Jar Jar Binks Must Die!

[Andrés]

The plot does makes sense and could have been a great opening to the whole saga.
No movie could have met the expectations of all fans that have been waiting for so long, but that’s not a good defense.
But with a few minor changes, less dialogs, the end of the space and ground battle, and it would have been the movie we were waiting for.
The destruction of the TFDCS could have resembled more the destruction of a Death Star, size matters not (though it was big enough), but how it was made. The gungans could have won over the droids, that in turn could have got confused and not dead after the destruction of the command ship. Ewoks with little help of a few rebels could beat the better prepared imperial forces.

Too much special effects? I don’t think so, after all starwars has always had a lot of fx. Jar Jar was overdone and given too much time, I agree. I heard they were careful to make effects in the new movies fit with those in the original trilogy.

About the race: Remember that humans are not supposed to be able to drive pod racers. Anakin relied on his Force perception, most of the other drivers were aliens with faster reflexes and multiple hands.

Hadrian: I don’t think that Palpatine would have planned to use the Death Star against the Gungans, Naboo was his home-planet.
IIRC Rebel sympathizer planets such as Chandrila, Calamari and Sullust were in the list.

And what's serious sci-fi? Blade Runner, Aliens, Terminator and Farscape?
Give me a break!

[Atilla the Pun]

I have to agree that JarJar was given waaaaay too much screen time.

But Episode I (TPM) was there for one purpose only, to introduce the characters for the next movie. Ok, it had some cool action sequences, and it really started to introduce us to what the Jedi were truely capable of, Luke vs. Darth Vader was a mostly untrained kid against a cripple, even in RotJ. And from what I understand we will get to see some real Jedi action with Yoda vs. a Dark Jedi (or Sith, I'm not sure which), and Aniken at the peak of his powers.

So as an introduction, it wasn't too bad. Except of course for the comic releif. If I wanted to watch The Three Stooges, I would. And don't get me wrong, I like The Three Stooges. But it's not what I paid for when I bought the tickt for TPM.

AtP

TPM =The Phantom Menace
RotJ=Return of the Jedi

[Will]

Originally posted by PvK:
I'd have to watch the pod race again to give detailed reasons why it was so unbelievable.

I would say that the most obvious unbelievable aspect of the pod race was the nearly-inertialess turns... Look, a little metal ball attached to two huge ramjet engines is making a 90 degree turn without turning 150 degrees! If the things were really going that fast, there wouldn't have been any of the tight turns that were shown, all of them would be a few hundred meters in diameter.

[Phoenix-D]

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Originally posted by Resident Alien 2:
and what a lame story that movie had.
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... I just can't stress this enough...
... for the very Last time...

It's the opening! Openings are not supposed to come with the destruction of the death star!"

That doesn't mean the story has to be a POS.

Phoenix-D