Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace (1999)
Shat the Movies: 80's & 90's Best Film Review
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🗓️ 12 August 2020
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
In 1999, the world stood on the brink of massive change: a new millennium, a new reality, the future of our dreams sitting right on our doorstep. Big D had just joined the Army. Roger readied himself for deployment to sleep away camp, and Mister C was just a boy. On the horizon, launching movies into a new era, was "The Phantom Menace."
Star Wars' first film after 16 years frozen in carbonite was a prequel, and nobody thought to question at the time what a strange paradox we were about to experience. Episode I promised to show us how it all began by adding big-name actors, mind-blowing computer effects, and exciting new characters.
And while that promise was fulfilled, "The Phantom Menace" also opened a sarlacc pit of missteps—inconsistent Jedi powers, an unsatisfying Anakin Skywalker, reckless parents, an abused C3PO, unnecessary characters, and the hyper-animated elephant in the room: Jar Jar Binks.
How could a movie with such rich lineage stumble so horribly out of the gate? The cringe-worthy love story, impotent Jedi council, confounding battle scenes, and objectionable politics hit us out of nowhere, overshadowing a valiant performance by Liam Neeson and betraying other success stories in the Star Wars franchise.
Any movie worthy of Fan-Tom Edits is worth of the Shat treatment, and our crew was up to the job. With lightsabers bright and prospects dim, let us begin the Star Wars saga where it started ... before it started ... again.
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| 0:00.0 | Mommy, what's the biggest problem in the galaxy? |
| 0:03.8 | Don't you say it's that people don't help each other? |
| 0:06.7 | You're a goddamn slave, Anakin. |
| 0:09.2 | I think slavery is a bigger problem than people being nice to each other. |
| 0:13.0 | Right. |
| 0:14.0 | Remember when we first met John McLean, |
| 0:17.0 | our god I picked him up from the plane |
| 0:20.0 | and took him down the Nakatomi Tower |
| 0:22.0 | at the Christmas Party and the terrorists were |
| 0:25.9 | overzealous but it was sweet when they killed Ellis and with a little help from |
| 0:31.8 | that one John McLean kicked us And with a little help from Allen drama clay kick dies. |
| 0:34.6 | Welcome back to Shath the Movies in the podcast where we answer the question of the movies we |
| 0:38.0 | love and growing up really that good. |
| 0:39.8 | Have you ever caught yourself thinking, why don't they make movies like they used to can you still |
| 0:43.7 | remember spending your Friday night searching for the perfect movie rental at |
| 0:46.7 | blockbuster video do you even remember what blockbuster video was if you answered |
| 0:50.6 | yes to this is the podcast for you I I'm one of your co-host, |
| 0:55.1 | Big D. Dick Ebert. Good evening. And making his second appearance on Chat, the movie's independent |
| 1:00.8 | filmmaker and one-third of the Untitled Florida Man Project |
| 1:03.6 | Podcast, Mr. C. I have a bad feeling about this. And each week we take a look back in time |
| 1:10.4 | and decide if our favorite film still hold up each week the audience |
| 1:13.0 | selects from six movie choices that we then break out the race car VHS |
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