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Liam Neeson scoffs at his character's 'namby-pamby' death in “The Phantom Menace”: 'Please, hardly a Master Jedi'
The actor, who starred as Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn in 1999's Star Wars: Episode 1 — The Phantom Menace, has admitted that he wasn't impressed with his character's climactic demise, which occurred during his intense duel with nasty Sith Lord Darth Maul (Ray Park).
“The Phantom Menace” was going to show how it began, something only teased in the original films. Many fans camped outside movie theaters for weeks, just to be among the first to see it.
News stations are treating it like a breaking news event. On May 19, Star Wars: Episode I — The Phantom Menace hit theaters, the first movie of the franchise to be released in well over a decade.
In 1999, The Phantom Menace looked state-of-the-art. Even critics who didn’t care for its story praised its CGI. Today, it looks sterile and phony.
Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace turns 25 this month, having lived many lives through the pop culture discourse machine to where it's immortal in its polarization.
But, despite what those criticisms might suggest, The Phantom Menace is frequently astonishing to look at. David Tattersall’s cinematography remains appallingly underrated.
The Phantom Menace ditched the cobbled-together Millennium Falcon — a space truck with a supercharged engine — for the chrome-plated hotrod starships of the Naboo fleet.
The Phantom Menace also leaps to life in its handful of action set-pieces. Sure, maybe the pod-race goes on a bit too long, but the sense of speed, scale and bombastic sound throughout is still ...
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