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Offline Fenrir

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This 70 minute review of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace is amazing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxKtZmQgxrI

It's hilarious, disturbing, and depressingly accurate all at the same time. Seriously worth every second.

 

Offline MR_T3D

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Re: This 70 minute review of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace is amazing.
not a fan of his voice, to be honest.

 
Re: This 70 minute review of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace is amazing.
His voice just creeps me out after about 3 minutes...

 

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Re: This 70 minute review of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace is amazing.
The Frantom Menace!!!

aha!
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Re: This 70 minute review of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace is amazing.
His voice just creeps me out after about 3 minutes...
Heh, that's kinda the point. But it's really what makes the whole thing work.
« Last Edit: December 14, 2009, 05:20:41 pm by Fenrir »

 

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Re: This 70 minute review of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace is amazing.
Goofiness aside, this is really kind of awesome.  I've never even thought about the movie closely enough to realize that it doesn't make any sense at all. :p

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« Last Edit: December 14, 2009, 05:49:02 pm by Mongoose »

 

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Re: This 70 minute review of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace is amazing.
The ending/random scenes really tied the whole thing together.  That aside, he (?) hit the nail on the head. Good review.  :yes:

 

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Re: This 70 minute review of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace is amazing.
10 minutes in I already love it.
Thinking back now, I really was kinda bored watching parts of The Phantom Menace.

 

Offline Col. Fishguts

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Re: This 70 minute review of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace is amazing.
Very good points with a lot of painful truth in it. Would be a piece of genius... if it weren't for the retarded voice.
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Offline Herra Tohtori

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Re: This 70 minute review of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace is amazing.
Very good points with a lot of painful truth in it. Would be a piece of genius... if it weren't for the retarded voice.


I think the voice was kind of integral to the delivery. Sort of sounds like Microsoft Sam with a bit better pronunciation...

I found that review pretty accurate and well done. Amazing thing is it didn't feel too long at all for some reason. Much better use of time than watching the movie in the first place. Sort of like MST3K but not quite up to that level.
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Re: This 70 minute review of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace is amazing.
Very good points with a lot of painful truth in it. Would be a piece of genius... if it weren't for the retarded voice.

I think the voice was kind of integral to the delivery. Sort of sounds like Microsoft Sam with a bit better pronunciation...

I found that review pretty accurate and well done. Amazing thing is it didn't feel too long at all for some reason. Much better use of time than watching the movie in the first place. Sort of like MST3K but not quite up to that level.

Well, the voice alone was tolerable, but the attempts at humour along the lines of  "I'm a southern hick who killed his wife, and I now kill hookers who I hold hostage in my basement." very forced and... well not funny.

But alas, let's not get distracted from his actual review, which is rather excellent.
"I don't think that people accept the fact that life doesn't make sense. I think it makes people terribly uncomfortable. It seems like religion and myth were invented against that, trying to make sense out of it." - D. Lynch

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Offline Flipside

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Re: This 70 minute review of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace is amazing.
I found it very accurate, even with the wierd voice, one of the parts that always confused me was the 'beyond death' thing, in Ep4, when Vader kills Obi-Wan, it's quite apparent that the outcome wasn't expected, especially if you consider the comment 'If you strike me down, I will become more powerful than you could possibly imagine', that's furthered by the fact that iirc Obi Wan isn't told that his own master has found a way back until after Anakins betrayal. Besides, and no offence to any Catholics here, but the way Vader got forgiven for everything he did simply by saying sorry before he died did remind me a lot of that particular religion, always struck me as the weakest point of the original movies.

 

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Re: This 70 minute review of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace is amazing.
To be fair, Vader did sort of save the galaxy there at the end.  Killing the last Sith and rescuing the last Jedi probably meets the criteria for getting into Jedi heaven.  Imagine if Genghis Khan, after being a total bastard for many years, pulled Gandhi off the cross and threw Attila the Hun into a bottomless explosion pit.  That'd be pretty cool, right?  He'd get my vote on the fuzzy blue spirit ballot.

