The level of craftsmanship that went into this film is mind-boggling
The level of craftsmanship that went into this film is mind-boggling
If you say so.
It's mid.
I rewatched that movie not too long ago and it was better than I remembered, once you know to expect Jar Jar Binks, you can focus on everything else more and it's not bad.
Yes it’s a well produced movie. It’s just not great. Kid Anakin still sucks, but the droids & effects are passable at least
And none of the craft cale from George Lucas. He just hired artists to do the work and then filmed it all in the most boring way possible.
it has its issues but also a lot of great elements. even if it feels a little redundant across all 3 prequels the stuff I find the most interesting nowadays is the political stuff with palpatine exploiting the corrupt senate. maybe the cartoons and other shit explore this but I feel like Dooku couldve been more interesting if he wasn't basically knowingly being Palpatine's pawn and a sith
George Lucas is anti-hollywood and a documentarian, that's why you find it "boring".
Or maybe it’s just genuinely boring, who’s to say?
yeah, a pity the plot and dialogue was written by a retard
anti-hollywood
making a multi million dollar blockbuster
You need to be 18 to post here anon
When/why did we stop genuinely appreciating CGI?
I dont know the exact moment but at some stage it switched from being providence of a small group of artists pushing technology to the limits doing things people didnt think would be posstible into just a production line of worker bees shitting out 'content' that was about on par with what everyone expected.
When it started being used for demolition cinema in replacement for practical effects around this time i.e Michael Bay
The 90s were both the best & worst time for movies
this is what RLM does to your brain
KEK
Even if the technology is now at the point there's a Blender plug-in where any teenager can click a button and AI renders a fully-choreographed monster fight or spaceship battle, wouldn't The Phantom Menace be HISTORICALLY impressive? It is.
CGI actually used to be marketing point. Remember Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow? ALL blue screens.
Here's that most controversial film ever made bro
When it became commonplace, outsourced to cheaper countries instead of trying to create the best they could, when it became a fix for mistakes or bad planning and used for shortcuts.
Anakin should have lost the race and Quigon taken him anyway. It would have made the drama of jedi doing whatever they want more real.
Tell me one good line from the movie.
My give up
Yeah it is, it’s catalogued as an impressive technical achievement. Even haters give it that. Just remember:
”Meeza step in doodoo!”
who was the phantom menace?
the friends we met along the way
Who's responsible for the sequels
What do you mean Michael Bay? He's one of the last guys who sticks with practical effects. In transformers the robots are CGI but most of the background and explosions are real.
A menace is haunting the Galaxy...
gay OP. this stupid movie is gay. George Lucas was on a steady diet of C-Span as a boring white guy with unlimited money when he wrote this slop.
bad movie that was a big deal for being the first Star Wars movie in decades, and Duel of the Fates.
It's obvious from the behind the scenes materials, retard. He just came up with the character's name and let the concept artists create everything else. Stop sucking the fat hack's cock, zoomer.
Oooooh, icky icky doo doo!
That was a bussin line frfr
Palpatine, obviously. all 9 films now are about some cartoonish bad guy in black robes who cackles alot.
this was fine as an archetype for a guy who is only on camera for 15 minutes or so and was supposed to represent pure malevolent evil. it has not weathered well, and i was honestly stunned when palpatine, somehow, returned. what a blunder of writing that was.
George Lucas is a fat commie hack with a black child and jewish best friends from Hollywood. Fucking retard.
The ability to speak does not make you intelligent.
I know. 16 years. Billions of dollars. Massive technological innovations (led by his own effects house). And that childhood-raping, embarassing, ineptly made pile of shit is what he releases. Truly mind boggling.
A communications disruption can mean only one thing: invasion
man that's so true, there's so much truth to that line, you know shit is HAPPENING when your comms are fucked...
he was surround by yes men who signed off on a very expensive daytime soap with some action scenes
The level of craftsmanship that went into this film is mind-boggling
The crazy thing is that the prequel trilogy are technically indie flicks since they were entirely funded by George Lucas himself. He could do whatever he wanted without answering to a studio, or anyone.
this is why star wars is one of the most interesting things to happen in the history of cinema
Lucas hired great artists. A shame he pissed over all their efforts.
still falls for RLM lies
kek, if you actually, like YOU, sit down and watch the bts you see him being involved in fucking everything, from clothes, to settings to choreography.
But we already know you won't watch it since having someone else watch it for you and then talk about it is all your small fucking brain can handle.
