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Summary: The Greatest DVD ever made!!
Review: This DVD ROCKS!! The movie, of course, is awesome, but the extras are outstanding!! Great behind the scenes footage, and the web documentery is great. I would recommend this to anyone who loves the Star Wars saga!! It's a must have DVD!!
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Summary: GEORGE LUCAS ~ GREAT MOVIE ~ AWESOME DVD
Review: This dvd set is packed with special features on the second dvd. I'm sure anyone with a high-end home theater will agree that the picture and sound are superb.For those who don't like this movie: Lucas has said the Star Wars films were made for children around "13" years old! I have talked to many children who LOVE Jar Jar, so GET OVER IT! This movie is a feast for the eyes and ears! The sets and landscapes are astounding. The music is awesome, thanks to John Williams. Keep up the great work George. I'll be first in line for the next film!
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Summary: It's Like The Right Dress on The Wrong Girl
Review: This DVD, packaged in one of those new (and terrible) hinged flip cases, is like the right dress on the wrong girl -- a satisfying collection of bonus goodies, but all packaged around a disappointing movie. I still say the Terminator 2 and The Abyss packages are best. Lucas was wise to load up this DVD with hours of extra stuff, because otherwise he would simply be cheating us again. There is a large enough number of people who agree that this movie was a major disappointment on ALL levels. All the fancy digital effects on earth cannot cover up for a bad script and stiff acting. But at least by loading the DVD with lots of extras Lucas can, in effect, apologize for it by giving us more for our money than we got when we went to see this turkey in the theaters!
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Summary: Lucas loses focus on plot for special effects
Review: This edition, that is recently coming to DVD, appears to have all the bells and whistles that is humanly possible. This is fantastic to see, since my all-time favorite movie is Star Wars: A New Hope. The reason I give Episode 1 three stars, is because it appears Lucas was trying to capture family audiences with special effects and goofy characters, instead of just telling the story. Still though, I did see the movie twice in the theaters. Why? #1, just because it's part of the Star Wars saga, and #2, because the Jedi action scenes turned out even better than I could've imagined. Scenes like Quang Gon Jin burning through the blast door with his light saber and Darth Maul staring at Obi Wan between the laser divider, during that unbelievable fight scene. These Jedi fight scenes, I believe, surpass the original. Other than that, the movie was entertaining, with an excellent cast. In the upcoming Episode 2, I don't really know what to expect. If Lucas was satisfied with "The Phantom Menace", but not happy with, "A New Hope", what are we about to expect? Critics gave The Phantome Menace 2 1/2 stars and A New Hope 4 stars. Will we see another 2 1/2 star action movie, or a 4 star brilliant work of art? Let's hope he learns from his mistakes, because by the time this trilogy is finished, I may be over the hill. :-)
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Summary: Worst Film I Have Ever Seen
Review: This film defines boredom. How anyone could love it is beyond me...much less watch extras about the hideous making of a cinematic atrocity. George Lucas has directed the dullest film ever. EVER. I wanted to shut this thing off twenty minutes into it and forced myself to watch it. It is even more boring than 2001: A Space Odyssey...and that is next to impossible. But of course what can you expect from the man who brought the world such trash as Willow and Howard the Duck. I HATE this film and am so glad that SHREK is outselling it on DVD. I would rather watch Chesty Morgan movies ad naseum than to ever sit through this void on celluloid again. Anyone who likes it is welcome to it but don't ever try to go on a date with me. I'll send you packing.
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Summary: Great Star Wars film for a great Star Wars buff.
Review: This film gets progressively better every time u watch it. Can't wait for Episode 2. PS. Major rumour! U know how a lot of people were ticked that "the force" could only be acquired through DNA? There's a major rumour going around that "the force" will evolve out of its' "Midichlorian" form and into a spiritual sense allowing anyone to access and utilize its' power. U heard it here first.
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Summary: Stick With The Original And Save Some Money
Review: This film has been incredibly overhyped, and the factor that it being the most anticipated movie of all time, I thought that it could have had higher expectations. There was two good scenes: Qui-Gon, Obi-Wan, and Darth Maul fighting, and the pod race. The pod race wasn't suspenseful, because you know the annoying boy has to win. I'm sorry, but it hurts to insult a kid, but it seems OK with a movie like this. There is no bright points in this movie, and the acting was not good. All they did was whisper to each other. And there was Jar-Jar. He was just what he was supposed to be: A childish, annoying, clumsy imbecile. You got to hand it to him, he's a better actor than Liam Neeson in this film. The casting wasn't good. Put it this way: Jar Jar doesn't belong; Chewy does. Qui-Gon doesn't belong, Han does. Anakin doesn't belong; Luke does, and, of course, the Cinna-Bun hair-styled Princess Leia. That's the Star Wars I like. I am one who thought the first 3 were really good, because there was the chemistry. I think that Lucas did this for the money and the hype and his extra 15 years of fame. Another funny thing is that it looks newer than the original, but it's supposed to be before the original. I do not recommend this movie. If you want to see a good movie, see American Beauty, and if you don't already know the ending, Sixth Sense, or...The Lion King, I guess. OR THE ORIGINALS AGAIN.
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Summary: Is This All Lucas could muster after 15 years?
Review: This film is a terrible disappointment. It showcases all that is BAD with the dominance of the special effects film of the 90s. The story is absurd, the characters flat and hackneyed, as background to the previous triology it offers nothing new, the casting is uninspired and the villian is wasted. I won't even touch on the putrid Jar-jar Binks. I think where this film went wrong is that Star Wars has become larger than George Lucas, it's become part of the public trust for pop entertainment. The fans almost own the property as much as LucasFilm. And it would have been difficult to create a sequel (prequel) that could ever live up to the height. Especially after 16 years. Creatively it seems that Lucas has lost it (if he ever had it - witness the title of Episode II). Why couldn't we have seen things that would have altered our perception of the Star Wars universe? Like Obi-Wan losing his arm in the battle with Darth Maul? One event, as simple as that at the end of the movie, would have had the audience guessing for the next two films. It seems that Lucas also can't just randomly extricate Jar-jar from the next film, because then it would look like he is bowing the public opinion. Something no artist would ever admit or adhere to. Also, as a sci-fi film this film is woefully boring the way it's photographed and directed. As with Empire and Jedi, Lucas should have hired another director to do this (and the other) films. As it is I sincerely doubt I'll see Attack of the Clones (did he have to choose a B-movie title from say Republic Pictures catalog?) or the third film. I can't even stomach the first trilogy any more after this fiasco. And word is Lucas plans to go back and redo the digital effects on episodes 4 through 6 anyway. So it's high time I regulate these films to my nostalgic youth and reflect on better films by better filmmakers, like Francis Coppola and his highly anticapated Godfather trilogy.
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Summary: Special Effects, Marketing 'Menace' Plot
Review: This film is a textbook example of what Robert Redford once said: "They don't make movies in Hollywood anymore. They market them." This bland, childish film overwhelms with special effects to hide the lack of an intelligent script. Toy-tie ins and over-kill marketing showed that Lucas didn't care about entertaining people as much as he wanted to make money! But we can probably look forward to more with 'Clone' toy tie-ins in Episode 2. Oh, yeah...did anybody say anything about a script for this one?
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Summary: Let down By Money
Review: This film is just not as good as it could have been indeed SHOULD have been. The Reson: LUCAS should not have directed, Apart from the wonderfull light saber duel it was stale and slow. Let Tim Burton do episode 2!
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