Quote:
Originally Posted by Worldwalker
Or ... beware, I'm going to say it ... I dread the thought, but I must ... The Phantom Menace. A series of commercials for toys tied together by Jar-Jar Binks. A disaster on film. I don't think there's anyone who considers it within an order of magnitude of the quality of the original, or even the original trilogy. As bad as many of the Star Wars novelizations have been (though Timothy Zahn has done some good ones), that official, Lucas-written, Lucas-directed, Lucas-produced disaster called The Phantom Menace went beyond awful and well into "OMG can we just forget it exists?"
|
Are you suggesting the original trilogy was
not a commercial for toys? Much more fun to watch, granted.