How Star Wars fans felt about “The Phantom Menace” after seeing it for the first time

My 6.5 year old is equally excited to see Episode 7. He keeps asking me every day if it’s out yet, if we can go see it yet, etc. Lol. I fear he might be scared at parts (he’s a bit skittish, sometimes) but I think that’s also part of the thrill for him. :slight_smile:

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The hate must flooooow!

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Something worse - the battle scenes! The soldiers nor the drones apparently never got a lecture about what “take cover” means. No, just stand there, fully exposed. What about crouching, using natural obstacles for cover, and other such tricks? Couldn’t they next time, pretty please, borrow a squad of Marines to show them the ropes (and the mud and slime and dirt and floors)?

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The Spice and The Hate, are they the same?

Sounds like a hell of a Ted talk…

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The hate seems to be the spice of the Internet. Many apparently use it to see the future, and others yell at each other until even their eyes turn blue.

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Hey, bro? I get what you’re going for and I went through a similar experience as a young Star Wars fan, but please don’t compare it to child abuse. That’s super disrespectful.

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Mine is 14 and upon seeing the ‘tickets available now’ on the preview I showed him over a month ago now he was like get tickets NOW! So next Thursday evening MrsTobinL gets a few hours of quiet time while we go to opening night packed theater fun time.

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Is that for the fourth Indiana Jones movie they were talking about making, but never got off the ground?

Funny that they had a poster ready to go for a film that was never made.

Is it a fan-made one?

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What was wrong with “Generations”? I mean it wasn’t my favorite Trek film, but it wasn’t Star Trek V by any means.

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It’s really a good thing that Spielberg had that meeting with the Wachowskis where they decided that additional Indy and Matrix movies were unnecessary after the 3rd and first respectively.

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Matrix Reimagined. Directed by JJ Abrams.

How could you not?

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An ignominious exit for Captain Kirk. >.<

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It was… fun…

Yeah that bit was kinda bad… I paid money for that movie…:cry:

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Maybe cause I waited till it was on DVD and it was free at the library… but I didn’t mind it all that much. It went with 50’s themes of UFOs/aliens/coldwar to fit the era. Not the best of the movies but not awful either.

OK, here’s just one problem I had with it:

A defeated-and-presumed-dead Captain Picard finds himself in a space/time nexus where he is miraculously granted a second chance to set things right, saving both his crew and an entire planet of innocent people. “From here,” he is told, “You can travel to any place at any time.”

He literally has all the time in the universe to come up with a plan. So where does he decide to go?

  • To the previous hour, where he would have time to plan his strategy before confronting the villain armed with the element of surprise?
  • To the previous week, where he could save his nephew from dying in a fire?
  • To a few years ago, where he could prevent the Borg holocaust?

Nope. He knows “exactly where he wants to go.” To five minutes before he got sucked into the nexus, when he got his ass kicked in a fistfight. But THIS time he’s bringing another senior citizen space captain to back him up! It’s the best plan ever!

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Did it work?

Sort of? I guess it’s still a win if you save at least 51% of the ship!

I have to admit, though. As disappointed as I was in the movie I continued to stick with the franchise as a loyal fan for many years afterward.

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Rian Johnson directed the Ozymandius episode of Breaking Bad (among a few other excellent episodes of the show). And his movies, Brick, The Brothers Bloom and Looper are all pretty good. He’s got a good eye for darker material.

Ah. Of those, I’ve only seen Looper. I did enjoy that, though.