Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace 3D

[bigjobs67]

FUCK the right OFF the lotta ya's. Lol. Do like me some Buster Crab Flash though. You watch some of that shit and you can see why Lukkkas and Spielberg were so well into it.It was, least we forget, the genesis for 'Wars'.

[I, Cosh]

You tryin to bait us Cosh? You know this means 'Beef' don'tcha. Lol.

Nope. I just prefer Star Wars to Empire Strikes Back. Always have. I think largely because it's self-contained.

Robocop is better than any of them, but probably not as enjoyable as Star Wars. Never really been that fussed about Starship Troopers.

[bigjobs67]

Yeah! Okay! Lovin both because the're Verhoven and he is one mad Dutch man. Hope Dredd has that vibe goin thru it.

[bigjobs67]

Just finished 'Empire' now swingin into 'jedi'. cause u hfta. U just hafta. FUCK!! just remembered! Got some jaffa cakes in my pocket. Lol.

[Beaky Smoochies]

Sadly probably all true, Greg.  Mind you, my lad eagerly watches the Hoth stuff, the asteroids and the Vader fight, and for my money the romance and the lighting, the beautiful lighting, are worth the price of admission alone.

Whilst the lighting on ...Empire... is indeed beautiful still to behold (it should do, it took Irvin Kershner ages to set up one shot, leading to him going WAY over budget and schedule), I always saw the Trilogy - there is only one, after all - as having that 'used' look, the same look in both A New Hope and Return of the Jedi (interior Death Star scenes notwithstanding), whilst The Empire Strikes Back has a more sophisticated and classic look to it... still completely awesome though!

Just finished 'Empire' now swingin into 'jedi'. cause u hfta. U just hafta. FUCK!! just remembered! Got some jaffa cakes in my pocket. Lol.

Please tell me you're watching the theatrical versions bigjobs, you'll destroy me if it's the nothing-of-the-sort (so-called) 'special editions' ...

[JamesC]

I'd rather see this in 3D:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbb5CYC6JTs

[bigjobs67]

They are unfortunately Beaky. Its a box set I 'borrowed' offa my brother so didn't have much say in it. My Mum, madly enough, has them all on VHS and I'm pretty sure their old enough to have escaped all the 'fiddlin'. Just have to get me a VCR. No two ways about it. Now where the fuck did I put those Jaffa cakes? Lol.

[Tiplodocus]

Just back from a viewing with Tiny Tips and while far from perfect, there is llots to enjoy, especially on a big screen with proper speakers all around.

I'm amused that so many people hate it so much but still take 90 minutes  out to watch this red letter bloke reviewing it. Why for an extra 40 minutes you could watch it yourself and make your own mind up.

[dweezil2]

Just back from a viewing with Tiny Tips and while far from perfect, there is llots to enjoy, especially on a big screen with proper speakers all around.

I'm amused that so many people hate it so much but still take 90 minutes  out to watch this red letter bloke reviewing it. Why for an extra 40 minutes you could watch it yourself and make your own mind up.

The sad thing is those "Red Letter" reviews are more compelling and entertaining than the movies!

[bigjobs67]

Just back from a viewing with Tiny Tips and while far from perfect, there is llots to enjoy, especially on a big screen with proper speakers all around.

I'm amused that so many people hate it so much but still take 90 minutes  out to watch this red letter bloke reviewing it. Why for an extra 40 minutes you could watch it yourself and make your own mind up.

The sad thing is those "Red Letter" reviews are more compelling and entertaining than the movies!

True Dat!lol.

[Satanist]

I'm just back as well, kids enjoyed it but my view firmiy remains GASH! Musics good though. And it just occurred to me today that having the high ground done Darth Maul no good at all so Obi Wans clearly talking pish when he fucks up Anakin later.

And as great as Robocop & Starship Troopers are (and I do love them) they arent exactly family viewing.

Oh and Empire has always been the best. We've got them all at home and I almost shed a proud tear when the boy decided to watch Empire all by himself.

[SmallBlueThing]

Just back from this as well. Both of mine loved it, despite having seen it a few times on DVD and it never being anyone's favourite. The 3D adds so much that I found it almost a different film- and even during the interminable talking head trade dispute yawn-o-rama, it was magnificent fun to just sit back and watch the 3D effect reveal stuff I've never noticed before. even saw the ETs in the council chamber this time, which is a first.

The extra bits are seamless and barely noticeable (especially if you haven't seen it "properly"- as in with full concentration- for over a decade), though the new Yoda looked a little cute for my liking- like the eyes had been scaled up a bit, and there's one shot of him framed with Yaddle that throws up the vast differences between the shonky puppetry of TPM on original release and the CG. The stallholder on Tattooine who accosts Jar-Jar for cash after he lassoos  a fish is another example of this- but then, that always was.

A few of the visual elements I've always had a problem with are still there-  the shot of the federation tanks immediately after the Gungan shield wall goes down is still textureless and shiny, and the stand-in for Sam Jackson who walks down out of the republic cruiser on Naboo at the end still screams "LOOK AT ME!". They could've CG'd Jackson's face on him, at least.

Interestingly, all the talk over the years about the inherent "racism" in TPM still makes me laugh- yes, Watto is a Shylock of the first degree, and the Neimudians are Japanese. Jar-Jar isn't far off a Steppin Fetchitt caricature, but I think comes over pretty well in the end. certainly nowhere near as offensive at it could've been. He is, after all, a frog- and finding offense in that is to me, a bit like moaning that the fat girl in the Muppets is called "Miss Piggy" and her love interest always runs away- because she's fat, and a pig. Also, notice that Lucas has Qui-Gon specifically ask Watto, a slave-trader (in a movie at least half about the horror that slavery exists) for "parts for a nubian". I think old beard-face knew exactly what he was doing. 

Has seeing it again made me any fonder of The Phantom Menace? No. It's still, along with Return of the Jedi, the worst Star Wars ever gets. But the 3D made it a wholly enjoyable experience, and I hope they do the rest of them in the same format.

Trailer for The Hobbit at the front- and my good grud almighty, if you want a load of bollocks that looks set to bore the arse off the audience, then there it is. Truly terrible.

SBT

[Tiplodocus]

Whereas me and Tiny Tips tnought The Hobbit trailer was awesome and can't wait for the film and are about to start a read of the book.

I think a lot of the current Star Wars critique sounds like a whiney bloke banging on about how great his ex-girlfriend used to be but now that she's going with somebody else,  he hates her.  She's moved on, so should you (either in the same direction or just let her go).

[bigjobs67]

I wish I had a girl friend.......................................................WHO LOVED THE ORIGINAL TRILOGY AND FUCKIN HATED THE NEW ONES. We make sweet, sweet love each and every day.

[TordelBack]

It certainly always helps to have a girlfriend who likes miniature things.