The Phantom Menace is the most underrated movie of the last 30 years

Jun 25, 2020 1:27 PM

simisonfire

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The Disney trilogy makes the prequels seem actually good. Episode 9 was the worst Disney movie I’ve ever seen

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#4 this is just the best

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This is horrible. It's perfect.

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Roger Roger

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I loved every single one

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Superb! Thanks for sharing!

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your cat should be named ploppy. IDK why. Just came to me

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#21 jeez, i guess i'm gonna be sad this morning

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Yeah I would've killed Palpatine and quit the Jedi if they didn't let me marry Padme.

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And why not? Imagine Obi-wan having a real heart-to-heart with Anakin: "Being a Jedi is a good thing... but being a father is a great one."

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I spit out my fucking coffee when I saw this

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I know this post is supposed to be a joke, but honesty the only star wars movie I’ve ever liked is whatever one has the meesa guy

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Phantom Menace. Detest jar jar but has qui-gon, pod racing, space battle, and duel of fates ?

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#9: darth brooks in the life of sith gaines.

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Rewatched the prequels for the first time in 10 yrs recently. 1 holds up pretty well tbh. 2 not so much. 3 is borderline unwatchable

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I always felt Revenge of the Sith was the most structurally sound film of the prequels. Still messy, but enjoyable.

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Oooh some new ones!

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This is that real imgur shit i come here for

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Song title? Was really nice

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You'd have to ask @BabyFarkMcgeeZax. He made it. Honestly makes the best gifs on here.

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Hell ya, dudes a legend

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The "I don't know, I didn't listen" line was used in Hitchhikers Guide and was probably an old joke before that. Still good though.

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Its an older joke but it checks out

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1/2 It’s at times like this, when I’m stuck in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelegeuse about to die of asphyxiation in deep space,

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2/2that I really wish I’d listened to what my mother told me when I was little.”“Why, what did she tell you?”“I don’t know, I didn’t listen"

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“You know," said Arthur, "it's at times like this, when I'm trapped in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, and about to die of 1/

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asphyxiation in deep space that I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told me when I was young."
"Why, what did she tell you?"
2/

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"I don't know, I didn't listen.” 3/3

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Wow that was near the beginning

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"Terrrriffic."

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+1 attention to detail. Love it.

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THANK YOU! I knew I had heard it somewhere before.

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Ford said it to Arthur.

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About whom? This is going to bother me. But not enough to dig the book out of storage.

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When in the Vorgon spaceship.

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Vogon

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Vogon Constructor Fleet*

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Phantom Menace is good. Idc what ppl say

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Don't let anyone say you're not allowed to enjoy a film!

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It has its good points, imo. There was a lot of stuff I didn't like about it, but hey, mother fucking pod racing.

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Phantom Menace was ok but I liked the duels of the original trilogy a lot more. Opinions.

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I agree with you. The original trilogy's duels felt like relationship with the force was crucial, and so were interesting.

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The PT saber fights were like rehearsed dances that seemed to me to be trying to seem to be about fighting & "powers", but unconvincingly.

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I remember 15 year old me watching it in theaters and being severely disappointed. I grew up watching

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Star Wars.I've grown to not hate the prequels but accept and like. Except Attack Of The Clones fuck that

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Where can I find this on YouTube?

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The original trilogy weren't as flashy but they were rare and weighted enough to feel fun.

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No acrobatics or sumersaults just raw anger and emotion and storytelling, like when Luke loses his shit and cuts Vader's hand off

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I thought the final fight on Mustafar was pretty solid though. Prob one of the best of the series.

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"We have you surrounded (at least from this side)"

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SEVERAL KENOBI

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holy shit this is good

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#1 Not a huge Star Wars fan. But I'm nerd enough that I need to point out that clone troopers and storm troopers are not the same thing! ?

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It is also stated in episode three that clones are replaced with normal people. That's why they are incompetent.

