movie.Character developement was not bad either.The only character I had a problem with was that of Anakin-played by Jake Lloyd. I found this character to be quite annoying at times. I could not tell if it was Jake Lloyd's inability to act or if it was an incredibly bad script for him.Overall the movie is very entertaining and children will love it.
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Summary: Better than "Jedi"
Review: Why rehash all the stuff already written here? While Ep 1 is no where near as good as Ep 4 & 5, it was BETTER than ROTJ. Aside from Luke's confrontation with the emperor and Vader, ROTJ is a joke! It took all the great developments of Ep 4 & 5 and flushed them down a toilet with a bunch of stupid muppets! I'll take Jar Jar over the Ewoks anyday! Ep 1 had many great scenes and the beginning of a great story. While it's no Empire, it's still better than Jedi. As far as the CGI, it isn't by any means perfect, but it's a great alternative to the Muppet Show which Jedi is!
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Summary: The New Star Wars
Review: The world of SW is changing. The Bantham novels are replaced by Del Rey's New Jedi Order series, Dark Horse's comics are now set in a new era, and the latest SW film is released. [sighs] I guess I'm going to be one of the old whiners who sits back and tells long stories about the 'good old days or Stackpole, Zahn, and Irving Kershner'. The new SW just fails to match. I moaned on and on about the NJO series in my 'Vector Prime' review, so I won't put you throuogh that here. The start of the new trilogy leaves a lot to be desired, though. The story's okay, although it fails to reach a full potential. Lucas tried to do a politcal/intruige/adventure/ect. job with this one, wheras the others were war/adventure movies. Leave politics to guys like Stackpole and Zahn, as they do it much better. The special effects are good, and it was great to see Coruscant in all its slendor for the first time. The lightsabre battle was superb, although the land and space battles and the end had their potential muddled by the blabberings and buffoonery of Anakin and Jar Jar. Sithspawn, they were annoying. Pretty movie, and lots of info and the like for SW fans. I can't say I reccomend it for those who aren't SW fans, though. for those who do, watch it to see Palpatine at his best. Only thing is, that's about all that's at its best.
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Summary: All that waiting for this
Review: What can I say? Lucas falls flat. Sure the film looks beautiful but it has no magic like the first three. Gone is the shoot em up space cowboy thriller of before and replaced with a kids movie with adorable Jar Jar Binks. The enemies are droids so with the exception of Darth Maul there are no real fatalities in this film. What happened to legions of Storm Troopers and planets being destroyed. Instead, we have a cream puff movie where the end is all happy and laughs and no one is left no laughing. This would have been great as a Scooby Doo episode!
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Summary: Too much technology
Review: Definitely my least favorite Episode of the Star Wars saga. I think the biggest problem was George Lucas getting so wrapped up in all of today's computer technology that he forgot the basics that got him where he is today. What I really enjoyed about the original Star Wars trilogy is that everything is rather believeable. All the monsters, all the characters are real life-like. Look at the Ewoks, for instance. Now imagine if all the Ewoks were computer generated like Jar-Jar Binks. It would have looked horrible. It's so obvious to tell the difference between a real character and computer generated character in a movie when they're standing side by side. I really hated in Episode I how so much of it was computer generated scenes, such as the whole war near the end. It simply doesn't have the same effect. I mean, I thought I'm suppose to be watching something believeable, not Toy Story. Another thing was the fight scene between Darth Maul, Obi-Wan, and Qui-Gon. As much as I enjoyed it, and hated seeing Darth Maul killed (he was by far my favorite character in Episode I...now why didn't he get more lines?!), it was probably the most anti-climatic battle ever. Look at Luke vs. Vader from Return of the Jedi. The emotion that poured out of Luke after Vader saying perhaps he could turn Leia to the dark side as he screamed out, "NOOOO!" and the music kicked in and Luke pounded away on him until he cut off his hand. Now look at the Episode I fight scene. I loved that music, however where was it when they die? When Darth Maul gets killed (in a rather ...way, too), it's like dead silence. No music, no nothing, just silence. Where the emotion? The power that music can play is incredible, but the use of music in Episode I wasn't to its full potential (much like the rest of the movie wasn't at its full potential). Episode I seemed to be more about flashy costumes and characters rather than story. Lucas needs to return to the basics of solid storytelling and using real characters, not all this computer animated garbage. I'm expecting a lot more out of Episode II.
