The Phantom Menace was so spectacularly bad, such a huge disappointment, that I have not watched it since the one time I saw it in the theater.
So strange seeing the trailer again. Jar-Jar Binks is irreparably burned into my memory, but I had totally forgotten Liam Neeson's mullet. The horror.
Anything that J.J. Abrams does has got to be an improvement over the abomination that was the Phantom Menace. But this time I'm waiting for the reviews. I will not be burned again.
There is a surprising saturation of troubling images, sounds, and lines of dialogue in that trailer. But back then we all saw what we wanted to see: the excitement of a new Star Wars movie. We didn't see what we were actually shown.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOsK537mA…
I know; I was there, bro.
The original trilogy was cheesy. The prequels were an abomination.
So strange seeing the trailer again. Jar-Jar Binks is irreparably burned into my memory, but I had totally forgotten Liam Neeson's mullet. The horror.
Anything that J.J. Abrams does has got to be an improvement over the abomination that was the Phantom Menace. But this time I'm waiting for the reviews. I will not be burned again.
I saw Star Wars the day it opened, on a large screen in New York, first show of the day.
No reviews out yet, no expectations: and we were amazed by it! Funny, thrilling, adventurous.
Special effects so special at the time, that I experienced them as 3D.
Each Star Wars after that was somewhat a let down, slightly worse than the previous: after Phantom Menaces I gave up.
George Lucas has a tin ear, I doubt his ear is any less tinny.
May he suffer from papercuts & foot rot everyday for eternity.