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Summary: very good documentary but the rest........
Review: hi all , ,well the only good thing about this dvd is that the actual documentary which shows us the story behind the movie.perfectly made!!!!!!!now the movie itself? well i saw star wars when i was 6 1/2 years old and i loved it ,good characters nice story line,iloved even more empire strike back even if it was more dramatic,iwas 12years old then came "return" were i find it a litle too cheesy , it should have been a warning of things to come......
anyhow i was with the other milions waiting eagerly for the prequel and when i got out of the theater i was fuming.
this movie is a insult to all children and beyond,it seems now lucas thinks that a child can not apreciate a good movie if it has strong character even controversial (han solo)or a bit of drama (empire)instead he gives us likes of Jar Jar bings which is a huge waiste of money brings nothing good to the movie.
the actors can't act ,very bland.the only thing good are the special effects but that alone does not bring a movie to greatness.i expected lucas to have some respect towards the old generation of fans which brougth him were he is in the first place but he failed dearly.hes next project should be at least better then the toddler movie he gave us 2 years ago and if its a dude i wont feel sorry for him.
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Summary: give this movie a bad plot
Review: hi i enjoyed the movie, but i give the story line a poor rating, it suppose to be about ivasion but basically they take off to a planet end up picking a boy to be the main point of the whole triology of the instalment. special effects were good. but a little more excitement in some parts, instead of dull. heard that they are coming with the movie for vhs only, but someplaces you can have it on cd dvd formatt but only part i enjoy is the fight scenes, instead of you have to rewinde to a certain section that is really not worth seeing at all, like i got bored in the middle. and certain part of the movie. hope the next 2 movies are good, some of the characters are good. but at least have some action more.
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Summary: good besides a few samall flaws?
Review: Hi1 Since there are two of us, this is my favorite movie besides the follow, "breakfast with tiffany" This movie is almost as good as the first one that came out 7 yrs ago. The speshel effects were better back then. thisa movie has lost F lawS 1its boeif lawS 1its boeif my
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Summary: What a waste of money
Review: Hmm..ok. I sit in complete disappointment at the moment. The sound quality and picture quality of VHS are a complete disgrace. I might have enjoyed the movie if it wasn't for a blurry VHS picture. Lucas, you are a disgrace to your fans. The movie itself is ok, but VHS makes it look worse you greedy person. For all we know, DVD will probably be outdated by 2005. Thanks for persecuting the people who pay your bills George.
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Summary: I need to vent.
Review: Hmmm. What to say about 'The Phantom Menace'? I waited how many years to see this "grand vision" of George Lucas? I will make this as short, sweet and painless as possible. Let's start out just by saying this has got to be THE biggest disappointment in film history. Mr. Lucas, claimed on 'Episode IV' that there was more to the story to bring us up to the 1978 masterpiece 'Star Wars' (and I'm not talking about the tainted Special Edition version either.). With the coming of 'Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace', this film has proved to me that there was no story of the sort. I feel that what was once a grandiose, intricately visioned perception of an outer-worldly saga is now all worth nothing. 'Phantom Menace' starts out with the traditional mammoth text run. The almost-holy yellow letters that grace the screen and flow upward into space accompanied by the magic theme that millions of people have grown to love. What could go wrong...right? This unfortunately proves to be the best part of the whole film. The damage could be seen within a few short moments. Before we know it, Ewan McGregor appears on screen as a young Obi-Wan Kenobi and utters the now famous line, "I've got a bad feeling about this." Well let me tell you, as I sat in the theater in anticipation, $10 ticket-stub in hand, third row from the front, opening night, a tiny voice in my head whispered, "So do I, Obi-Wan...So do I." With acting bad enough to make you cry, a COMPLETE lack of plot and absolutely tasteless "looky-what-we-can-do" effects this piece of trash carries on and on getting worse by the minute forming a self-satire, if you will, a cartoon of the modern myth Lucas has created thus far. Goofy, English speaking aliens with ethnic accents and an immaculate-conception 'shocker!' idea for the birth of Anakin Skywalker are just two things that make this movie flat-out absurd. 'Episode I' quickly develops into a silly, mocking rendition of what the original three were. 'Phantom Menace' is like a 'Diet Star Wars'. A mini-version of the real 'Star Wars' dipped in undiluted liquid brainlessness, hung out to dry for an hour and sold in a shrink-wrapped container with a cardboard backing. A 'Star Wars' that I wish would just admit, "Just kidding! This isn't REALLY a full installment of the best science fiction series ever." The Players: Jake Lloyd trots his dry, barely television commercial-caliber talent as the young Anakin Skywalker. A new standard of awful is achieved with his two-dimensional portrayal of the young boy who eventually becomes the silver screens' most notorious villain. Sad. Liam Neeson is notably repulsive as Qui-Gon Jin, the Jedi mentor whose force mind-control attempts never quite work on anyone. (? ) It makes you wonder, "Ha, ha, ha! This isn't really part of the script, ...is it?" Ewan McGregor solely puts a worthy performance into his character, the young Obi-Wan Kenobi. Part of me feels sorry for McGregor though in this case, because from viewing his effort in this film shows that he has had hope for 'Phantom Menace' throughout production. But now seeing the first nightmarish results of this movie, he may understand now what the next two episodes will bring. Natalie Portman plays the poorly written part of Queen Amidala (or is it Padme now! I'm not quite sure!), Anakin's future love-interest, and future mother of twins Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia. Um... yeah. R2D2 and the skinless C3PO make their inevitable appearance and we observe how they meet. Seeing the familiar duo again made this movie worth not walking out on. But their cameos made