All six of them
empire and jedi are indie as well
Why do people always make shit up to hype this dude up? He's a lazy fat fuck who's only directing was "faster, more intense". Then he'd sit his fat ass down and chug down his coffee while people would pretend to understand what he's saying as to not get fired.
I'm 4 hours in and he's STILL talking about the podracers
youtu.be
They're no match for DROI DE KAAS
It's not "people," it's zoomers who saw these movies as a baby and now pretend they are high art because of nostalgia. Also, these schizo pol fags have to always deify a celebrity who is supposedly "le based."
Peak cinema
I've seen all the behind the scenes videos, zoomer. He literally comes in the room full of already completed concepts and picks one by saying "This one." He barely does anything creative in any of the documents.
it's hilarious that, in hindsight, and after rewatching this movie a month ago, it actually holds up well. The soundtrack is on point, it has the best lightsaber fight, the world is beautiful, it's filmed well and is in general, not too bad.
But why the fuck is there so much jar-jar, i will never understand. There's no reason for him to be so prominent. The moment he appears i start feeling second-hand embarrassment.
but Jar Jar is the key to all of this
The prequels has good "Making Of" documentary. I watched them more than the movie itself. George seem like a chill dude. I like the jarjar actor flirting with Natalie
just wait til you see his episode 2 video, its 12hrs and only covers like 40 min of the movie, he spends 2 hours talking about the fucking dart jango shoots at the assassin
Probably around AOTC because that movie looked awful due to the overconfident use of digital *compositing*. See these fucking guys in the front who are clearly shot from straight on, but the rest of the shot is tilted downward? They thought shit like this would be OK somehow, there's many examples of this problem (even if I'm not sure if this specific image is really a shot from the movie) like they actually forgot how the three dimensional world works and thought that you could just move footage around in 2D screen space and it didn't matter about focal length or even angle of shot, my god.
Anyway the point is people saw that it looked bad, and that it had CGI, and just assumed that it looked bad because of CGI and that CGI looks bad. Wrong but you can understand why they thought that
George is a fantastic creative director.
The idea of steering the work's aesthetic through guidance and directions seems lost on people. He even made his own designs, but also could pick and choose and personally decided the look of essentially every alien, clothing, starship etc etc
Shut.
The fuck.
Up.
The artists work from directions already given, you massive tard.
He says "the story needs a droid general for the last movie", and the artists use their skills to create characters for him to pick and choose.
Then they may go for a second pass or refine the design after being given pointers. The artists themselves work from overall themes given to them. All of it is shaped into a cohesive whole.
The early concept for b1 droids is that they were shaped like mummified nemoidians, but later this concept was re-used in the geonosians design. There's docus for you to watch. He's hands on every step of the way.
Jar jar is an important character, mostly due to being a plot-centric character that moves the story along.
He's also part of the theme of "weak" inhuman characters having outsized importance in starwars (see the droids in OT), while simultaneously being disregarded as unimportant, working in the background etc.
He's a counterpoint to the more heroic and action oriented jedi. He also acts to characterize Qui Gon and Obiwan, who both dismiss him pretty severely (and are proven wrong on screen).
This is to help sell the shortcomings of both Obiwan and quigon and makes their characters more well rounded while also being more heroic by comparison, having someone like jar jar to play off of.
AOTC was experimental. Digital tech was pushed forward several decades by the act of making it.
scared, idiotic, millennial bleating
PEE-YOUSA!
Bot or George himself?
Just answer me directly if you disagree. Don't be a pussy about a simple discussion online
You can hate all his films, but he was a technical pioneer of film. We all have digital shooting/editing probably a decade sooner at least thanks to him.
George then
Star wars is only interesting if you're autistic. Neurotypical people just can't enjoy it.
Prequel haters are dickless faggots that can't even reply properly
I think the first two can be enjoyed as a whole. Anything that came after has to be enjoyed in layers because it's such an inconsistent shitshow.
Thank you George
George seem like a chill dude.
I think he's genuinely a good guy with a very firm set of values which he tried to impart on young people with his movies.
youtube.com
About 8 minutes into this video Lucas talks about his personal philosophy on happiness and if you think for a moment you realize that it perfectly mirrors the conflict between the jedi and the sith in his movies.
bonus factoid
George retired for a few years after his divorce because he wanted to be present in his kids life and that just warms my heart.
Addendum re: jarjar
The thing about him is that his actions and the way he is used in the story also supports the idea that The Force itself is a "force" that moves people and influences outcomes. His supreme luck and ability to avoid harm is almost portrayed like a divine blessing.
