Which moment in this movie made you think

Prequel Merchandise made BILLIONS

RLM puppet late to the party

Disney's done!!!

Never. It came out when I was 7 and I thought Jar-Jar was hilarious and I wanted my parents to buy me all the cool space ship toys and action figures

Phantom Menace starts off well, and then we encounter Jar Jar and it all turns to shit.

Why is Obi-Wan's saber so small on that cover?

So it won't pierce Amidala's head.

Why doesn't that make sense?

"i have a bad feeling about this"

yes my young Padawan OBI-WAN KENOBI

half the movie set on tatooine

and people rag on filonislop for key-jangling, where do you think he learned it from?

19 minute long pod race scene

Anakin being a child instead of a teenager and the jedi not giving a shit about slavery.

Blockading a random as planet does not help reverse taxes in any way. If anything the TF should have blockaded the fucking trade routes themselves, bribe the senators that are already in their pockets, or just raise their prices to make up for the taxes since they have a monopoly on trade.

19 minute long pod racing scene.

i agree!

The plot. Like wtf is going on, are we supposed to give a fuck?
JarJar obviously.
But then Anakin, a fucking insufferable mary sue.
The fact that the end of the movie is literally a boring copy paste of the ending of ROTJ.

The only good thing is the pod race, the jedi with the green saber.
That's it.

Anyone remembers the massive marketing + toy campaign surrounding this movie?
There was a star wars product for everything.

Turmoil has engulfed the Galactic Republic. Political squabbling has culminated in the greedy Trade Federation setting up a blockade of deadly battleships around the small yet significant planet of Naboo.

Does this read better?

Jar Jar
I don't care how cliche it is to blame Jar Jar, he's literally the worst thing in the whole film. An unfunny retarded cartoon sidekick who does retarded slapstick routines and talks like a retard. Before he showed up it was salvageable.

It makes sense, Naboo is in one of the outlying star systems that's being taxed, presumably an important one (they could have set that up better though). The Trade Federation is trying to pressure the Republic to reduce taxation on their trade by blockading a member of the Republic who would otherwise trade via the Federation. It's a political statement and creates a crisis the government has to step into to resolve.

The problem is that it's a boring sideshow, not a good set-up for a space action series. The original trilogy has the evil empire vs the good rebels, it's solid and straightforward, all you need for an adventure film, you hang all the details on that central premise. The Phantom Menace's central premise is boring and gets resolved at the end of the movie, but also it turns out there's a second central premise which is Anakin and he doesn't really fit into the first story at all.

Nope you're a trash writer and you should kys

What's weird is that they somehow knew that Jar Jar was going to suck since they included R2D2 and C3PO

Yeah it was gigantic. I was only 6 at the time and didn't know what the fuck Star Wars was, but I was aware of all the merch.

Not film.

Including R2 and C3P0

?

Lucas literally just fucked up his own story. In the original script, the planet was already under a droid army occupation and when Obi Wan gets there, Anakin is a kid whos part of a rag tag rebel group fighting back. It flows together better and makes more sense.

What was the "phantom menace"? Palpatine? The trade federation? Anakin? Was the spectator supposed to know this?

it was clearly palpatine

All of this bullshit just so that Sheev can get elected chancellor

SERIOUSLY?

after spending more hours than I'm willing to admit reading (((non-canon))) Star Wars books I finally understand the prequel politics, which all hinge on Palpatine and his motives.

Palpatine and his Master Darth Plagueis are attempting to dominate the galaxy by means of political manipulation. Plagueis is tied to the banks and uses his wealth to fund groups that will benefit him. As a political figure, and eventual Senator of Naboo, Palpatine focuses on manipulating the Trade Federation. On one side, he pressed Supreme Chancellor Valorum to impose taxes on the Trade Federation - this will strengthen the Republic by bringing in more credits. At the same time, this will offend the Trade Federation, who see this taxation as theft. During this time, Palpatine also secretly works with pirate factions (e.g. the Nebula Front) to have them attack the Trade Federation - forcing the Trade Federation to bolster their defenses, namely by getting a Droid Army. Palpatine, now as Darth Sidious, tells the Trade Federation to enact a blockade on Naboo, which eventually a) erodes confidence in Supreme Chancellor Valorum and subsequently gets Palaptine elected in his place and b) further creates schisms between the worlds of the Republic - who continue to see the Republic as a large, slow, bureaucratic mess. This eventually leads into Separatist movement which is explored in Episode II.

