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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.
But, despite what those criticisms might suggest, The Phantom Menace is frequently astonishing to look at. David Tattersall’s cinematography remains appallingly underrated.
For all its faults, most of which have been discussed to death throughout the 26 years since its release, Star Wars: The Phantom Menace has the saga’s absolute best lightsaber duel.
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.
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.
“Star Wars – Episode I: The Phantom Menace” gave us a young Obi-Wan Kenobi, an even younger Darth Vader and one of the most annoying characters ever featured in a wildly popular film 25 ...
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 ...