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You are not only wrong, but smug about it too. +1

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And cody maybe even died of old age. clones age faster but i´m too lazy to check how much faster they aged.

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Rex was still alive and fighting until at least the battle of endor. And if he is in the mandalorian season 2 he'll be around 80 clone years

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Nice to know. Thx

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Woosh

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Indeed. Commander Cody would have long since been retired by the empire.

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"After the fall of the Republic, the Grand Army's clone troopers were re-designated as stormtroopers." -Wookieepedia

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It seems an obvious enough conclusion

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The clone troopers were retired almost immediately after the Clone Wars, and replaced by conscripted people. The only active clones...

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by the time of the Original Trilogy were Vader's personal unit, the 501st.

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There were other clones working in the empire (like Purge Troopers) but yeah they stopped producing new clones pretty quickly.

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On that same page: "Throughout the early years of Palpatine's reign, the Empire continued to utilize the Jango Fett template, but later"

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Thats from the non-canon legends timeline. In the canon timeline they stopped producing clones pretty quickly after the birth of the Empire.

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Yep. They were expensive and unnecessary. The clones were bred specifically to kill Jedi. After that any recruits would do.

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"commissioned the creation of new troopers from different genetic sources. Cloning remained essential to the Imperial Military,"

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"the introduction of birth-born recruits into the ranks of the Stormtrooper Corps gradually reduced clone soldiers to a minority status."

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So by the time of A New Hope, very few OG clones would be left, and they would likely be better utilized as trainers than troopers.

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Remember when 7,8,9 weren’t out yet and we were all hoping for a trilogy to top the original one? Good, naive times full with sweet dreams..

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7 wasn't >bad< and was an innocent start like the original. The "Mr. subvert expectations" slaughtered 8. After that, 9 had no chance.

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I don’t know who downvoted you but this is 100% true. 7 had flaws, but it was entertaining. It created possibilities. Then 8 shit the bed.

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I remember watching 8 in theaters. I'm not a die hard star wars fan but it just wasn't a well made movie. Whole casino scene was pointless!

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Apart from butchering Finn's character journey, I thought Rian did a decent job. I'd have liked to see a whole trilogy with 1 director tho..

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The whole not tell anybody the plan while 80% of your people get slaughtered was dumb. And I understand Luke's character arch - it was just¹

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So forced.

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#11 Rule of 2 is something the Sith imposed themselves, as when there's too many, there's generally a civil war between them all

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it wasn't really about maintaining order so much as hording power. the Darth Bane book explained that the force is 1/2

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2/2 weakened when too many jedi/sith are tapping into it at the same time.

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You might be a good person to ask: in the movies, the Sith serve only as the bad guys for the Jedi, but there has to be more to them than >

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But the general philosophy of the Sith is that the strong rule. So you need to become as powerful as possible no matter what.

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> that. Do you know of any books or anything that focus more on what the Sith were about?

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Read the Darth Bane trilogy by Drew Karpyshyn. They're awesome and explain how they came up with the Rule of Two.

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Hell yeah, thanks

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I mean, a few, but they're mostly in the "Legends" category right now. Mostly the KOTOR games and books that focus on Revan and Bane. To

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more directly answer your question, though, the Sith religion is basically all about amassing power through any means necessary, because

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in their eyes, power is the ultimate form of freedom.

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Well, the reason they pretty much always become bad guys is because the Dark Side keeps dragging them down, but the Sith delude 1/2

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themselves into believing that they can control it. The Dark Side is quick and easy, but it twists you until you forgot why you wanted 2/?

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that power to begin with 3/3

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I binged every Star Wars movie in order this week. I can say without a doubt 1 is fine. 2 is still the worst of the bunch though.

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media bad, give upvotes

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1 sucks more

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And Ep. III is the greatest feel good movie of all time. The Hero wins and peace returns to the Galaxy! Always puts a smile on my face.

