THE PHANTOM MENACE - YES!!

[sarcasm_made_Easy]

finally the healing can begin.  i seriously havent been able to watch the original three movies after watching phantom menace.    i miss them but its a dark place now that its linked with jar jar.

[Tarantulas]

I can forgive pretty much everything about the prequels (the contradictions, the stupid 'comedy', the acting, the fact Anakin was a little kid for no reason at all, Jar Jar, HUGE gaps in it's own logic, etc, etc) except the Midiclorians.

The force is essentially a cross between a virus and fleas.

Yeah - apparently I can't be a Jedi unless, per some random chance, I have more invisible bacteria floating around in me than other people.....

Technically, if I eat a jedi, his microbeasties are then in me correct? So I guess in order to be a powerful Jedi, you have to eat /other/ Jedi.

Good times.

When they introduced that in Ep One, me and my friend dropped our jaws to the floor. He went so far as to throw popcorn at the screen..... Obi Wan CLEARLY explains in New Hope that the Force is an energy field that binds us all together. NOT something I put medication on my dog for.....

I like this concept of zombie Jedi...

[SaucyRossy]

finally the healing can begin.  i seriously havent been able to watch the original three movies after watching phantom menace.    i miss them but its a dark place now that its linked with jar jar.

I can watch them just fine after I ritualistically burned Episode One.

[Argo-Puppy]

I dunno, Episode 1 was my first introduction into the true Star Wars community so it holds a lot of good memories. There was a really big convention with a lot of Star Wars people to sign autographs. As part of a package deal, you got free tickets to see the movie, in a PACKED theater. The people were cheering and really got into the movie. I think it was excitement about seeing it on the screen rather than the movie itself.

After the excitement wore off and I watched it again, gaaa I think I saw this movie in the theaters three times, I began to realize how yucky it really was. I'm looking forward to this Rifftrax! 

[J-Proof]

Yeah - opposite for me. I saw it in theaters and the mood got VERY somber.... like we were at a memorial service....

Then after watching it again, I warmed up to it more.

I like to imagine the prequels as being exactly what Lucas said they were - Simply a device to make more money to work on different films in the future...
(Now that's true artistry....)

We always have hope in the last two sequel trilogies being produced, and the ever-popular Star Wars vs. Star Trek movie that will most likely be directed by a retarded chimpanzee-orangutan hybrid.

And while we're venting, can I just say that specifically for Episode One, I HATED how EVERYTHING valuable that happened in the movie was on accident.

[Tarantulas]

I (like many others) went to a midnight show...

I remember being so pissed by the pod scene that I couldn't see straight... then a raccoon decided that right then would be the opportune time to commit suicide on the power transformer out back.   Stupid nature!

I went into work late the next day after catching a special viewing for the legion of pissed off people who got shafted the night before.

Generally the feeling waiting out front to be seated was that people did like what they had seen up to that point...

[Argo-Puppy]

  Well, the movie was after a full day of being at the convention so maybe it was that?

Tarantulas - Wow, now THAT'S a story to tell the grandkids!

[J-Proof]

I (like many others) went to a midnight show...

I remember being so pissed by the pod scene that I couldn't see straight... then a raccoon decided that right then would be the opportune time to commit suicide on the power transformer out back.   Stupid nature!

I went into work late the next day after catching a special viewing for the legion of pissed off people who got shafted the night before.

Generally the feeling waiting out front to be seated was that people did like what they had seen up to that point...

I have a confession....I sent DaPenguin out to kill that Raccoon in an attempt to wave the unhappiness you were bound to feel afterwards.... I'm sorry

What other movies have really pissed me off lately because they promised so much but yielded so little...

- Ridley Scott's "Kingdom of Heaven" was nothing more than a terrorist recruitment video (Though the director's cut is fantastic).
- "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" was like staring at a censored porn banner on a Warez site for two hours.
- "National Treasure" was alright at first, but now I think I should take the script, send it to Dan Brown so he can write a book out of it, and then market it to middle America so that a bunch of idiots who have never read before can think that it is true and that they're smart.
- Bertolucci's "The Dreamers" succeeded in adding to my contempt for snobby Parisians, but failed to convince me that Jimmy Hendrix is the solution to war.
- "Y Tu Mama Tambien" was pretty.... graphic?

Other than those movies, my theater-going experience over the past few years was pretty decent, providing me with half-gay pirates, ring-hating midgets, and tons of Ben Stiller idiot-laugh-em-ups.

[Bob]

I have a feeling that Mike and Kevin will find the pod racing sequence even more annoying and slow than the space fights in "Prince of Space".

[Pak-Man]

I'm gonna stick my neck out again and say I liked the Pod Races. :^) I thought it was an awesome, high speed race scene. Of course, I was always a sucker for the speeder bike scene in ROTJ, so I guess I just digs me some fast hovering action. :^)

[sarcasm_made_Easy]

may i please be the first to say go get your self a copy of ben hur pak man, or forever hang your head in shame.  Ill admit that its damned slow movie, but that one scene is so ridiculously amazing that it really needs to be seen. 

[TOR]

Tor happy part of riff trax! I go kill someone now for no reason

[Pak-Man]

may i please be the first to say go get your self a copy of ben hur pak man, or forever hang your head in shame.  Ill admit that its damned slow movie, but that one scene is so ridiculously amazing that it really needs to be seen. 

Got it. Seen it. The Pod Race is a definite homage. :^)

[Edward J Grug III]

Has a date for this one been announced?

[WouTar]

What other movies have really pissed me off lately because they promised so much but yielded so little...

- "National Treasure" was alright at first, but now I think I should take the script, send it to Dan Brown so he can write a book out of it, and then market it to middle America so that a bunch of idiots who have never read before can think that it is true and that they're smart.

It's funny because it's true.