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Clone of "A New Hope"

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3 Feb 20th, 2009 

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Great to see where it began

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Copies A New Hope too much

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The globally known tale from a galaxy far far away, how it all started after the chance meeting of Qui Gon Jin and Anakin Skywalker who is saved from slavery & adopted as a Padawan (trainess Jedi) by Obi Wan Kenobi after his master is cut down in his prime, quite literally. How the boy falls for a Princess who he thinks is an angel and how his droid helps him along the way.

The Phantom Menace is simply Star Wars remade. Made the way George Lucas would have made A New Hope if he'd had the technology. There are so many similarities between it and the previous 3 Star Wars films it's unreal.

1)Opening with a space battle. Hmmm! Didn't Star Wars open like this?

2)Jedi meets with student. Again we've seen this before.

3)Pod racing, made me think about Luke's speech on Beggars Canyon.

4)To the Tatooine spaceport. Mos Eisley, anybody?

5)Droids in a workshop. Like father like son, Luke fixes 3PO and R2!

6)Attacking a green planet. Endor? where were the Ewoks?

7)Jabba's slave girl. Seen that outfit somewhere before? Leia wore it!

8)Jedi fight Sith Lord (pronouced syth, OK Samuel Jackson?). Kenobi vs Vader on the Deathstar, or vs Luke on Cloud City or the new Deathstar)

9)Attacking a big space station. The trench sequence?

10)Being presented with medals. The end of Star Wars?

OK. George Lucas has ripped himself off and conned the punters. Liam Neeson as Qui gon Jin and Ewan McGregor as Obi Wan Kenobi hold the film together but Jake Lloyd as Anakin looks way out of his depth in every scene. Darth Maul (played amazingly well by martial artist & stuntman Ray Parks) was killed off way too easily and he should have been used a lot more. All in all - what a waste of time and money, it could have been so much more. George, you must redeem yourself.

As far as extras go there is an entire dvd devoted to them which consists of an hour long documentary from behind the scenes, 7 deleted scenes, animatics of how the podrace was made, a 12 part web documentary of the making of the film, production photo gallery, 5 featurettes about storyline, design, costumes, fight scenes and visual effects. The dvd contains over 6 hours of material.

The movie disc itself has subtitles and commentaries from George Lucas & Rick Cullum as well as 5 other people (from the special effects department who tell you how the various effects were done, its very insightful)

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redeyes22 20.02.2009 23:11

great review aggy xxx

Expired-Account 20.02.2009 19:25

Not one for me, Stars Wars is my type of thing at all

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