And the spectator is supposed to know this at the end of the movie? Btw isn't it a movie aimed at children? Do you think children understand/give a fuck about tax and political corruption?

When they meet the gungan emperor is when I thought "This is not what I want out of Star Wars".

And the spectator is supposed to know this at the end of the movie?

Yeah, if you're not legitimately retarded. There's like other 3 movies you might have missed.

When they get stuck on Tatooine.

I'm talking about ep 1 only here retard. You know I go watch a movie at the end I'm supposed to know what the title means if it's not obvious from the start.

They are claiming to want better terms, but it's all fucking moot because 5 minutes in to the movie the Emperor shows up and its obvious he's put the TF up to it for his own reasons. Missing this amd asking retarded questions makes you as stupid as rlm. Congrats.

Palpatine or Maul, but im not sure whats so phantom about Maul at least lord Sidious is mysterious and unknown to the protagonists
The politics could of worked if Lucas wasnt so autistic about it

are you an ESL or something? even if you didnt watch 4-6, you can piece together the senator is the same spooky guy in the robe manipulating everything. a dumb kid might find the political stuff boring but he can at least gather the spooky robe man is a bad guy telling the other bad guys what to do. if you are an even younger dumber kid you can just think the evil devil man they fight at the end was the phantom menace

The ending with JarJar + Anakin fighting. Couldn't even have our little jedi moment. Nope they had to interleaves it with the two most unbearable characters of the movie so that we can witness them AGAIN do their stupid not funny mary sue shit.

That's a retarded argument. It's like watching Godfather 2 and saying why is Michael Corleone the Godfather because you skipped the first movie. Even if you like to play dumb, the obvious masked hologram figure that is machineering the conflict behind the scenes is the 'phantom menace'

Bro, I can assure you that absolutely no one got that palpatine was sheev in that movie.
Iirc a bunch of nerds made the connection but that's it. So yea that title is definitely one of the worse title ever for a movie.

Watch "Godfather 2"

There's actually a Godfather and you immediately know who that is.

If you're paying attention, in the final scene at QuiGon's funeral the camera lingers on Palp's hooded profile as the Jedi stand around asking WOW I WONDER WHO IS BEHIND ALL THIS. If you're retarded you might have missed it.

You notice that kind of shit once you already know about it.
Again, no normy knew about it. I remember normies being like "so uhhh that little kid was Luke when he was young?"
shit like that.
You don't realize that normies don't follow star wars lore like you do.

no you're just a fucking idiot. even if you they didnt know Palpatine was the Emperor, they would've gathered the hooded sith lord was him since he looks and talks the same. Even if you don't know the OT, the robed man is shown to be Maul's master. Did you just fucking blank this scene out, and the previous one where hes a hologram?

Jar Jar Binks
the farting pod race alien
5 year old Anakin piloting a starship while he still has his baby teeth

The entire tone of the movie was in constant contradiction with itself. You had all of these serious and very dry dialogue scenes about politics run up against the silliest, most childest shit possible, infantile fart joke humor, funny frog man shakes his head and makes funny noise haha -- you've got this very serious duel with the epic John Williams score and then it cuts to child Anakin going "WHOAAAAAAAAAAAAA-WOWWWIE WHOAAAAA" as he magically destroys a massive enemy battleship with blind luck. It's almost schizophrenic in a way, the way it's edited and cobbled together.

Getting stuck on tatooine because Qui-Gon can find someone to accept galactic credits to either give them a ride or fix their ship.

Sheev told them to do it

Is fucking retarded you fucking midwit. Sheev relies on the TF not the other way around. Do you do shit random people in cloaks tell you to? Now shut the fuck up.

Not really because it's never explained why Naboo is significant

So that kids and their parents get to have fun!

I watched it when I was seven in theaters and had a blast. my favorite part was the battle between the trade federation and the gungans.

I was a kid and I didn't have fun and neither did my parents

Palpatine is from Naboo, He told the TF what to do. It was all to set up the no confidence vote and give him a leg up in the election.