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Summary: GREAT INTRO TO THE STAR WARS GALAXY
Review: It was to be expected this movie would be critized on its story line & character development. But consider this. Episode I has the far from enviable task to introduce the entire SW universe and set the major plot lines that run throughout the whole saga in about two hours.
In all, Episode I is a truly great prequel and yet another benchmark from Industrial Light & Magic. Now a response to alot of misguided fans out there, Ignore the disappointed fanboys who made the mistake of watching this movie with the expectation that Lucas made this movie for that same generation only. They were kids when Star Wars blew them out of their seats and Lucas wasn't going to betray a considerable part of his original target audience.
And all the Episode I-bashing isn't going to cause Lucas to make the mistake of trying to redo, or even outdo the first trilogy.
He's adding to his vision of what it should be. And in all fairness, Lucas owns SW, he will add to his saga however he sees fit because it was his brainchild in the first place.
Often I've read, "this is not my StarWars!" Well, it's been over two decades since A New Hope and you can't make a new movie look believably vintage. They don't make 'em like they used to, get over it & enjoy Episode II in 2002!
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Summary: A shame and an insult to moviegoers
Review: Defenders of Episode I are quick to claim that audiences were disappointed only because their expectations were too high. But make no mistake, Episode I is a bad, bad movie. It is bad on its own, and absolutely tragic as a follow-up to the greatest sci-fi trilogy of all time. With all the negative comments already made about this dissapointing movie, what else is there to say? Perhaps this: Episode I is the work of a filmmaker who no longer respects his audience or his own past accomplishments. George Lucas accomplished what few artists ever do: With the original trilogy, he got millions of people the world over to invest themselves deeply in the fantasy world he created. Now, with Episode I, he trashes that lovingly created world, and spits on the loyalty of his onetime fans. Did you think the Force was a mystical, secret power pervading the universe? Sorry, it's basically an infection caused by space bacteria. Want sharply written banter between intriguing characters? You get the forgettable Captain Panaka, the silly Boss Nass, and the appalling Jar-Jar Binks, who, amazingly, tops Jake Lloyd on the annoy-o-meter. Want a carefully-constructed plot? Sorry, you'll get only a carelessly conceived rehash of the three-battle climax of "Jedi" -- including yet ANOTHER evil battlestation destroyed when the hero ignites a chain reaction from the inside. After 22 years, you'd think ol' George could've cooked up a new plot twist.
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Summary: Dude, this Star Wars garbage RIPS!
Review: Man, I totally think this one was better than those other ones. The reasons are many! (But I shall only list a mere three!) Firstly, in those old ones you could totally tell they were using models because they, like, sparked and junk! Everyone who's seen Wing Commander knows that rocket ships in outerspace don't spark! They exploo-ooo-oode! Nextly, Darth Maul! Man, he rocked. He could like jump and kick and do karate! Darth Vader just stood there waving his lightsaber like that fat, old, portly baseball player Babe Ruth. Darth Maul was all bad and had a nifty space-Vespa, too. And plus his lightsaber had two lightsabers and so it was twice as cool as Darth Vader's! Point proven! Lastly, Jar-Jar Binks: Hilarious. Chris Rock, Chris Tucker, Kriss-Kross ... whatever! It's so great to have a black guy in a movie that's predominately white. Lando wasn't funny, despite giving a minority some screen time in the mostly-white Star Wars universe. Jar-Jar is a CRAZY-ACTIN' AFRO-AMERICAN! Gotta love dat, yo! I'll definitely buy this DVD just so I can switch the language track to French and hear what French Gungans sound like! Ooh la la! Spoiler alert: I hear that Jar-Jar becomes Boba Fett in episode II: "When Clones Attack!" ROCKIN'!
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