 

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Imagine if Genghis Khan, after being a total bastard for many years, pulled Gandhi off the cross and threw Attila the Hun into a bottomless explosion pit.

What are you smoking, where did you get it, and how much was it?  :P

 

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Re: This 70 minute review of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace is amazing.
Imagine if Genghis Khan, after being a total bastard for many years, pulled Gandhi off the cross and threw Attila the Hun into a bottomless explosion pit.

What are you smoking, where did you get it, and how much was it?  :P

I dunno, I tend to think Khan would probably be rated a badder dude then Attila the Hun when everything was tallied up. :P
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I suppose for me, the difference is that Vader is the cause of everything he undid, yes he saved the Galaxy after several years under the tyranny of an Emperor that his direct actions caused to be put in power anyway, had he not decapitated Windu, there would have been no Empire.:)

 

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I'm on Part 2.  I love this guy.

Some of it's so obvious, but it's so well said.
Spoon - I stand in awe by your flawless fredding. Truely, never before have I witnessed such magnificant display of beamz.
Axem -  I don't know what I'll do with my life now. Maybe I'll become a Nun, or take up Macrame. But where ever I go... I will remember you!
Axem - Sorry to post again when I said I was leaving for good, but something was nagging me. I don't want to say it in a way that shames the campaign but I think we can all agree it is actually.. incomplete. It is missing... Voice Acting.
Quanto - I for one would love to lend my beautiful singing voice into this wholesome project.
Nuclear1 - I want a duet.
AndrewofDoom - Make it a trio!

 

Offline swashmebuckle

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Re: This 70 minute review of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace is amazing.
I suppose for me, the difference is that Vader is the cause of everything he undid, yes he saved the Galaxy after several years under the tyranny of an Emperor that his direct actions caused to be put in power anyway, had he not decapitated Windu, there would have been no Empire.:)
Yeah, that's true.  I'd like to point out though that by helping to found the Empire, he saved the galaxy in a profound way--really he saved all of Star Wars from sucking as much as the prequels.  Sure it's sort of retroactive salvation as the actually good movies his actions set up had already been made, but imagine if GL decided that having Anakin go bad was "too dark" and instead remade the original trilogy as a series of buddy cop movies featuring Windu and Skywalker.  I think we all know deep down that something like this will actually happen sooner or later.

Christensen: The Trade Federation is hiding something master, I can sense it!  Just give me my lightsaber back and I'll find the proof, I promise.

Jackson:  You're a loose laser cannon Skywalker.  If you don't play by the code, I'll bust you down to Padawan so hard your midichlorians will feel it.

Christensen:  Hear me, master.  I've had another vague premonition and now we have to run off to a pointless action set piece.  I'm sure we'll find the droids we're looking for this time!

Jackson:  ****, I'm three weeks from retirement mother****er.  I have a bad feeling about this.

 

Offline Nuclear1

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Re: This 70 minute review of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace is amazing.
Yeah, that's true.  I'd like to point out though that by helping to found the Empire, he saved the galaxy in a profound way--really he saved all of Star Wars from sucking as much as the prequels.  Sure it's sort of retroactive salvation as the actually good movies his actions set up had already been made, but imagine if GL decided that having Anakin go bad was "too dark" and instead remade the original trilogy as a series of buddy cop movies featuring Windu and Skywalker.  I think we all know deep down that something like this will actually happen sooner or later.

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Spoon - I stand in awe by your flawless fredding. Truely, never before have I witnessed such magnificant display of beamz.
Axem -  I don't know what I'll do with my life now. Maybe I'll become a Nun, or take up Macrame. But where ever I go... I will remember you!
Axem - Sorry to post again when I said I was leaving for good, but something was nagging me. I don't want to say it in a way that shames the campaign but I think we can all agree it is actually.. incomplete. It is missing... Voice Acting.
Quanto - I for one would love to lend my beautiful singing voice into this wholesome project.
Nuclear1 - I want a duet.
AndrewofDoom - Make it a trio!