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Have you watched rogue one yet? I liked it a lot

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Of course, Rogue One is on the other end of the list, the end with The Mandalorean

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4, 5, 6, 1, 9, 3, 8, 7, 2

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Rogue One comes after ep1

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1 is my least favorite. I'll watch 2 over 1 any day. I'll even take the sequel trilogy over Ep1.

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ep 1 is pretty good in terms of all the meme that it spawned.

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It's the MST3K kind of good, in that it's true value comes from being able to make fun of it.

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I'm going to ask and this is extremely important...order of release or chronological order?

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Yes

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Hate to say it, but I think for any kid in 2020 Star Wars only has one order - and it's the one that starts with Phantom Menace.

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Or Machete Order??

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This^

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Chronological for sure. NOONE thinks Empire is the worst.

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Chronological order. Even if two is a bit off

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You forgot...The First Order!

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My preferred viewing order is R1, Star Wars (THE Star Wars), TESB, ROTJ. Solo whenever I feel like it. Occasionally select scenes from ROTS.

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Not that I hate the other movies with a passion, but I've seen the prequels 3 times and the sequels 2 times now. Enough for a lifetime imho.

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Release, otherwise you spoil the reveal in Empire. Personally I like watching Eps IV and V, prequels, then Jedi onward if watching them all

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Basically Machete Order.

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It's the only sensible way imo, other than release order

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Worse than 8 and 9 ?

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Rey never gave off a creepy rapist vibe in the 1st 10 minutes, so yeah. Much. Bad dialogue ruins 2 and they relied too heavily on CGI

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Yep lmao. I had the same thoughts when I rewatched all the movies a while ago. Anakin is very creepy in the prequels.

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I can understand folks not liking the sequel trilogy, but I find it hard to grasp people who say the prequels were better.

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The prequels had the big picture right but fucked up all the details. Sequels had (most of) the details right but fucked up the big picture.

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I think prequels(apart from jarjar,podracing and weird romance)did some good world building and had original charactera and aestethic 1/2

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I hear this a lot, but I often see the brunt of the work that went into worldbuilding came from outside sources. Podracing was just...

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Episode VII was a faded copy of IV, VIII snoke's death was senseless, and I couldnt stand Rose's childish actions. 2/?

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Screw it, star wars good

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Thats where I'm at really, theres so much wrong with all the movies I just have to look at the good things they all have... its hard

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We spend too much time tearing every piece of media to shreds (cough cough cinemasins) that we forget that they're still good movies

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I'm definitely one of those people man, oh man, its really hard to just go narrow view and be like "i enjoyed it" i didn't even like endgame

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I would put 9 at the bottom followed by 8 and then 2 myself, but I understand disliking 2 more, it's difficult to watch

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8 is the worst. 4 is the best, 1 is great, 2 still has a better plot and characters and arc than 8

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Finn's arc was pretty messy, but I don't even for a second find it comparable to Anakin & Padme's cringy romantic vacation.

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Lol finn didn't have a single arc throughout all 3 movies, they only made it super sus that he has the force in the third one

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I don't get why 7 gets left out. That movie just made a bigger death star, didn't introduce any interesting characters, and Rey learned

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It’s watchable.Like an anniversary reunion movie for the next generation. It had Chewie, Han, Leia, and Luke. I’d be content without 8 and 9

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force powers through sheer instinct the moment she needed them

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Thats called lazy writing with a heavy sjw bend. Terrible. Like cyborg in justice league. "Oh I can do this too lookit me"

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I couldn't help but gesticulate at the screen watching it because so many plot points were just rehashes of A New Hope- it was so blatant.

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And the parts that weren't were just taken from the other movies. Nothing was new.

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It's got the exact same vibe as a newly-single dad taking you out for ice cream after he absolutely ruins your mother in divorce court.

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Those are nitpicks. As a first story in a triptych its job is to establish characters and conflicts. It's fine at that--

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people didn't think the characters were uninteresting until 8 and 9 failed to deliver on them.

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