Think of the months where people in production had access to script snippets where Jar Jar talks or interacts in scenes. Think of pre-production meetings where they go over costumes and cgi designs for Jar Jar, and how the actor would portray him on set. Think of all the little meetings that happen throughout a typical film start up and into the early stages of production....

No one thought Jar Jar was a bad idea? Or even questionable?

Jar Jar is the best

Im guessing lots of people knew it suck hard but thought it was good for the kids, and the business.

Pretty much. He was the new “Ewok.”

Ewoks are the best

Agreed.

I have no real strong feelings about Ewoks in general. I don't hate everything about Jar Jar. But all of the sort of modern day references/jokes really hurt the film for me, and Jar Jar, unfortunately, has a lot of those moments.

Having Anakin build Threepio as a boy is probably the lamest, laziest ret-con that Lucas ever executed. Maybe 2nd to Greedo shooting first but I don't really count that anymore.

Kinda everything he does actually...all the tripping, all his dialogue, his interactions with other people or monsters or whatever..felt so cheap, so Disney it was just awful.

TPM is the most safest and Disney movie from all the saga.

You’re delusional

I was actually going to put a response to you in previous post but damn i just dont care today.

Good

Watching this now and the most glaring problem (besides everything) is the ridiculously awful Cgi.

Did every fucking scene have to be 99% cgi? They didn't have practical effects in 1999?

Even if this was a good movie it would still be basically unwatchable.

Why do people still watch this movie

I've been listening to The Phantom podcast and just wanted to see what they've been talking about.

I don't really have any strong feelings about the star wars movies, but I do enjoy listening to Griffin and David talk about them.

I did once see a fan cut of the prequels which trimmed out the midichlorians crap, toned down some of the boring political stuff and completely redubbed Jar Jar and all the racist aliens and they were pretty good.

The cgi was still terrible, though.

There were practical sets and models built for TPM than any other film afaik.
They even built a massive model of the city of Theed, Padmes capital. It’s a stunningly beautiful model.
But yeah the cgi is overbearing in a lot of it. No arguments on that

I'm watching some dumb YouTube doc about The Phantom Menace. And they're talking A LOT about how disappointing the title was when it first came out (and still is). Man, I REALLY disagree. I think it's a solid title. *shurgs*

I clearly and distinctly remember going to see that film just to see the trailer for menace.

Hopkins is fantastic in it. And whatever happened to Claire forlani?

Just think, Palpatine was totally fucking in this movie.