Episode 1 reaching cult status?

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I know this sounds weird but Episode 1 has a sort of bad goodness to it that gives it the potential to be a cult classic. I don't know many $450 million dollar cult grossers out there but this deserves a shot. It's got some cool sequences in it, as well as the terribly acted and directed moments that just make you laugh. If you don't expect much from it, it doesn't disappoint. I can just put this in and enjoy myself in a stupid way. Is that so wrong?
 
The reedited version without Jar-Jar... that could have potential.

God, how can anyone create a character that annoying!
 
I recently watched this again the other day. Every second jar jar wasn't on screen was mediocre at worst. Some parts ,like the pod race, and the final lightsaber duel were downright cool.
 
Mr. Qui-Gonn, sir, I was wondering . . . what's "exposition"?


Well, Anakin, "exposition" is telling the viewers what they need to know. "Bad exposition" is writing stilted dialog to bludgeon the viewer to death with it.



Yippeee!!!
 
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Yoda says: Cult status it is not. Crap pastry it is.
 
Crap pastry it is, but I can not help wondering ... if all jar jar sequences, that scene where there is a scientific explanation of "the force" quantities in the bloodstream, and a 20 to 30 minute segment in the middle with that whole underwater world tangent were taken out ... could it have had a chance to be halfway good?

I continue to wish the new movies were like the last 10 minutes of "revenge of the sith," where Lucas returned to the original spacecrafts, technology, and look of the original. That could have been cool. And more Chewbacca in the prequels.
 
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David Jimerson said:
Mr. Qui-Gonn, sir, I was wondering . . . what's "exposition"?


Well, Anakin, "exposition" is telling the viewers what they need to know. "Bad exposition" is writing stilted dialog to bludgeon the viewer to death with it.



Yippeee!!!
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I smell a fan film coming on :)

-Jeremy
 
JY_Blue said:
I continue to wish the new movies were like the last 10 minutes of "revenge of the sith," where Lucas returned to the original spacecrafts, technology, and look of the original. That could have been cool. And more Chewbacca in the prequels.
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I agree, it would have been nice to keep that stuff heavily influenced in the prequels. I mean, the definiton of a prequel means before...so, the technology before shouldn't be so extreme compared to the Episode's 4-6. I understand that now he has more options, and he said he didn't have the tech back in the 70's to do the prequels, but he could have retained a little of the original flavor.
 
Tech? Hmmm.

"Ben-Hur" was made in 1959. It's a lot more epic than the prequels.

They could have been done in the '70s.
 
David Jimerson said:
Tech? Hmmm.

"Ben-Hur" was made in 1959. It's a lot more epic than the prequels.

They could have been done in the '70s.
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I agree with that wholeheartedly!

I think if Lucas wanted to he could have done all 6 back then. If you can do Episode 4, then Episode 1 should be no harder.

To me, it feels like he just went crazy with the oppurntunity to use CG (and lots of money) to let his imagination run wild and create whatever he wanted. I think the practical limits that "restricted" him when making the original trilogy are what forced him to create a world in a totally original way.
 
JY_Blue said:
Crap pastry it is, but I can not help wondering ... if all jar jar sequences, that scene where there is a scientific explanation of "the force" quantities in the bloodstream, and a 20 to 30 minute segment in the middle with that whole underwater world tangent were taken out ... could it have had a chance to be halfway good?
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Google search for "The Phantom Edit." Some anonymous filmmaker (although everyone's sure it was Kevin Smith) did exactly what you suggest.
 
wow barry thats cool!

on a side note, 3po, r2, and chewbacca's entire inclusion in the prequels is REDICULOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
Barry_Green said:
Google search for "The Phantom Edit." Some anonymous filmmaker (although everyone's sure it was Kevin Smith) did exactly what you suggest.
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A guy named Jack Marshall takes credit for it, but he's a pompous *ss who thinks he's making real Star Trek:

www.newvoyages.com

So who knows?

EDIT: Interesting. Marshall isn't even listed there anymore. Maybe the rest of them figured out what kind of tool he is and cut him loose . . .
 
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