it clear that Lucas really had no clue where he wanted this movie to go and thought he would throw them in somewhere to give the audience some kind of closure with the story. The 30-some year younger Yoda is seen in all his high glory. Yoda seems awkwardly misdirected in his few scenes. What, I guess, develops into a highly intelligent and focused being...well...seems to start out here as a confused and bewildered (not to mention badly constructed) puppet. I dunno, you figure it out. The cheaply horned and "lets just throw some paint on his face" foe Darth Maul, played by a professional martial artist I-forget-his-name fights a lot. The fight scenes are cool... Yep... that's about it. And ahhhhhh who could forget 'Star Wars's' worst addition since the Jabba the Hutt/Han Solo scene in 'Star Wars: Special Edition', Jar-Jar Binks. What needs to be said about Jar-Jar that hasn't been said already? All I can say is I would rather have my fingernails ripped out one by one with pliers than experience Jar-Jar Binks again. What was George Lucas thinking! (Um... Did he just say ex-squeeze me?) --'Episode I' ultimately collapses into a pile of mindless drivel, insulting the 'Star Wars' name and losing at least my personal faith in hoping for a redemption in future episodes. With its expensive Saturday morning cartoon-like effects, the movie fails to be crutched by anything to aid it from self-destruction. From the yawnable pod race scene to the paper-mache robot army, this movie has got TERRIBLE written all over it. George Lucas, the man who brought us 'THX-1138', 'American Graffiti' and the flawless 'Star Wars' Trilogy has plopped one of the worst movies ever made into our laps after 16 years in the waiting. I would say that 'Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace' is just like any other Hollywood piece of junk being cranked out nowadays, but I can't, simply because of the huge runway of potential it had to run on. What had the best possibility of being the greatest and most loved science fiction film, resulted in the worst possible execution. For big fans, the dawning of 'Episode I' is truly that of mourning. I don't think I will be buying anymore action figures.
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Summary: La película más incomprendida de la historia del cine
Review: Hola, soy Darth Laden. Escribo mis críticas en castellano, asi que si sos de un pais en el que no hablen de este modo... qué lástima. Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace es una película impresionante. Llena de CGI (Imágenes creadas por computadora), pero que no molestan en absoluto. Es más, enriquecen la historia. Lucas sigue siendo un muy buen contador de relatos fantásticos, por mas que muchos digan que está viejo, que no puede dirigir, y que esta película apesta. Particularmente, no me parece que apeste, y pienso que, aunque es posiblemente el peor episodio hasta la fecha, es todavía un muy recomendable film, incluso mucho mas que The Matrix, que es del mismo año, y es una copia del comic "The Invisibles" del maestro Grant Morrison. Me parece que Lucas cambió mucho en todo el tiempo en el que se dedicó al ocio (hizo algunas cosas como productor, pero estamos hablando de su rol como director), y no está ese Lucas de antes mucho mas fresco, y juvenil. El tiempo mata todo. Lucas ya no es mas joven, hay que admitirlo. Está viejo, si, pero bien. Ve las cosas de otra manera. No sé por qué los fanáticos clásicos de la Trilogía Original (yo, lamentablemente, no soy uno de ellos...) se horrorizaron tanto con este episodio. Si bien la historia es un tanto ingenua, está muy bien contada, y tiene muy buenos personajes (como Qui-Gon Jinn y Darth Maul, por ejemplo). En fin, Star Wars regresó, y es probablemente mejor que todo lo que da vueltas por ahí. Ahora esperemos con ansias Episode III... que probablemente sea la mejor película de la galaxia (por lo menos de ésta...), y en la que veremos la caída de Anakin al Lado Oscuro... y el comienzo del verdadero Señor Oscuro...
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Summary: DTS
Review: hopefully most movies including this one will have DTS edition. It will be a shame if they didn't. DTS sounds better than regular dolby digital and the experts will agree with me. Regular dolby digital does not take full advantage of a 5.1 speaker set up as much as a DTS processor can. Try it!!! you will see the difference. Another thing, most receivers are equipped with DTS encoding and rarely THX. So if you have a regular receiver with no THX processor, You cannot take advantage of the audio from a THX DVD.
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Summary: Hopelessly overwrought [junk]
Review: Hopelessly overwrought [junk]. Visually beautiful, though. Time for Mr. Lucas to pass the torch.
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Summary: Nearly killed Starwars
Review: How can the same person behind episode 2 be behind this crud. I hate Jar Jar, Amidala sounds ridiculous, I hate the Japanese stereotype aliens, the pod race was boring, everything was overexplained to the point of being like running commentary, way too much cgi. This movie is irrlevant, epecially after seeing episode 2. I remember seeing this in the theater, everyone was all into it until Jar Jar showed up, then he never left, then nobody cared anymore except for the very few scenes with Darth Maul. I never will understand that, I mean the overabundance of Jar Jar , in the documentary Lucas says the number of scenes he's in which i had to laugh at, something like 461!
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Summary: Why? Oh Why do you hate this? Oh Why?
Review: How can this movie receive such bad reviews? This is a great film. I still love it. I know because I saw this in the theatres back in 1999. Why Oh Why do you intend to hurt George Lucas for this film? I sense that the palm of darkness weighs you down too much. Anyway! this film is as I said! loved. After I saw this in the theatres! I wanted to buy this! because I like the way George Lucas dirrected this film. I also love learning about the force. I also love Darth Cidious and Darth Mall. This is one of the best films of the Star Wars series. I can't believe this movie is gettin bad reviews. I'm gettin ready for the next episode of the series! Attack Of The Clones. I know because I'm hooked on Star Wars. Have been ever since I got the original trilogy, plus a few Star Wars books on tape. Speaking of which... I have the audio portion of The Phantom Menace. I highly recommend this music to new future Star Wars fans all over The United States and abroad! which means the entire world. Just stop complaining and enjoy this film. PS! Be nice to George Lucas.
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