[ElConvoy]

Star Wars Episode I - The Phantom Menace

One week to go until I'm seeing The Force Awakens so its time to sit down and rewatch the other films.

Episode I still sucks major ass. The Film has so many problems its not even fun to watch it as a bad movie. The A-Plot is extremely boring and pushed into the background without it even having the chance to become interesting, the B-Plot is extremely boring and pushed way too much into the forefront. Anakin is not relevant to anything in this film so having to spend so much time with him on Tatooine is a gigantic waste of everyones time. It isnt helped by the fact that pretty much none of the actors in this film do a very good job at acting. Which is funny since most of them are great actors. But having a shitty script and a shitty director hurts even the most talented actor.

Another giant problem I have with this film is that the majority of the action scenes are absolutely pointless filler. Except for the end none of them move the plot forward in any way or develop any of the main characters. The Pod Race could have been cut from the film entirely, since Anakin being freed could have been done much more quickly and without having to sit through a boring race, featuring a bunch of no name characters that just exist to sell more toys.

So yeah. The Phantom Menace was shit back then and it is shit now.

And fuck Jar Jar.