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I've said it before and I'll say it again: I love Episode I.
It is easily my favorite of the prequels.

Like A New Hope, it's a fun, self-contained movie (for the most part). And I have a lot of nostalgia attached to the film and that summer.

1999 was a big year. We found out Jodi was pregnant, lost my grandpa early in the year, traveled to the Dominican Republic with pregnant Jodi, had Sis in August and then I left for police college 9 days later.

All of this interlaced with the 24/7 madness leading up to the release of the EPI Novel, then the toys, then finally the movie. I likely have a better recall of 1999 than I do of pretty much any other year in the last 20, including 2014 ><

Slicker wrote:I remember watching that on Entertainment Tonight when it first aired. Probably the greatest trailer for a movie ever.

And I'm so over the hate or TPM. It usually comes from the fan boys that are still mad Boba Fett died too. I think it's a direct correlation.

How did Boba Fett really died?!

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I liked TPM more that the other prequels, but that isn't saying much. It is the only one of the three I'd watch if I was flipping through the channels and saw it was on tv.

Boba Fett died? Didn't Dengar or someone save him from the Sarlac pit in that one novel?

I remember watching that on Entertainment Tonight when it first aired. Probably the greatest trailer for a movie ever.

I videotaped it and me and my roommates probably watched it 500 times, soaking in the new Star Wars-ness of it. So much potential and hope in that trailer.

In hindsight, fans get jaded and douchey and they forget. But you can't take away the pure joy we experienced at those first trailers.

I think this is the first trailer I saw, but I thought it spent more time on the Gungans marching though the mist.

I remember Gungans coming through the mist on Kaadu as the opening shot to whatever trailer I saw first. Some guy at Jodi's work downloaded it - the trailer - over the course of about 4hrs. Of course I sat there on my day off & waited, waited, waited until it was ready to. I nearly hyperventilated through the trailer, and that feeling was replicated for pretty much the entire hour in the lineup for the afternoon show I saw on opening day (had to work & by the time my shift was over there was already a group coming in that had seen it first - fuckers). The opening for TPM is actually pretty fucking awesome. Right up until Jar Jar shows up & you get that initial feeling of "ok... how's this going to go????", it's full-on Star Wars. I've said it repeatedly - Qui Gon jamming the lightsaber through the blast doors is stunning - and holds up today as an all-time awesome Star Wars moment. TPM falls just shy of ROTS for me, with AOTC a distant third.

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Slicker wrote:I remember watching that on Entertainment Tonight when it first aired. Probably the greatest trailer for a movie ever.

And I'm so over the hate or TPM. It usually comes from the fan boys that are still mad Boba Fett died too. I think it's a direct correlation.

How did Boba Fett really died?!

Like if you remember this
Share if you participated
Ignore if you kill kittens with the spikey part of a high heel

I liked TPM more that the other prequels, but that isn't saying much. It is the only one of the three I'd watch if I was flipping through the channels and saw it was on tv.

Boba Fett died? Didn't Dengar or someone save him from the Sarlac pit in that one novel?

He died in ROTJ. Fuck the novels. Now thanks to the EU not counting, Darth Maul is alive and Boba Fett is dead. (Until LFL brings him back again, of course.)

Hard to believe that TPM was 15 years ago. I was just nine when it came out. It's fun to see the hype machine starting up again with Episode VII and I'm sure it'll get absolutely nuts again but I could do without all the cocksuckers still bitching about the prequels (or about Disney, or Lucas, or Abrams, or the cast...).

And that's the sad/sick part is that they WILL bring him back because of "backlash" from "fans". I'm glad he's dead. He was a minor character with a major role just like Maul. He serves no purpose continuing to exist in the SW universe except as fanboy wank over the "ZOMG he looks soooo kewl!!11!"

Slicker wrote:And that's the sad/sick part is that they WILL bring him back because of "backlash" from "fans". I'm glad he's dead. He was a minor character with a major role just like Maul. He serves no purpose continuing to exist in the SW universe except as fanboy wank over the "ZOMG he looks soooo kewl!!11!"

And that's really all he was ever supposed to be - an unimportant bounty hunter that just so happened to have well-designed armor. I just read The Making of ROTJ and nobody behind the scenes really gave much of a shit about him. Since the persistent rumor says that he'll get a standalone movie, I hope they at least give a reason to give a shit about him. (At least TCW finally showed him trying to kill Mace, let him take down a Star Destroyer, and gave him a cool-ass droid sidekick, which is way more than the films ever showed him doing.)

Boba Fett took down a Star Destroyer before he was old enough to drink?

And people still tell me that Clone Wars was a well-written show.

His own stand alone movie? Seriously? So the theater can be filled with fat neck beards with Boba Fett maskes that barely fit over their heads? I hope it'll be a monumental failure so I can hear all o the excuses about people not "getting the subtitles of how dangerous he was".

Theatres don't allow masks in the auditoriums.

If we could, we'd also ban the neckbeards.

And people who think bathing is somehow optional. It's soap and a washcloth, dude. Not asking you to rebuild a car engine or install plumbing. Just drag the soapy cloth across your pits and junk and wherever before leaving the house. Kthxbye.

anarky wrote:Boba Fett took down a Star Destroyer before he was old enough to drink?

And people still tell me that Clone Wars was a well-written show.

If you accept that Anakin destroyed a Droid Control Ship when he was nine, you can't complain about this. (Boba fucked up the systems from the inside, for what it's worth.) The three-part Boba Fett arc that closed season two is one of my favorites from the series, and that's coming from a fan who never really gave two shits about Boba before that arc.

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anarky wrote:Boba Fett took down a Star Destroyer before he was old enough to drink?

And people still tell me that Clone Wars was a well-written show.

If you accept that Anakin destroyed a Droid Control Ship when he was nine, you can't complain about this.

Although Anakin blowing up the Droid Control Ship borders on silly, I'd have to humbly disagree with you for four reasons:

1) It serves to highlight Anakin's incredible power level, if you somehow don't know it already. With Boba, he's just going to wind up a thug who stands around in cool armor until he falls into a vagina dentata and dies.

2) It is partly dumb luck on Anakin's part that he succeeds, Force or no.

3) There's a parallel between Anakin and Luke having very similar experiences early on. Boba, again, is just going to die a chump and there's no reason to draw a parallel with Luke or Anakin.

4) It expands upon the reason Vader essentially disobeys Tarkin in ANH and takes his personal wingmen to fight the X-Wings. You now know he's thinking, "They got the plans for this thing, and they're launching little tiny ships that seemingly have no chance? Fuck me, there is a danger, because I pulled that same shit off when I was a kid."

I haven't seen this thing were Boba Fett takes out a Star Destroyer, but it seems silly. Was it some sort of sabotage? I'm only guessing that because don't recall him being known for his piloting skills, even though he has a cool space ship.

I more or less agree with anarky about Anakin. If I remember correctly, Anakin was basically forced into the droid control ship and then inadvertently fired the killing blow.