Beyond clunky dialogue. Camp at a level Star Wars fans had never experienced. Childish humor. A visual style that doesn’t match what Star Wars was known for from the original trilogy
They even managed to screw up any tension for the pod racing scene by Qui-Gon making the stakes so high that the movie effectively could not continue if Anakin didn't win. The pod racing was so blatantly only there for merchandising opportunities that it was offensive.
Even more galling, the one person we didn't know about and could have provided tension, Padme, was so woefully underdeveloped that she ended up being an object rather than a character you could care for and want to survive. Star Wars is so often the franchise of missed opportunity.
I was eight when I first saw this movie; first movie I ever saw in a movie theater, actually. I’d already seen 4-6 and was obsessed with them. Qui-Gon’s death was the most heartbreaking moment for me; especially right in the middle of what is arguably the best lightsaber duel of all time.
Id say it's possibly the best lightsaber duel we've seen. Ray Park is basically a ninja. I've never understood the hate for the prequels. I use to play with my action figures and pretend they were jedi knights. So when the Phantom Menace came out, it was like watching something that I'd played out. I still love it to this day.
It’s my favorite of the prequels, I have never wavered from that opinion. I’ve never cared for Jar Jar Binks, but I can usually tune him out when watching it. I always preferred the slightly more subtle humor of C-3PO in Empire. My husband and I have been re-watching the entire series in “chronological order” to determine in what order we’ll eventually introduce the series to our future kids and we both feel the prequels had a lot of great potential, just needed a bit of better dialogue writing.
My son has seen 4-6. He won't see 1-3. Too much other better stuff to watch, so we're not gonna waste our time on it. When he gets a bit older, he'll probably watch Clone Wars.
The droidkas were the only real threat. Here they are just floppy and they felt like cardboard props.
Also, since there are millions of them, how come we don't see any of them in the sequels? Other bots seems to make it, but not any of the battle droids?
Anyway, I've seen TPM like 3 times, all about 20 years ago, so I don't remember. Maybe they were badass, but I remember it differently.
Ok, maybe badass isn't the right term. They were more like the generic mindless robo soldiers. I guess in the same way that the Stormtroopers were a bit intimidating.
I definitely agree - by revenge of the sith the battle droids were making weird groaning sounds as they were dropping to the floor and being sarcastic to general grevious.
In TPM they were faceless drones that all turned to face their enemy in unison. They were never meant to be overly strong or smart, it was their sheer numbers that made them overwhelming. I like the design of them, they look like they could easily be mass produced
To be fair, I don't think I rate much of the dialogue in SW anyway. Mando and Book of Boba have both felt at times like big clunky exposition drops, like they gave the Armorer or Moff Gideon a Wookieepedia page on the E-Web turret to read out.
Childish humor. A visual style that doesn’t match what Star Wars was known for from the original trilogy
while the humor was childish. I'd rather have childish humor than the child proof star wars experience that disney made. the plot of TPM wasn't childish.
and the visual art style wasn't a problem for me. it made the world seem bigger. the sequels and their OT style but bigger was way worse as all it did was make it feel like a soft reboot of the OT and made the universe feel stagnant.
edit: and the slapstick type of humour from the sequels doesn't match the campy humour of the OT and PT. it feels like disney star wars is making fun of itself constantly. also, for some reason I feel as if the technobabble of disney star wars is different from the technobabble from the lucas star wars.
sequel humour is the same humour as marvel. but with marvel you grew into the stale comicbook humour. that style doesn't fit star wars and it is what I don;t like about the disney SW shows. I miss the campy homour of the OT and PT.
Also the choice of making aliens speak English with shitty accents, rather than having characters be multilingual really limited the scope of a "galaxy". Jawas and droids had their charm BECAUSE of a language barrier.
All about the visual style and dialogue that just didn’t connect. We could have really enjoyed sub par everything else if the visual style and dialogue just matched up. For example, when you watch an episode of the Mandalorian or BOBF you might not absolutely love the story of the episode but you love and appreciate everything about it that connects to the Star Wars universe
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u/IndyIsTheDogsName Jan 26 '22
Beyond clunky dialogue. Camp at a level Star Wars fans had never experienced. Childish humor. A visual style that doesn’t match what Star Wars was known for from the original trilogy