Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-30994843-20170109010227/@comment-27082610-20170414045554

CABRALFAN27 wrote: 1) It set up Anakin's relationship with Padme, explains and establishes his fear of losing his mother, and gave reason to his skill at flying.

2) Speaking of Palpatine, it also shows the beginngins of his plan to sieze power, as well as his interest in Anakin, and establishes him as the Sith Lord.

3) Even ignoring all of that, it still has some undeniably exhilarating action sequences, some beautiful settings, and, few though they are, some genuinely heart wrenching moments.

4) not least of which are young and inexperienced actors, as opposed to the more confident and experienced actors of the Originals, like Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher (#ForeverMyPrincess).

5) Idk, maybe I'm just too optimistic about movies, but given that you said it was "unforgivably terrible", I'd say you're definitely a movie pessimist. I recommend to you what I recommended to 73.Anon.52: CinemaWins' "Everything GREAT About The Phantom Menace" and the other Star Wars videos in that series. 1) You mean established the woman who would later become his love interest as a mother figure, making their relationship even more cringeworthy than the shittastic "dialogue" Lucas pulled out of his ass did? And why does he need an explanation for his skill at flying? I didn't see Obi-Wan going to flight school in the prequels.

2) Only in the last few minutes, where all of the actual good content of the movie (Duel of the Fates, Maul actually getting to fight) is located to begin with, and doesn't do enough to justify a full-length movie with about the same entertainment value as watching C-SPAN.

3) Okay, first of all, we're talking about story here, not setting. I'm not going to deny that there's some decent visuals or that there isn't some quality action involved. But what heart-wrenching moments? Do you mean when Qui-Gon suddenly forgot how to use a lightsaber?

4) Are you for real? TPM was full of good actors, the problem was that they were playing wooden blocks if they weren't being cast as racist stereotypes.

5) It's unforgivably terrible because it had literally no right to be. It had several quality actors, a quality musical score, and an established quality franchise to build from, and it gave us a D-rank at best performance. Not only that, it introduced midichlorians, something nobody asked for that explained away the fantasy element of the series as being some bullshit bacteria buildup.