I LOVE the phantom Menace.
I'm right now today searching for old phantom menace pepsi cans on ebay to buy one to at least get back what I lost as a kid. I had the anakin pepsi can and stupidly tossed it out in the trash. It's been godamn 16 years since 1999. Now I thankfully still have a lot of old toys from the 90s because for some reason by God I put them in a suit case and my parents don't touch suit cases cuz whatever, but the other stuff i had as a kid (I'm a nerd so I collected everything...) they threw it all out. Luckily I still have some stuff. I mean I got buzz light year plush toy from burger king if that says anything. Got to find my other toy story toys...
But just thinking about it right now. I know now looking back that Lucas SHOULD have let peter jackson or someone make one of the prequels. Having someone else actually put their foot in would have made those movies actually stand up as real legit movies and not lucas' masturbation on film.
But nevertheless, I have to say just looking at the promo material for Phantom, I really love that movie. Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the sith are too much of a weird trippy attempt at connecting the prequels to the OT. But at least Phantom was its own thing. Yes it's blatantly racist, I know that. But my point is that the movie is such an event film. First star wars in 19 years. It was and encapsulates a magical moment in my life at that time. I fell in love with star wars in 97, then they fucking decided to bring it back. Can you imagine how awesome a kids life is to have that happen? And it was amazing to sit there and and watch them making that movie. The prequels unfortunately came about thanks in large part to internet bullshit. Mind you, Lucas made the OT when he could NOT literally sit at his computer every day and read what fans were saying, so he made those movie without their input on a daily basis. The prequels don't have that going on. Lucas was at all the star wars forums while making the prequels and he literally used some the fans ideas in the films. Which is a terrible idea. But no going back now.
At least with Phantom he didn't have that going on and it shows. Phantom feels so much more like a star wars movie and not some weird hodge podge of fanboy complaints and shit like the second two movies did.
which is the proper way to do star wars imo. I'm not saying I love phantom as a movie, as a movie it's garbage. I can't defend it. But it was so awesome a moment to have been there waiting for that shit. I mean everytihing we have today online was brought about through Phantom Menace. You have to give it credit for that. It opened up a whole new frontier of movie news and stuff online that we've never seen before.
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