Hence, you could argue that Jar Jar serves as characterization for the Force (or God), and through Jar jar we can better understand how God works.
Poodoo
padme's outfits were kino
The behind the scenes and "making of" documentaries are comfy as fuck.
Just like he invented the OT being a 1:1 copy of Dune right? Lol
you clearly have no idea what you are talking about
George retired for a few years after his divorce because he wanted to be present in his kids life and that just warms my heart.
Based George.
basedllenials hate the prequels because they represent a better world
In real life it means that jeets were updating your software.
this composition is boring trash, the lighting is incredibly poorly done
actual peak slop
once you smelled shit long enough, you can focus on everything else more and it's not bad.
watch the RLM reviews
Ever since Revenge of the Sith got a re release some poor anon has been desperately trying to trick people into thinking episode 1 and 2 are good.
composition
Explain how it's bad and show a better composition.
lighting
Serviceable. Light is clearly casted differently through openings in the ceiling.
zoomers never saw them as children due to being too young
schizo polfag strawman
You're genuinely deranged and probably feeling more lonely by the minute. The rehabilitation of the prequels has happened over a broad front, with every segment of the population liking them more and more.
The millennials are worse off, but there's many among them that enjoy prequels, me included
Its just life passing you by. Prequel hate is like a millstone around your neck.
Posted it again award.
He is anti-Hollywood, that's why he made his base of operations outside of Hollywood and made his movies independently so that he wouldn't have to answer to studio executives.
Literally the only star wars film that had the most care and effort put into it
The director hired people to do their jobs.
You realise that's what concept artists are for right?
the prequel trilogy are the best Star Wars movies of them all, and i dare any motherfucker to try and prove me wrong.
pro tip:
you cant
watched them before seeing the prequels and I could already smell the bad faith arguments
Charlie Rose: Because you wear -- have worn all these hats, though -- filmmaker, director, storyteller, writer, a technological innovator -- what do you want the first line of your obituary to say?
George Lucas: "I was a great dad." Or "I tried."
Now get out of here
Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones are the only films of the prequels worth watching.
Revenge of the Sith is a shit show.
I'M A PERSON AND MY NAME IS ANAKIN
portman was 14 during filming btw
Old enough to kiss! :Dand rape
Look into Terence Stamp.
Let's just say there's a reason Chancellor Valorum wasn't in Attack of the Clones.
I move for a vote of no confidence in the chancellor
Jake Lloyd is charismatic as hell
-ly bad.
Shame they couldn't just keep him in the role, he grew up to look a lot more like the guy under the mask at the end of ROTJ
Prequel haters are low effort, low iq spammers that generally bring down the already abysmal level of discussion to new lows.
They are not interested in anything except destroying the board. Functionally identical to bot spam in practice.
Prequel haters
nobody actually hates the prequels. people might just not enjoy the films, but that's it.
people always give the prequels shit for "too much CGI" but they never mention that Phantom Menace alone had more miniatures, physical sets, etc. than the entire OT combined
Simply not true. If it were true, we wouldn't have these destructive influences spamming. We wouldn't have low effort trolling, bad faith argumentation to nearly the same extent as we do.
There's clear animosity there. And it's all directed one way. Its been like this for two decades.
Your attempt to underplay this mode of being is, ironically, part of that same damaging behavior.
nah i genuinely think there aren't, not currently. maybe some high-strung nerds had a strong gut reaction at the time.
the character in Spaced was a joke. it's all a joke. tired of playing along. nobody genuinely 'hates' the prequels. trolling, being contrary, sure.
We wouldn't have low effort trolling, bad faith argumentation to nearly the same extent as we do.
that is attention seeking, not hate. if you don't see it as attention seeking, congrats, you are exactly the attention they desire.
Acting like shit while spamming the board with extremely low effort posting is spiteful behavior.
You claim these guys simply dindu nuffin, but it's obvious that there's serious effort behind it, given that it has been taking place on this board, for more than a decade.
Yes, a lot of hard work went into it. Just like many other films. But it's still shit.
Documentarian
The fucking retard that worked against anyone ever being able to see the original theatrical releases of all the Star Wars films?
The fucking retard that worked against anyone ever being able to see the original theatrical releases of all the Star Wars films?
based
Remember... Jar Jar Binks is the key to all of this
because he's a funnier character than we've ever had before
so if we can get him working
that's gonna be great