Official: STAR WARS THREAD. These are the droids you're looking for. **WARNING MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS

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[smittycl]

https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/03/entertainment/star-wars-phantom-menace-turns-25/index.html

 

[Jr Mouse]

https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/03/entertainment/star-wars-phantom-menace-turns-25/index.html

 

[imatlas]

Never liked that duel scene. It just comes over as super fake and "video gamey", and most of the fights since have had the same problem.

I really like the duel between Rey and Kylo Ren in The Force Awakens, though.

 

[Jr Mouse]

Never liked that duel scene. It just comes over as super fake, "video gamey", and most of the fights since have had the same problem.

I really like the duel between Rey and Kylo Ren in The Force Awakens, though.

Same. Never cared for the “Duel of Fates” lightsaber duel. I’ll take any of the lightsaber fights in the prequels over the sequel fights.

 

[smittycl]

Same. Never cared for the “Duel of Fates” lightsaber duel. I’ll take any of the lightsaber fights in the prequels over the sequel fights.

I loved it. The only thing we had between the originals and Menace was video games. I thought the fight was very cool.

 

[Jr Mouse]

I loved it. The only thing we had between the originals and Menace was video games. I thought the fight was very cool.

There are two times in my life I watched a train wreck of a film and had no idea why people were cheering. One was Amagedon the other was Phantom Menace.

TPM had years of hype behind it so I’ll give the audiences that.

 

[mhip]

Star Wars night at Angel Stadium...
I had no idea they could do this type of massive coordination with drones.




These are the drones I was looking for.

 

[Gibonius]

There are two times in my life I watched a train wreck of a film and had no idea why people were cheering. One was Amagedon the other was Phantom Menace.

TPM had years of hype behind it so I’ll give the audiences that.

TPM was bad, but the Duel of the Fates was pretty solid all things considered. The score definitely carries it, but Ray Park is a genuinely talented martial artist and elevates the whole thing.

There's too many "stand in place and deliberate hit each other's blades" sequences, but for Star Wars? Pretty solid effort. It's way better than anything else in the prequels for sure.

 

[Jr Mouse]

TPM was bad, but the Duel of the Fates was pretty solid all things considered. The score definitely carries it, but Ray Park is a genuinely talented martial artist and elevates the whole thing.

There's too many "stand in place and deliberate hit each other's blades" sequences, but for Star Wars? Pretty solid effort. It's way better than anything else in the prequels for sure.

 

[classicalthunde]

TPM was bad, but the Duel of the Fates was pretty solid all things considered.

I was a teenager when TPM came out...I think in hind sight its easy to criticize but, at the time, it was pretty wild as a kid to see full-blown Jedi and Sith in their prime go at it in a dual as opposed to an untrained kid/old man vs. a stiff cyborg past his hey day

 

[Gibonius]

I was a teenager when TPM came out...I think in hind sight its easy to criticize but, at the time, it was pretty wild as a kid to see full-blown Jedi and Sith in their prime go at it in a dual as opposed to an untrained kid/old man vs. a stiff cyborg past his hey day

I saw also a huge SW fan as a kid and saw it opening night. I remember leaving on a real high note after the duel, then the next morning I was like...hey wait, that movie sucked. I still like that fight though.


The other prequels got increasingly absurd, all spins and twirls and flashy nonsense. Then the sequels overcorrected and made it look like they're swinging lead pipes instead of swords (much less weightless swords). I don't know which I dislike more.

 

[SixOhNine]

I'm not sure it could get more ridiculous than Yoda v. Christopher Lee. A CGI character the size of a chihuahua against an 80 year old man? Sure, sounds great. Let's do that, George Lucas.

 

[Jr Mouse]

I'm not sure it could get more ridiculous than Yoda v. Christopher Lee. A CGI character the size of a chihuahua against an 80 year old man? Sure, sounds great. Let's do that, George Lucas.

It’s always been a fight I hated. Yoda jumping around like a Pokemon? **** that ****. It was horrible and against everything the character stood for.

 

[Gibonius]

The Yoda fight is especially bad, probably the worst in all the movies.

They couldn't even make Yoda fighting look good in the cartoons, which generally have really good saber fights (since they don't need actual actors to do the fighting). He's just too small, it ends up looking absurd.