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A Star Wars: Episode 1 - The Phantom Menace PSA (have you forgotten?)
skinnytie
Director, Imagos FilmsChicago, ILRegistered User regular
Director, Imagos FilmsChicago, ILRegistered User regular
Are you guys planning on seeing ST:EP1:TPM3D ??
If so, you might want to check out this brief PSA first.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QjcbJQW2_I
NEVER FORGET! (also, CGI yoda?)
If so, you might want to check out this brief PSA first.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QjcbJQW2_INEVER FORGET! (also, CGI yoda?)
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Also, self promotion threads on your first go are generally not looked upon favorably.
Thanks!
Sorry about that. Thank you for the mod. I will be sure to be a bit more prepared next time.
Small point: It wasn't so much self promotion as "I think this is funny, and you might as well."
Thanks!
I probably won't go see this, but only because I've never been a big fan of 3-D, and can't really afford to pay extra to see a movie in 3-D anyway.
They give out wicked glasses for TPM, though. I got a set of Darth Maul - apparently some theaters are giving out pod racing goggles...
God damn that was a bad movie.
Only once by choice.
No kid should have to go through that.
First world mental scaring.
When my parents got their home entertainment system, including the 6.1 or whatever surround sound, and any time they rearrange the living room and move the speakers around, my dad uses the pod race scene to test the set-up, because he says he can sit there and tell exactly how the engines are supposed to sound, because it's a sound he heard for twelve years.
That is wicked awesome.
I test my audio setups with minute 68 on the new Rambo film.
For me, the high from the opening crawl and Star Wars theme kept me excited until somewhere in the middle where I realized Darth Vader was saying "yipeeeee" and "woohooooo" and "yeeeaaaaahhh!!" and the infamous "THIS is POD RACING!".
Aargh.
but Pod Racer for the n64 was fucking awesome
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They lost me when they used the light sabres to melt the blast doors.
"Light sabres can't stab! that's bullshit!"
I was done with star wars forever
nothing happened after that scene
nothing
all Real D theaters get the Darth Maul ones, I snagged a pair from work, but only special XD ones have the limited run Pod Racer ones, and they only got 100 pairs per theater
You know, he's right.
The beginning of it was actually pretty cool.
Satans..... hints.....
I disagree.
it was silly, and why the heck can light sabres stab now? that has never happened before!
The plot is really bad.
Basically the Emperor's plot required all his underlings to be terrible at every turn.
Maybe he knew his underlings were terrible and thus wouldn't be able to get anything in the plan done properly.
It was a think i thought i knew about star wars, and then it was done away with. i was not a very happy 12 year old
It's unfortunate that Phantom Menace will be the starting point for some younger folk now that it's out in 3D. I'm actually kinda torn myself whether or not I want to dish out the dough to experience that... on the one hand, 3D Star Wars should be awesome. On the other... Phantom Menace.
But he isn't going to do them based on the reactions people gave to Star Wars and Indiana Jones.
that is, not directed them or written the screenplays
they would have been perfectly fine!
the story wasn't bad, the plot wasn't bad, the actors weren't bad. the dialogue was terrible! the directing was terrible! If lucas knew how to direct, they wouldn't have been so stilted and terrible
lucas has great ideas, but really, only if they're filtered through people who aren't retarded
and too bad a new hope wont come out until 2015.
The entire movie is basically a vehicle for getting Anakin the fuck off of Tatooine.
I think the dude from Red Letter Media made an excellent point about the use of lightsabres in the new trilogy.
Specifically, how originally they only really came into play for major scenes, and the fights weren't really flashy, but more a means of resolving conflict. Something really big was always going down when the lightsabres were drawn.
Whereas in the new trilogy they are thrown in every five minutes, and their presence becomes pretty meaningless as a result.
I think the dude from Red Letter Media made an excellent point about the use of lightsabres in the new trilogy.
Specifically, how originally they only really came into play for major scenes, and the fights weren't really flashy, but more a means of resolving conflict. Something really big was always going down when the lightsabres were drawn.
Whereas in the new trilogy they are thrown in every five minutes, and their presence becomes pretty meaningless as a result.
I wanna see Episodes 4 5 and 6 in the theater really bad.
Almost bad enough to subject myself to it in 3d.
that's rather the point though
jedi use lightsabers all the goddamn time, and it's like one of the few things you can't really fault lucas for
also, them not using ventress and dooku and windu dying in the dumbest fucking ways made me forever hate the prequels more than I already did
Well you have to wait until 2015 to see them.
Something tells me that the prequels might not make enough money in 3D for them to wanna risk it.
Eh, 3D gives me a headache anyway.
They shouldn't use them all the time, though. Brandishing a weapon should be one of the last things you need to do, like a cop pulling out their handgun.
It was all about making the films flashy, at the cost of substance. A problem that pervades pretty much every element of the film.
I would love to see the originals in a proper theater, but not in 3D. I have double vision problems and the last time I went to see a 3D movie (Coraline) I was having to constantly focus my vision to keep my eyes oriented so I wasn't seeing double whenever something 3D popped up.
I should also mention that, while I don't care for some of the changes he's made to the originals, I like some of the stuff he threw in. Particularly how he replaced some of the really shitty original effects. I think his obsession with CGI worked a lot better when he was just throwing in details to his older films that actually had room for visual improvement, as opposed to his approach in the newer films where he and his team literally crammed as much shit as they could manage into every frame.
light sabers are cool and should be used whenever possible