Ohhhh this is the Maclunkey version, nice.
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Good film, would recommend.
Kids wanted to watch the next film today, so I put Phantom Menace on.
I historically have always said that itās still the prequel Iād probably most enjoy watching, given how shit 2 is and how joyless 3 is, but fuck me itās dire. Iād forgotten about that opening crawl, the immaculate conception of Anakin and the borderline racist bad guys.
Bar the podrace sequence, they spent an hour asking me what was happening and being bored senseless before eventually asking to turn it over.
I thought that young Anakin, Jar Jar, etc might interest them but nopeā¦ not in the least.
I am also not looking forward to having to explain the most baffling thing about the entire series either; how Anakin is about 15 years younger than Padme in this film and the same age in the next.
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I might be wrong but isnāt the difference between Anakin and Padre only about 5 years? Sheās only meant to be a teenager I think?
Fucking hell not like it isnāt weird in Episode 2. Just read that back meself.
Yeah sheās meant to be 14 (although I donāt think this is established in the film), even though Natalie Portman was 27/28 when they filmed it. I understand consistency but a very weird casting choice all round.
Oh wow. Yeah she was supposed to be 15 in Leon which came out yeaaaars before this, so I always presumed she was supposed to be 20+
Just honestly donāt get why Anakin wasnāt a teenager in Episode I from the off. Spat out by the system, enslaved, parentless, talented but angryā¦ would have made so much more sense
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There are so many obvious obvious changes that could have made the prequels better. Padme having an incurable disease and Palpatine offering to cure it for example instead of āI had a scary dreamā. The age thing is the biggest one though for sure. That and having JJB executed before his first scene, then never mentioned by anyone ever.
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Just checked and Keira Knightley was actually the characterās age.
Looks enough like Natalie Portman to do the pointless Princess Switch thing that adds nothing to the film, but apparently not enough to play a younger versionā¦
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Palpatine being the ultimate cause of said incurable disease. Darth getting ideas about going off and doing his own thing, Palps orchestrating Darth getting all burned up and only Sheev has the magic and tech to keep him alive so heās under the heel.
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Letās run this again. Best Star War since OT:
- Prequel Trilogy
- Sequel Trilogy
- Ruego Uno
- Solo
- Mando ft Boba Fett
- Obi-Wan Kenobi
- Andor
- Animated
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Head says Andor, heart says Prequel
Just making a hoogy-esque correction here, Portman was 18 when PM was released.
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This scene is so good that I actually forgot it was a spoof and was genuinely surprised when Mr Blobby showed up
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Lol I canāt do very basic maths
(Thanks)
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Thank you!
Padme is around 14 and Anakin around 9/10 in TPM so their ages arenāt that ābadā 10 years down the line (Iām not defending the poorly-written constructed romance by saying that however).
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Maybe George could do a re-edit and CGI de-age Natalie Portman to make it less weird?
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Perhaps that was one of the caveats Disney slyly reneged on once the ink dried on the contract: āSure George, no problem, sounds fine and a good use of resourcesā.
Just replying to his suggestion emails with an standard response saying you canāt change films once theyāre on Disney+
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