What if: Episode I Re-released in theaters, would you go?

Waddles McGee · Post by **Waddles McGee** » 2006-08-09 07:05am

I wouldn't. Phantom Menace always seemed to me like the kinda movie that I had to force myself to watch. I can stand wasting my time trying to like it at home, but I won't waste money trying to like it at theaters.

Hell no.

Tsyroc · Post by **Tsyroc** » 2006-08-09 11:33am

I'd probably go see it just to see it on the big screen and hear it on a theater sound system again.

I have no doubt that I would be reflexively activating my phantom DVD remote wishing I could fast forward through the parts I fast forward through at home.

Noble Ire · Post by **Noble Ire** » 2006-08-09 09:49pm

I'd go to see it again. I watched TPM on DVD a few months ago, and quite frankly, I think it is improved both by staggered, multiple viewings, and by the existance of the next two movies. Certainly, Jar Jar is still grating, and some of the acting could be better, but I still think I'd find it rather enjoyable. Besides, I enjoy the theater environment, but there aren't very many films I feel particularly compelled to see in them; a re-release of a SW film, even TPM, would quite likely catch my interest.

FaxModem1 · Post by **FaxModem1** » 2006-08-10 07:45pm

No, simply since, when Jar jar Binks is introduced, the film transforms into something I don't want to watch until the fight at the end of the movie.

honestly, why was Jar Jar Binks introduced into the saga?

Manus Celer Dei · Post by **Manus Celer Dei** » 2006-08-10 07:49pm

I quite liked TPM, so I probably would, yeah. I never quite understood why Jar-Jar was so hated.

Stark · Post by **Stark** » 2006-08-10 08:27pm

No. I rented ROTS to watch it again, since I was pretty hard on it in theatres... but the start, with the wierd writing and phone-it-in acting turned me off.

RedImperator · Post by **RedImperator** » 2006-08-10 09:05pm

Manus Celer Dei wrote:I quite liked TPM, so I probably would, yeah. I never quite understood why Jar-Jar was so hated.

Because he's unfunny comic relief. He's the Poochie of Star Wars.

Bounty · Post by **Bounty** » 2006-08-11 05:52am

I wanted to see TPM badly. Looked forward to it for months, trying to stay spoilerfree because damnit, this was Star Wars, the greatest SF movie series ever.

I got to see an advance screening (cost me €25, but it was nice - it included a concert afterwards). Yes, I payed four times the price of a normal ticket just to see it two days earlier. I wanted to see it and love it that bad.

Then the movie started and Star Wars died for me.

I never even bothered getting the DVD. This wasn't Star Wars, it was a cheap CGI knock-off with cardboard characters and unfunny jokes, no soul, no life. The original trilogy was a stunning, wonderful, breathtaking epic; TPM was a pedestrian, cynical cash-in that didn't deserve the SW name. I walked out of the cinema and pretended the new movies didn't exist. Star Wars is IV-VI, everything else is dead to me.

So no, I wouldn't go see it.

Noble Ire · Post by **Noble Ire** » 2006-08-11 11:17am

Bounty wrote:I never even bothered getting the DVD. This wasn't Star Wars, it was a cheap CGI knock-off with cardboard characters and unfunny jokes, no soul, no life. The original trilogy was a stunning, wonderful, breathtaking epic; TPM was a pedestrian, cynical cash-in that didn't deserve the SW name. I walked out of the cinema and pretended the new movies didn't exist. Star Wars is IV-VI, everything else is dead to me.

Wait, you're not one of the "Wah, TPM raped my childhood so I'm not going to see the other ones!" people, are you? It really is a rather stupid standpoint, especially if you're going to whine about the PT as a whole.

Bounty · Post by **Bounty** » 2006-08-11 12:02pm

Noble Ire wrote:
Bounty wrote:I never even bothered getting the DVD. This wasn't Star Wars, it was a cheap CGI knock-off with cardboard characters and unfunny jokes, no soul, no life. The original trilogy was a stunning, wonderful, breathtaking epic; TPM was a pedestrian, cynical cash-in that didn't deserve the SW name. I walked out of the cinema and pretended the new movies didn't exist. Star Wars is IV-VI, everything else is dead to me.
Wait, you're not one of the "Wah, TPM raped my childhood so I'm not going to see the other ones!" people, are you? It really is a rather stupid standpoint, especially if you're going to whine about the PT as a whole.

No. I have seen AoTC (albeit on TV rather then in a theater) but didn't like it any better. RotS was an improvement and the ending started to feel at least marginally connected to the OT again, but I still sat through most of the movie thinking that while it was a great commercial for ILM, it wasn't a great movie - at least not up to what I consider the standard for Star Wars.

Galvatron · Post by **Galvatron** » 2006-08-11 02:42pm

Noble Ire wrote:Wait, you're not one of the "Wah, TPM raped my childhood so I'm not going to see the other ones!" people, are you? It really is a rather stupid standpoint, especially if you're going to whine about the PT as a whole.

I'm more of the "wah, the prequels raped Star Wars" mindset. Personally, I thought AOTC was the worst of the three.

Mange · Post by **Mange** » 2006-08-11 02:54pm

TPM is the weakest in the bunch, but there are some really good scenes and some scenes which feels genuine. AOTC was, aside from the romance, a gratifying Star Wars movie as was ROTS. Would I pay to see TPM in a theater again? My answer to that would be maybe if it included the new CGI Yoda.

Laird · Post by **Laird** » 2006-08-11 03:07pm

Not a chance in hell would I pay to see it in a theatre again.

Aaron · Post by **Aaron** » 2006-08-11 05:29pm

I'd go and I'd take my kids, personally I think Jar-Jar would interest them enough that I could get through the movie with them. I think my son would like Maul too.

Erik von Nein · Post by **Erik von Nein** » 2006-08-12 05:57pm

Didn't like it the first time, sure as Hell wouldn't like it a second time.

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